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Oh, I'd go for Dudu as well, but I've yet to see anything by him in a record store... I went immediately for Hugh Masekela's recent Verve/Originals reissue! Other than that, I guess I go for good offers by a ton of artists, rather than get someone's discs at any prize. That's not much of an option as local stores aren't much good, except for their sales/special offers...

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finally got a shipping notification for my mono box... had some, well, "issues", with my credit card and didn't want to risk them cancel my order and send my box to someone else before I was absolutely sure my card was covered again! Looking forward, but I bet the bastards on the EU external border will have me pay quite some VAT and fees... and they'll probably take a week to have their dogs sniff around for drugs and whatever, before I'll actually receive it - still, I guess it's about the last copy of the initial pressing still around right now, so I consider myself a lucky basterd

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Again: My thoughts exactly ... don't mention it please!

Wogram is fantastic, but I told you so many times already, didn't I? I have one of his organ trio albums and the septet album on Enja. He does interesting sideman work as well.

Lon is a redneck, Lon is a redneck, Lon is a... I like Lee and Christy and Sinatra... and so many other singers, from Mose Allison and Blossom Dearie, from Billie Holiday and Carmen McRae, to Mildred Bailey and Hoagy Carmichael (is he jazz? I don't mind... but I look forward to digging into the 10CD Avid box I recently got...) Guess I ought to check out a Crosby set, but if it's so large and only includes that Buddy Cole trio (I think I've heard him but can't say I'm familiar), it might indeed be too much of a good thing.

Christophe Schweizer would be another trombone player to check out - his album on Omnitone is great. He was discussed a bit in that "neighbourhood/under-the-radar-talent"-thread a while ago. (Maybe his name is spelled Schweitzer? No, looks wrong... but maybe it's Christoph without an e, too lazy to look it up...) Ferris is a fine player, I agree! Don't know much besides his work with Texier, but he also did a Don Ellis tribute project with French musicians and played with Jim Pepper. That makes him a very interesting character in my book!

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I don't think this one has as many fans, but I love it. What do you mean, by comparison with the Blue Note recordings, or because Nichols in general doesn't have many fans? I think it's a fine album! Nichols as a whole would have been subject of a post of mine in this thread many years ago, when I discovered him thanks to the BN reissue 3CD set. Another thing I discovered lately is The Byrds - got all their albums up to "Sweethearts of the Rodeo" and found "Dr. Byrds and Mr. Hyde" in a local sale. Now waiting for "Easy Rider" and "Untitled/Unreleased" to complete my Byrds collection (assuming I can happily live without the last of their albums). As a result of that, I'll go and check out some Flying Burrito Brothers and Gram Parsons as well (thanks niko for the recs!). Also will dip a bit into Crosby Stills Nash & Young, and eventually Neil Young... (got only very few albums so far, "Stephen Stills", "Harvest", "Zuma", "Crosby Stills & Nash").

I've had my eye on that one for a while. Time to pull the trigger, I guess. Yeah, it's getting kind of pricey, too... 15$ or so for a used one (plus 9$ for shipping to little ol' Switzerland...) Fantastic disc, worth every cent!

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I'm still a bit pissed by Reinier's attack. Just in case: I had them put a Pearson Select aside for me. Yesterday my order was shipped, and it also contained the Anthony Braxton box and a single. Ok? I also own about 20 or 25 in print Mosaic boxes and Selects, and I bought about 6 or 7 of the Singles (which seem to be pretty unsuccesful, alas). However, some of those are Universal Mosaics and I guess I have to be blamed for buying them as well? Holy holy!

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It's a bit more complex... of course. I read about this in Judith Butler's interesting book "Excitable Speech". Here's a link: http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1048518258780

Yes of course. But the thing is, it's almost impossible to keep up with the releases, and it makes no sense to buy the new ones as they come out an instead let older releases go OOP without buying them. If I had the funds, I'd just buy all the older releases and then keep up, but that's just no option, because - great as they are - there are other things I want to hear and explore, as well. And not to show off or anything, but owning 50+ large boxes (except for a few old vinyl ones and a few Euro Universal ones all bought directly from Mosaic) and 10 or so Selects and some Singles, I guess if Mosaic had a few thousand customers that committed, they'd be well off...

well, if I would swim in money...

Now Universal could reissue the "Live at Donaueschingen" MPS album in their Originals series! And then do a reissue of Cecil Taylor's "In the Black Forest" as well! I'd be all over those!

They're OOP alright, but I guess Mosaic wouldn't do that, arguing that those who wanted to buy them did get them... some terrific music, though, on albums like "Mama Too Tight", "Live in San Francisco", "Four for Trane", "Fire Music", and "On This Night"! These and the Newport disc were all part of those Impulse Master Series or whatever it was called, roughly 1996-99 I think? So was "The Way Ahead". The album "Three for a Quarter, One for a Dime" was included on "Live in San Francisco" as a bonus. "The Way Ahead" included two bonus tracks from "Kwanza". "Black Gypsy" was part of the Free America series. "Attica Blues", "The Cry of My People" and "Kwanza" were reissued in the LPR/Originals series. That leaves about four albums or so (including one with Philly Joe done for America, and the fine "For Losers" and "Magic of Ju-Ju", both of which MCA/Verve somehow missed to bring back in the late 90s). I think that's just not interesting enough. Also it would be too large a set. And some of the late music isn't quite that great, while most albums do include some fine music, which would probably still cause Mosaic to do it as a 1964-67 Impulse box, if they ever did it, which would again mean that except for "Ju-Ju", there'd be no new music on it... Thanks for the fantastic summary. Mosaic probably should have done such a box in the mid-90s. The music is certainly worth the Mosaic treatment. Apparently, they missed their chance. Yep, I'd have been all over that set! On the other hand, I love those 96-99 Impulse digipacks a lot as well... (the packaging got flimsy towards the end of the run, see Coltrane/Shepp at Newport, Coltrane's "Ascension" or "Insterstellar Space", but none of the Shepps were afflicted by that... "On This Night", btw, was only available as a GRP CD, packed in regular jewel case). Anyway, Mosaic didn't have access to Universal's vaults back then, and they've never tackled any Impulse material. And after all, in the current sorry-ass state of CD reissues, Universal's "Originals" series is quite outstanding (though I still hate that they don't include bonus tracks that were on older versions of the CDs...)

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