John Tapscott

Oh my god, Paul Gonsalves is sleeping throughout the entire tune!! That's why Jimmy Hamilton after taking his clarinet solo also has to take the tenor solo... Now that is hilarious. It's really bizarre at the beginning of the drum solo where you can see Gonslaves with the tenor in his mouth and totally out of it - as still as a corpse. Man, it's no wonder Ellington's was the only band Paul could play in. No one else would put up with a minute of this. BTW, who is the trumpet (cornet) soloist? I should know who it is, but can't quite place him. Herbie Jones?

After I digest tyhe Stitt and Pass sets my next black and white sets in order (but probably not until '08): Jazztet Oliver Nelson After that : Dizzy or maybe the Hodges first if it goes to running low. Of course, I will probably be "throwing in" some Singles or Selects with these.

This week and weekend - Kid Ory. Too bad only about 1,000 of these were sold before it went out of print. I don't listen to this kind of jazz all that often, but this is a fun set!

Great choice. Can't wait to get these out.

Just ordered the Stitt and the Pass sets. No more Mosaics for me until '08.

Fabulous recording. The whole thing makes up the last two CD's of the Elvin Jones Mosaic set. Mainly tenor, yes. Exclusively, I can't recall, and don't have the set here in front of me. Liebman is superb, too. A great example of two tenors utilizing the lessons and vocabulary of 'Trane in a very positive way, five years after his death, and after the dust had settled down, so to speak.

IMO, too. My favorite CD of the whole set is # 7, the session with Victor Feldman.

Well, I wasn't going to order mine until the very end of the month. MG Me too. I imagine Mosaic will be having a busy day on August 31. I may buy the Pass, as well.

Thanks for posting this. I found it and just finished listening to the hour long segment. Very good and enjoyable music. All new to me.

According to the Mosaic website, the Stitt is now back ordered and will be shipped in 2-3 weeks. Guess Mosaic met their goal of freeing up some shelf space (at least as far as the Stitt is concerned).

That cat just don't swing!

Like this one and this one Scott's Yanow's review of this one at AMG is very lame and even misleading. Sometimes I wonder about Scott.

I have around 45 -50 black box Mosaic sets (too lazy to count) and half a dozen Selects. The count will soon go up by one with the arrival of the Stitt set under the 10% sale. I know people may call me crazy, but the one Mosaic set that I found slightly disappointing (or shall I say didn't quite meet my expectations) was the Mobley. Not that I don't like it, but I do find it a bit uneven, especially in sound quality. I find the session with Milt Jackson hard to listen to. OTOH, the set which exceeded my expectations was the Elvin Jones. That is truly a great Mosaic set, one of the very best, IMHO. I had several of the LP's, but assembling all of Elvin's BN dates together magnifies the overall impact and the importance of this music. Also the two sets by brother Thad, with Mel Lews and the big band, and also the small group sessions, are among my favorites.

I believe it was Bitches Brew in the summer of '75; then Sketches of Spain in the fall of '75; followed by Kind of Blue, spring '76. I'm with Guy on this. I enjoyed them, but can't say that any of them really knocked me out at the time. The first Miles album which did that was Milestones, which would have come about a year later, followed by the 60's quintet recordings.

I didn't warm to this record when I first heard it 25 years ago, but have recently begun listening to it again (the early CD version), and finding lots to enjoy. I'm not sure "enjoy" is the best way to describe my reaction to this record - fascinated, challenged, absorbed, perhaps. Certainly there's lots of creative energy here - perhaps a bit too much on occasion, which takes away from the cohesivness of the date. In any case, listen to the version you have and let's begin the discussion Aug 6. Look forward to hearing your comments.

Happy Birthday, Lon, and all the best!

Much as I often agree with jazzbo's assessment, I've got to disagree with him on this one. I read "A Love Supreme" on my summer vacation and could hardly put it down. I was very pleasantly surprised at how good it is. I really enjoyed the section about van Gelder and his famous studio. Looking forward now to the new book.

How about (6) Excessive cd music expenditure?

Good heavens. I can't believe it, either. Haven't we long ago gotten beyond these ridiculous (and frankly baseless) charges? I enjoyed the Concord label in the Carl Jefferson years and for the first few years after his death. After that, it changed quite radically and I lost interest. Ken's mention of Jesse Davis reminded me that Robert Trowers, the African American bebop trombonist made 2 good Cd's for Jefferson's Concord. (Jefferson signed him on the spur of the moment after hearing him at one of Davis' sessions). As far as I know, no label since has given Trowers a chance to record. And how many CD's has Davis made since Concord? Thanks Ken, for setting the record straight. I hope everyone takes the time to read and reread what you wrote.

Dan, I think you're giving Concord way too much credit in light of Concord's spotty post Carl Jefferson performance. I think we ought to expect the worst from Concord. I was in the Disney World Virgin Megastore in March and there two big bins full of Fantasy/Miletsones/OJC deletes, sort of out of sight under the escalators, as I recall. It's obvious that Concord is skimming the cream from the catalogue, and they don't want someone like Terri Hinte around who knows the catalogue really well and might raise some objections.

Carolina- they haven't been great in the last two games, but it's hard to imagine them losing 3 games in a row. Plus they're at home. Carolina 4, Edmonton 2.

4th photo down - Isn't that Scott Robinson? I know he's a man of many instruments, so I wouldn't be surprised at all.

I'm not surprised it's free.

Teddy Wilson - Disc 2

As incompatible as the other sections may be, those 'bone and sax sections could hardly be bettered.