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I'm with Claude on this one. I had both the RVG and the MFSL and the latter won in a comparison, by an enormous margin. To my ears the RVG is a sonic disaster (added digital compression, almost mono, the highs don't sound good), while the MFSL sounds pretty smooth. I haven't heard any of the Analogue Productions hybrid SACDs so far, so I can't comment on those.

The upcoming Denny Zeitlin and John Handy Mosaic Select sets are now available for pre-order

yep.

I know this is quite late,but did you sell this cd? Be well, Jeff "Saint Vitus" last visited the forum almost two years ago (May 9, 2007), so I wish you good luck...

I feel much the same way about Fuller's other Impulse! date, Soul Trombone. Not bad, but could/should have been a lot better, imo. In my opinion Soul Trombone is a better date than Cabin in the Sky, but it's still mediocre.

That's the 20-bit K2 remastered Japanese reissue from the 1990s. It has never been reissued on CD in the United States.

A great set for a crazy price I had the K2 set and sold it. The highs sounded boosted, too "sharp/edgy" to my ears. The regular set is a bit better in that respect.

Well put. It's pretty much how I feel about the Hill solo set. Ever since I bought it I've been thinking of selling it. It just doesn't grab me as much as Hill's earlier small-group sessions; some (and at times much) of the tension is lacking.

Chris posted additional info here.

I guess I have to eat crow on this one. I decided to accept delivery and attempt to get an adjustment to the shipping cost credited back to my card. However, after checking the international postage rates on the Royal Mail website, it appears that what I was charged for shipping is in line with the rate for a slightly-over-3kg parcel shipped to the US via International Standard Parcelforce. I've ordered items from overseas many times, but I have to admit I'm shocked at the shipping rate for this one. I still think the seller should've explicitly stated the shipping cost and offered the alternative of surface mail, but as the total wasn't really more than the average going rate for copies of this set, I'll just chalk it up as an expensive lesson. Sending stuff by surface mail is no longer possible in many European countries.

Just checked: $1 = €0.75 / £0.69 €1 = $1.33 / £0.91 £1 = €1.10 / $1.45

An excellent set, recommended.

Mosaic's "End of January" sale

Chuck's Tyler thread

I hope a healthy percentage of those visitors bought this great album

I have Ole from that series, based on advice from you in a 5-year old thread! Yes, these are really hard to find now. Hopefully they'll be reissued again. The Rhino box will do in the meantime... I had many of those Japanese 20-bit K2 Atlantics in mini-LP sleeves. At first I was enthusiastic about the sound until listening fatigue set in each time I listened to them. During a comparison (now years ago) with the first American CD issues the 20-bit K2s turned out to have boosted higher frequencies and, if I remember correctly, some added compression too that may well have been the cause of the listening fatigue. I sold them for very nice prices I don't have any problems with the originals or the box. The 20-bit K2s were replaced by the Japanese WPCR Atlantics, so I don't think they'll ever be reissued.

No, it's just that Aggie was asking about a remaster, that's all

That's the original CD issue, not a remaster.

The box was remastered by Gene Paul and, if I remember correctly, the Rhino DeLuxe reissues were done by Bill Inglot and Dan Hersch. Many if not all of the original Atlantics were done by Stephen Innocenzi. Not in the United States, at least not as far as I know.

The box is a good alternative if you want more than a few discs. The remastering was done by Gene Paul and the sound is better than on the Rhino DeLuxe series and the many Japanese remasters I've heard.

I'd get the original Atlantic CDs. They're usually pretty cheap and later remasters are no improvements; the Rhino DeLuxe reissues sound worse to my ears and many Japanese remasters sound as if the higher frequencies were boosted. Remember that these Atlantic recordings were no sonic marvels to begin with and any remastering manipulations cannot improve what isn't there. Again, my advice would be to get the originals and enjoy the music

The Peterson Mosaic set includes these Songbook albums with his piano-guitar-bass trio: Clef MGC 603 Oscar Peterson Plays Cole Porter Clef MGC 604 Oscar Peterson Plays Irving Berlin Clef MGC 605 Oscar Peterson Plays George Gershwin Clef MGC 606 Oscar Peterson Plays Duke Ellington Clef MGC 623 Oscar Peterson Plays Jerome Kern Clef MGC 624 Oscar Peterson Plays Richard Rodgers Clef MGC 625 Oscar Peterson Plays Vincent Youmans Not so. The last three on your list are incomplete on the Mosaic since they include later material with Herb Ellis replacing Barney Kessel. It's a pity Mosaic didn't include the remaining 1953 sessions. We are talking about 9 tracks of which 5 are previously unissued, which very well could have fitted on the 7 CDs. It would have completed those three albums. The Irving Ashby tracks were included after all. Can we hope for a second Mosaic down the road? There are some more unissued and rare tracks with Ellis. I didn't say they included the complete albums. I posted a link to the Mosaic discography, so anyone who's interested can check what's included.

The Peterson Mosaic set includes these Songbook albums with his piano-guitar-bass trio: Clef MGC 603 Oscar Peterson Plays Cole Porter Clef MGC 604 Oscar Peterson Plays Irving Berlin Clef MGC 605 Oscar Peterson Plays George Gershwin Clef MGC 606 Oscar Peterson Plays Duke Ellington Clef MGC 623 Oscar Peterson Plays Jerome Kern Clef MGC 624 Oscar Peterson Plays Richard Rodgers Clef MGC 625 Oscar Peterson Plays Vincent Youmans

Someone on another forum (don't remember which one) did actually receive it. However, it was badly damaged and he returned it...

You're probably referring to this thread in the Politics forum.