David Ayers

MOLE JAZZ IS CLOSING 1/3rd OFF ALL COMPACT DISCS - LP’s - DVD’s - VIDEO’s and BOOKS SALE BEGINS 1st OCTOBER and must end on 19th NOVEMBER 2005 This Mole is not the original one. The name and stock was bought by a guy who was running it out of the upstairs of Harold Moore's Records. Evidently it wasn't working out too well. I have a fantasy that I will buy the name and run it as a mail order operation...

Thanks for the info. Many old Conns are indeed listed with a release date of October 14 and a price of 9.99 Euro. http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000CDL5V http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004GJVN/ http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004GJVK/ http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002ZBRZA/ http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000589US/ http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004GJVQ/ . . . Some on JPC, but with the original release dates. ← I've seen all of these at FOP stores in the UK recently priced at £5 each. ← Good tip. I may be near the Covent Garden Fopp in the very near future so I'll be sure to call in. Since everything I am interested in seems to show up at £4.99 sooner rather than later it does make me wonder whether I should leap in and buy things when they first come out. I haven't got any of the CC Conns not even in non-CC editions, but if they keep sticking them in front of me at £4.99 I might start scooping them up (I held out when hmv.co.uk did this recently, but...). That said, the amazon.de offer on the new conns works out at a shade over £8 for a single CD including tax and shipping so that may be the way to go - if I can stomach ignoring the CC issues? Or maybe I should hold the line on my my Blue Note strike... WE SHALL OVERCO-OME...

Thanks for the info. Many old Conns are indeed listed with a release date of October 14 and a price of 9.99 Euro. So I noticed. Looks like a campaign. I also found Wilkerson, Braith and Turrentine Complete Blue Hour set to return at 16.99 euros and I'm sure there are others. Time to fill some gaps?

The amazon.de price is not an error. It is the same at jpc and earlier conns are the same price on amazon.de. Makes you think...

Uhh - I want these and I am almost ready to crack and order CC versions for speed and cheapness. No they aren't cheap in UK - amazon is asking £11.99. But amazon.de is asking 9.99 euros which is less than £7. Cheaper than shipping from US and no risk of duties. Hmmm... Why so cheap in Germany and pricey in UK?

Is this an olde englishe expression with which I am unfamiliar? I take it the Euro edition of this disk *is* cc-ed?

Yes it's a McMastering, probably his best and really better than you would expect. Oh but I did mean to say better than any source outside Japan. I wouldn't put my money on McMaster (2002 vintage) versus TOCJ24.

Well, nothing will ever make me into a GG fan (I won't repeat all that stuff here...), but I picked up the Retrospective Box at the weekend and have been more impressed than I thought. The sound on this box is terrific, really among the best Blue Note remastering of recent years from any source. Very colorful, vivid, rich, detailed and dynamic. Better on organ and piano than any BN CD mastering I can think of. So just as an experience I am getting a lot out of this set, as well as finding that there is quite a lot of music on it I didn't have. I'm developing quite a soft spot for this one (as long as I manage to listen through the fluffs and gaucherie). Did folks here buy the box or skip it 'cause they were collecting the individual disks? And I am over-rating the sound or is it as good as I presently think? Or am I going to come down to earth with a bump?

Those who can't foil a $25 interview can explore this alternative... Sonny Simmons speaks!

Yes it is - the CCs were reprinted in 1994/5. The 1995 ones show that date and have a white and blue label.

That would be a shame, the JJJ set is on of the all-time great Mosaics in my opinion. ← Good move You won't regret it. ← Ignore the less than gnomic utterances of the wise man at your peril! Hans is doing a great job of pushing this set. I'll put my 2 cents in and say I agree. This is a musically very strong, very consistent, very satisfying set. I'd say this is the most significant Mosaic (imminent) deletion of the last couple of years. If you collect this style and period of music then the other major Mosaic deletion you'll be faced with in the next year or two is the Mobley. So it's not a long list. I'd say this is as unmissable as Mobley and it deserves a place on anybody's 'Mosaics not to miss' list. If you are wondering whether you want so much trombone, all I can say is the arrangements and solos are characterised by variety and tastefulness, and there is no default to boogaloo and other such devices which sometimes lessen the impact of offerings on - er - some other labels.( ) This is music which grows on you more than most and keeps drawing you back. Downsides? Well the mastering is maybe a little soft grained, but it is fine, gratifying, musical sounding, and involving - which is what you want and what you sometimes don't get in recent remastering. If you are on the fence get out your BN JJ Vol I and remind yourself what is great about JJ. Nothing on the Mosaic box is quite that full on, but the virtues of taste, variety and intelligence are there in abundance. Like I say - just my $0.02.

Well, it was in the store, along with the other new RVGs, plastered over with the Copy Control warnings as usual - so, as usual, I passed...

Thanks Hans. I thought there must have been some discussion but I missed this.

This is a sweet record. Actually I enjoy Byrd's solos. I have the CC CD. We may be waiting some time for a reissue. If you see a copy snap it up!

Thanks guys. I guess he'll be back when the bug bites again...

I have to admit I'm on the fence over this myself. It's a big splash, I'd enjoy it, but would I enjoy all of it...

Ohhhh... Thanks!

How much of this is not covered by the two Capitols and the Uptown?

He hasn't posted in a while. Is he posting somewhere else these days, or what happened?

On the contrary. It's epochal. The old ones are now collector's pieces in their own right!

Having spent a few days in the company of the Rivers Mosaic, I began to wonder whether there was any chance of the remaining sessions coming out as a Conn. We now (finally) see Where is Brooklyn? completing the Don Cherry trilogy. But would it work for Sam? My guess is that the individual albums (A New Conception and Dimensions + Extensions) are a tad short and perhaps not 100% convincing (though good and interesting). However I did my sums and found that both sessions together came to 79m 22s. So can we expect a joint reissue along the lines of the Sonic Boom Conn? I think it would be a great way to give all the Sam Rivers BN output a continuing lease of life.

I notice jazzmatazz lists Here to Stay as an uncertain future (RVG?) reissue. About time I should think. I bought this years ago as a CC, as I did others, such as Trompeta Toccata. I've never understood why these particular records have stayed OOP for so long. Trompeta Toccata has been a TOCJ, a JRVG, is soon to be a TOCJ24, but in US and Europe it has been OOP for a decade. Some think it better than Una Mas, and Here to Stay is a good record too, I would have thought Wayne Shorter's presence made it very marketable. A lot of the CCs have come back as single CD reissues. I have put the list below as a reminder of what we've got, and of what we are still missing: First Collector Series Art Blakey Indestructible! Kenny Burrell Midnight Blue Donald Byrd Byrd in Hand Hoagy Carmichael Hoagy Sings Carmichael Paul Chambers Bass On Top Paul Chambers Chambers Music Kenny Dorham Una Mas Kenny Drew Undercurrent Johnny Griffin Introducing Herbie Hancock The Prisoner Herbie Hancock My Point of View Joe Henderson Our Thing Andrew Hill Black Fire Freddie Hubbard Open Sesame Freddie Hubbard Hub Cap Bobby Hutcherson Dialogue Bobby Hutcherson Oblique Thad Jones The Magnificent Duke Jordan Flight to Jordan Lambert, Hendricks & Ross The Swingers Jackie McLean Jackie's Bag Jackie McLean One Step Beyond Blue Mitchell The Thing To Do Hank Mobley The Turnaround Lee Morgan Delightfulee Horace Parlan Happy Frame Of Mind John Patton Blue John Duke Pearson Wahoo Ike Quebec Easy Living Horace Silver Serenade To a Soul Sister Lonnie Smith Think! Stanley Turrentine Joyride Stanley Turrentine (with the Three Sounds) Blue Hour McCoy Tyner Expansions Larry Young Unity Second Collector Series Art Blakey Ritual 46585 Lou Donaldson Quartet/Quintet/Sextet 81537 Lou Donaldson Lush Life 84254 Kenny Dorham Trompeta Toccata 84181 Freddie Hubbard Blue Spirits 46545 Freddie Hubbard Here to Stay 84135 Bobby Hutcherson Total Eclipse 84291 Bobby Hutcherson Happenings 46530 Elvin Jones Puttin' it All Together 84282 Jackie Mclean Tippin' the Scales 84427 Hank Mobley Far Away Lands 84425 Hank Mobley High Voltage 84273 Grachan Moncur Evolution 84153 James Moody New Sounds 84436 Lee Morgan The Rajah 84426 Sam Rivers Dimensions & Extensions 84261 Annie Ross Sings A Song with Mulligan 46852 Wayne Shorter Odyssey of Iska 84363 Horace Silver Finger Poppin' 84008 Horace Silver Doin' the Thing At the Village Gate 84076 Jimmy Smith House Party 46546 Cecil Taylor Conquistador 84260 Art Taylor A.T.'s Delight 84047 The Three Sounds Introducing the Three Sounds 46531 Stanley Turrentine Look Out 46543 Stanley Turrentine Comin' Your Way 84065 Mccoy Tyner Tender Moments 84275 Mccoy Tyner Time for Tyner 84275 Tony Williams Life Time 84180 Gerald Wilson Portraits 93414 Third Collector Series Art Blakey Like Someone in Love Kenny Drew Walkin'/Talkin' Gil Evans New Bottle, Old Wine Gil Evans Great Jazz Standards Babs Gonzales Weird Lullaby Jim Hall Jazz Guitar Andrew Hill Eternal Spirit Elmo Hope Quintet and Trio Elvin Jones Polycurrents Les McCann In New York Jackie McLean Demon's Dance Hank Mobley Another Workout Hank Mobley Roll Call Lee Morgan The Rumproller James Newton The African Flower Bill Perkins Richie Kamuca Tenors Head On Bill Potts Jazz Soul of Porgy & Bess Bud Powell Amazing Vol. 4 Time Waits Annie Ross/Zoot Sims A Gasser George Russell The African Game Horace Silver Six Pieces of Silver Three Sounds Babe's Blues Randy Weston Uhuru Afrika/high Life

I really dislike most of the box sets I have (Mosaic apart). Apart from the gimmicks (metal spine etc) it is the sheer complexity of finding all the information you need in the booklets that drives me mad. The track listing insert for Seven Steps is more use than the whole rest of the information. I seem to remember that the Mingus Atlantic set lacks track times (correct me if I am wrong). Information about personnel and original issue are often on different pages. I wish these things were designed with the user in mind.

Has anybody bought/auditioned this set yet? I don't know if I want to be the first...