Stefan Wood

The cult of Sonny Clark weaves its bidding magic once again!

The Red Garland will be a must have. I'm intrigued about the Miles set as well. It seems that Concord is doing the Mosaic Select route -- small box sets that are reasonably priced (a la Bill Evans set out right now). While there's nothing else as exciting on the list, I realize this is the best way for them to reintroduce the huge back catalogue to the public. We'll have to wait in regards to unreissued albums.

New items: Ethel Merman - The World is You Balloon Bob Dylan - No Direction Home Nancy Wilson - The Great American Songbook Wynton Marsalis - Live at the House of Tribes Nancy Wilson - Save Your Love for Me C'mon, who wouldn't want the Ethel Merman????

A new coupon, stingy as it is: Borders 15% coupon

I listened to NPR this morning, and they mourned the passing of George Best, who was the original 4th Beatle. It's this kind of "in depth" research that prevents me from contibuting to these guys.

How so? Too repetitive? I've heard the entire set and I think it is mighty fine. Funky, rockin' document of early 70's Miles.

You got to have some sympathy for the poor employees who have to be there at 3 am just to set everything up for the big day. And that's before dealing with the pains in the asses who storm the stores at opening.

Saliva works great as well!

They collect them like old jeans and pre G3 Macs.

I never got into video games because I would get motion sickness. Seriously, I think it is partly because I wear hard contact lenses......

Can we say..... Collector's Items??????

New stuff added. Stan Kenton - Stage Door Opens June Christy - June's Got Rhythm Miles Davis - Complete Jack Johnson sessions Lou Rawls - Live Cannonball Adderley - Domination Cannonball Adderley - Money in the Pocket

JB also had some serious tax problems at that point in time, so that certainly contributed to his creative decline. A guilty pleasure though, is the entire lp "For Goodness Sakes Take a Look at Them Cakes" with its cheesecake cover, but man the entire album smokes! I consider this to be his last great lp, a successful blend of his funk with the more popular disco.

I just recently sold a copy on ebay. Damn, I wish your email came 1 week sooner....... There is also the 2 cd set called the JB's. A 2 cd set called Funky Divas. And a 2 cd set of James Brown instrumentals. The funny thing about the Dead on the Heavy Funk set is that the music isn't all that hot -- JB had peaked before this, and these tunes were mostly fair to middling, with a few exceptions.

No back orders for the recent Sonys either.

OK, it's the end of the work day and I'm dumber than a bag of rocks. I checked the www.abstractlogix.com site, but can't find the listings for the Priester and the Hal Galper cds. Links?

Got them both. Listen to the 1st disc last night. Nice!!!!

I'm sure they could keep raiding the Argo/Cadet vaults for a few more years (Complete Ahmad Jamal, anyone?), and perhaps try to target more Strata East titles. I would wish they could do Mainstream titles as well -- there is a wealth of material that should be reissued. But it would be harder to do more 80's and 90's stuff, if for the reason that the big name labels that supported jazz from the 20's up to the 70's, began dumping artists left and right. So you have labels like Steeplechase, Timeless, Red, Black Saint/Soul Note, Muse, Landmark, etc., who filled the void, but most of them still exist and probably have a desire to keep investing in their back catalogs. I'm wondering if Mosaic's future could lie in material like the Beirah/Leibmann Mosaic Select set -- unissued or live material.

Up, I added more images. Having trouble putting paintings on, as I can't get nice enough images.

Harold Land's "Damisi" was issued in 1991 on cd, a compilation(?) dating from 1971, 1972, 1974 sessions. Tracks: Step Right Up to the Bottom In the Dark, In the Corner, In the Dark Pakistan Chocolate Mess Damisi Up and Down

Didn't he do an album called Scheherajazz?

I remember reading about some similar issue in classical recordings. London "bluebacks" which are highly collectable, apparently sound worse than the later pressings (post 1970) because of the inferior quality of the proces that went into the pressings. They made a change (stampers, or I forget specifically which), and the reissue sound quality improved.

Usually the quality of sound, and how many were printed of that pressing.

Got both of them yesterday. Enjoying the first discs to both sets........ The Rowles is very nice!