Stefan Wood

I have the following for sale: Rod Williams - Hanging in the Balance (Muse) (w/ Marty Ehrlich, Graham Haynes) $6 Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra - The Definitive Thad Jones (Musicmasters) $6 Mel Lewis Sextet - The Lost Art (Musicmasters) $6 Mike Cuozzo - Mighty Mike (Savoy) (w/ Eddie Costa, Vinnie Burke, Kenny Clarke, Ronnie Ball) $7 XXXXJoe Harriott Double Quintet - Indo-Jazz Suite (Koch) $7 Black Chicago Big Bands 1922-29 - "Hot Stuff" (Frog) $8 Stan Getz & Friends (Compact Jazz Verve Series) $6 XXXXCecil Taylor - Indent (Freedom) $7 Stanley Turrentine - Never Let Me Go (McMaster Blue Note) $5 Willie Bobo - Bobo's Beat (Roulette Blue Note reissue - with Clark Terry, Joe Farrell) $7 Jimmy McGriff - Feelin It (Milestone - with Ron Cuber, Dave Newman, Melvin Sparks) $8 SEALED Booker Ervin - Cookin' (Savoy - w/ Richard Williams, Horace Parlan, George Tucker, Dannie Richmond) SEALED $10 The Trio (Chiaroscuro - Hank Jones, Milt Hinton, Bobby Rosengarden) $7 Dizzy reece - Comin On! (Blue Note Connoisseur) $8 OTB - Spiral Staircase (Blue Note) $12 Geri Allen - Maroons (Blue Note) $9 Papa John DeFrancesco - Hip Cake Walk (High Note) $8 Slam Stewart and Major Holley - Two Big Mice (Black & Blue) $7 Hank Jones - I Remember You (Black & Blue) $7 non jazz - Johnny Pacheco - Early Rhythms (Charly) $5 Husker Du - New Day Rising (SST) $8 James Carr - The Complete Goldwax Singles (Kent - great great 60's soul music!) $8 Johnny Taylor - Lifetime (3 cds set from Fantasy/Stax) $20 XXXX = on hold I accept paypal and money orders. Shipping is $2 for 1-3 cds, $3.50 for 4+ cds. PM if you see something you want. Thanks!

Nice find. They are all top notch musicains -- if there is no label, it possibly could be Tico, Alegre or even Fania records (60s' music).

I have Cosmic Music, but as an Impulse pressing, from the early 70's (black label/orange circle thing). So it was reissued once, but early on?

Question- if Cucusna doen't "care" about remastering, then why the hell are they putting out Van Gelder reissues? I don't consider myself an audiophile, but I am no longer satisfied with the sound of certain reissues (even TOCJs, which popularity on this board baffles me), but I have, with rare exception, been always satisfied with the Mosaics and many of the Blue Notes. McMaster vs whomever is just anal fussing. Sorry, but I just have to rant.

I agree about the strings on the Cooper/Shank -- music for insomniacs...... Been LOVING the Selects so far! The Curtis Amy, Carmell Jones, Dizzy Reece are all fantastic -- and the price has been nice too.....

I'm sort of tootin my own horn here, but I thought this was crazy. I just sold two Japanese pressing Verve REISSUES of two Buddy DeFranco/Sonny Clark lps for a total of $140. REISSUES!!!!

Gary, there are plenty of good Tubby Hayes sessions on cd. Jasmine records has done a good job of reissuing 50's and early 60's British bop music. There are even a couple of Dizzy Reece led sessions as well. Fontana reissues, etc.

Looks like the Liebman and Reece Mosaic Selects have been shipped.

The Fresh Sound website doesn't list everything they have but they have their entire catalog in stock. You just have to email them. I bought some cds from them in January, and the overseas shipping must have been done by teleportation, because I got the package in two days!

It's a jungle in here........ AND it's a tough crowd.

It might seem a bid weird at first to compare the two cds that have been recently released. Both are piano trios -- the Bad Plus garnering a lot of attention for their playing and covers of rock tunes; Brad Mehldau for his explorations that have been compared to Bill Evans, but in recent efforts like Places, he has done some terrific sounding works with electonica. I bought both cds recently, and upon first listen, I am not that enthusiastic about either. The Bad Plus cd pumps up all the things that everyone thought was so interesting about the first cd -- meaning loud sounds, lots of pounding drums, and LOTS of riffs. And it makes this cd so less compelling and listenable -- I got tired of the music halfway through, because it sounded like the same stuff over and over again, just with variations. The playing is definitely tighter, but the compositions are weak. Sure, it's cool to hear Black Sabbath as done by a trio, but I don't think they go far enough to play around with the song and make it more than DA-DA---DA-DA-DAAAAAAAAAHHH! It seems they are too much in love with the rhythms of the songs they cover rather than making any new interpretations. The Brad Mehldau cd is also a cd of covers -- standards. And while I think he and his sidemen are fantastic players, I don't think their interpretations are that interesting. Mehldau will do quotes and phrases here and there to remind you of the tune they are doing, then go off in his own direction, but I felt something lacking. Soul? It's hard for me to say. I'm sorry if this sounds like ranting; it isn't, but I found it interesting that two different groups with different approaches to jazz have hit a stumbling block when it comes to presenting a contemporary, "popular" version of a jazz trio. I'd like to hear other thoughts about this.

Hard to find.

I agree that this is an excellent album. Seeing him live, and listening to his recordings, I find Osby's music to be challenging and rewarding. Big thumbs up on this, as well as his last cd, St Louis Shoes.

You don't know about Don Friedman? Well, time to start! He's an excellent if relatively not well known (outside jazz world) player -- you can start with Day in the City, or Circle Waltz, on Riverside, or check out the recordings with Atilla Zollar, in the mid 60's (Metamorphosis, Dreams and Explorations), which are probably closer to what you are looking for in "advanced" piano jazz. Okay, Metamorphosis is a quartet session, but man does it smoke!

I would drop by as well but the time is not good for me. Enjoy your stay here!

I rarely watch sports these days, but I caught the Maryland games both Saturday and Sunday -- they remind me of the Maryland team of two tears ago when they won the whole thing. I don't think they'll run the table, but they definitely will go deep in the tournament.

Guys, it is anal discussions like this that make me throw my hands in the air and go -- who REALLY gives a damn???? So the photo is reversed -- the world isn't going to end.

I think the reason for the late feedback is many of us have these sessions already -- except for Goin West. I got that and the Duke Pearson, the latter mainly in hope that the sound would be much improved. All of these are excellent sessions.

This is the one and only cover for Goin West. Unfortunately......

I've been on the fence regarding DecWare for way too long now, but I have good reasons -- I bought a place (on the waterfront in DC!!), and I have this kick ass HH Scott 230C tube amp that has blown away everything else I have listened to (quite a bit, because I sampled a friend's massive tube stereo collection -- he just needed someone to play them once in a while). But maybe if I can sell some art work this year (my goal), maybe I take finally take the plunge by getting a Select.....

Both sessions are available on cd through Dusty Groove (the bastards!). I like New Africa a lot -- a cross between Moncur's music from Blue Note and the music that BYG typified in the late 60's.

Trying to organize my life: Dizzy Gillespie - The Greatest Trumpet (Verve) Dizzy Gillespie - Dizzy and Strings (Verve) Blue Mitchell - Graffitti Blues (Mainstream) Bebop Revisited - vols 5 & 6 (Xanadu) Oliver Nelson - Blues and the Abstract Truth (Impulse) Peter Brotzmann & Walter Perkins Horace Tapscott - Dial "B" for Barbara (Nimbus)

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Weizen, if they are new tubes, it will take a while to break them in -- days or weeks, in fact. But if they have been "broken in" then you can turn them on and enjoy it immediately.

A late response. I burn at home. I also agree the quality of the burner varies, so it is important when looking for one to check for things like buffer overrun protection, software, etc. We're dealing with 0s and 1s guys, not analog audio waves. Also, the set up of your computer is just as important -- if you don't have enough RAM, it will affect the performance of your burning. Same as quality of your hard drive, how much processor speed, your operating system, etc.