Brad

Steeplechase has announced that this box is coming out in April. Any thoughts on this? I don't have any of his recordings made for Steeplechase and am wondering if this would be a good purchase. http://www.steeplechase.dk/steeplechase/ca...i?sccd=30010/17

I would agree with Tod in all respects except that it's not a "bug", it's a "sickness"

Yup, that's good. If you like Natural Soul, you might like Good Gracious. It's a Conn. edition and I've seen it around from time to time. Very good session, in my opinion.

I like Natural Soul and Boss Tenors in Orbit but Lou Donaldson over Sonny Stitt? I love Lou but dude there's no comparison, Sonny's the M-A-N! You want to hear a great record, try the recently released in Japan of Sonny's At the D.J. Lounge. Awesome cooking record with one hell of an organ player, Edward Buster, and John Board on tenor sax. Sonny will blow you away on this one.

Not sure what your point is by listing those. Most of us know they're out of print. And Mosaic has listed these as well. However, they show up on Ebay quite a bit. Some of us have spent a lot of money on Ebay to acquire a lot of those sets, myself included.

As part of an email to Mosaic about the Mosaic Select Bennie Green, I also asked about a Three Sounds Mosaic Select, which I do every couple of months just to "keep hope alive". Got a response back from Michael, saying that he's trying to figure out a way to divide up the Sounds "legacy" into 3 or 4 Mosaic Selects. He believes that might work.

It never stopped him before!

Well, I only have Along Came John from this group so I welcome this set. I'm glad Blue John's not in it. Not a huge Braith fan. Maybe the All Music review for Understanding is something that was borrowed a BNBB posting

I don't see anything on their web site. Tod, did they email you about this. I didn't get anything. Any chance, you or someone else could post what they sent to you. So much for being a good customer.

My feeling about the Select series is that it's a way to get the music out without having to make a big investment: no big box and no book to have to create or pay for. It's a way to do it inexpensively and allows them to concentrate on a few full blown box sets. Otherwise, it may take a while to get them out. In addition, some of the Mosaic Selects they may be putting out may not be large enough to warrant the full Mosaic treatment (like the Carmell Jones). You may complain about certain aspects of what they're doing but if they're financially limited by what they can do and they can get the music out, what's the problem. Better this way than no way at all. Had it not been this way, I doubt I would have ever gotten to listen to some of Carmell Jones' music.

Huh?

Unfortunately, this isn't going to help but the following discography indicated that it's probably hard to find: http://www.icnet.ne.jp/~acchan/wk.htm#1950

Frankly, I can't imagine life without the blues or jazz without it. It's part of what we are. I came to jazz because of the blues and Howlin' Wolf remains important to me. The blues is so much part of jazz to say that it's irrelevant demonstrates a lack of knowledge of what jazz is about. Charlie Parker was a player of the blues. Parker's Mood is an important part of modern jazz. Should we just disregard what has gone on before us? I think that's the nub of the problem and it's not just a musical problem. Today's youth (I hate that phrase) seem to think that history and society start with them so let's disregard what's happened before. Much of modern music owes what it is to what happened previously and that includes the blues. It's part of the strain and can't be ignored or deemed irrelevant.

We need more fans and people to put pressure on BN or Mosaic. Maybe we should start one of those "I demand" threads that somebody start way back when. I just don't know if anybody is listening any more.

I think it was either Dan or Greg but when I asked that they repost it, one of them said they'd lost the image. I remember when that picture was posted back in 1999 or 2000 and I remember saying at the time that I didn't want to see that picture again. I still don't want to see that picture.

Yeah, I got those stupid emails about Soul-dead . Guys, let's face it that stupid board is over and frankly we don't have that much marketing power unless we act as a group and frankly I don't know how big this group is or if it could exert any influence. If someone like Kevin B can't and he know some of these guys, well, forget it. Yeah, know if we get Michael C, different story. I like this board and AAJ but honestly I miss the old BNBB. But it's gone and there's nothing I can do about it. Lot of good people over here from there so that helps. I've even deleted it from my favorites. Life goes on, we've still got jazz, jazzmatazz (thank you Alan) and Hiroshi. We've lost a lot of people but there's still a good core. Anybody seen Hans lately, seems to me be absent. Yes, I suppose I'm sad but let's move on. Wonder if Tom pussy hurts He showed what he is: a corporate guy. When the bosses say jump, most of us say "how high" (esp. in this economy) and Tom's no different. He just seemed to delight in his crappy attitude. Thanks B-3er for this great site and now let's move on.

Unfortunately the only thing I have by Lee is In Hi-fi, which I recommend. Half of the cd is Lee on tenor. It's actually two dates. When he's on alto, it's great improvising and going down different paths.

As the second biggest fan on this or any other board of the Sounds (we all bow down before the great GHF Fanatic B) ), I would love to see anything come out from Blue Note. However, Moods would be great. Their rendition of Love for Sale is a classic. Michael doesn't think the stuff would sell but I think it would. Heck, i'd buy a few copies myself if it would help. They were big sellers and BN released these in the 50-60s because they sold and were popular. In Hard Bop by David Rosenthal, he indicates that the tendency was towards ballads and funky numbers and that BN relied "heavily" towards the kind of playing done by the Sounds, organists like Big John Patton, Jimmy Smith and Baby Face, guitarists like Kenny Burrell and Grant Green, and saxophonists like Lou Donaldson, Ike Quebec and Stanley Turrentine. Well, they've gotten their due lately, but not the Sounds. Hey, Kevin, can you talk to Michael about this. We've tried but not too much success.

Based upon Tom's attitude, you must have him sent that bread a few weeks ago. Getting back to Tod's original point about Mosaics showing up in a lot of different places and whether these are limited or not, it seems to me that if Mosaic can find other markets in which to sell these sets, these sales can only be to the good in being able to bring out newer sets. The last thing we want to see is Mosaic run into financial trouble and lose them as a source. That would be a devastating loss.

Going Down Slow is from 1972, with Thad Jones (tp), Hank Jones (p) , Billy Butler (g), George Duvivier (bs), Idris Muhammad (ds) and Bill VerPlanck conducting string arrangements. This was done at Rudy's studio. The other half of the cd is So Doggone Good, also 1972, and has Hampton Hawes (p), Reggie Johnson (bs) and Lenny McBrowne (ds).

Very true, but if you drop a cd with a plastic case and the case breaks, you can replace the plastic case. You can't do that with a digipack.

They get easily damaged and kind of look cheap. It seems like a way to cut costs.

I picked up the Sonny Stitt and the Bobby Timmons (haven't listened to this one yet). The first part of this two fer is Going Down Slow, with Sonny, Thad Jones and Sonny being backed by a string section, as are the other four songs. The first song is the best although Thad and Sonny don't come in until half the song (14 minutes in length) is over. The other four tunes are ok. The other half, (the So Doggone Good) is Sonny doing what Sonny does best. It's a good session but not spectacular. If you're a Stitt addict like I am, a definite pick up. If not, you probably don't need to.

PD, You're correct of course. We all have our different likes. Speaking of Bill Harris, did you ever hear the cd Bill Harris Live at Birdland from Baldwin Music. Strangely enough, it's got some of his Keynote material on there. Way underrated player although Mosaic helped him get some recognition with the Flip Phillips set.

I got mine on ebay for about $100 and there's one right now still at a good price JATP on Ebay. I know Capitol Jazz set is good but this is one of those essential sets for any collection. It shows the transition from swing to bop and it's just a great set.