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Amazon is asking $189 to $262 new and $112 to $189 used - still valuable in my book. The average eBay selling price for the Sam Rivers Mosaic BN 3-cd set is around $75 these days. It used to be about $100 ten years ago, if my memory serves me right. The ebay selling price is what I have learned to go by. What people are actually willing to pay for the set, not how much people would like to get for it.

May be a case of those who most want the Mosaic boxes now have them. We are talking about a finite number of boxes (5,000 per title) and buyers. I've been very turned off by the going prices for the used Mosaics, have been in strict seller mode for many years on them except for the occasional new release (Mingus, Jordan).

I remember 'Sizzle' on Impulse being real interesting, but I haven't heard it in 35 years, and it's not available on CD (to my knowledge). I like 'Capricorn Rising', the one he did with Don Pullen on Black Saint.

Marvelous set for the money. Always hoped they'd come out with a second box of Vogue recordings.

Lee Morgan 'Live at the Lighthouse' was in my first jazz purchase, along with a 2 LP Herbie Hancock Blue Note Collection. And the Jazz Crusaders LP's done there in the 60's are nice. I wore out "Absolutions" on that Morgan album.

I believe you do not have to pay VAT if you export to the US, so it should be cheaper than ordering from amazon.com. Put the item in your cart and initiate the checkout process to see what kind of a deal you get. I believe you do not have to pay VAT if you export to the US, so it should be cheaper than ordering from amazon.com. You are correct.

DL for me, please, and thanks for all you do for us on these BFT's!

I think the same way. A bunch of JH's Milestones are excellent. My favorite from that era is Canyon Lady. To that end, if the Milestone box is still available cheaply, that's money (less) money well-spent. A bunch of JH's Milestones are excellent. My favorite from that era is Canyon Lady. To that end, if the Milestone box is still available cheaply, that's money (less) money well-spent. Not like it was during the Concord buyout, but still well worth what it's going for. 15 complete albums on there, if I remember correctly, and much of it is firy. The stuff with the Japanese rhythm section amazed me when I first heard it 40 years ago.

Maybe it's a rare, lost "abridged" version in rechanneled stereo on the Pickwick label?

For sale, the 2005 Blue Note issue (not the Mosaic box) of Ike Quebec - The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions. Excellent condition. $50 shipped in USA or best reasonable offer. PM or email john.felser@verizon.net if interested.

Think I'll wait and see what others think of the extra material, but the price does make it attractive.

He had Eddie Henderson, Francesca Tanksley, Newman Baker, and, I think it was Spears (could have been Clarence Seay) when I saw him. Tanksley and Baker were great. I've actually been disappointed in his work in The Cookers, and generally in his work as a sideman or co-leader (that Lee Morgan album excepted). He has his own uncompromising vision which doesn't seem to necessarily translate outside of his own groups.

His best stuff has always been on a whole other plane of existence to me. Saw him live at the Painted Bride Art Center in Philly in the early 90's, was fantastic experience. Still remember the chills from "Capra Black". The DVD of the concert in Poland has some breath taking moments, especially on the 30 minute "Cry of Hunger", an unparalleled experience.

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I've never been very impressed by those Vee Jay recordings, musically or soundwise. Far inferior to the recordings on other labels those musicians were doing in the same era. Of course, soundwise, who knows what distant sources my LP's/CD's were mastered from.

A friend of mine said he was able to order these from Dusty Groove.

Thanks all for the feedback and pointers. I registered at the site and already have like 40 CD's bookmarked. This place is as bad as da bastids (DustyGroove) in that regard!

And some of the kids were apparently orphaned, like the first Visitors album. That one made it over to Muse. Did not realize (or remember) that. Good to know it got some additional distribution. Makes sense, since their subsequent LP's where on Muse/

Was trying to Google Paul's question (the last I remember was that Savoy had acquired the Muse catalog and Atlantic had acquired Savoy/Muse, but those memories could be obsolete and/or mistaken). Anyways, ran into this fascinating legal brief (I know,sounds like an oxymoron) about Pete La Roca Sims suing Joe Fields and Muse records over their 1973 reissue of 'Turkish Women at the Bath' as a Chick Corea album called 'Bliss'. Neither side comes out looking great in the matter to me. I know this sort of thing has long been done by shady reissuers of the Warwick jazz titles ('Jammin With Herbie', et al), http://www.leagle.com/decision/19861128648FSupp480_11044.xml/SIMS%20v.%20BLANCHRIS,%20INC.

Oldie but goodie via the site search. I want to order a bunch of the Blue Notes being issued in Japan this month and next. Is CDJapan my best (most economical) source for these? Any sense of what their shipping charges are like on an order of 15-20 CD's sent to USA?

Had to smile thinking about this is where we sometimes have to do sanity checks: "Can I live without an alternate take of Mimosa?". I've gone both ways on similar questions, so I'm looking at myself as much as anyone else. I am finding that in my old age, I value listenability experience, don't like the "library" sets that include the alternate takes adjacent to the master take. Much prefer them at the end of the album.

And some of the kids were apparently orphaned, like the first Visitors album. Still confused on that Tootie Heath album which appeared on Muse (Fields) and now Xanadu (Schlitten). Guess they split custody on that one, but overall that scenario holds up very well.

Not sure they have the rights to any additional Jimmy Heath. 'The Gap Sealer' was originally released on Cobblestone, 'Love and Understanding' on Muse. But that Tootie Heath being released here was also a Muse release, so not sure how the rights fall on some of that stuff. I own the Farrell and McPherson and the Jimmy Heath, which are really good, as well as some of the others. I'll buy the Tootie Heath and probably the Barry Harris Dameron set, but am not that desperate for the other titles, though I'm sure they are fine.

That's a very good decision. Beautiful album, and quite unlike anything else in Brown's discography that I'm aware of, certainly quite different from his other Impulse albums (which are all wonderful, but four very different albums). Ah, hell! Let's all order Vista! ... and Meditations. Works for me (and works for Impulse).

That's a very good decision. Beautiful album, and quite unlike anything else in Brown's discography that I'm aware of, certainly quite different from his other Impulse albums (which are all wonderful, but four very different albums).