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True, but Sebesky was very good, even great, at what he did, and the label fell a long way when he left.

Agreed. Agreed, though 'Beyond The Blue Horizon' is an absolute monster of a record, shows what he was capable of.

Absolutely would not keep the boxes, have sold many through the years as I was able to replace them with individual CD's. I'm not a fan of the Mosaic format, and have meaningful but finite space for my collection, and meaningful but finite money to tie up in it!

I agree. 'Farrell and Benson' is a looong way down from 'Outback'.

In addition to the individual BN CD's, I own the McLean Mosaic for one album, the Mosaic Thad Jones for one album, the Mosaic Stanley Turrentine for one album, the Mosaic Elvin Jones for two albums, and the Mosaic Lou Donaldson for two or three albums, so I get it to that degree. Hoping the Japanese will eventually enable me to pick up the individual titles and pass these boxes along. I know Don Was isn't gonna come to my rescue.

Five excellent Farrell CTI CD's for $13. Or the BGO reissues cost a little more per album, but offer superior remastering and packaging/liner notes. 'Skateboard Park' is also a goodun, in addition to the CTI's. https://www.ebay.com/itm/JOE-FARRELL-ORIGINAL-ALBUM-CLASSICS-SLIPCASE-NEW-CD/381450592290?epid=232012953&hash=item58d03a2022:g:I6UAAOSw9z1b5YQX

Ooh, I want those! Edit: but not at the going prices ($30-$100 each). Looks like they commenced for 1957 and were published annually for at least eight years.

Not appearing for me, either.

50th anniv edition with Woodstock set?

In honor of the 50th Anniversary of Woodstock

Buddy Terry Milcho Leviev Willie Thomas (MJT+3) Lisle Atkinson Ed Bickert

Totally agree with your sentiments. I also consider two mega-albums of the 80's, Springsteen's "Born in the USA" and Dire Straits "Brothers in Arms" to musically be huge steps backwards from what they had done previously. So I am not a fan of arena-sized works, I guess.

'Monster' was the death of REM for me (though they resurrected on 'Accelerate' and 'Collapse Into Now'). Just my taste/opion. That being said, I do like "What's the Frequency, Kenneth".

I didn't hold onto them all, but do have the individual CD's of the core releases through about 1971 (so didn't keep the redundant individual CD's of things like 'Jazz at the Plaza' or 'Circle in the Round'). And I did not keep the crazy expensive On The Corner box, kept the individual CD's instead for economic reasons.

The Cherry Live at the Montmartre CD's on ESP-Disk are also great, and have surprisingly sharp fidelity.

Not all of them got later Legacy releases.

I also ended up keeping the single CD's when I got the boxes. They still very much serve a purpose to hear the original distillation, as the boxes are so far-reaching.

Off the top of my head, just the Baker, Morgan, Chambers and Scofield. And I'm not totally sure on the Baker.

"Whipping Post!"

This is the one with the three tenors. And anything with 1957 John Coltrane is well worth hearing!

Me too. I like 'Caliente' a lot. It's a superior example of that sort of thing. And 'Ruby, Ruby' is good.

Flying Dutchman Gato Barbieri was a MONSTER, especially that live album from Montreux!

Love him or hate him - Keith Jarrett.

May not be to your tastes, but movements like Strata-East records, artists like Woody Shaw, Charles Tolliver, Lloyd McNeill, and Billy Harper, the full flowering of artists like McCoy Tyner and like the Clifford Jordan/Cedar Walton group, the breakthroughs of groups like Return to Forever and The Mahavishnu Orchestra. I get much more from Tyner, Shaw, Tolliver, McNeill and Harper than I do from all of the artists you named except Coltrane. I respect them all, and like/enjoy most of them, but my heart and soul are more in the artists I named (and in a lot of 60's/early 70;s Blue Note, etc.). Just me, I'm not trying to argue relative objective value (certainly no one from the 70's is as "important" as Duke Ellington or Charlie Parker), and I'm entitled to my subjective responses. I know the ones you named came first. For that matter, artists like, say, King Oliver or whoever came before them. It's all good, and we can be thankful for all of it.