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Both, I suspect!

ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The devil is, as they say, in the details.

The Complete Recordings of the Paul Desmond Quartet with Jim Hall The Complete Recordings Of The Stan Getz Quintet with Jimmy Raney with < /

I think it's a good thing what she have done did. I wish she'd go and do more stuff that was good like that, even if it means resigning from office and abstaining from all political and government activities for the rest of her life. Unprincipled powermongering deathwhores are a dime a dozen, but caring souls with a gift for music and a love of teaching aren't. Oh well, the choices we all make!

Dave Alvin Paul Simon Brother Theodore

I hereby volunteer to accept one free copy of all future Mosaic sets strictly for the sole purpose of insuring that all cover photos are appropriate to the theme of the set and the contents therein. It's a thankless job, to be sure, but what can I say? I'm a selfless type of guy...

Mike's post was wickedly satirical (I hope so, because Buell is on the cover ol that Mosaic. ). The point of this thread? Just a questioning of design choice, nothing more. The Crow Jim thing was a joke, as made clear in the opening post. Design choices are fair game for discussion, I should think. They're trivial compared to the music, to be sure, but lord have mercy, if we eliminated discussions of all such matters, there goes the Sexy Album Covers thread, endless debates/discussions about various remasterings/repackagaings, commentary about the Patrick Roques neo/retro covers, CD vs. vinyl, etc. Bottom line - Pepper Adams was co-leader of that band when it functioned as a working unit. It was billed as the "Donald Byrd - Pepper Adams Quintet", and the VGM bootleg of the group at Jorgie's lists it as such. The exclusion of Adams from the Mosaic cover photo is a curious design choice, and the purpose of this thread is to highlight the curiosity of that choice.

James Thurber Edna Ferber Jeff Lorber

Exactly. You get the slash, you get the photo. Period.

Ok, it seems that Elvin's Lighthouse album was expanded into 2 CDs by adding extra material, but they were released as two separate discs. And of course, you're right about the Grant. My bad.

Paul McCartney Mike McGear Louis Malle

I might be wrong about the Grant, but I'm pretty sure the Elvin did. Never bought either though, so maybe I'm wrong about both. Wouldn't be the first time...

Yeah, I've thought about it, but I'm doubtful that I'd get anything more than a polite brush-off type answer, or one that takes the "Byrd as primary artist" stance. Cuscuna's been very generous in his responses to me over the years, but whenever I get either too "nosy" or too "confrontational", he backs off into Shortstockanswerland. And for this, I don't blame him at all - I'd do the exactly same thing if I was in his position. He doesn't owe us anything in terms of personal communication, ya' know? Still, I guess it's worth a shot, so I'll send a simple, unloaded inquiry out and see what comes back.

Beats folding laundry. Seriously - I got this set in on Monday, but just cracked it open this morning. The absence of Pepper on the cover was the first thing I noticed, believe it or not. (the second was the downsized book, but oh well...). Been listening to the set all damn day, and enjoying it immensely. So it's no "deal breaker" or anything like that. I just don't get why Pepper's billed as a "co-artist", yet they couldn't find a way to put his picture on the cover. In a sense, it's not a big deal, but in another, it is. Part of me wants to think that the notion of this type of jazz having co-leaders of different races, especially on BLUE NOTE, still plays games with some people's minds, if only at a subliminal level. What kind of games varies depends on whose mind it is. Part of me thinks that the Mosaic tie-in to the "Blue Note legacy" trip leaves no room for a non-BN artist on a cover photo of a set of BN material, regardless of race. Part of me cares, and part of me doesn't give a rat's ass, ya'know? But geez, Pepper Adams was a B!TCH of a player, and co-leader of the band that made the core material of this album (and some albums on other labels). He should've been on the cover of the Mosaic. Besides, Saturday is just another day where (and how) I live!

Yes. Elvin's & Grant's Lighthouse albums come readily to mind. There might've been more, I dunno.

Al, the Prestige dates w/Coleman are studio. Good stuff!

Well, I stand corrected - part of Pepper's horn is included in the shadows of the cover photo, as is part of his left hand. So technically, he's there. Still...

Not as high as it's gonna be in a month or two...

Laverne Baker Junior Cook Pappy O'Daniel

Willie Mays The Amazing Kreskin Carl Kress

Yep. You know, you hear words like "underrated" and such used for players and wonder why it's so. Pepper was never criminally underrated, a la Herbie Nichols, but I don't know that he's been fully appreciated outside the circle of the hardcore, either. It's little gestures like this that, while not by any means creating the situation, don't do a damn thing to reverse it either. One wonders why. Cuscuna is no fool, that much goes without saying, and he recognizes Pepper's value, his history, and his co-leadership of this group when it was a working band. That's no doubt why the set is titled "Donald Byrd/Pepper Adams", not "Donald Byrd with Pepper Adams". So why ain't Pepper on the cover? I just don't get it.

Arthur Treacher's in Longview, Tx was where I got my first taste of malt vinegar, whilst in my very early teens. I been rurnt ever since!

Hell, Bob Dorough pretty much WAS Schoolhouse Rock, wasn't he?

And should have!