king ubu

Yeah, it was a tough call between her and Helen Merrill, really - but in the end I reach for Merrill more often.

Mike, I did get the orange and blue LP boxes... other than that, yes there's the "America's Band #1" box, which has all the octet studio material, some other small group (most of that in fact) and some selected big band sides (not enough of them, not nearly so!)... but the main point is the glorious live material on disc 4. Most or all of it had been out on Masters of Jazz before, but not in as great sound. Pres is amazing there! Some of the best I've heard!

Billie Holiday Anita O'Day Helen Merrill and plenty of others, too... Ella, Lee Wiley, Sheila Jordan, Shirley Horn, June Christy, Chris Connor, Betty Carter, Sarah Vaughan, Beverly Kenney, Carmen McRae, Peggy Lee, Betty Roché... Male would be more difficult... Jack Teagarden, Hoagy... Andy Bey, sure, Jimmy Scott, on some days Johnny Hartman (or some of his recordings), Mose Allison... Guess I still forgot plenty.

That's very good news, Jonathan! A few hours ago I took out "Ne Plus Ultra" (the hatOLOGY CD reissue) to play again... great persprectives that I may be able to hear more of the kind in the not-too-far future!

A not-to-be-named member of this forum sent me an empty (darn!) bottle of Ubu Ale along with some music I still have it on display here!

What Jim says... there have been some "fixing" attempts, but even the best version I've heard is virtually unlistenable... guess these sexophones could actually have been impersonated by a muddy early rhodes or some such. Quality is really, really bad, and if it weren't for Trane and the other luminaries involved, I'd certainly not have played this through several times.

Happy Birthday, Al!

lady Jim's no repeater's pencil!

hey, who took my nuts?

But no matter how much we try, we won't be able to reproduce terminology of a by-gone era nowadays... I mean I would have issues if quotes got mis-treated by fitting them into current terminology or if old books would be adapted. But I really do think Pullman is entitled to use the terminology he wants to for his own narration.

Interesting... I just got a mail from amazon.fr moving back the expected release/delivery to March 31! Lame, will compare prices with other sources, I guess. Oh well, just did... and I'll just wait and pay some euros less.

Yeah, he's great on those Lennie's discs! Plenty of music on the two CDs!

There's one he made with Art Pepper, too... haven't heard it for quite some time though.

Yeah, Thad/Mel, Elvin and RTF for me, too... with Elvin, there's a nice live one on Enja, in addition to the Blue Notes (the trio plus Hannibal on trumpet on one track). Farrell's fine on that one Hill Conn he's on (Dance with Death?) That Xanadu looks mighty interesting, Jim! Farrell and Teddy! I got to look for that!

Got the orange one last autumn... the box itself in better condition, but vinyl all looks good and clean in both boxes. Love having it all, finally! (Though I guess I would have enjoyed a complete Mosaic CD box even more.)

Yes, very much in the same boat here! (Lon, you forgot the wonderful Aladdin set!)

Gee, I guess I'd have to go through virtually hundreds and hundreds of crappy James Last and Cap'n Cook LPs to find any Hazy vinyl here! He's not stored with anything that I'm regularly browsing for... never, ever saw an LP of his!

Yes, I think I do understand Honestly, I've not (at least consciously) heard a lot of his music yet... but my interest is piqued for sure, and I do enjoy some of this jazzed-up pop stuff if it's done well (Kaempfert, for instance, though that's a different sound). Will look for the box and then see if I feel like exploring more.

You mean the music on the box is rather more adventurous (or jazzy) than that "rare jazz" disc? Just to clarify!

some details here: http://www.jazzindex.ch/de/album.php?Album=62534&Begriff=Hazy+Osterwald+And+His+Bands+-+%3D

Steve, do you happen to know this one: Seems only two tunes are duplicated between the 4CD set and this single disc. The box seems to be a bit difficult to find, got to search some more...

I like that comparison And yes, Davis is amazing on all those albums from around that time! He was one of the first bass players I ever heard that really made me listen and think and replay just listening to the bass and listen more and think more... some mind-bending stuff going on in his playing in the second half of the sixties (roughly).

That this sold so well and fast may not have anything to do with size, but maybe with the allure of Pres. I often think there's a market section that Mosaic has for the older styles of jazz that may exist outside the internet, that is there may be a sizable number of buyers that we never see on the boards, but get the catalogs and order. They may have been waiting for just such a set and hopped right on it. Anyway, I'm so glad that this set was a success. It's a well-deserved success. That may well be true indeed! Some of these "old jazz" Mosaics can occasionally still be found in some weird specialist stores, too... they just buy them for their possibly mostly non-internet-savvy clientele. I believe we learned that the target size was 7, in economic terms. Correct. Okay, wasn't aware of that... too bad, really! This may sound silly, but someone who started buying Mosaics when the Tristano/Konitz/Marsh (my first) one or the Guiffre were new, six is kind of okay, and seven or more is of course okay as well, but it's just inside my head that beginning with seven, it's a "big" box, needing more talking me into buying it etc. I think the only one bigger than six discs I bought early on was the Basie live (the studio was, alas, already gone). Guess in those days, five or six discs still made sense, economically... at least that's what the releases in the 160s and 170s suggest (okay, there's the Kenton, the Maynaaaaaard which I missed alas, the Classic Capitol which was back then the largest one around and I did eventually buy it). Economy changed alright, and Mosaic suffers from that quite some, I assume... and it would likely be suicidal to raise prices. Anyway, again I wasn't aware of the seven discs threshold.

Me, too, Jim! No tongue-in-cheek there! @mjzee: sorry for misunderstanding then. I can very well relate to what you said in the follow-up post to mine - been in such a situation for many years, too (well not one with lots of responsibility, family etc, but just having limited funds and having to take decisions upon what to buy and what not).