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Don't laugh at this, The Complete Fire House Five Plus Two on Good Time Records. Would be interesting given the Mosaic treatment and especially session notes and background details. The Complete Santo Pecora on Clef and Southland Records. Less BN, more Pacific Jazz releases which there's been several already, but how about some Contemporary label stuff? Still plenty of good stuff for Mosaic to release yet!

Both of these are on this boxed set, where I encountered them recently for the first time. I've never seen them recommended before and they are both, as you say, excellent. I have the French edition of Worlds of Stan Getz and that's where I first encountered Forest Eyes. A shame the quality of the packaging is awful with little protection to the CDs. One album that I doubt will make it as someone favourite Getz album: Stan Meets Chet.

I agree, Mosaic's strength now is in older jazz, even a Fire House Five box set wouldn't go a miss in my considered opinion. The 50s Hank Mobley set has been around for seemingly ages....too many sources for BN re-editions these days, not so the complete H.R.S. Sessions, which is a lovely set that you ain't going to compile anywhere else easily. It's the older stuff that still holds a mystique with me as regards Mosaic.

The Roost sessions I play a lot on Japanese CD remaster volumes 1+2, also the Clef and Norgran albums on the recent Verve box-set, of the bossa-nova stuff only playing the live album with Astrud Giberto Getz Au Go Go these days with a groovy long version of Summertime. A Dutch album from a film, which predicts the whole Jazz FM back-ground music phenomena, but manages to instill all the positive aspects of this, is Forest Eyes from 1980. Well worth checking out. Hasn't been mentioned before on this topic.

I purchase my Jazzhus CDs from the Jazz Center here in the Hague, and I am very impressed with the ongoing re-issues and live albums. Obviously, the 3 Dick Morrissey sessions and live gig are stand-outs, but also Ben Webster and Stan Tracey live are excellent too. On the mainland European front: The Modern Jazz Gang Miles Before And After , Romano Mussolini's Jazz allo Studio 7 and the bassist Johnny Raducanu Jazz In Trio are all superb. A really nice little label re-issuing some discerning stuff.

Someone once told me, your choice of online avatar speaks volumes about your character and personality.

Mine is quite clear, I am Art Pepper's dealer, Mario Cuevas.

I heard from a source that they had down gone down from 10 working in the warehouse and shipping dept to 2. That might explain the error.