Head Man

Mine's in the post from Amazon.

Just put my pre-order in with Hiroshi for the new Horace Tapscott!

If you get a good price I might put my copy up as well. I don't think it's that rare, by the way.

I wonder who's playing the dinner plate?

I have about half of them but.......it would be nice to have the others and........they've been remastered so.......maybes I'll get it! I wonder when the Andrew Hill will coming out? Now, that's one I'll almost certainly buy.

My BRUYNINCKX discography has: "Shorty Rogers (flhrn) with unknown others"

I'm waiting for it to come out on 500 78s

Yes that's one I missed when it came out in Japan and I've been regretting it ever since! Does anyone know where I can pick up a CD copy? Update: Hiroshi's found me a copy!

....and he brought up six children on a jazz musician's wage. Amazing!

e-mail sent!

Perhaps we're all fans and already have the three you're offering. I am.....and I do!

What if it wasn't? I really don't understand the question. it's simple really - if the 1st music you heard had been ellington, then the 1st music you'd have heard would've been ellington. and clearly everything proceeding from that moment would've been very different. or pretty similar. or about half similar but half different. or maybe 65% different. but whatever the case may be, ellington would've been the 1st thing that you'd heard. so there's that. simple really. let us now devolve into an inane pseudo-psychological wankfest about the mind and how early exposure to blah blah blah effects the cognitive blah blah of the true artist's/music appreciator's perception of the blah blah blah.... what i really mean is ellington is 2nd to none in pretty much every single way and everyone knows it. So there....everything explained

You're probably right...but they're nicely done, nevertheless.

I do own quite a few Strata-East albums including most of the ones you mention, Felser; plus the Charles Tolliver's Mosaic boxset. However if the artists themselves own the recordings then I guess that's why there's been no proper re-issue programme. It can't be easy to organise one-off deals to get the music out.

Does anyone know why so few of the releases on this label are currently available on CD? Even the ones that are only seem to be available in Japan. I'm currently listening to a needle drop of the John Gordon album 'Step by Step' which is excellent but I can't buy it on CD because it has never been reissued (I think!)....strange...and sad!

.....and the people that listen to them.

I hope this is true (and its coming from Chuck is cause for optimism). Those were really good LPs and I'd love to see them in print and easily obtainable. This is from the 'Mosaic Ahmad Jamal - John Carter/Bobby Bradford Release' thread. Looks promising!

"Paolo Scotti, a man with a mission, hailing from Italy, Paolo has over the years become a global leading authority on not only Italian Jazz but also Jazz in general" Has anyone here heard of Mr. Scotti and/or Conch Records?

I don't know whether it's legit or not but if this is the sum total of the widely trailed Horo re-issue program, then it's a poor do!

Wow.......put me down for copies of all of those! Great news and thanks for letting us know, Jonathan! PS I'm playing your Carter/Bradford boxset as I'm typing this - wonderful music. Thanks again for making it available.

What's that in cm?

Chuck, do you know who has the rights to release Bob Thiele's Flying Dutchman releases?

I'm currently listening to the latest John Carter/Bobby Bradford Mosaic Select set and it's so good I wonder if anyone knows why their recordings made for Flying Dutchman in the late 60s/70s have never had a proper reissue on CD. Four tracks surfaced on RCA Novus in 1991 where they were paired with another four tracks by Horace Tapscott (West Coast Hot) but apart from that they seem to have disappeared. Are there contractual problems or what?

Recorded live at percussionist Mike Mahaffy's performance space, Sunrise Studio in NYC on September 28, 1975. Ted Daniel (trumpet, flugelhorn, French hunting horn, tambourine Richard Pierce (bass) Tatsuya Nakamura (trap drums, quarter drums); Congeniality (18:41) - Ornette Coleman Jiblet (17:05) - Sunny Murray The Moor (9:51) - Ted Daniel O.C. (9:23) - Ted Daniel Turned out better than I expected. Very nice!

Easy, when I see something I like.....I buy it.