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Agreed, that is the only one and it disappeared in no time. Purchasing one from another board member who kindly offered me theirs.

Also, Adderley seemed to be trying to reach a different, younger audience with those later Capitol records. That was the era of Miles heading out to "Bitches Brew" and "Jack Johnson",, Sly and the Family Stone, the era when Art Blakey and other notable hard boppers couldn't get a record contract. Album titles like "The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free" and "The Black Messiah" seem to indicate some where his head was.

It is CD's without the record player package and without the DVD, though it looks like you can get the record player package/DVD edition used on ebay for about the same price.

Comparably priced on Amazon and Ebay. Essential 20th Century America music, amazing deal.

I've received three packages with Chris, and all have been awesome in every way, thanks! (Roach Mosaic. Shaw Muse Mosaic and Mingus complete Debut, and Pepper Mosaic Select).

He did some nice jazz sides on MPS 5 or so years later.

Yeah, I much prefer individual Blue Note CD's, have all of them from those three boxes except "Heaven on Earth" (also the "High Frequency" session from the McLean Mosaic, which has never come out on CD). I owned all of those Mosaics 20-25 years ago, sold them all off (no regrets). Same story on the Blakey Mosaic. Bite the Bullet and pony up the $ for "Heaven on Earth" is probably the best advice at this point. I've held onto the Elvin Jones, Stanley Turrentine, and Lou Donaldson Mosaics while I try to collect the individual CD's, have completed collecting the Hank Mobley individual CD's ("Curtain Call" was tricky), and will sell off that Mosaic box soon enough.

Started reading the Kooper book (which is a hoot, as expected), and just ordered the Katz book, which I was not familiar with, thanks!

Will run me $40 or more on amazon/ebay/discogs. Anyone know a better source for this one?

Which reminds me - add Peter Green to my list!

Yes, greatly appreciate that he didn't stand still. I don't much care for an album like "The Price You Got To Pay To Be Free", find it an indulgent mess, but I find it an INTERESTING indulgent mess, and it beats an attempted 1970 rerun of "Portrait of Cannonball". I do like "The Happy People" with Flora Purim.

Good stuff, thanks. I have the Al Kooper book, have never gotten around to reading it, but look forward to doing so. Fascinating guy. Classic (and correct) line about "Wonderful Tonight" triggering episodes of pukitude. That one really does seem to be Clapton's artistic nadir. Other blues-based rock guitarists I greatly prefer to Clapton along with Duane Allman: Mike Bloomfield, Rory Gallagher, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Alvin Lee, Warren Haynes, and others not immediately coming to mind. Danny Kalb for that matter. Plus that Hendrix guy. To me, Clapton's best guitar work was Derek and the Dominos, and certainly some of that was because of Duane Allman. I like a lot of Cream material, but a lot of that has to do with Jack Bruce and Felix Pappalardi and some good songwriting.

And strangely never released on CD. Really good album.

The BGO Don Ellis CD's sound fabulous, way better than the Wounded Bird releases in the cases where I bought both over the years.

Growing up, I at first thought he was covering a Buckingham's song .

70's Roy Wood 101 for under $20 (I have this, plus all the Move releases)

Agreed on Dylan. I find Roy Wood unwound, but then that's probably how he wants me to find him. And I do listen to him (especially the Move, though that first ELO album was a trip, as is Boulders and some of the other early solo work). There's a story about Dylan (possibly apocryphal, I realize), that says, when he had serious medical issues in the late 90's he "stared death in the face...and was fine with it. Now he and death get together twice a week to sip brandy and tell stories". He seems just totally comfortable in his own skin, and seems (rightly) to feel he has nothing left he has to prove. The radio show is a riot, he has such a great dry, impish sense of humor. That sense of humor goes back to the 60;s - watch some of his interviews from then from the Scorsese documentary "No Direction Home". Also, Al Kooper's story about getting to play organ on "Like a Rolling Stone" is awesome.

And he is clearly having fun, which he is entitled to. Love his radio show - he has aged beautifully (even if his singing voice hasn't). He did two albums after the Blood on the Tracks/Desire era I ever see myself returning to ("Infidels" and "Time Out of Mind"), but he'll always be the Man to me for his 60's work and what it meant culturally as well as musically. "Like A Rolling Stone" is still an unmatched landmark to me for what it unleashed in rock music, musically, lyrically, and vocally.

I'll tell you this, he's not a good SS (though a really good 3B), so the insistence on playing SS does scream ME. Dude sure can hit, though.

Saw a very angry Peter Townshend in concert in the early 90's, moaning about Clapton going 10x platinum with Unplugged and his "bossa nova version of Layla" (have never forgotten that line). I'm glad Clapton cleaned up and lived (and visually, he has aged really well), but I sure don't listen to anything he's done the past 45 years.

Still $76 + $6 shipping from Importcds directly. See GP's post where he pointed that out and gave the link.

Yes, according to a 2009 Newsweek article that says it has sold 4x platinum. Link and excerpt from the article below. And I will say, it's the jazz album I recommend as a starter to people who "don't know that they like jazz". That being said, I'm more likely to pull out and listen to one of the Miles albums with HancockCarter//Williams, like "Four and More" (Coleman) or "ESP" (Shorter): https://www.newsweek.com/how-kind-blue-became-best-selling-jazz-album-ever-77791 Meanwhile, the record kept selling, and selling and selling. Today, 50 years after it was released, "Kind of Blue" remains the bestselling jazz album of all time. More than 4 million copies have been sold, and the album still sells an average of 5,000 copies a week. If you have a jazz album on your shelf, odds are it's "Kind of Blue."

I don't love some of their layouts either, but the sound quality is fantastic (clearly better than Mosaic to my ears, though YMMV on the "loudness" wars), the sets are legit and the price is about $6-7 per CD for me (I often get 3-4 albums on a 2CD set for about $13) compared to the $18 or so per disc that new Mosaics have been (and OOP's can be more).

Just pulled out my handy Joel Whitburn "Billboard Top Pop Albums 1955-1996" book. The Jamal album charted 107 weeks and topped out at #3. The Brubeck charted 164 weeks and topped out at #2. Getz/Gilberto 96 weeks and topped out at #2 (special recognition that it did that in 1964, at the height of Beatlemania). The Getz Jazz Samba album went to #1, and charted 70 weeks. The two Coltrane albums that charted? Why, of course "Expression" and "Sun Ship", each 3 weeks, neither above 186. The top Miles Davis album was 'Bitches Brew', reaching #35 and charting 29 weeks. 'Kind of Blue' and 'A Love Supreme' never charted.

Sorry for any confusion. My point was that offering "bonus tracks" on preferred formats dates back to the 80's (at least). That being said, I'm pretty sure I can find a CD release from that era where they added a bonus EP that is half the # of tracks of the original album. Here is one that the CD adds 5 tracks onto a 15 track vinyl album, so that's getting close: