J.A.W.

Varèse Sarabande is distributed by Universal, and so is Fuel 2000 - the latter is not part of Universal, contrary to what I said earlier. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Var%C3%A8se_Sarabande On my Fuel 2000 CDs it says:

You're looking for the Mosaic set, right? LP or CD? I'm asking because this material - or at least most of it - has been reissued more than once.

Yep.

Better than the Universal/Fuel 2000 releases from 2001 (Conversations) and 2002 (Iron Man)?

Not as far as I know.

All excellent, highly recommended sets.

Me, too -- and I once felt that Rollins probably was the most important living artist in any field. Same here and there are many more.

Their price just shot up to $28 plus change... [sigh] I hope it'll come down again.

Couldn't agree more. In his last North Sea Jazz Festival performance he sounded bleak, uninvolved, hollow. It was pretty awful.

I agree. Which Blue Note titles were released by Mobile Fidelity on gold CD? Apart from Art Blakey's A Night in Tunisia: Cannonball Adderley's Somethin' Else and John Coltrane's Blue Train (also his Atlantic album Giant Steps, which sounds good to me)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/legendary-producer-saul-zaentz-dies-668470

I agree.

Whatever. A country built on the simplification of a language... Your wish is my command (not really), you won't get any more comments from me.

That's American English. According to the Oxford Dictionary it's "cataloguing": http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/catalogue?q=cataloging#catalogue__15 I think the Oxford Dictionary is a bit more trustworthy than wikipedia.

The Lunceford Mosaic was released in 2011.

They do. They're regular CDs.

Not if you're in the United States.

They can be pre-ordered from ImportCDs at $21.50 each (current price): http://www.importcds.com/Search/Results?type=200&mt=2&pt=2&lbl=audio+wave I posted this because as far as I can see they're the cheapest around.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-phil-everly-of-the-everly-brothers-dies-at-74-20140103,0,2091176.story#axzz2pOJszv00

I guess it was a misunderstanding then."Inactive" does not mean "gone". A simple click could have confirmed that. I guess the "has come to nothing" phrasing was what bothered me. There was quite a bit of work that went into those. Doesn't matter! Whatever.

I agree, this project has come to nothing. Pity, it looked promising. Why to nothing?That's a very strange comment (that I didn't see before). a) I have 54 discographies of out-of-print Mosaic boxed sets and Selects online, b) they have been online without interruption (I just didn't add any for quite a while), c) and continue to be available? For free. I absolutely agree that the thread does not have to be pinned, but ... ? P.S.: They now reside on deus62.com but have always been available on the other site linked to (and still are, but are redirected to the new site). My comment was not so strange, in view of the first post in this thread: (I was still a moderator at the time) and also your posts there. My assumption that the project had died was justified in my view, the more so since you didn't reply to my e-mail.

I've never been a fan of Coltrane's Prestige work, but I must admit that hearing it again after so many years on those Prestige boxes I like it better than "on its own", i.e. than on the individual albums way back when.

Someone should grab the Dave Bailey, it's excellent.

I've seen that listing on Amazon Italy, it's indeed the lowest price I could find, but still pretty steep. The Fleisher Mozart Concerto No.25 is included, but as far as I could see not his Beethoven and Brahms concerti. Tracklisting: http://www.goodwinshighend.com/music/classical/Szell/George%20Szell%2049%20CD%20Box%20Set.htm

Many of those RCA/Bluebirds and the GRP Decca series suffer from noise reduction. Some people don't mind, but those CDs sound too suffocated to my taste.