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https://www.discogs.com/Illinois-Jacquet-The-Complete-Illinois-Jacquet-Sessions-1945-50/release/3220518 4CD or 6LP

Jim, a lot of it is subjective. I can see where the Mosaics may be greatly preferable for people with different aesthetics, larger incomes, larger houses, and differently listening habits (80-90% of my listening occurs at work, I port CD's around) than me. Mosaics are great for what they are, just not my thing for different reasons.

Great price on the Liebman/Beirach Select ($39.95). And the Woody Herman Select is $19.95. Beware, it says the Newman/Green Select does not have a booklet.

Yep, I got this one (and IIRC, the Hubbard and the Elvin Jones) when another board member put them up for sale here, and it far exceeded my expectations. I wish I had grabbed the Chet Baker from him also, and how that sits on my "want" list. Amazing series, haven't heard a clinker or even so-so release from it, just various gradings of wonderful, but music and sound quaility. One of the very best Woody Shaw live releases (which I got on pre-order).

I'm more bugged by this sort of exploito album cover. And Muse did a LOT of them in the 80's/90's.

Also with Ike Quebec and Green/Clark 2CD sets that duplicate the content of the Mosaics. In all three cases, I sold off the Mosaics and bought the BN's.

@HutchFan - I have very very mixed feelings on 32jazz. I agree they sound better than the Muse CD's, and in several cases I replaced Muse CD's with 32jazz CD's. And they put out some incredibly important reissues, like 'The Free Slave' by Roy Brooks. OTOH, they did things like reissue nothing by Carlos Garnett except a 40-minute anthology, and they used a third of that 40 minutes on "Taurus Woman". And they chopped up and used only pieces of other albums that they did not reissue in whole by other important artists like Charles Earland. And to take "Woody Shaw at the Berliner Jazztage", one of the greatest albums ever made, and just stick it with a pretty unrelated/incompatible Shaw album on something called "Two More Pieces of the Puzzle", just grates on my sensibilities. Muse was all over the place with their album covers, some were pretty great, some were utterly embarrassing, with gratuitous girly shots etc. And Shaw's Muse cover of 'The Moontrane' is beautiful, where the 32jazz cover is a monstrosity.

Got my shipping notice from ImportCDs yesterday, so it's available now.

More free books (free shipping in USA, credit towards shipping overseas).if anyone wants any of them, let me know, and I will get them sent out to you. Some of these were textbooks from my college course with Neal Leonard ca. 1975: Stearns - The Story of Jazz Ross Russell - Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest Tanner/Grow - Jazz Lyons - Great Jazz Pianists Feather - Encyclopedia of Jazz Johnny Cash - Cash (autobiography)

Interestingly, I HAVE bought individual Miles titles besides owning the Metal Spine boxes (except for the prohibitively expensive On The Corner box). I don't like handling those boxes, and I like being able to quickly grab one of the CD's. As far as the Mosaic's, my intention isn't to duplicate the boxes with single CD's, it's to replace the boxes. I find individual Blue Note CD's to have a subjective magic about them, and prefer them to any other format for that material. And since I sold many of my Mosaic boxes (Blue Note and otherwise) during Mosaic Madness and replaced them with other CD formats of the same material, I had some economic gain. I also had Mosaic boxes that I sold too early at way too low of a price, and too late to get the premium prices, so I have not optimized the experience. Some of those early Mosaic boxes were miracles to me (such as the Blakey, the McLean, the Young, the Green/Clark, etc. Tina Brooks? Really? wow, count me in!), but the appeal was the music rather than the format. I've never been enamored of the big boxes, the lack of original album cover artwork, etc. I agree the 2CD boxes, such as the Cherry and the Freddie Redd, seemed really silly to me, and our house is 1800 sq. feet, so I don't have lots of extra space crying to be filled up with oversize box sets. That being said, I have bought (and sold) dozens of Mosaic sets, still own 25 of the Selects and 15 of the big boxes, and am starting to buy back some of the big box titles I sold off during the craziness, and am thankful for what Cuscuna & Co. have provided us over the past 30 years.

Discogs shows the median sales price as $25.92. That sounds about right, plus shipping.

It is. PM sent. Both books claimed.

The really old ones made in Germany look and feel much more substantial to me. Not saying that's a good thing, just an observation.

All about who holds the copyrights, I assume. The whole Prestige catalog keeps getting so many reissue campaigns. Chances are, Concord will give us "Mal Waldron Plays For Lovers" in time for Valentine's Day (and it will be 34 minutes long).

Start with the Clifford Jordan sessions, "In The World" and "Glass Bead Games". Amazing stuff.

It is, and will set you back $200+ at this point, but what a great set. One of the best Mosaics ever.

LP is $34.99 from Da Bastids, which is still pretty pricey. https://www.dustygroove.com/item/865642?sf=Cecil+Payne&incl_oos=1&incl_cs=1&kwfilter=Cecil+Payne&sort_order=artist

How about Paul Desmond with Brubeck then? "Take 5"; "Blue Rondo A La Turk", etc.

I heard somewhere that this guy was a decent alto player...

PM sent on the Thad Jones, Tal Farlow, and Johnny Richards sets.

Me too, which is really out of character for them.

And the ever-threatening "What is (and isn't) Jazz?". Lived that one in the 70's a lot, before Sir Wynton came down from the mountain to gave us the definitive judgments.

I actually have been selling off most of my Mosaic sets as the material becomes available on other CD's. For instance, the Woody Shaw Columbia is totally trumped by that box set that Columbia put out - extra material, better sound, much lower price, smaller footprint. Exception for me is the Woody Shaw Muse box - the 32jazz reissues are so shoddy, I don't have the heart to have that be my representation of that great material. And the Elvin Jones, Lou Donaldson, Stanley Turrentine, Jackie McLean Blue Note boxes have important albums not readily available on Blue Note CD, and the Gerald Wilson and Jazz Crusaders Pacific Jazz sets the same. Beyond that, I only have a smattering of big boxes (Roach, MJQ, Sonny Stitt come to mind), and I expect to sell them eventually. I have kept a lot more of the Selects, which I prefer.

Understood, based on higher price but lower shipping cost. I tend to order 13 CD's at a time from CDJapan, which optimizes shipping for me. That is the max allowed for a SAL Small Packet.

I actually like Hi-Nology a lot. How is Swing Journal different? More straight ahead? I don't own and have never heard "Feelin' Good" or "Hino/Kikuchi". What are they like?