BruceH

I agree with the consensus here. My impression is that most of the potential Mosaic buyers already know about it, know about the website, and aren't going to stop buying because the BNBB imploded. As for the larger, Norah Jones crowd, they won't even be affected to the tune of .001%.

Simple Question... Have you read the Thread... Sorry someone did that to me on a BB.. never went back.. don't want to chase you away... but Hell read what is above your post.. both pages Gee, thought I did read it... All seemed to be about the 4-CD boxes. Must have missed something. BTW, I have the Nat King Cole box, "Cool Cole." It's a good starter set. The sound is not the best, but considering the price, acceptable.

Nice to hear, for a change, that a jazz musician is doing well financially in the latter part of his life. The same could not be said of Dupree Bolton, for instance, or about 2,000 others.

As luck would have it, I just picked this up last weekend on a bookbuying expedition to Grass Valley/Nevada City. At the rate I've been reading things lately I'll probably not finish it before the Mosaic Berigan arrives on my doorstep. But ya never know...

Just listened to this last week, brownie. One of my favorite Pepper albums, even though technically it's more of a compilation. I vote for anything by Konitz/Marsh. What a sound they had!

Donald Byrd The Transition Sessions with Doug Watkins and Joe Gordon (Mobley's on some tracks too). Great double-CD, both musically and sound-wise. Speaking of Gordon, I also recently found a copy of Lookin' Good and agree with Stan. Also Blues Bag, a Buddy DeFranco album with Art Blakey, has been getting a lot of play at my house. Arts & Crafts, by Matt Wilson. Ed, if you can find a copy of the West Coast Classic Katanga with Curtis Amy and the great, little-heard, Dupree Bolton, snap it up! It kicks ass. Recently I found a WCC sampler CD for only $5. Great deal. I wish they were all still in print.

Does the vinyl copy include the bonus tracks?

It's my own personal Album of the Week. (Plus all of Teddy Edwards' albums.)

I have Griffin's "The Congregation" and indeed, the jewel case hinge is opaque white. I believe the re-release of Brooks' "True Blue" is the same.

Another reason to get the Gerald Wilson Mosaic. I forgot, Carmell Jones appears on Conflict as well. Quite a line-up.

They didn't, but the second place I went to did. Rooster, when you're right, you're right: This is a Hell of an album. Jimmy Woods was quite the mystery man...appeared on the 1961 Joe Gordon album, "Looking Good" (Gordon's only LP as a leader before his untimely death), then two albums as a leader for Contemporary, "Awakening" and this. Then he apparently dropped out of sight. What gives, I wonder? His first album is pretty good too, but Confict takes the cake. Always happy to have more Harold Land, but Andrew Hill and Elvin Jones too? Why not also get Eric Dolphy, Art Pepper, and Donald Byrd and be done with it? Jeeze. Why isn't this album more famous?

Damn, Rooster, I hope I can find this in my local Tower tonight. You've got me chomping at the bit.

It must be an illusion, but deaths in whatever field seem to come in bunches.

Looks worth it just for the cover alone, I'd say.

Berigan, do you have the Time-Life "Masters of Jazz" Bunny Berigan box? That's what got me into him. Looking forward to the Mosaic set.

Has anybody checked out the 2-CD Proper releases? I just got a couple more today; you get two well-stocked CD's for the price of one normal CD. A midprice CD at that! Better for storage than the boxes, too. I'll definately be looking for more.

Terrible news. He was one of the great LA players, and deserved far more recognition than he got. R.I.P.

Brad, if you could hear some Stuff Smith it just might change your mind about jazz violin. I used to not be into jazz violin at ALL until I heard an album of Joe Venutie playing with Zoot Sims. There's a Verve 2-disc with three albums-worth of material, it has Smith with Dizzy Gillespie and Oscar Peterson and it swings like mad. If you see it used, give it a try! You won't be sorry.

Excellent idea! I've got only one album by Baby Face Willette and would snap up a Select in a Mosaic minute.