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BBC: It seems EU music recordings copyright is to be extended to 70 years after all. This will be a blow to all those European public-domain labels

I'm not surprised. I guess the Singles didn't appeal half as much to jazz fans as the big sets or the Selects, and probably hardly sold.

Why don't you contact Mosaic and suggest a Gryce Single?

We have wildly different tastes, both sonically and musically, and listening to the music samples of the complete Szabo twofer on Amazon Germany confirmed that: I didn't like what I heard and that's putting it mildly They didn't have samples of the Hamilton twofer yet.

Some nice ones, a few duds and some I haven't heard. I'm not sure about Chico Hamilton's The Further Adventures of El Chico with tracks like "Got My Mojo Working", "Monday, Monday", etc. Same goes for the Gabor Szabo twofer, with tracks like "The Beat Goes On", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "People"...

Yep. The Select includes these Columbia albums: • Recorded Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival • The Second John Handy Album • Projections The common factor seems to be the violin, which is absent from New View It'd be nice if Mosaic would reissue New View in their Single series. The now OOP CD reissue on Koch is very expensive these days.

I have the 1999 Japanese CD reissue of In the Ver•na’cu•lar (Roulette TOCJ-6305), but haven't listened to it in ages.

Now that's a Mosaic set I'd buy in a second! At least some of those Vanguard sessions have been reissued on CD. I have a few. But boy did they get chopped up. Yep, they're a mess - like Prestige chopped up many of their sessions in the 1950s...

Now that's a Mosaic set I'd buy in a second! At least some of those Vanguard sessions have been reissued on CD. I have a few.

Sorry -- don't have strong memories of it. I do very much like the "The Big Sound" date on Verve and the RCA Hodges-Strayhorn big band album, plus the Hodges 1956-61 small-group things that Granz recorded and that came out in a Mosaic box. The The Big Sound date is included in the Hodges 1956-1961 Mosaic set. Talk about failing memory -- I bought "The Big Sound" separately a good many years after I bought the Mosaic set. From 'The Big Sound' only the second session of September 3, 1957 is on the Mosaic Set. The sessions of June 26, 1957 and the first session of September 3 1957 are big band recordings and thus not included on this small groups set. So you were right to buy the Fresh Sound. Yep, you're right, forgot about those. Failing memory, eh...

Sorry -- don't have strong memories of it. I do very much like the "The Big Sound" date on Verve and the RCA Hodges-Strayhorn big band album, plus the Hodges 1956-61 small-group things that Granz recorded and that came out in a Mosaic box. The The Big Sound date is included in the Hodges 1956-1961 Mosaic set.

I think you mean Alicia de Larrocha.

You can edit the thread title yourself by clicking on "edit" and "use full editor".

Those 4 tracks are no-noised on the Rollins box. They sound better on the OJC Trombone by Three CD (OJCCD-091-2), at least to my ears.

Not true, that set is OOP. You probably mean the Stanley Turrentine set, which is on sale for that price through September 7 but isn't offered here anymore.

That's kind of unfair. If and when Mosaic uses needle drops, they are very up front about it and do so only after they've looked at all available source material and determined that the ND is the best possible representation of a piece of music. Further, the percentage of ND's they resort to is miniscule in comparison to the totality of what they're reproducing. I agree with Dave, that's not fair. Needle drops are Mosaic's last resort and are done in very few cases.

I did join and I have to agree with you: small w/o many posts. Strange that current and former SH.tv gorts would have their own forum. Let me put it this way: I get the impression that some of them feel more comfortable there, away from the constraints of the Hoffman forum.

Is the Speakeasy Forum anything like SH.tv? Thanks. Depends on how you would define the Hoffman forum, i.e. what you think it's like. Why don't you pay a visit to the Speakeasy Forum and see for yourself? It's a small forum without much traffic, but occasionally an interesting topic comes up. Hardly any "jazz talk", though, so if you're looking for that you won't find it interesting.

Interesting, I have not been following those threads close enough to notice. Or perhaps they are deleted before I even see them! I still visit SH frequently, as there is a lot of traffic and some knowledgeable people posting. Hans is correct in noting the inordinate focus on sonics (as opposed to the music itself) but the forum is source of a lot of knowledge (or at least opinions) on hi fi equipment. But I agree there are also some pretty arrogant posters, way too much unquestioning hero worship and a focus on the best sounding masterings that is beyond obsessive. It borders on the hilarious at times. And it does seem like the cabal of "gorts" runs the place kind of like the military junta runs Burma... A few current and former Hoffman moderators set up the Speakeasy Forum last year and one of them posted there that he saw the Hoffman forum more like a "brand" than a discussion site, or, in other words, just a marketing tool for one person's work (and the companies that person represents). My response was that in that case the Hoffman forum shouldn't present itself as a discussion site, but make clear what it is (a marketing tool) and above all what the limitations are. The discussion can be found here.

Sad news: blues musician David "Honeyboy" Edwards has died. He was 96. obit

Sold.

Sold.

Got 'em, thanks Chuck.

I'm certainly interested in the Mitchell and will probably get it when the circumstances get better - it might take a while, though. As I told you before I think support for independent labels like yours is important.

Post #208 was a direct result of (honest) post #205 and my current situation.