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Only issue on the Tapscott is that it was already out once on CD , though I, for one, would likely rebuy it. http://www.allmusic.com/album/west-coast-hot-mw0000320415

Jonathan, If you have rights into the FD vaults, how about Leon Thomas stuff? 'The Leon Thomas Album' has never made it onto CD (nor has the lesser 'Gold Sunrise on Magic Mountain'). Also, I don't believe Larry Coryell's 'Fairyland' has ever been on CD. The FD years were, to me, the ones that mattered for Thomas and Coryell.

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Having just acquired the Carter-Bradford Select and fallen in love with the first two discs on it, I can't wait for your reissues of their Flying Dutchman's!

Mine arrived today, looks great! Can't wait to listen to it.

I messed up once because I preordered using paypal and somehow I wasn't returned back to Mosaic and the transaction didn't go through, though I thought it had. Remember that the set was originally supposed to be 6 CD's and then they upped it to 7 CD's. If you pre-ordered when it was 6 (I did), they sent an email out that you had to respond to authorizing the extra charge for the 7th CD. If you missed doing that, you probably had your pre-order cancelled.

Got my notice yesterday, so they're coming.

I've had very good experiences with swapacd.com , and their trades are only 49 cents.

Absolutely. It's they only way they'll survive/prosper. And surely putting the music of Max and Clifford in more hands is a great thing. True that. gregmo And let us once again express our thanks and appreciation to Norah Jones.

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That's a really good idea there.

Free Form is the Byrd I play the most, because of the title track. Billy Higgins is a wonder on that track. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFrBXvG4q8k

This was a thread that was started about new Universal twofers, and what I slid it away from was the demise of smaller Mosaic sets, so I don't feel guilty of introducing the threadslide!

Just wanted to take a minute to reflect on the miracle that the CD age was for us. The music that came back into print/availability is stuff that I never would have dreamed I would get to hear and own. While I have my own list of Mosaics I have always wanted to see (Bobby Hutcherson/Harold Land, Chico Hamilton/Charles Lloyd are the two that immediately come to mind), I'm thankful for what they and many other labels have put out for us. And the labels I'm thankful for include some that regularly take knocks, like Collectables. They put out a lot of Atlantic jazz (and a lot of non-jazz) that I may not have ever been able to come by otherwise. The most amazing to me was Fantasy in their heyday, putting out OJC-LE's of people I had never even heard of (John Dennis, for example), and others who I thought their music was gone forever (Prince Lasha and Jimmy Woods, for example). And that's even without starting another firestorm about our Andorran friends. Human nature being what it is, the CD I think most about is whatever happens to be the next one I want to get, but I never could have imagined I would be able to own what I have, let alone even more. And God bless Norah Jones's breakthrough album for bankrolling Blue Note to be able to re-release 90% of their classic catalog, in those many flavors (McMaster, Conn, RVG, Rare Grooves, etc).

It'll do more than that.

I even have a name suggestion for Allen to use on his chart conquest - LoDawg.

Didn't Philip Larkin already explain that jazz died in the early 60's when John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman and those other scalawag ruffians killed it? Or was it already pronounced dead Chuck Berry in the late 50's? I've got no kick against modern jazz, Unless they try to play it too darn fast; And change the beauty of the melody, Until they sounded like a symphony,

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What's a good source for ordering these in the USA? I'm not finding them on Amazon.

Also, some of those CD titles had bonus tracks. Will the bonus material make it into the box set?

The Louis Hayes/Woody Shaw Swiss Radio Days set is spectacular, probably up there next to the incredible 'Live at the Berliner Jazztage' as my two favorite Shaw recordings (and I basically have all of his leader/co-leader releases).

Depends on configuration and final price point for me. If they happen to be individually packaged CD's that I can pass along what I don't want or already have, that may work. If it gets really cheap, that may work so that I can get specific titles I'd really like to have (Sam Rivers Streams, etc. - sold mine many years ago). But if it's 50 CD's in one package at $212.50,not even close for me.

BTW, one sleeper CD that does invoke a little something of the feeling of early Santana in some places is "Abraxas Pool". 1997 Miramar release, the personnel is Gregg Rolie, Michael Shrieve, Neal Schon, Michael Carabello, Jose Chepito Areas, and Alphonso Johnson. I.E. Santana III without Santana himself (Schon was already in Santana at that point) and with Johnson on bass. I wouldn't pay the $20+ it's going for on Amazon, and it isn't gonna replace your early Santana albums, but if you come across it cheap, it's the best thing in a whole lot of years from the early-Santana/Journey pool of musicians. The other albums that are pretty underrated are the early 90's Santana albums on Polydor ("Milagro" and "Sacred Fire"), which don't have the compromises of his 80's Columbia albums (let alone the horrors of his Arista go-rillas) and which have some dignity to them.

Swing of Delight always seemed like much much less than the sum of its parts to me, played safe maybe because of the direct to disc technology. Was hoping for more of a pre-Amigos "classic" from the description in Randy's post. Nonetheless, look forward to hearing this, and it's by default got to be the best thing he's done in about 20 years anyways. Just going to be a matter of how good is the good.

x 1,000,000 = the Tolliver