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I guess most folks already have the 2008 Euro-Sony Original Masters Ellington 1932-1939? Those are 'gray-market' in the USA for exactly the same copyright/royalty issues as affects 'Andorran' imports or 'Euro-Mosaics', so some may have scruples. If you can find one though they are dirt-cheap and well worth a few $$$ investment as a bulwark against the non-emergence of the proposed Mosaic 10CD epic. Did the price for that box come down again? It was pretty impossible to find a while back... but I definitely want the Mosaic as well, in this case! And I guess Ellington being a big name, it might also be a set where they actually could print a 10000 edition and sell it within a few years, no? The Capitol and Reprise sets went pretty fast (or rather: the Capitol was sold out quickly in the centennial year, I think).

Yup, two things: limited or not, I don't bother... I have never even remotely considered selling any of my Mosaics (and I guess a few could be turned into cash cows or some such...) Second: their releases are just happening at a too fast pace to catch up with all their back catalogue at the same time as buying the new sets! If I could afford it, I'd have bought their whole catalogue years ago and kept up with their new releases, that's completely out of question! But my musical interests are too broad to just limit my buying to Mosaic...

Eckermann Eckhard Koltermann Man with the Golden Arm

oh, and I asked about the Mulligan Select - that one as well should be back by the end of the year!

Gee, we all do love Mosaic, don't we?

hah, now I got a bold (bolt?) one!!! Auguste Bolte (there we go again!) Witwe Bolte Dubya (for those not familiar with the widow in the middle: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_und_Moritz)

Cat Power Chick Webb The Funky Chicken

Well, it seems that except for the Pearson, it took only a few minutes for all of these to sell out... there's no reason to hold this against Mosaic! I sent them a mail within a few minutes as well, I got a kind reply (as always) but I guess they were flooded with orders and mails and they being such a small company - two or three people? or just Cindy being at the office regularly? It's always she who answers my mail concerning orders, and she's always been perfectly polite and on several occasions extremely kind to me.

ok, got a mail a few minutes ago... all they still have aside for me is the Duke Pearson... will have them hold it and think of something to add to the order. * * * the good news is that (in my message yesterday I did ask about it) they told me that the other backorder sets (I specifically mentioned these ones, all of which I want to get eventually: Jazz Crusaders, Jay & Kai, Chu Berry, Lionel Hampton, Herman Columbia, Sonny Stitt and Parker) would be available again by the end of the year. Now that's a relief indeed! Maily in the case of the Crusaders and the Stitt, which come from the EMI family as well (the Jay & Kai, btw, is the single disc). I really hope there won't be more such devastating news to come!

Tiny Grimes Little Jimmy Scott David Lynch

Yeah, those are some of the guys... and of course my choice of words wasn't serious

Old Black Joe Old Yeller Old and In the Way Ole Pappy Hoagy Carmichael Walter Brennan

Kurt Schwitters Auguste Bolte Usain Bolt

If in need of guidance, I guess you could always ask Poppa Lou

just what I seem to be doing right now...

I tried a mail re: holding back the Donaldson. I did get a short response from them last night saying they are 'sold out'. I'll bet they are fuming over this. No mail here Gee, I really really really am pissed about this! Really in a bad mood ever since yesterday 6 p.m.! Remember there's a 6-hour time difference between Mosaic and Switzerland, and their office hours are 9-5 Eastern Daylight Time or 15:00-23:00 Central European Summer Time. Yeah, I know, but I wrote them ten minutes after they sent out their mail and Bob did get a reply... Anyway, I ordered the Pacific and Shank/Cooper sets via Amazon Marketplace (as long as I don't have them I don't trust in getting them though...) And just to make that clear: I'm not at all pissed *at* Mosaic, but *by* this whole situation! I'm sure it hit them much worse than me! Still I've been angry since last evening... there ought to be a law against such actions!

Sky Dumont Jack Dulong Marcel Duchamp

Milford Graves Lady Milford Lady Day

no problem, all found from cached pages via Google I just keep forgetting about that option... even more so on days when I'm pissed

Sam the Record Man Honest Ed Mr Ed Mr Potato Head Mr Turnip Swinging Swede Sweets (Edison) Brownie Vanilla Fudge

much appreciated!

Thanks a lot, Adrian! I think I have the Washington saved at home... too bad about the Shank/Coop and Pacific trios and Don Pullen - those I'd have loved to get (also the Donaldson, Washington, Slack maybe). Got the Brookmeyer (great one!) and Patton (still unplayed, no urge for organ jazz of late), luckily!

nah you'se perfectly right sir... hence I shall not be angry any longer about having missed the Poppa Lou Mosaic... will gets me Sunny Side Up on RVG and retain the two or three olde ones and hence shall not have too much Popp-istic sameness in my life the diff'rence with RCA though seems to be that contrary to other labels, they often had more of those studio pro guys (you know, all those folks who turn up with Gil Evans, for instance, those multi-reedists etc, trumpet whisperers and all that...)

Big Ed Dale Cooper Michael Caine (Sir... pardon me)

horseshit and fornication... (new addictive game?)