Jim Duckworth

PM sent on the Bill Evans.

On a related note: one of the Black motifs is Riding on a Blue Note from 1938. Interestingly, Come Sunday came up in my listening twice this week: studio and broadcast Gerald Wilson (with Hobart Dotson) and Booker Ervin.

Thank you for posting. I really like this band-besides the usual suspects, I really like Allan Reuss.

I find the Baggy's Rehearsal Sessions to be excellent-but that's my favorite Hendrix line up. I like the other Dagger releases as well, but they offer more jamming and are somewhat less focused on song.

Oh Yes. This is where I came in-a great place to hear Carter Jefferson.

I've been listening somewhat closely to Gerald Wilson as an arranger and as a band leader-which led me to re-examine the first two discs of this set. And then, because I wanted more Carmell Jones and Harlod Land with Mr. Wilson, I landed on disc 2 of The Carmell Jones select.

Exactly. I was carted through an estate sale in my neighborhood and managed to get interested in some pretty old vinyl wherein Way Out Wardell stood out. Made me sorry not to have met him. A longstanding Wardell Gray fan up the street and I never suspected!

This is a bitter sweet announcement. On the one hand, I have all of this material on individual discs;on the other hand, I am glad for any new Mosaic Box and will pre-order this one without fail. It was the classic '60 and '61 records coupled with the earlier Mosaic Mobley set that got me interested in these later sessions to begin with. The value of this set for me is contextualization and, as it was so well put above, "the respectful presentation" of the material. Strangely, I was in a similar position with the Ellington 1932-1940 Brunswick, Columbia, and Master Recordings-that is to say, I had all of it spread over various discs. Nevertheless, the Ellington set became one of my all time favorites despite my lack of initial enthusiasm.

There are a few I still want; I notice that the ones I don't have illustrate changes in my tastes (and finances) in the last couple of decades 107 The Complete Blue Note Forties Recordings of Ike Quebec and John Hardee 109 The Complete Edmond Hall/James P. Johnson/Sidney De Paris/Vic Dickenson Blue Note Sessions 114 The Complete Art Hodes Blue Note Sessions 121 The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions of Ike Quebec 132 The Complete Blue Note Recordings of George Lewis 159 The Phil Woods Quartet/Quintet 20th Anniversary Set 149 The Complete Roulette Studio Recordings of Count Basie and His Orchestra

I got my Dodo Marmarosa set today and it's even better than I anticipated: Atomic and Downbeat sessions, nice sessions, Lucky Thompson and more. Thank you for making me aware of this and thank you for the excellent service.

I hold a seemingly unshakable belief that might be stated "Mosaic is preferable." When so moved, I will argue about the contextualization of the music, the booklets, and the care that goes into a Mosaic set. I recognize that this confidence does not always withstand scrutiny...this thread has caused me to further question my faith (as it were).

PM sent on the Thomas Chapin.

I too love the Strata East box: it is a source not only for the above-named Cecil Payne but also for a fairly difficult to obtain Charles Brackeen-Rhythm X.

Is Jazz as we know it fun? That depends on what you know.

I am hoping to locate Aretha Franklin's Take A Look: Complete On Columbia at a reasonable price.

Theses are the ones I go back to as well. Great pianists.

I very nearly had that very experience decades ago: I had a friend living in Japan, so I sent him a pile of money and he sent me the 5 or 6 DIW releases that were available at that time. It was epic.

I too used this link and would like to thank you for the heads up. I'm hoping there might be a Kenny Wheeler or Tomasz Stanko cube up ECM's sleeve.

Exactly! The HRS, Strata East, Capitol, and Savoy are the sets I return to most frequently. If only Mosaic had done the Keynote set!

I was thinking the very same thing.

Works for me. Thank you for the heads up. When I ordered it from Mosaic it was still listed in the (print then) catalogue, but I was a day late as it turns out.

Before I investigated this thread I could have easily passed on such an admittedly hypothetical set; not I want it. Darn.

So, I just got a shipping notification on the new Mosaic Woody Herman box and am I ever taken aback! I wasn't expecting to hear from them for six months on this one.