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This is what was shared by the head librarian at Stanford, with a few additions I made after viewing the video (link in earlier post): There is the concert from 15 September 1967. As you can see he is playing on 2, 3, and 4. If he would like copies of this performance, they can be obtained from the Monterey Festival by asking the General Manager, or we can send it if we have written permission from the General Manager.Thanks for contacting us.Jazz Violin ConclaveRAY NANCE and trio1. The Man I Love [incomplete]JEAN LUC PONTY with GEORGE GRUNTZ, piano ; NIELS HENNING ØRSTED PEDERSEN, bass ; DANIEL HUMAIR, drums 2. Sunday Walk3. Carol’s GardenSVEND ASMUSSEN, RAY NANCE, JEAN LUC PONTY with JOHN LEWIS, piano ; NIELS HENNING ØRSTED PEDERSEN, RAY BROWN, basses, LOUIS BELLSON, drums4. Take the A Train5. [No content]DIZZY GILLESPIE QUINTET6. [Sudden Samba?]7. Gentle Rain [incomplete] genreJEAN LUC PONTY, violin ; with GEORGE GRUNTZ, piano ; NIELS HENNING ØRSTED PEDERSEN, bass ; DANIEL HUMAIR, drumsSVEND ASMUSSEN, RAY NANCE, JEAN LUC PONTY, violins ; with JOHN LEWIS, piano ; NIELS HENNING ØRSTED PEDERSEN, RAY BROWN, basses LOUIS BELLSON, drumsDIZZY GILLESPIE QUINTET(DIZZY GILLESPIE, trumpet ; JAMES MOODY, alto saxophone, flute ; MIKE LONGO, piano ; RUSSELL GEORGE, electric bass ; OTIS "CANDY" FINCH, drums)

It is a shame, he deserved more opportunities to record as a leader. Here's what I own under his name: LPs: Ray Nance w/Paul Gonsalves Just A-Sittin' And A-Rockin' Black Lion 191 Ray Nance Huffin' N' Puffin' MPS/BASF 5057 Ray Nance/Cat Anderson & the Ellington Alumni A Flower is a Lovesome Thing Parker 827 Ray Nance Quartet & Sextet Unique Jazz 11 CD: Ray Nance The Complete 1940-1949 Non-Ducal Violin Recordings AB Fable 14 Ray Nance Body and Soul Mighty Quinn 1108 (originally issued on LP by Solid State) I don't remember if I previously shared this link, but I learned about it when I interviewed Jean-Luc Ponty in May. https://archive.org/details/calauem_000153 It contains one song featuring Ray Nance with John Lewis, Ray Brown and Louis Bellson, then a second track that also adds Ponty, Svend Asmussend and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen. There is other music from that festival in the Monterey holdings of Stanford University, including a set featuring Ponty with his own rhythm section that he evidently had forgotten, plus at least one incomplete song by Nance.

You can provide a forwarding mailing address to the USPS. There is no way to do it for UPS, as I tried in the past, due to sometimes getting packages I wasn't expecting via UPS. Of course, I moved in 2014, but I am still having issues with publicists using my old address. Some of them didn't update the information (I did several mailings well in advance) or some are just using old information they got from someone else. Just today I was notified of a CD that was returned with my old address. The lost car note payoff check was a big pain, as I had to put a $28 stop payment on it. I didn't want a check for $10,000-$12,000 supposedly being lost then showing up after I wrote a second one. My favorite USPS record horror stories include a lazy postal worker who left a box with an LP between the flag and the mailbox on a hot summer day, rather than make the short trip to the porch to put it in the shade. It was warped beyond belief by the time I got home. Another LP was ruined when something punched through the carton in transit and cracked the LP. The first one I have yet to replace, fortunately, the second was still available from the supplier and I got a replacement.

The USPS has lost one mortgage payment (another took 11 days to go across Tennessee), one five figure car note payoff, two consecutive checks to the same doctor's office an who knows how many promotional CDs sent over the years. UPS has occasionally screwed up as well. One lazy driver left a package by our sliding glass door in a duplex, if he had bothered to look through the open blinds and curtain he would have seen that the unit was empty, as we had moved to our new house. I only found it because I came back to get some stuff out of the storage room behind the duplex. There is no way to give a forwarding address to UPS, if the sender doesn't have it and UPS drops off the item, it will likely disappear thanks to a thief.

Many newly created administrative jobs over the past few decades have done nothing but to raise debt and tuition rates. Unless the graduate music program has had a cliff-like decline in enrollment, eliminating unnecessary administrative jobs should be the first priority.

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A pic of what? Anything not political or religious?

Likewise, I got a big order from Jazz Messengers. Love the free, expedited shipping with a big enough order.

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Got it last week, it's in the huge stack of stuff to hear.

One thing I've noticed about Venus covers is that a number of websites that sell them will scan the back cover to post rather than include the front. That even happened to me when I included a Kenny Werner Venus CD in my top ten list when I was a member of the Jazz Journalist Association. I do think that artists deserve to be consulted and have some sort of veto power, even if they don't choose the final cover themselves. But of course, with Venus, they must know what they are facing. I've had more than a few artists vent during interviews about hideous covers for their CDs (other labels as well). Charles McPherson told me how much he hated the cover photo on his Venus CD during an interview. It is likely why he has not since recorded for the label.Maybe creepy was an odd term to use for it but it sure didn't appear erotic, which seems to be Hara's intent with many of these covers.

The Alice in Wonderland cover is a bit sleazy, as the girl appears to be a bit young. The McPherson cover is simply creepy, nothing artistic about it.

Regardless of the manufacturing cost, when you have shrinkage, it ends up costing around 10 times the lost dollar amount to make up for it, as a rule of thumb. In any case, I contacted Scott and UPS arrived the next day with a prepaid return label to get it back to them. Scott told me that the fulfillment house will have to eat the related costs, not Mosaic.

With your VAT in the UK, I imagine that they are. Anything under $20 in the U.S. is about the best I see here.

I asked Hara about them (through Todd Barkan, who acted as a translator) and he considers them to be part of his "artistic concept." Though some artists, especially Charles McPherson, are not very pleased with his choices.

Tetsuo Hara is the owner of the label. I wrote a label feature some time ago which was posted at Allaboutjazz.com, though I am unsure if it is still accessible. He frequently likes to choose the songs for artists, while artists aren't always heard with their working bands. Bill Charles records under New York Trio for them.

I'm not about to cheat a company because they made a mistake and shipped me two boxed sets retailing for a total of $285 instead of two individual CDs. It sounds like their shipping partner has some "'splainin'" to do... That is a potentially disasterous series of shipping errors, just from this thread.

No shipping notice, though Scott Wendell answered my email and told me when he thought my order was shipping. It arrived in 6 days (today), though the fulfillment house substituted an Armstrong and a Condon boxed set in place of the single CDs I ordered to go with the Dean Benedetti collection of Charlie Parker. I guess the shippers really were "in the weeds." Speaking of bad translations, etc., I once contacted a Japanese label which booted some Capitol recordings of Nat King Cole, even using some that had overdubs added at a later date. The label owner really took offense, but it was clear from Nat King Cole's discography what this incompetent fool had done. To top it off, the music was dubbed off some worn reissue LPs, not the masters.

Very detailed liner notes and lots of photos. Great work!

I just received my copy. They did a nice job with this release and Barney Wilen plays well with Monk.

Evidently the artist drinks too much.

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I don't think most customers bought them with resale value in mind, I think they bought them because they treasured the music and printed content. I thought about selling my Lightnin' Hopkins/Otis Spann once after it became OOP but thought better of it. The only Mosaic I've ever sold was the single disc sampler, a gift from my mom. I already had all of the music on it.