dougcrates

Hello once again, I am selling the Lester Young and Columbia Small Group Swing Sessions box sets. All CD's are in mint condition as is the packaging. The Lester Young has the book printing error where some pages are repeated and / or out of sequence. Lester Young is #179. Small Group Swing Sessions is #2830 $150USD for the Columbia Swing Group Sessions and $120USD for Lester Young plus shipping from Toronto. Thanks, Doug

Considering the great response that Hank got for his OOP Mosaic sets did I overprice the Elvin Jones set? Or is it just that everyone that wants it has it? I'm curious to know. If so, I'll just move it to Ebay.

To anyone interested I'm very open to your best fair offer as long as it doesn't involve a trade that includes a yak or a skateboard with no wheels.

Hey Organissimo Friends, I am selling the Elvin Jones Mosaic Box. All cd's are in mint condition. US$175 plus shipping. I'm located in Toronto. Thanks, Doug

Two more batches coming soon (Sept 24 and Oct 22): http://www.sonymusicshop.jp/m/sear/groupShw.php?site=S&ima=3642&cd=M002035

I love this series as well and I was able to get two of the bonus discs: Donna Brooks and Marty Napoleon (so far). The Napoleon is good and the Donna Brooks is great.

Soul Brother is continuing their Muse reissue program with Walter Bishop's Soul Village due June 23rd. Product Description: Walter Bishop, Jr. grew up in Harlem and was teenage friends with Sonny Rollins, and Art Taylor. He played in bands led by Art Blakey, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and others from the late 40s onwards. He led his own bands from the early 60s and recorded two good albums for the Black Jazz label in the early 70s. After a spell teaching in Los Angeles, he returned to New York and signed with Muse records and recorded this iconic jazz fusion album Soul Village in 1977. It includes the classic Soul Turnaround, a track he had previously recorded for Black Jazz and Freddie Hubbard had covered it on Atlantic, but this is the definitive version featuring Randy Brecker, Steve Khan and other notable fusion musicians and Bish on Fender Rhodes. The full album gained notoriety through thye late 70s and early 80s, part of the soundtrack to the jazz funk and soul movement of the period, championed by DJ Robbie Vincent on his BBC Radio show where many of the tracks were featured. Walter died in 1998 aged 70, performing until the end, including at Londons Bass Clef a few years before he died.

The Japanese label, SOLID, is starting an ENJA reissue campaign now that they have completed the Bethlehem catalog. Phase 1 will be available April 23rd at all the Japanese hotspots. Dusty Groove does not have any of these listed as forthcoming. I don't know anything about this label or the quality of their output but some of these titles (Elvin Jones, Hal Galper) sound good. Akio Sasajima - Humpty Dumpty Archie Shepp - Soul Song Art Farmer - In Concert Art Taylor - Mr. A.T. Arthur Blythe - Retroflection: Live At The Village Vanguard Atilla Zoller - Common Cause Bennie Wallace - In Berlin Bennie Wallace - Someone To Watch Over Me Benny Bailey - Island Bob Degan - Chartreuse Charlie Rouse - Upper Manhattan Jazz Society Chet Baker - My Favorite Songs - The Last Great Concert Vol. 1 Chet Baker - My Favorite Songs - The Last Great Concert Vol. 2 Coleman Hawkins - Supreme Dollar Brand - Banyana Double Image Elvin Jones - Youngblood Franco Ambrosetti - Close Encounter Gil Evans - Blues In Orbit Hal Galper - Speak With A Single Voice Herb Geller - Birdland Stomp Kenny Barron - Live At Fat Tuesdays Kenny Barron - What If Mal Waldron - Moods Masahiko Sato - Trinity McCoy Tyner - Remembering John New York Jazz Quartet - Oasis Tommy Flanagan - Let's Play The Music Of Thad Jones Walter Norris - Drifting Yamashita Yosuke - Inner Space

Ace Records' Boplicity label is reissuing Harold Land's Choma (Burn). No release date given and there is no link on Amazon UK yet. Wardell Gray's Way Out Wardell and Louis Armstrong's And His Friends are forthcoming as well: http://acerecords.co.uk/choma-burn http://acerecords.co.uk/way-out-wardell http://acerecords.co.uk/louis-armstrong-and-his-friends

http://wmg.jp/special/fusion1000/ First wave will be released June 25th followed by the second wave July 23rd.

Thanks for the heads-up, doug. Can I ask where you got the information about all five being released. Their website (if this is it) http://www.soulbrother.co.uk/ hasn't been updated for a long time. The last sentence of the linked Amazon Product Description: "This is the first of five Carlos Garnett Muse albums that we will be issuing on CD over the next year". Sorry....can't see it I added the product description from Amazon UK to the first post.

Thanks for the heads-up, doug. Can I ask where you got the information about all five being released. Their website (if this is it) http://www.soulbrother.co.uk/ hasn't been updated for a long time. The last sentence of the linked Amazon Product Description: "This is the first of five Carlos Garnett Muse albums that we will be issuing on CD over the next year".

The UK reissue label, Soul Brother Records, will be reissuing all five Muse albums over the next year. Black Love will get things started on April 7th. Here is the Product Description: The album contains five self composed tracks of Spiritual and at times very funky Jazz. Black Love is an anthem celebrating Black Culture and features the beautiful and powerful vocals of Ayodele Jenkins. Banks of the Nile is another up tempo and at times almost frantic Spiritual Jazz workout. Mother of the Future has become a jazz dance classic with Dee Dee Bridgewater taking the lead vocals on this slightly freer original version. The version recorded by Norman Connors featuring Jean Carne later in the same year is better known, but this version really cooks with fantastic rhythms and a great solo from Carlos. The yodelling by Carlos Chambers is reminiscent of Leon Thomas and adds another touch of ancestral heritage to the recording. Ebonesque is beautiful whilst Taurus Woman is the albums funkiest track, its twelve and half minutes allowing many members of the band to contribute a fine solo, most notably Mauricio Smith who is excellent on flute. We are delighted to present this album on CD as part of our Classic album series for the first time in nearly twenty years , re-mastered and sounding fresher than ever. This is the first of five Carlos Garnett Muse albums that we will be issuing on CD over the next year. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Love-Carlos-Garnet/dp/B00IO0X1LS/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1393558514&sr=1-3&keywords=soul+brother+records

Dusty Groove is reissuing Cannonball's Black Messiah on April 29th http://www.dustygroove.com/item/691999

Dusty Groove has added another 30 or so titles as coming soon (March 12th) from the Japanese Bethlehem series on Solid. 6 Australian Jazz Quartet albums Ralph Burns Bijou Teddy Charles's Salute To Hamp and Ivy League Russ Garcia Wigville and Sounds In The Night Urbie Green - East Coast Jazz No. 6 Herbie Harper Osie Johnson - Happy Jazz Stan Levey - Plays The Compositions... Humphrey Lyttleton - Humph Plays Standards Howard McGhee - Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries Dave McKenna & Hal Overton - Dual Piano Jazz Sam Most - Amazing, East Coast Jazz 9, Musically Yours, Plays Bird, Bud, Monk & Miles Terry Pollard Bobby Scott - Compositions, Great Scott Charlie Shavers - Most Intimate, Gershwin, Shavers & Strings Six - S/T, View From Jazzbo's Head Jack Teagarden - Jazz Great George Wein & The Storyville Sextet - Metronome Presents Jazz At The Modern Azie Mortimer - Feeling Of Jazz Milt Hinton - East Coast Jazz 5

That's a good question. The TYCJ of New York Is Now! sounds like a different mix to my ears, but I don't know. Addey didn't pan the horns out as much (if I'm using the terminology correctly). The TYCJ is very much stereo, if you know what I mean. It's nice to have both editions to go back and forth with. I could be off here, but Addey's edition sounds more neutral over all. I bought the Addey editions of both discs (New York is Now! & Love Call) in 1990 — now almost 25 years ago! Hard to believe. The music hasn't aged a bit. One of the perks of re-purchasing a title (read: here comes the rationalization) is checking it out all over again, and re-connecting with the music. I remember buying those discs for the first time — along with the Elvin Jones Lighthouse discs — and scratching my head and loving them simultaneously. This TYCJ series — according to Google Translate — is being compiled by Michael "Kusu-kuna" and "Whereabouts" Hitoshi. The highlight of Google Translate has to be from the Warner Japan Series as The Jazz Modes - The Most Happy Fella album is translated as "Jazz Morse - Most Happy Blow Job" http://wmg.jp/jazz1000/index_05.html

Information on this series is available on Universal Japan's site. Michael Cuscuna appears to be involved. Here is the link: http://www.universal-music.co.jp/jazz/prestige7000. And here is the link for the New Jazz series: http://www.universal-music.co.jp/jazz/prestige-newjazz

Freddie McCoy Prestige years Carlos Garnett Muse years Cannonball Adderley - unreissued Capitol years Dave Bailey - Epic years properly remastered (Sony Japan is starting a reissue campaign in February and the Charlie Rouse and Curtis Fuller Epics have been announced, hopefully the Bailey's will be part of a future wave - for those interested in what else is forthcoming you can search by the catalog number SICP on HMV Japan).

Everything I have ordered from Mosaic (including purchases in the last few months) has come via Canada Post and I have never paid Customs on a Mosaic order.

I am really excited about this release. Michael Cuscuna hinted at this release in an email he sent me three years ago. I had given up hope. I would love a Carlos Garnett set but at the time MC said it was unlikely to happen. The Muse catalog is now under the control of SLG, LLC which is the Savoy Label Group. I wonder if any Savoy projects will be forthcoming?

Done It Again is very good. It was reissued by Get On Down in a mini-LP sleeve in 2011.

Dusty Groove (in partnership with Real Gone Music) has three more reissues from the Concord vaults scheduled for July 2: Ahmed Abdul Malik - Spellbound, Stan Hunter & Sonny Fortune - Trip On The Strip and George Braith - Musart. To my knowledge, none of these have been on CD before.

When Dusty Groove first posted their wave of Concord releases which also includes the Wayne Henderson produced Allspice and Larry Williams, Ahmed Abdul-Malik's Spellbound was part of the batch. Unfortunately, they removed it after a week. I hope it is still forthcoming and there is no issue with the master tapes.

JLH, I will buy anything you reissue as the first three were fantastic but I would also like to know if the expanded Joe Daley is still going to happen.

Dusty Groove and Real Gone teamed up to reissue these albums. They are remastered from the original tapes and they sound great but the music is inconsistent. The Steig didn't move me but the Gene Harris twofer is fantastic. As far has Dusty Groove peddling punch hole / promo copies I have been fine with that especially in the case of the OJC stuff because most of them are priced at 3.99 or 4.99.