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Cool.

While Moms is typically forceful in his rhetoric, he raises a few good points, but ones I get the feeling have much less dastardly explanations. I do think what Black Saint has managed to do raises the stakes for a label like Hat. But I'm also sure Chuck could give a pretty convincing rundown of how it's not that easy. I can tell you what though, if I won the lottery it'd be deluxe 200 gram reissues and box sets for all!

JETman: I moved from a city with two record stores, one jazz centric, plus several thrift shops with records to a much bigger city 100 miles away from anything resembling a record store. Makes me want to die.

I fully agree. Funds limit what I can get, but I will buy just about anything he does. I have 25 or so hatOLOGY, a few LPs and several Hut CDs. I pick something up whenever I see a deal.

http://www.amazon.com/Africa-Speaks-America-Answers-Revolutionary/dp/0674046242/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1331476239&sr=8-1 http://www.avclub.com/articles/robin-dg-kelley-africa-speaks-america-answers,70471/ Looks good!

It is on their schedule, but has been for more than 5 years.

I just might cave one day and drop the $150 people want for Willisau.

Me too. As to Jonathan's question, I second a good website. It sounds like you are committed to keeping the releases coming, and I think that if you can commit to X number of issues per year (3-4?) why not do a subscription like Número Group or Music Matters? There's a great uniformity to your releases, and I know I'm not the only one who will buy anything you put out. It might help to know you have certain number of copies sold out the gate. Subscribers could get, say, a 10% discount, "insider" emails, and the first copies available. I'd even pay something like a $5 subscription fee. Even if this ostensibly cut into the 10% I wouldn't care and it could help to establish some up front funds assuming enough people do it.

There are these, but certainly not complete:

It's not for nothing we named our son August Ornette! (who, consequently, shares his first birthday with Mr. Cecil Taylor next week!) :tup

I only see success for a Mosaic. It would make them some much needed cash and would garner big attention on NPR, Rolling Stone, etc which obviously would also translate to money for the estate. GO FOR THE CDS!!

Mentioned in tandem with a KJ Select some years back was a Miff Mole set (and the Lucky Thompson).

On the opposite end, the LP-only Johnny Hodges Mosaic was meant to mirror a CD set by Verve that never came to pass. The Mosaic Max Roach was originally planned to include the sessions recorded for other labels during the time span covered- Argo, Time, Riverside, Candid - it would have been a really big set, but a gas musically.

He's also looking damn sharp for the 70s!

In a late 1980s brochure I have (Herbie Nichols on the cover) they announce a Wardell Gray set with no specifics. Also mentioned are the Commodores, Shorty Rogers, and Coleman Hawkins. So really they've been delaying that one for about 25 years now, not 6 months!

Hm, that's some interesting insight on the question of selling individual albums. I always wondered why they never did, say, a Sonny Clark or Bobby Hutcherson BN in the 80s/early 90s before a lot of that stuff was available on CD. Probably why.

Thanks guys.

Well, my copy of THE COMPLETE SET on Retrieval was just melted to shit by some fool at my job (along with some Warne, Ornette and Braxton ... > ). Anyways, is there something better I could buy to replace it that might give me more bang? I can live without alternates if I get some of the later stuff in return.

I was lucky enough to snag a sealed box of the first 5 volumes of the Armstrong MOJ series for $12 on ebay.

Love these compilations:

Forgot about Lee Wiley!

Jonathan, I was aware about your work with Anthony Ortega and Revelation, so it's great to get your perspective; Thanks. Wonderful to hear about Warne. I too took out NE PLUS ULTRA today and jumped right online to grab the Copenhagen/Kenny Drew, Germany 1980, and PAUSA set with Konitz. Never cam have too much Warne. And not to overload you with requests, but how about putting out your two Ortega albums as released (since Hat cut them up)? I also love the Gary Foster, Clare Fischer and Carmell Jones sides!

The Tri-Centric Foundation has launched their new website. Monthly membership is now just $7.99, for which you get a free album each month, 30% off back catalog downloads, and some other perks. There is also a raft of new bootlegs up, which are free to all. Some fantastic looking stuff: the 1989 trio with Tony Oxley, a trio with Derek Bailey and George E. Lewis, 70s Quintet, 80s Quartet, 1979 Quartet w/ Anderson, Barker and Lindberg, Duos with Tietlbaum and Gunter Sommer, and some solos and Creative Orchestra Music.

On second glance I do know Herwig from Eddie Palmieri's band.