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The attack of the extraterrestrians, no doubt... though they told me they wanted to start their invasion in Cornvall but their compass went wrong because of two short power outages... oh, wait

something like that... but add the early Brunswick/Vocalion ("Early Ellington" 3CD) and Okeh ("Okeh Ellington" 2CD) to the Mosaics... and then for me, add "Money Jungle" and the complete 50s Columbia box (non-existant), and then we'd about be there. If that's cheating, see mikeweil's answer for an alternative...

good 'nuff - but then you're missing out on plenty of great Paul Desmond!

... a holding corporation called America ...

Just started my first spin of "Old Stuff" Dammit, that groove on the opening "Rosmosis" is great! Love Moholo's drumming! The opening of Finn von Eyben on bass is very cool, too! @Leeway: no, didn't notice - thanks for mentioning again here! Looks like an interesting disc!

Can't that be fixed with auto-tune Seriously: got the "Dave Digs Disney" 2CD edition recently. Don't think I really need mono and stereo of it, but it's nice to have a legitimate version of it, even though it's not among my favourite Brubeck albums (agreen on "Jazz Impressions of Japan" - that one might be my top favorite of his!)

Always good to have a street-savvy son, I guess (I have none...) Expected this to be a Bill Dixon thread... can you enlighten us non FB folks what this is about, please?

Yeah, damned good - but for that price I guess you could just about get the Freshsound 4CD set with the 1957 sessions, too. Morally dubious, I know... but I got that one as Savoy/Atlantic/Warner/whoever never followed their promise to do an "Early Savoy Sessions" set. Got the VEE edition years ago and absolutely love it. 'teef focuses on tenor (flute instead on one track, arghol added to tenor on another) and is at his very best!

Well, all of Rivers' Impulse material won't fit onto one disc, obviously... but I assume you're talking of the Dewey twofer? Not sure if any of the material missing from the Impulse Master CD is really that essential, has been a while since I've heard it. But if "Coincide" was to be reissued in the "Originals" series, I'd buy it immediately!

That, though, is a point I'm entirely sympathetic with!

Well, there are plenty of generally accepted "goody guys", such as Hep, JSP (at least in JRT Davies days), Chrono Classics or Masters of Jazz (both dead for a while now) that will be/would have been affected. It's really not that simple a question and the happy smiley in J.A.W.'s first post isn't quite how I feel about it. The majors after all have quite completely withdrawn from keeping their legacy alive, and now they'll get the legal tools to keep others from trespassing... these privileges shouldn't come without any obligation from the "owning" side - at least in my own utopian ideal world, that is.

So they gave in, huh? Bad... now that the majors have almost completely stopped to reissue any historical recordings, to me, this seems to be really bad news.

Well, as Niko says, there's ultimately little difference between consumption and "production" - it's really all too horrendous. And I guess that is the reason why so many tend to throw overboard the principle of "innocent until proven guilty" here. Self-protection of this community and of our own mental sanity might be part of it. It's really beyond thought and imagination - I don't want to go there!

Yeah! And yeah! (Though most of it was on the old "Ear of the Behearer"... the remainder is - if memory serves me right - mostly "little instruments"-music).

Got it today (thanks a lot, jazzkrow - got here amazingly fast!) and am into LP2 now - beautiful!

Sneeked that one in before the devaluation of the Swiss zlotty then ! Maybe some of us can now go skiing next year.. Yeah well... there's plenty of stuff that cost twice as much here as in other european countries BEFORE the € and the US$ went down the drain... and now some supermarkets are giving such generous currency-related discounts as 7% I'm not afraid about sound of the Turrentine - never had any real complaints about sound of a Mosaic, remember I'm not equipped with the finest of ears...

The series omits ALL bonus tracks - part of the concept, I guess (and particularly bad with the Ayler twofer, as the added tracks of the old "Love Cry" CD are among the better ones from those sessions). They re-print the original cover art (including the inside of the fold-out covers) and stick strictly to the contents of the original albums.

I know I don't have to read it... it's just to me that usually this lingo is off-putting enough that I might end up not checking out the albums. Guess that's just weird me Will look out for the album with Medeski, though - thanks for mentioning it!

If you enjoy the John Handy of the Mingus Jazz Workshop, and his Roulette and Columbia recordings, you will be rather disappointed by Hard Work, which is a typical '70s era commercialization of a jazz artist. Hard Work was a semi-hit for Handy (the title track anyway). I hate that song. Carnaval goes even further along that dire path. That's what I was afraid of... the handy dandy Handy man, then...

Absolutely! (But this ends all dreams of a Brown Mosaic Select, I guess...wasn't really an option I assume, but I still kept hoping against all odds...)

Ha, that "Live at Baker's"... that one never grabbed me, really. Some good moments, but very incoherent as a whole, I found. The band on "Heaven on Earth" does look good though ('xept for Medeski, whom I don't know well... never cared for MMW - is he on organ or keys or piano or all of that?). My main point, I guess, is: I'm grown up, I can judge myself. Just bring the album with very little no-bullshit promo (make it a photo and four or five lines of text) and then let me hear myself. I'm tired of being pampered and taken for a moron by all these promoters and consultants and marketing specialists. And sorry, I didn't want to come across harshly towards you, Mr. Rep!

Well honestly I could do with 10% of that amount of text. Or with an interesting interview with Carter or whatever. I just don't read the promo crap. I wait until I can have a listen to the disc in a store, and I don't mind if that's a few weeks or months after the official date of release (I've never really cared about dates of release... the only thing I ever pre-ordered was the big Ayler box, since naively I assumed such a great box had to be sold out fast...) Also note that I said "the latest I've heard" - I'm not that big on Carter that I follow his every release.

Some of these look pretty interesting, while others are completely pointless (Mingus and Hubbard, mostly). Can anyone say anything about the Handy? Is it horrible, is it good? Can be anything with him... Also, how about the Nelson/Jones+Nelson/Allen and the Blue Mitchell? All rather on the easy side, I assume? And the White? (Not asking for line-ups, can check that myself, rather asking about quick impressions on the music!)

Have finally ordered that one from the recent sale (with the Hamp, Bird and the new Tolliver Select!) - looking forward a lot. The only album included that I know happens to be "Comin' Your Way", of which I got the LP some ten years ago. Very nice! Too bad though it's separated from the two albums by the same band that were done under Horace Parlan's leadership (and included in his Mosaic).

I wonder, does anyone ever read these promo blurbs? Me, I *never* do. I know Chuck mentioned this in another thread, don't want to discuss this in each and every one, and don't intend this as an attack on you, GA! However, I'd be much, much more interested in a few personal impressions AFTER listening (even if it's just a couple of sentences!). I tend to click away all that promo crap immediately. No idea how others feel, but in my case, these promo blurbs rather stop me from finding out if I might like a disc, rather than buying it. But the latest of Carter's that I've heard - "Present Tense" - was pretty good. (Oh, and couldn't the poor sidemen be allowed to dress properly, too? )