colinmce

Mine was in perfect condition. Listened to disc 1, it's perfect.

Ordered the Ellington, thanks for the heads up.

Go for it, it's good. I think there should be a Tyner Impulse! Mosaic with all of his dates for the label-- high rate of unavailability on those ones. They could even throw in Jimmy Garrison's Illumination.

Got my Cohn/Green/Newman set in the mail today, can't wait to give it a spin.

That's actually kind of an interesting thought. Wonder if anyone ever pitched this to Mosaic? They do sell one of these for their Jimmy Smith set on True Blue, but it's majorly pricey. http://www.truebluemusic.com/prodinfo.asp?number=CVR05

I was wondering about that. There are a couple sets-- namely my avatar-- for which I'd love to have a framed copy of the cover (i.e. the booklet cover).

PM sent on Roland Kirk.

Wow, I'm surprised by the dislike for PC in here-- I love his arco playing. A couple of my favorites from him are "Billy Boy" from Milestones and "Dear Old Stockholm" from Bass On Top. Exhilirating playing to my ears. I also enjoy Henry Grimes' bow work-- he did arco some solos with Sonny Rollins and Roy Haynes that are great. And while there are no solos the arco work on Andrew Hill's "Wailing Wall" on Smokestack by Richard Davis and/or(?) Eddie Kahn is exquisite.

Meaning you could grab the Charlie Parker Verve Master Takes box, which was just recently added, for under $18

Oh. I'm borderline relieved. I was so tempted to grab the Hill, Tolliver, Tyner, and Blues piano sets, but I don't have the funds right now. Might get the Green/Cohn/Newman, though.

Is this Signals?

Yes, I got that vibe. A shame.

This was the best part about the site, why would you get rid of it?

Um, I see Tony Williams, Andrew Hill solo, Charles Tolliver, McCoy Tyner, and the Blues & Boogie-Woogie Piano sets all in stock.

There is a box sitting at my local store. It kills me to look at it.

What other RCA material might make for a good set? I admit I'm not too up on their holdings save Louis, Paul Desmond, & Sonny Rollins.

Wish I could have the Mosaic, but I just snapped up the last of these sessions in one fell swoop over the last few days. Can't wait to hear the material!

Seems like a deal enough to me. It couldn't have cost much less than that from Mosaic at the time. edit: Yep, $96 originally. Not a bad "markup" at all.

I bought it 'cause the lineup intrigued me, but alas it was what I expected. Not my thing.

Ha, I'm prescient! I ordered this a couple months back knowing this might happen. Same w/ the Mobley, I have a feeling that one might disappear from right beneath our feet.

Why not? Does paypal work? PM me.

$12 or trade for one or two CDs. In the latter case, just let me know what you wouldn't mind getting rid of.

Mr. Cuscuna said in a fairly recent interview that there would be more, along with unreleased live Andrew Hill and (I think) Wes Montgomery stuff. I'm skeptical at this point.

I got the Lonehill Ivory Hunters. Sounds fine to me, and it has some Newport tracks with Don Elliott and one other thing tacked onto it that I can't remember. I would also highly recommend the Columbia Piano Player album. It has the third movement of "All About Rosie", "My Funny Valentine" from Jazz at the Plaza in '58, a couple tracks from a Dave Pike session, and some duet and trio cuts with Eddie Gomez from the BE Album sessions. A good buy; I think it's like 5.99 at Amazon.