J.A.W.

Nothing's definite yet and, with the current economic climate, don't count on anything anytime soon.

Mosaic has promised an Ellington 30s Brunswick/Columbia box, so the material should be available before long in a deluxe form--'course, it will be just a tad bit more expensive! greg mo Mosaic won't and didn't promise to release anything they don't have the rights to. They might be thinking about leasing the Ellington stuff from Sony/BMG, but that doesn't mean they've promised to release it. And you'd better not count on anything in the current economic climate. Now I'm a bit irritated... I thought a big band box was to follow to complement the small group box that is already available? Was that just some rumour? Again, they didn't promise anything and, as I said, with the current economic climate it doesn't seem likely anything will happen soon. Why do you think some of their sets have been on back-order for months now? I don't think the fact that you're a bit irritated will change a thing...

Just to avoid any misunderstandings, the "Blue Note Works" Sonic Boom has catalogue number TOCJ-1630.

Mosaic has promised an Ellington 30s Brunswick/Columbia box, so the material should be available before long in a deluxe form--'course, it will be just a tad bit more expensive! greg mo Mosaic won't and didn't promise to release anything they don't have the rights to. They might be thinking about leasing the Ellington stuff from Sony/BMG, but that doesn't mean they've promised to release it. And you'd better not count on anything in the current economic climate.

I wholeheartedly second Jeff and Chuck's recommendation of the Archeophone set. Excellent mastering of this wonderful music.

Volkher (neveronfriday) is setting up a Mosaic discographies corner on his site, here. He got special permission from Mosaic.

There is a series of single CD's on the Hep label that covers these sessions in chronological order, nicely remastered by John R. T. Davies. The vocals by Billie Holiday and others are included along with the instrumental sides. Correct. These have been posted on this board several times ( a search will no doubt produce those posts), but here goes again: Hep Teddy Wilson CD releases

The packaging/booklets of the Selects are not in the same league as that of the regular Mosaics, Niko. The Selects are "budget" oriented offerings from Mosaic, or at least they were when they started the program, I think. So the information and packaging are quite a bit simpler. I agree. Comparing Select and "big sets" packaging and booklets is not fair. Apples and oranges.

It's one of those 8-cut MCA Special Product things that was available in truck stops, gas stations, and other such places. I've had it for years, but on cassette. Because I keep it semi-real like that. My 8 Men, 4 Women CD (MCA MCAD-20547) has 10 cuts.

The series is called "Blue Note Works", not "TOCJ Works"

l'Histoire se repète... This thread immediately reminded me of the stuff that went on late 2007, which almost resulted in this board being closed down. In other words, nothing has changed. I said all I wanted to say about it then - which is roughly the same as Volkher (neveronfriday) posted then and now - and also in the thread where Chris A. announced he was leaving and I'd like to leave it at that. I totally agree with Volkher and catesta and I'm glad Jim has now decided to moderate this place much more strictly.

In the last few years I found several copies of the "Blue Note Works" version of Blue Train on-line, for prices varying from 1,200 to 2,500 yen.

I got the box directly from P-Vine, listened to it several times, had a friend listen to it (on his system), and then got rid of it as soon as I could - to my (and my friend's) ears the sound was bad: harsh, too loud with reduced dynamics compared to an older disc I have with some of the same material, and very fatiguing, with bumped highs. I got headaches during the listening sessions. Your mileage may vary

Correct.

Does this mean they'll send new discs to those who've already received their copy, or that they're holding up on shipping until correct discs are inserted into waiting boxes? It would seem that they've shipped 900 so far? It could be pricey re-sending that many individual discs. All I know is that they're holding my set until they get the replacement discs.

Mosaic's Scott Wenzel just told me they fixed the error and they'll get replacement discs in approximately two weeks.

These might be the Songbook sessions that were recorded in the late 1950s. The Mosaic only covered most of the 1951-1953 dates.

The "Blue Note Works" series has been reissued a few times in the 1990s and the reissues all used the same TOCJ-15XX, TOCJ-16XX and TOCJ-4XXX catalogue numbers, which leads me to believe that these are not "BN Works" reissues. I wouldn't be surprised if those TOCJ-85XX releases are reissues of the cheap "TOCJ24" Blue Notes with catalogue numbers TOCJ-6XXX that were released in the early 2000s. I picked up several of those, but decided to ditch them after a few listening sessions because I didn't like the sound.

It means that they've sold at least 700-something! Good news, indeed. Perhaps the cash flow that this set generates will allow Mosaic to restock some of the sets they currently have on back-order. ...and fund some of the sets they're planning

According to a documentary about Audrey Hepburn that I recently watched on German TV her vocal is not in the movie, a stand-in was used because the director, Blake Edwards, didn't think her singing voice was good enough.

I always thought it was "Bird." Yep.

As a fan of classic R&B and early Soul I knew that Soft Cell's version was a cover of Gloria Jones' original. The song was written by Four Preps member Ed Cobb

Um... Not quite, Jim wasn't the one who cheated me out of a CD, that was German member "tjobbe", who never showed his face here again. Jim re-appeared about a year ago and promised to make good on what he owed, here. He then disappeared again a week or so later. Apparently he didn't keep his promise...

I thought he meant Ehud Barak It'd be nice if at least people's names would be spelled correctly.

Kenny Dorham Quartet with Ernie Henry on the Two Horns, Two Rhythm album (Riverside).