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I've recently scored the three Commodore Mosaic boxes & am gradually mining the lode & digitalising what I already don't have on CD. Came across George Zack who recorded most of his short lived output at Commodore (7 sessions & a total of 50 tracks, just under two & a half hours of outstanding Chicago "Barrel-House" duos (mostly with Wettling and some with Danny Alvin). He was one of Gabler's favourites according to the booklet notes - unfortunately he was a chronic alcoholic & spent most of the recording sessions juiced & wasn't able to play in groups (there was the disasterous Wild Bill Davison session where Dick Cary had to sub for him - he only recorded on a couple of the titles). His last session was in 1951 (Jimmy James in Chicago), then he disappeared I presume due to his affliction he didn't see out his later years?

hoping that one day we'll get the Ra Transition release redone with the extra tracks that were on the acetate found a few years back

never knew Art & Addison were twins

great pic!! - looks like there are two Art Farmers present - who is that just to the left of Mal Waldron?

you mean a proper or "Proper" box?

just saw these sets on Jazz Messengers - ordered directly from the Wallen Bink site What a lineup: Tolliver, Nathan D, Henderson, Farmer, Carmell......

Yep, I have many of those but would welcome a digital (CD) set I've got the more simplified, much less ornate (& cheaper) european version

exact opposite for us here in Australia - what a total stuff up - hope they cut ties with Asendia

Yep, one of my friends south received his today - already listened to two discs

same here my Asendia is saying Australia (Sydney) for Aug 18 while the DAI has it in the states for 17/8 - how can that be - Concorde postal service!!

Yes, I've got a number of releases piled up for me & just waiting on the latest Harriott vinyl release (delayed) to add to the haul Also the Rhythm & Blues label is releasing a Harriott at the BBC (3 sessions) CD - maybe this has already been mentioned https://rhythmandbluesrecords.co.uk/?product=joe-harriott-quintet-the-rakes-progress-at-the-bbc The Amalgam release "Prayer For Peace" is a stunner. Have you heard of the UK label "Hi4Head" - I bought a couple Watts/Amalgam CDs from them - rereleases from the Ogun catalogue (Closer to You & Cynosure) with unreleased material from the same sessions

huge amount of coverage in Australia today - she's an icon here especially wrt her extramusical pursuits - established a cancer clinic here in 2014 She was actually born in the UK then returned in the late 60s to record her early "country orientated" material. RIP Olivia

currently listening to La Notte - it's included in the 8CD set "Jazz on Film - The New Wave II"

I've successfully extracted most of the bonus info IICRC from the disc - it won't play by just inserting, as you know Mainly the dialogue - RVG & other BN musicians discussing JC & the album

many thanks for the link Joe - what a wonderful site ordered the Melle (3 LPs on 2 CDs), Kirchin (Worlds Within Worlds, Vols 1 & 2 - both LPs on one CD) & Fischer sets Looks like Keith Fullerton Whitman recently lived here in Australia for a while

I did contact Fred a few days ago & spoke of the shipping "fiasco" & he totally agreed. He contacted Asendia for me & next day I received a functioning link with a different tracking #

received this one liner email from Mosaic this morning - no other explanatory text "https://a1.asendiausa.com/tracking/ 50S6BZZQ94" again, that number goes nowhere (it never did right from the start) - below is the response I get when inserting the tracking number into Ascendia Your Order Information Has Not Yet Made It To Our System But We Will Show Updates Once It Does! Check Back Soon!

fascinating - just watched Never realised there was a John Fahey connection with Fonotone - just ordered the Fahey Fonotone box set & book All my Fahey material is on vinyl

thanks for the tip - tried it with no luck - I suspect that code is actually not a tracking #

been using CD Japan for years - highly recommended IMHO for service, though they don't always carry the full range of Japanese releases

Almost 2 weeks (July 15) since my box was supposed to have been sent plus the tracking number when placed into the Asendia site repeatedly has come back as "Item Not Found". Anyone else from Australia had any better luck?

Got mine today too - Australia bound - can't work out whether it's going via Ascendia or USPS. Inserting tracking code in Ascendia comes back as "Item Not Found" - too early??

Beautiful!!

same here (Australia) - maybe overseas orders go to the bottom of the pile

had no trouble extracting this recent 83min disc