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And in related news... Tommaso Cappellato & Astral Travel play Harry Whitaker's "Black Renaissance"... Seems to be from the same performance, but (more?) multi-cam? Or maybe a different show?

Following up a little late on this -- but yes, I certainly did.

I've got to confess, I'm not certain I've ever heard ANY(?!) Gary Burton on record before (though I've certainly been aware of who he was for 20-25 years). Neither any of his leader-dates, and nothing from his list of sideman appearances either, far as I can see. (Or if I have, certainly nothing I've ever owned -- maybe a date I borrowed once, a gazillion years ago.) Basing my statement on the discography here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Burton

I think "Peaches..." is a lot better 'tune' than the Hot Rats version really represents. That said, I'm sure there are other Zappa renditions (of "Peaches...") that I could say the same thing about (and even many covers of the tune too). It's one of the more "hooky" things Frank every wrote (and probably "hokey" too), but the melody is about as accessible as he every wrote (well, except for "Sofa" - nothing goes down much easier than "Sofa"). On an (un?)related note -- does anyone else think of the closing theme music from Saturday Night Live, when they hear "Sofa"?? Not an exact match, I realize, but god damn if they don't feel more similar than two 'not-actually-the-same' pieces of music ever could.

I don't know the Ravi disc specifically, but I love his tone, and I see it also has Ralph Alessi (trumpet) on some tracks, which is usually a big plus. FWIW.

Only way to get the complete "alternate" version of "Miles Ahead", afaik, is on this box -- which is worth it's weight in gold (at least to me). Always seemed like a shame they never did release the album as a single CD, with that complete "alternate" as bonus tracks -- instead of the 3-4 alternates on the single-disc version they DID do. I know, I know, it was probably to push people to buy the whole box (which I would have bought anyway) -- but it would be really nice to share that first disc from the box with more people.

Has anyone seen a track-listing yet? I just checked the first dozen search-hits on the (Japanese?) catalog number above, but none seem to have anything (nor the English translations of those pages). Very curious if everything is all standards, or if there are any Mobley originals. I'm in regardless (but probably not quite to the point of pre-ordering -- I'll probably just try and get it from The Bastards), but would still love to know all the details.

Mine too! - and the first disc I thought of. Totally unlike any other French Horn date you'll ever hear (it's basically an expanded remake of Don Cherry's Complete Communion) -- and a really winner of a disc, highly recommended!!

I think there's a few more titles than just those listed in the first post. I know I saw this one, that I was entirely unaware of (all synclavier), and from my sampling of the entire thing off Youtube, it appears to be a bridge between Jazz From Hell, and Civ Phase III (and seems to mostly date from shortly after Jazz From Hell). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeding_the_Monkies_at_Ma_Maison Thought sure I saw other titles too, in a Steve Hoffman Forum thread on the subject.

Carpe diem, if there's anyone here who doesn't already have this one. One of the very best (and arguably important) historic finds of the last 10 years.

Peter Gabriel wore a LOT of weird stuff back then, so I'm not entirely sure if this qualifies for inclusion (based on the criteria stated in the very first post in this thread): "Costume" would be defined as clothes not typically worn by said musician while at work or in everyday life. In any case...

At least 4 cameras, by my count. Really nice footage, as great to see as hear!

The Farmer single disc is nice, the only Mosaic single I think I ever got, iirc. Great selection of songs, and playing too, of course.

I thought the price of the selects was just fine. ~$15 per disc, the same as the big boxes (per disc). Sure, I would have liked to pay less (who wouldn't?), but it never stopped me from buying 15 Selects total. I think I got lots with a 10% discount, or with free shipping (I'd wait until there was a sale of some sort, about once every 18-24 months), and I'd order practically EVERY set (big boxes and Selects) that I felt strongly like I knew I'd get eventually anyway. So like clockwork, I'd drop about $300-$400 on a bunch of sets all at the same time (once closer to $500, iirc) -- about once every 3-4 years. But ultimately the price wasn't much of a deterant, and if there had been more Selects I wanted, I'm sure I would have ponied up. $35 per Select would have been "better" (sure) - but $44 wasn't all that much more to get some *awfully* damn good material.

Dark days. Anyone have a link to the announcement/discussion about that here? I've forgotten just how many sets disappeared almost overnight as a result. Was it all/only Selects that bit the dust in that clusterfuck? - or did any big boxes disappear from lost masters too? Dark, dark, days.

So what happened with the Selects series? I know, they couldn't make the $ work (somehow), or some reason along those lines. But was there anything else more specific? What is it about the Selects that made them unworkable (as opposed to the big boxes). I mean, if they can't make the Select series viable, what in the world is keeping the big-box series viable?

Thx for looking, but that's not it (and not a square-bottom tie either, I'm afraid, look close at the pic -- and I'm almost positive most diagonal-stripe ties weren't square-bottom -- very few). This one ISN'T the photo I'm looking for, but it's not terribly dissimilar -- light-colored shirt (iirc), and he was at the kit (sticks in hand, iirc). Kind of an "action" photo, I think. Again, this one **ISN'T** the one I'm looking for, but this is kinda similar (and he's leaning in the same direction too)...

I'm be damn.

Not to get us too far off-topic, but where the hell is some unreleased live *Joe Henderson* from this same era?? I, for one, am shocked virtually NO *live* Henderson fronting his own band (playing his own book) has ever come to light from the 1960's (not even in trading circles, that I'm aware of). The only things that are even close are the Erich Kleinschuster thing (this 2CD set, with mostly Clifford Jordan, and some Carmell Jones too) -- and the 2 discs on Verve with Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb (but they don't do even ONE Henderson tune). Sorry, off-topic, I know.

Which is SUCH a shame. I *loved* the "Select" format. Sure, it wouldn't necessarily include repros of quite all the album covers (if there were more than 4 in a single set). But other than that tiny quibble, I don't think I can think of a single complaint about any of the dozen(?) Selects I own. I say "dozen" - that's just a wild guess, off the top of my head, it might be closer to 15 that I own, come to think of it. EDIT: **HA!!** -- I own exactly 15 Selects; I just counted: MS-001 Mosaic Select: Grachan Moncur MS-002 Mosaic Select: Carmell Jones MS-004 Mosaic Select: Randy Weston MS-005 Mosaic Select: Paul Chambers MS-006 Mosaic Select: John Patton MS-007 Mosaic Select: Curtis Amy MS-011 Mosaic Select: Dizzy Reece MS-016 Mosaic Select: Andrew Hill MS-020 Mosaic Select: Charles Tolliver MS-023 Mosaic Select: Andrew Hill: Solo MS-025 Mosaic Select: McCoy Tyner MS-026 Mosaic Select: Bobby Hutcherson S-034 Mosaic Select: Denny Zeitlin MS-037 Mosaic Select: Charles Tolliver Big Band MS-038 Mosaic Select: Sam Rivers Rivbea Orchestra If you don't count my extra (safety) copy of the Hill 'BN' Select (the only Mosaic I've ever bought two copies of).

Recently saw a great B&W photo of Blakey clearly wearing a *square-bottom* Rooster brand (or maybe Ernst, another good square-bottom brand of ties) from the early 60's. The tie had thin horizontal stripes, about every 2 inches or so. Narrow tie, probably 2-inches wide at most (maybe 1.75 inches, which was the standard in the early 60's for Rooster and Ernst). Anybody got a line on it? 90% chance it was a Francis Wolff shot, in the studio (sure looked like it to me). Thanks!! -- Tom

Bertrand and I saw a free screening of the Lee Morgan doc (DC premier) at the National Gallery of Art here in DC on Saturday, and it was really quite good! Didn't focus on the music as much as the people, but I thought the portrait of Lee (and the others in his orbit) was compelling. Dozens and dozens of incredible photos I'd never seen before (including many outtakes (photos) from a few later (color) photo-shoots I was very familiar with perhaps one or two shots, but not the several more shown. Don't want to give away any spoilers, but interestingly the key facts of Lee's ultimate fate weren't discussed until about the last 15 (maybe) 20 minutes of the film, by which point the audience had 'gotten to know' Lee's common-law wife fairly well, through remembrances of half-a-dozen members of his last band, and from quite a number of extended clips taken from an audio-only interview with the wife in her last year (circa 1996, iirc). And she was portrayed somewhat (I don't want to overstate this), but "somewhat" sympathetically up until the point in the film where Lee's death is discussed. And amazingly, she was remembered genuinely at least "half-fondly" by most all of the members of Lee's last band as well (well, by those who agreed to be interviewed). The large auditorium at the NGA was reasonably (70%?) full, perhaps 300-325 people (I think it holds 500-ish), of which I would have to assume 75% *didn't* know the story of Lee's death (which wasn't in the program description). Quite surprising the way the film was structured, in that respect. But all in all, I was very impressed. One left the hall feeling like you knew Lee a fair bit better, and there were even some (audio) interview segments with him in a few spots. Not necessarily ideal from everyone's perspective (I'm sure), but I would highly recommend it, pretty unequivocally. Went expecting to be a little bit disappointed, and left a little unsettled, but *very* glad I'd gone. Don't miss it, if you get the chance. (And I might well buy it on DVD, depending on the price.) EDIT: There was a bit of nice performance footage, but nothing that I hadn't seen before (mainly from the late 50's and early 60's, I think 3 or maybe 4 short clips -- which serviced the story quite well). But there was an absolute treasure-trove of photos(!), which Bertrand and I both found to be pretty great (I'll let him give his overall impressions of the documentary - I wouldn't want to presume to speak for him).

CD seems to come from three From the various (few) on-line listings of this new release, the CD does seem to come from three (3!) different nights and recording locations, so perhaps the line-up(s) are not all identical. March 20, 28, 29 - 1968Locations: Amsterdam, Theater Bellevue -- Hilvousam, VARA Studios -- and Rotterdam, Jazz Club B14

FWIW, the catalog number (from the HMV link) appears to be: FNCJ5621 <<< now a link that goes to the Google search. Which seems to bring up 8-9 various Japanese sites with early pre-release listings. None with artwork (yet), and seemingly none with any sort of track-listing -- though eventually those may start to appear in time (perhaps only in Japanese). All of which is to say that searching on that 'cat-no' only in the coming weeks or next month, and then looking at the "translate page" link results -- may (at some point) give an early indication of the track-listing (even before it appears anywhere else in English).

It sounds really lovely! I'd get a copy, sure, why the heck not?! Does anyone have a link to where this can be pre-ordered? (From anywhere?) I can't seem to find it on Amazon (US nor UK), nor Amazon Japan, nor CDJapan -- and my Google-fu is coming up snake-eyes too. (Thanks in advance!)