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The front cover, yes, but did you see one or read my detailed description above? I was very positively surprised!

I think it is, but I only looked at the facsimiles of the LP covers in the booklet. There are a few tracks (two, I think?) with rather weak singing on the second album... but other than that, I thought it was pretty much ok. Too bad about the Fuller, wasn't aware of that!

I think you meant Shirley Scott. But on the topic of Rhoda (and organists w/big band), have you heard the record she did with Thad & Mel? Yes, sure I meant Shirley, sorry! Must still be under the impression of that great night with Rhoda last November... just had that CD in my hands yesterday that she signed for me back then!

I've got the Rollins, Ayler, Sanders, Rhoda Scott (why were those tracks with Nelson omitted from the Mosaic?) and the Shepp. Some of these are silly, the Ayler mostly so, as it would have been a good idea to combine "The Last Album" with "Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe", as they were done during the same sessions. But then I say the Alice C. is silly... as "Universal Consiousness" was part of the LPR series (as was "Music Is the Healing Force")... anyway, more releases are being promised (in the booklet of the Rollins where due to the second album not having had a fold-out cover, there are two empty pages they used to print the listing and a note at the end that says "to be continued"). I'll skip the Hawkins, Tyner, Ellington and Blakey as I have all of them. Have none of the Jamal and Jackson but half of th Elvin (Dear John C) and three quarters of the Szabo (on the old Master Edition digipack of "The Sorcerer"), but I guess I'll grab that because the music is darn good! Oh, and the covers are very nicely done inside! These are 12-page booklets, so you get the crappy outside cover (p.1 and p.12) and you get the session info/tracklists (p.2 and p.11), and in between you get facsimiles of the foldout covers (p. 3 is the front of the first album, p.4/5 the inside, p.6 the back, same for the second album with p.7, p.8/9 and p.10). I didn't expect that after seeing the crappy front covers!

some previous discussion here:

Same here, except I got the music when it first came out (on vinyl). Bought the first three LPs and skipped the fourth one! This seems to be the general consensus (that CD4 isn't that interesting), which is probably why it didn't circulate as much and is the most expensive now... Yeah but disc 4 has Jimmy Smith and Lou Donaldson plus some Kenny Burrell. I do know from reading about this concert, Alfred Lion wanted Hank Mobley to play, but Hank was no longer playing. He was in the audience. I wonder how hard it must have been for him seeing all his colleagues up on stage and he couldn’t be a part of the celebration. Not on the vinyl.. it has Charles Lloyd and this guitar player.... Jordan? What's that "that a friend" has? Inofficial? Check AMG for the contents of the four albums (CDs - same as on my LPs).

Just dug out my LPs - the tracklists on the CDs are identical, indeed. Not sure how the whole thing compares to the four discs mentioned in the first post. But CD and LP releases seem to be 100% same.

your jokes are fun... but can I please get my copy signed by Wynetone?

Got your package today, Eric - thanks a lot!

Yeah, I have "Chitinous" as released in 1971 in my notes, too - fantastic album, just played it (the Dutton Vocalion CD) again recently. A classic in my house!

There was a little "tree" with this going on here, a while ago... but in the meantime I snatched the four LPs - single LPs, no box or anything, but I got them all together in very good (mint or whatever them vnylists call it) shape for a good price. Haven't really played them all yet, though...

Count Basie - Standing Ovation (MCA-29005)

Another one from yesterday's haul: Laurent De Wilde - Odd and Blue (IDA 1989), with Ira Coleman and Jack DeJohnette. Let's see if those "five spots" from Jazz Hot (sticker on the bottom left, mine has that one but not the "choc" sticker on top) were justified. Beginning is fine, but sound is, well, 80s...

A Musical Offering by Don Elliott Got the UK HMV edition yesterday. Pretty nice stuff!

Please don't take my comment as a verdict on what "our" Bill did or did not. The mere thought about what these criminals have possibly and likely done is making me feel sick! I'd honestly prefer living in a world were such things would never, ever, happen at all, it's utterly disturbing, no matter who did or does it, I just wish no one ever did even think of doing such things!

This is indeed sickening and very disturbing.

Happy Birthday! :party:

Happy Birthday, Lon! :party:

Happy Birthday, Louis! Thanks for all the music! Got to listen to other things in the next days, but have been playing some of his earliest music a few weeks ago - loads of fun! And very soon, tons of greatness, too!

"Yes." Oh, wait - is that "Yes" as in: more from the "Stepping Stones" sessions than was ever released, or "yes" as in "a more tangible answere will be available as the time to the release date becomes shorter"? If it's the first, it's great news! (Jim: funny Freudian slip with Shorter!) The first "yes." That is very cool news, then! I just hope that this will be available over in ol' yurp!

That question was asked several times now... guess it's "answers in your next life" "Yes." Oh, wait - is that "Yes" as in: more from the "Stepping Stones" sessions than was ever released, or "yes" as in "a more tangible answere will be available as the time to the release date becomes shorter"? If it's the first, it's great news! (Jim: funny Freudian slip with Shorter!)

It's Trygve Seim - none too difficult... can't put it phonetically, but it's rather easy to pronounce, too (can't think of an english word that has the same pronounciation as the "y" in Trygve though, but the first syllable is stressed, so it's 'Tryg-ve, and the e at the end is mute, similar to how it is in "the"... Seim... the "ei" is as in "aye aye sir", kind of :-) ) Anyway... that one looks interesting. Haarla makes some good music. The Trio isn't really happening too much for me, without Stanko, but I confess I only have the first disc (and found it rather boring, hence was reluctant to buy more). Me, I've just gave Miroslav Vitous' "Remembering Weather Report" a first spin today... I know it came out two years ago, but that's about as fast I get to new releases, most often. I quite enjoyed it!

Vinyl and CD - but the CD has the same 18 tracks (the UMS had 21, so 3 seem to be missing, but I didn't compare). This time I won't miss it! Ah, no... seems to be vinyl one - weird. Couple of weeks ago when I saw it first, I thought it said CD and LP!

Saw this on another jazz blog recently. Anyone have any idea what might be on the bonus disc of unreleased material? Might this not BE the Mosaic box, released by the content owner, Sony? It would have been simply leased to Mosaic for a specified period. Now, the rights have reverted to the owner. With the technical work done, Sony can release it without much new expense, just packaging costs. I don't have the Mosaic, but maybe the mastering was done by Sony people in the first place? Can someone look that up? As to 'unreleased material', could the reference be a bit outdated, and refer to content that wasn't out before the Mosaic set's issue? (And I disagree with the first poster -- considering EVERYTHING, I don't find Mosaic prices *ridiculous*.) It's not the Mosaic set, and the extra CD is from the previously unissued (now get this) SECOND HALF of the the Village Vanguard "Stepping Stones" concert. Essentially, Stepping Stones PART II. Woody and Michael had originally omitted it but Michael and Woody's son have brought it out of the vaults for Woody's fans to enjoy. It's also been remastered by Sony's SEVEN-time Grammy-nominated and THREE-time Grammy-winning sound engineer, Mark Wilder. So, this set is more complete than the Mosaic in terms of Shaw's Columbia recordings. Woody III co-produced, curated, and designed the new boxset for his dad. Cuscuna is behind the set and also did the new Dexter Gordon set coming out at the same time (all of his Columbia recordings), which also features Woody of course, plus new bonus material never before released, which also features more Woody. 2012 is looking more and more like a Woody year. "Stepping Stones" wasn't on the Mosaic... but what's that "Part II", then? Not the same bonus material from its Legacy CD reissue, but yet more? Expanding it to two CDs?

Nothing too commercial... Stepping Stones should have/could have been a double LP (or followed by a Vol. 2)... but the powers in charge didn't think so. What the CD did was restore the second album, but it had to omit a track from the original LP to fit in all the additional tracks. Happy owner of the CD and the LP here - great music, that's for sure!