mikeweil

Yup. The "traditional jazz" part of Volume 2 was not on CD, so they added the two Don Byas tracks to the CD of Volume 1 with the tracks of the same Bud Powell Trio.

Correct. But there were added as bonus tracks to the CD reissue of Vol. 1!

So far today:

This morning:

Some more:

Byas is in top form here. Three complete sessions, only one alternate take missing. Great sound.

Just pulled from the mailbox:

Now I remember: Maybe I heard something like this imprecision etc. in the music when I had a listen to the CD reissue that left me underwhelmed and made put it back in the bin at the shop. Okay, my money will be saved for the Mosaic.

Oh, I overlooked that one - thanks for posting this. No idea why I didn't buy it when it was released. Will try to find a copy.

I had similar thoughts.

Hard to understand why MPS in Germany never reissued this on CD. The Japanese CD goes for rather high prices, or I would have got me one. I must be careful about my spendings ....

Hard to pick just a few, there are so many great one. Some that sping to my mind: https://www.discogs.com/release/2584731-Geoff-Keezer-Zero-One https://www.discogs.com/release/5265269-Bernie-Worrell-Elevation-The-Upper-Air .... and some solo Duke Ellington, and some Paul Bley.

Now that the Mosaic set of Don Byas sessions is announced, I looked what else might be of interest. I just ordered a copy of a compilation of his Vogue sessions, https://www.discogs.com/release/14897775-Don-Byas-Lover-Man/image/SW1hZ2U6NDQ4OTQ5NDY=:: When looked it uo in the Lord Disco, I found considerable overlap with another Vogue reissue I already have, https://www.discogs.com/release/5587403-Don-Byas-Featuring-Mary-Lou-Williams-Trio-Beryl-Booker-Trio-Don-Byas/image/SW1hZ2U6MTE4ODE5MTk=: I almost regretted the order of the former CD, but whem I compared the discographical data of the latter CD with ihe data in the Lord Disco, I found out that Lord got this reissue totally wrong and the overlap is minimal. We had a similar discussion abot one Trummy Young session that's not in the Mosaic, and contrary to the data in Lord, probably was never issued. My warning is: Never trust the data in Lord without consulting a second source! There a a lot of errors or inexact data. This is not to diminish his effots, but the sheer amount of data makes such errors inevitable. Specialist discographies on labels or single srtists will always be more accurate, and Lord will be the first to admit this. Just be careful when you post info, alway state your sources,a nd try to be as accurate as possible. Discographical research can be a pian in certain body parts, but it is wotrth it and helps the collectors community. So in the end I can recommend these two Vogue CDs. Another great one is this from late in his career: What else can you recommend, besides the sessions missing from the Mosaic that are discussed already in the respective thread?

Earlier this afternoon: