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There have been threads about "tenor saxophonists under 40" and similar ones, do some searches!

Thanks, Kevin! I'm starting to believe it, then! Great!!!

indeed my version has that flaw, too, at 3:58 - on one player it starts skipping and I need to quickly hit the fast-forward button to get past it, on the other (a discman) it inserts a little pause and then continues (which is probably why I didn't notice when I played the disc some time back, while doing other things simultaneously). sucks!

It's a mandolin. A custom 5-string electric mandolin! Thanks for that info... he's quite astonishing, too, and makes a great sparring partner for McLaughlin... only after a while it can get a bit too much of the same for me.

So the theme, then is "euro grooves"? And that's Glenn Ferris... he's great, but I don't know lots of his recordings. On the most recent Lateef album "Influence" (on BFLat, co-led with the French Belmondo brothers), he appears as guest on CD2 and turns in a few terrific solos! Never heard the guy with who's band Wheeler's featured... waiting for some recommendation in the answer comments, Mike! Pity I misplaced the discs... haven't even had a chance to hear the bonus disc yet, and hardly any time to tidy up and look for it right now

I'll try and do so over the weekend!

The ones on sale in the UK are European manufactured and are NOT repeat NOT cc-ed. I can't promise, but I suspect amazon.de is in error. Let's hope you're right! I have virtually stopped buying BNs new releases. Picked up 4 or 5 cc versions but only on sale prizes (10€ or less, approximately). Of course they wouldn't tell us about their conclusions or even apologize or admit their strategy was bogus... but again, let's hope you're right!

Amazon.de says they are copycrap, not CDs!

pretty fun disc - mine (picked up in a sale last year) didn't hang anywhere, but I'd need to play it again to check if there's no glitches or small issues.

Oh, and let me add that I'm very happy I made those huge orders! For a long time, I had to spend almost no money on Mosaic, since I got the running low ones earlier... good move, for me, since after high school ended and I started to study at university, money was more than short for a time.

Hmmm, my first order was just the TKM set. Then I got hooked. Being in highschool back then, I had some jobs during holidays, and usually determined what amount of money I'd spend on jazz CDs... I proceeded to make two or three orders that had each around 6 boxes in them - but back then, there were many more smaller ones (Jacquet, Fuller, Thad Jones). Anyway, those first orders included (going from memory): Basie Live (Studio was gone already), Hamilton, Giuffre, Jacquet, Woody Shaw, Hill, McLean, Rivers, Ellington Capitol... this was also before I had a credit card, so the expenses for those annoying money orders were pretty high and I decided to do larger orders. Custom guys were not eyeing things that closely back then (late nineties) and believed the scaled down slips Mosaic included, so I was paying much less than I would today, for such larger orders. Also I always went for the surface shipping option (less damaged jewel cases - once they "forgot" that I sent money, several hundred $$ from a student (!)... and sent the order by airmail and almost all jewel cases from the TrueBlue part of the order were completely cracked and missing all teeth etc... so surface was my choice, always). Nowadays, with customs much more annoying (they once even hold one package back and made me send in the "true" slip from Mosaic - suckers!), Mosaic no longer offering the cheap surface shipping, and money generally used more for living than for leisure, my habits changed a bit and I usually only get sets that are running low, nowadays. If there's two at the same time (like the Vee Jays), I get two, otherwise I get one at the time (O'Day, Rich/James etc). And I even managed to let a couple go without buying them (Herman, Freshmen).

I saw the band live once, Hussain is indeed *the* master - I've also seen him in classical indian performances, I think at least twice, once with Hariprasad Chaurasia, one of the other towering figures of indian music. I generally liked that concert, but in the end the slower pieces got just a bit too close to kitsch, while the faster often ended up in the same little games and quick exchanges (with Shrinivas - that is the guy playing that small guitar, yes? - "apeing" what McLaughlin just played). Got a bit tiring after some time. But the musicianship in this band is astonishing.

What region could that be? The styles of the tracks is very diverse... from that sexy blues (pretty 'merican sounding, but that may be disguise... some of that "perfect BFT material", eh?) to the "ethnic" things... sounds like a collection of "displaced musics", rather than a compilation that could be pinned to one specific region... Strange notion, just thinking aloud: is Gerhard Gschlössl involved with any of the bands/projects on this disc? And last question: is #4 from that band that you went to see with RC? If I had more time at hand I might be able to find that thread, but taht wouldn't be fun, rather spoiling the fun!

These positive vibes certainly are a quality per se - I can fully understand that! And I felt them, too, upon my first listen. Not that I always like this positive vibe, but it's good to have it somewhere, if one needs it! Jim, thanks for plugging me to this new artist, and thanks for confirming my notion of the complexity of the music (or certainly of the arrangements, at least) - looking forward even more to a concentrated listen now!

Got me "4 seasons" (thanks to who posted the above link to Amazon.co.uk!). Played it once, liked it, but I must confess it didn't jump at me (yet?). Will play it again over the weekend, though! The arrangements reminded me a bit of some of the better Incognito things (the "100° Rising" I still like quite a bit, sort of a holdover from past...), but it's obvious there's more to it. Maybe like the music of Maria Schneider: subtle things that don't scream out how great they are and that you may not be able to really do justice to without repeated (and concentrated) listening?

Just make sure you don't mistake a record for a football, misters!

Only you're taking a turn answering? So it *is* the later BN sessions that are included in the Select, yes?

I see it that way, too... and I love the quartet, but still... if I listen to a Tyner solo as such, even in the context of the quartet and the overall great music, I often find nothing much in it that I like... the Garrison accompaniment is good, felt bass, sure, but the solos are totally off of the rest of the music, they don't have anything to do with what follows, just the poor guy who couldn't play loud enough needed to get his share of solo space, too, so he does his flamenco thing... true, when I heard one of those long intros for the first time, I was impressed, but it's just too much of the same for my ears by now... So back on topic: if "Cosmos" is that good and I also still miss "Expansions", I might eventually get the Select... Well, I just differ I guess. I like what McCoy does in the Quartet, especially some live spots, and I like him IN the Quartet a lot more than outside the quartet. And Garrison. . . he anchors that whole band, he's a huge centrifuge that keeps it all spinning but not flying apart, amazing talent in the Quartet and out. And there's much in those solos if you ask me, at least I hear quite a bit in the way he constructs them. I sincerely think that Trane knew EXACTLY what he wanted and he had it in these cats and Elveen. Without one of these ingredients, it wouldn't have been the same, and I've no complaints. Time to play some Trane again, I guess... it's been some time... I do agree generally about Tyner in the Coltrane quartet or on his own... and I do agree about the Coltrane quartet being a terrific band... but still, on this comparatively very high level, not all is perfection, and I often find Tyner and Garrison's spot less captivating than the the Trane solos or those often terrific duo passages of Trane and Elvin... Chuck, the Blue Note dates included in the Mosaic, are these the "later" ones? Earlier ones then being "The Real McCoy", "Time for Tyner" and that other one that recently came out on CD (Tender Feelin's or something)?

maybe the Ukrainian thought that was worth it?

Too bad, because the banjo has recently invaded Switzerland: http://www.banjomen.ch/seiten/home_e.html ouch! Of course I have recordings with banjo on them... all the early Ellington etc. and it doesn't bother me there, but I'd not be the one to search out specific banjo music, usually...

I see it that way, too... and I love the quartet, but still... if I listen to a Tyner solo as such, even in the context of the quartet and the overall great music, I often find nothing much in it that I like... the Garrison accompaniment is good, felt bass, sure, but the solos are totally off of the rest of the music, they don't have anything to do with what follows, just the poor guy who couldn't play loud enough needed to get his share of solo space, too, so he does his flamenco thing... true, when I heard one of those long intros for the first time, I was impressed, but it's just too much of the same for my ears by now... So back on topic: if "Cosmos" is that good and I also still miss "Expansions", I might eventually get the Select...

There have been several threads about it, but as the scans seem to get more and more, it continues to excite, indeed!

I guess I agree... have "Asante" and "Extensions", also found "Time for Tyner" before it got RVG-ed, but none of these really do a lot for me. In general, Tyner doesn't do a lot for me, sometimes not even in Coltrane's classic group (I'd have considered this statement blasphemy a few years ago... same applies to Garrison in Trane's band... more blasphemy). What's the deal with "Hipnosis"? Only available on the Moncur Select? Since I never managed to find the Conn edition of "Evolution" I'll eventually go for the Moncur, although I have the Conns of "Some Other Stuff" and "'bout Soul".

Sorry to say I sent one, too, more than two hours ago! -_-