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I recently acquired the first Stan Kenton Mosaic boxed set, only to discover that two tracks on disc 1 momentarily stop for 2-3 seconds before resuming play. If anyone can dub those two tracks for me and share via Dropbox, or knows of someone offering disc 1 for sale apart from the box. I would really appreciate it .

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The perfect gag gift for anyone with no tolerance for the Duke of Puke, the Milquetoast Maestro, or the Master of Hairdo Music...

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A high percentage of calls likel have spoofed numbers. My wife is the only one I know with the same first six digits in her cellphone number. We don’t even have a ringer on our landline, so voicemails die there. We use it for emergencies and finding our phones when one of us is home alone.

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Canal Winchester, Ohio. Never heard of it... Love my iPhone app that routes these bozos to voicemail without ringing, they rarely leave a message, unless it is the last part of the foreign-accented moron's robocall that implies the person is in tax trouble...

I'm sure that Mosaic Records has been in the limited edition boxed set game long enough that they have learned a few things, though it is likely impossible to predict whether a set will set out before the lease is up. I'm sure the owners of recordings they would like to issue are holding out for more money in many cases, while it is always nice to have the music packaged in a more intelligent manner vs. scattered over numerous CDs and LPs, with detailed liner notes and period photos missing from earlier issues. It seemed like they frequently had sales on sets of Capitol recordings, so maybe they are shying away from further releases from that label. Also, by producing only 3,500 sets, they may be lowering leasing costs and taking on less risk than they did with larger runs. This is all guesswork, I've never run a record label...

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I wonder if anyone will get one from Yeehaw Junction, Florida? I will have to start jotting them down before deleting them.

I have mentioned the tight hub issue to Scott at Mosaic in the past and I think they solved that problem. I can remember thinking that I was going to break a cd by trying to get it off the spindle. I have no problem with Mosaic’s outer packaging.

1) I don't mind seeing Dave Liebman and David Liebman from one release to the next, but I get tired of misspelled names: Richard Rodgers, Sarah Vaughan, Cannonball Adderley (and Nat, too), Willard Robison (probably the most misspelled composer), and David Raksin are just a few of the most commonly misspelled names. I realize some artists that changed the spelling of their names over time (Stephane Grappelli, though his autograph on an LP I own that he signed in 1989 uses the original spelling, George Brunis, Charli Persip, for example) Related omissions are not crediting the lyricist on a vocal track, or omitting the composer of the music, again, this seems to happen a lot when Willard Robison is omitted but the lyricist is credited. Some of the mistaken titles or composers happen on live sessions, where a performer forgets the title. Eubie Blake, on the Chiaroscuro release Jazz Piano Masters, introduces his "Troublesome Ivories" as "Tricky Fingers," both before and after he plays it. Given that he was 86 at the time, that is understandable. Another is when the artist misintroduces the title, like saying "Squeeze Me" (Fats Waller) in place of "Just Squeeze Me" (Duke Ellington). There have also been times when the performer identifies the song as by one composer and it is actually a tune only recorded by that artist. But it gets silly when one sees "Nardis" credited to Bill Evans (though he recorded it many times) or John Coltrane's "Locomotion" listed as Thelonious Monk's "Locomotive." If there are liner notes, the writer should catch those kind of obvious mistakes. It is very possible that in the production of a release that there's a late change in the final playlist and someone forgets to make the change to the track list for the jacket, booklet or tray card. From the time I wrote my set of liner notes, I have assumed it is my duty to check all of the information. Almost always I have found various errors that I have described. One unusual goof was a Best of anthology that featured a track where the leader didn't even solo; it was removed after I pointed out that odd track choice. I will say that I did a series of biographical liner notes for a European anthology series and I wasn't given a playlist for any of the CDs. So I had no way to check titles, composers, or musicians to verify that they were correct. Errors are the responsiblity of the label, if any. 3) When I am discussing band images being correct, it is often a problem found on historical releases. For example, don't show Teddy Wilson behind Benny Goodman if he isn't on the release, find a different photo. 5) I have lost count of how many flipped images I've seen with Lionel Hampton's name appearing backwards on the front of his vibes, plus piano images flipped, bassist and guitar images mirrored, plus the infamous left handed trumpet image of Miles Davis on the Columbia/Legacy Kind of Blue in the 1980s. 6) I am in full agreement about those annoying sleeves where you feel like you're going to tear them to get the CD in or out. Then there is always the oddball release where the designer puts the text on the spine upside down, so when you file the LP or CD, it either has to be flipped or appear backwards compared to adjacent recordings. I prefer the top of the text to be beside the front cover. 7) Having logical catalog numbers in sequence for an artist is helpful so one doesn't have to look for the copyright date on each title. But maybe that is overkill...

Other than possibly tray cards that have lots of short tracks over 2 CDs, I can't think of any Mosaics that are all that hard to read.

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mjzee: That kind of credit shortcut makes it a lot easier to make a mistake when reviewing or airing a release. My pet peeves: Labels, artists, producers, liner note writers, etc., who don't bother to do their research to check that all names are correctly spelled and credited (composers, lyricists, musicians), all instruments listed, song titles match their published titles, images of the band match the group featured, using an age appropriate image for a historical release (instead of Benny Goodman in his 70's for a CD of 1930s music), not looking out for mirrored images, graphic designers who choose tiny, hard to read fonts using colors that blend into the background, plus the bozos who design boxed sets who obviously aren't collectors (worst offenders are the Bill Evans Compete Verve set with all that rust and hard to use booklet and flip out CD sleeves, and the complete idiot who designed the 4 CD Charlie Christian set, with the CDs set in a ceramic like block). Young artists who feel they must feature all originals on their debut CDs right after they graduate or leave school, without realizing that not everyone has the talent to write a full CD of original works. Issuing a self-titled CD, when the artist already has released one or more titled CDs on the label. Labels who use catalog numbers in no logical order whatsoever... Why isn't a larger number used for a later CD by the same artist?