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I bet Dan did, but he ain't sayin' nuttin' MG

You don't need no pardon mate! MG

(Quietly leaves the room.) MG

Mosaic charge $12 to ship a 3CD Select to Britain. CD Universe charge $9.99. The shipping costs for the Stitt box were $30. That was the equivalent of 6 CDs (plus the weight of the box). CD Universe charge $14.49 to ship 6 CDs. $30 looks way too high to me. MG

Isn't Tessa blaming EU accounting rules for this? That's what I recall. The old jokes are still the best. MG

A complete Rhoda Scott Barclay would be nice - part of Verve now. A complete Lou Bennett would also go down well. That would have to be assembled from quite few sources. Hard, but worthwhile. MG

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YEAHHHH!!!! MG

Missed out Houston Person Wildflower We owe it all to love Underground soul MG

OK - first, thanks for the bump Kyo. I've now read the thread. Too much concentration on Blue Note - though what else I should expect from a bunch of refugees from BNBB, I don't know. WILLIS "GATOR TAIL" MOTHERFUCKIN' JACKSON!!!!!! Bar wars (Earland, Martino, Idris) Star bag (Pitts, Jennings) Thunderbird (Roach, Jennings) Gatorade (Carl Wilson, Boogaloo Joe) JAMES BROWN! THE GODFATHER OF SOUL! Grits & soul Today and yesterday Sam Lazar - Soul merchant Jimmy McGriff The startin' five (Newman, Bryant, Mel Brown, Purdie) The dream team (as above but Holloway not Bryant) Black Pearl (Theus, Levy) (OK - I had to include 1 Blue Note, since no one had mentioned it) The main squeeze (Lester, Ponder) Leon Spencer - Where I'm comin' from Holmes/Ammons - Groovin' with Jug Pucho & the Latin Soul Brothers - Groovin' high Freddie Roach - All that's good (Lester, Newborn) (Woops - another BN snuck in) Red Holloway - The Burner (Gale, Patton) Don Patterson - Hip cake walk Freddie McCoy - Beans & Greens David Newman/Ray Charles - Fathead David Newman - Captain buckles Paul Bryant - Somethin' happenin' (Plas, Gatemouth Brown) Anna King - Back to soul - the all tme greatest soul album ever!!!!!! Jack McDuff - Screamin' (Burrell, Wright, Dukes) The Astonishing Mickey Fields (with Holmes, Freeman) Charles Kynard Where it's at (Scott, Roberts) Professor soul ( The soul brotherhood (Newman, Mitchell, green, Roker - phew!) Cornell Dupree - Teasin' Maceo Parker - Life on Planet Groove!!!!!!!!! Illinois Jacquet - Go power (Milt & Dawson) Lonnie Smith - Mama wailer (with Marvin Cabell) Jackie Ivory - Soul discovery Les McCann - the REAL word for grease Live in San Francisco The shout Spanish onions Live in New York McCanna Jazz Waltz (with the Jazz Crusaders) Beaux J Pooboo Blue Mitchell - Soul Village (Bishop, Forrest) Larry Young - Testifyin' (Schwartz, Leslie) Charles Earland - Whip appeal (Person, Coles - yes, that Coles) Boogaloo Joe Jones - Snake rhythm rock (Bryant, Cornell, Tate) Junior Mance - Groovin' blues (E Alexander) John Wright - South side soul Billy Larkin & the Delegates - Blue lights Al Grey & Jimmy Forrest - OD (out dere) (with Patterson) Quick selection from terribly long list

Oy! MG (Back to reading the therad now.)

Trend belonged to Albert Marx, not Hardy. Trend and Discovery are now owned by Warner. Thanks Chuck. No doubt Collectables will get around to compiling a few eccentric pairings one day MG

I'd have thought that, with two sessions in the can, the reason Alfred Lion wouldn't have issued it, even the best bits of the two sessions, was truly because the sessions didn't make it. A pity, but shit happens. MG

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Mosaic hasn't mined out EMI, yet, in my view. Les McCann, for one, would sell out a box in decent turnover time. I think a Howard Roberts box would be quite interesting, though maybe too much is currently available - that's someone I need to look into in a year or two. Eventually, when some of the stuff is deleted, I suspect a Cannonball Capitol box might be a good project. There's lots that hasn't been reissued. I'd like to see a Billy Larkin box. But perhaps I'm the only one in the universe. Argo/Cadet is another area insufficiently explored. They've done the Jazztet and I understand they're working on an Ahmad Jamal box - great! But there's Lou Donaldson and James Moody as well. And also, there were some lesser known organ combos on Cadet that were pretty interesting - The Three Souls; The Organisers; Sam Lazar; Baby Face Willette (and another I can't think of off the top of my head). A box of Midwest organ bands would actually be quite interesting, I think. And of course, I'd like to see boxes of Lewis, Stitt and McDuff Argo/Cadets - but Mosaic wouldn't do those either In the light of Mosaic Contemporary, though, that view may be a bit pessimistic. A new area the firm could look at is Muse. Muse is at present owned by Nippon Columbia and not being reissued by Savoy Jazz. The amount of stuff that's worth reissuing in decent presentations on Muse is huge. 32 Jazz did a rotten job on the catalogue when it had access and the stuff isn't available now anyhow. And, as I keep saying, Sonny Lester's material should get a proper reissue programme. And what about John William Hardy's labels Revelation and Trend? Not my kind of thing generally, but good stuff. The idea that a firm like Mosaic is running out of possible material is just plain silly. MG

WoW! I only have 1 Guitar Crusher single - "Hambone blues". Never realised he was still around. He's not coming here. Or to Paris. MG

Thank you, folks. MG

Of course, a lavish, but severely under-priced, box of the complete Freddie McCoy Prestige recordings (with alternative takes and unreleased tracks, if any). The unreleased Grant Green Blue Note sessions. The unreleased Tommy Dean Vee-Jay session from 1956, which was Grant Green's first recording. Actually, a complete Tommy Dean set would be more than nice. Complete Sonny Lester recordings of: Jimmy McGriff Groove Holmes Dakota Staton O'Donel Levy Joe Thomas And we're still waiting for a Les McCann Mosaic box! Complete Bembeya Jazz National Syliphone recordings Complete Bembeya Jazz National Esperance recordings Complete Balla et ses Balladins Syliphone recordings Complete Keletigui et ses Tambourins Syliphone recordings Complete Fallou Dieng et le DLC vols 1-11 plus Diapason Complete Youssou N'dour Saprom recordings George Braith - Musart George Braith - Double your pleasure That'll do for now. Next year.... MG

Very best wishes Roostah! MG

Health is all about profit, not sales. I would expect Mosaic to have heavier costs than other reissue labels, simply to invest in better quality. What the equation is for Mosaic, I don't know. In Britain, even small firms have to file their accounts publicly. I think that isn't the case in the US, is it? MG

Perhaps we can keep the snow away by concerted playing of Christmas records - since there's never a white Christmas MG

We have high winds here, too. Even a bit of snow could produce problems with drifting. But it's sunny! MG

Thanks - but I wonder about the role of interpersonal relations in team forming. Or is that less important in baseball than other team sports, such as basketball? MG

Two parts Lonnie Liston Smith (when he was in his earlier introspective cosmic/black consciousness mode, pre-disco); one part Milton Nasciamento, circa "Clube de Esquina." Knowing your taste, I think you'd like him a lot. He sings in a soulful baritone. I don't think I've heard either of those singers. But I do take your rec. I'll see if I can see something cheap to start off with. Thanks. MG I'm surprised you never heard Lonnie Liston Smith. See if you can find something by him pre-1976. Milton Nascimento is a Brazilian singer/songwriter who arrived after bossa nova and before tropicalia. He probably made the second-biggest splash in the English-speaking pop scene, next to Gilberto Gil, of that group of musicians. I know who they are - and I've got LL Smith stuff with Pharoah Sanders. His albums looked like twaddle, so I never bothered to listen to them. Had to focus on the small number of LPs I could actully afford in those days, anyway. MG