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And I will love them forever for not succumbing to the temptation to release sets priced at $30-40 per LP. I mean, old white guys ain't THAT dumb!!!

"Widening" the audience for a static quantity/music is. .. what...silly? Impossible? Evil? Whatever else it is, it doesn't strike me as being a particularly healthy pursuit. Now, evolving the audience as the music itself evolves, yeah, that's healthy. And it seems to be happening now more than it has for a good while. And the fact that I like only some of it is a good thing, if for no other reason than I'll be dead before the nostalgia for it comes around, so don't look at me to buy all those reissued mp3s, even of the stuff I DO like!!!

Oh, if I were a betting manperson, I would wager good enough money that the Mosaic customer base of today is indeed old white guys. You could probably get data to prove that. Hell, I'm one myself (an older white guy). But Mosaic is beginning to bore me, except when they don't. I know the Tristano & Savory sets did anything but. And the Bill Barron set made me cream my jeans. But those are increasingly becoming the exceptions. But they had a good run, a REALLY good run. Do you think all these old white guys were ALWAYS old?

Ultimately all that "doing it right" means is that they got their target audience to buy the product whether you "like" it or not. If somebody does it better, good for them. Here's hoping that their betterness matters enough to be rewarded. And if somebody doesn't sell it to their target audience, they (or somebody) did it wrong.

Ronnie Spector?

Still does...

Ernie Shivers - Boxcutter Baby

IMO, one should have a decent familiarity with this music. After all, it IS Mingus! At that price, hey. But if one does have a decent familiarity with it, then one has a decision to make!

A Groove Holmes PJ set ain't happening either.

But all those desert wars are front and center, still.

Mary Lou Williams should have a set, but what would the licensing be? There's always that. Same with Geri Allen - past the Blue Note stuff, what could they get? Shirley Scott... I just don't think they have an appetite for ANYTHING that 'black blue collar". I'd be delighted to be proven wrong about that.

I don't think that what would block a Shirley Scott Mosaic set would be gender.

Quik Time? Check you file types and their associations.

This is a fun record. What a great way to have a good time, being at this gis (and playing it!) must have been! Harold Vick is a delight. Too bad that the otherwise nice liner notes bungle up the details of his RCA records. Otherwise, Bob Moses & Benny Maupin add some wonderfully flayvaristic comments that perfectly compliment the music.

Hey, that's a good record!

Hooray for that!

Specifically, "funk".

Court & Spark is the first one that got my attention, with Miles of Aisles fast on its heels.

I have a hard time listening to her early stuff. In fact, I don't. I won't. I knew a drummer who was totally into it, and I had to stop playing with the guy because he never grew into an adult emotional state. It was always SO SENSITIVE with him, and I was like, ok dude, how old are you now? Over 30, right? Grow up some, ok?

Me? I'd love to see this type of stuff on Mosaic. But if Mosaic would have wanted it, they could have done it long before now, right?

Big 🦾for both Mary Lou Williams & Geri Allen A Shirley Scott set would also be warranted, definitely, but the impulse! inventory alone would not make up a full set, and adding Cadet and (especially) Atlantic would mean music/records with overt R&B things going on, and I don't think that any Mosaic regime has ever had an appetite for that. Carla Bley is bigger and better than Mosaic.

Unipak https://groups.google.com/g/rec.music.collecting.vinyl/c/IuNCs0w9LpY?pli=1

Taken as a whole, I am indifferent. But taken on a selected, case-by-case basis, there is more than a little brilliance. RIP