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  1. Mosaic's Black and White label box set

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    3 hours ago, ghost of miles said:

    I, too, am a fan of Mosaic’s label-overview collections. Do you have the Classic Capitol Sessions box? That’s one I keep meaning to return to.

    The Capitol Sessions is essential!  Those single label collections tend to pay a healthy dividend over time.  I started out digging the Ellington-related, Bobby Hackett, Mel Powell, Jess Stacy, and Joe Sullivan sessions, but over time really appreciated Eddie Miller and the rest of the Wingy Manone-Bob Crosby related entries.     

     

  2. Mosaic's Black and White label box set

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    When I first got this set, I was pretty pleased to get some Joe Marsala and Barney Bigard sessions with the great St. Louis trumpet guy Joe Thomas in vastly improved sound.  Having dug the Cliff Jackson elements, now I'm very interested in the Rod Cless session(s) and a vocal session that features Aaron Sachs. A label retrospective like this is my favorite type of Mosaic box set other than the amazing Coleman Hawkins, Chu Berry, or Lester Young retrospectives.  As a matter of fact it was the HRS set that really introduced me to Joe Thomas.

  3. So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

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    4 hours ago, jazzbo said:

    Tom Harrell “Trip” High Note Records cd

    Atlantic Ornette Coleman-esque session. Mark Turner is great here. Very nice engineering as well.

    Composed By, Producer – Tom Harrell

    Drums – Adam Cruz

    Tenor Saxophone – Mark Turner

    Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Tom Harrell

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    I listened to this one quite a bit when it came out and need to get it out again.

     

  4. Ellington in Order

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    4 hours ago, miles65 said:

    From the DUKE LYM mail list:

    The new release is not including several Columbia / OKeh sessions (April 4, May 28, August 2, November 20, 1929; April 3, 1930); shouldn't they be owned by Sony as well? After 1928, it is focused on the RCA Victor material.

    Chuck Granta sorted out this in a comment he asked me to puplish on the DESS' website and Ian Bradley has also published it.

    Here is his comment.

    "Some collectors may be under the impression that because those labels were at one time owned by ARC that Sony Music still has the rights to them. That is incorrect; those labels were sold to EMI way back in the late 1930s, when CBS formed their radio business and bought the old ARC and revived the Columbia name in the United States. 

    There are definitely some perplexities when it comes to all of this label ownership business, so I understand the confusion! For example, in France, EMI distributed some recordings under the 'Columbia' and 'CBS' banners.Therefore, they issued the Complete Duke Ellington  series on LP under the CBS label. Many of the tracks are Columbia-owned masters. However, because EMI also owned the rights to the Pathé and associated label recordings, they were able to 'co-mingle' the sides that EMI had the French rights to with the Columbia-owned sides that they had licensing for in France."

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    EMI was sold in 2012 mostly to Universal and partly to Warner (EMI classical and Parlophone). After some research my best guess is that the Pathé Plaza recordings are  now owned by Universal.

    That means that from volume 1 only the alternate take of Back and Tan Fantasy is missing. It's on Masters of Jazz volume 3.

    Volume 2 covers the Victor recordings from CD 2 track 5 tot CD 4 track 9. From the Okeh Ellington CD 1 tracks 23, 34 and 25 and from CD 2 tracks 1-11 are missing and also the alternate takes of The Mooche and East St. Louis Toodle-oo not included on The Okeh Ellington. The are on Masters of Jazz volume 10.

    About the Pathé Plaza recordings: 10 sessions yielded 42 tracks. Most of them are spread over all 12 Masters of Jazz volumes. Missing are from 10-1-1931 Rocking Chair take 3 wich was not included because of the poor sound quality. And I'm so in love with you wich would have been the first track of Volume 13 that was never issued. It is included on Classics 605 Duke Ellington 1930-1931.

     

     

    Thank you for sharing this-I was thinking that I could get remastered Okeh Ellington tracks via Ellington In Order but now have a better understanding of the licensing.

  13. So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

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    4 minutes ago, Justin V said:

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    I was being too selective and fleetingly considered skipping this one at a mere $2, thinking I already had a ton of Pres.  Thank goodness I grabbed it.  This is top-shelf, well-recorded Pres, with his full-bodied sound jumping out of the speakers.  Holy moly.  Am I nuts to say this is essential Pres?

    The Kansas City Five selections without Lester Young are appended to the end of this release and may well be some of my favorite Buck Clayton.

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