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Yep.

Does Mosaic have a YouTube channel? Or get that Jazz Video Guy guy to help out.

Miles didn't like Sam's playing. Simples as that. And objectively, I get it. Sam was pretty skronky.

Is the Jones-Lewis from the Mosaic? They removed all the reverb on that one, and this is a lot drier than the OG release.

It doesn't need to be either/or but seems like it has been. Both would suit me just fine

This video!!!

Quite generous!

Countries? Not high schools?

Sounds like somebody had one to sell.

Andy Mintz & Takeout - Cool Jazz For After Dinner!!!!

$33 for the CJB is a helluva good deal for a wonderful set.

That would depend on what Mosaic does with marketing. If they market it just to the V-Disc-era audience, it's probably DOA. But it seems like Pharoah had quite an audience apart from that. So the question is - who's gonna be marketing this set?

Pee Wee as Himself (Max)

Originally 1 LP of a 3 LP set. SO happy to say that I hear very little "Mozart" here, just serious music very seriously played. More like this, please!

Before moving on/back into the Epic set, I looked at recording dates vs release dates for the RCA albums. Tuns out that the last four were recorded in either 1959 or 1960, and not released until, respectively, 1962, 1963, 1964 (the last two. Epic sessions began in May of 1962 and were released in a timely manner. So....did RCA know they were losing the group and stockpiled a few sessions a la Bob Weinstein? Or was there some friction in the niceties of the RCA contract that had to be fulfilled before they could begin recording for Epic? Or just what, exactly? The movement of the JSQ from Columbia to RCA and then back again to Epic/Columbia...is classical music subject to this kind of contract variances?

Well, then, she got it right! I should have taken her on a date to see it.

I remembered that he played flute on the Lockjaw Cookbook albums.

Jerome Richardson?

Frank Foster also played flute?

I learned from the bio that these changes come from a song called "(All Of A Sudden) My Heart Sings" and that Sonny might have known it from being sung by Katherine Grayson in some movie. And that's another reason I love jazz - the ability of its best different source materials into something altogether different. Not necessarily "better" (that Grayson version is beautiful) but different. Different and also beautiful. A transformative power, if you will, transubstantiationative even.

DOH - Dewey. Should have been obvious. DOH.

Is it July already? Is that why we're approaching 100 degrees out side? TRACK ONE - The Monk intro keeps getting referenced during the whole solo, nice touch. This is some for real stuff. Not the most invigorating bass solo, but it does no harm. Same with the drum fours I could swear I've heard this one before but not necessarily....Pianist has plenty of ideas. Not the "cleanest" playing ever, but this is better than anything like that. Excellent! TRACK TWO - OMG, I know this one like the back of my hand! Sonny & Elmo Hope (with a little KD in the background. "Silk 'N' Satin". Only his second LP for Prestige, but hardly his first recording. Don't get me started on how I love everything about this one, I'll not stop. A lesser mortal would have been content to just play this way for the duration, but Sonny Rolins is not a lesser mortal. TRACK THREE - No idea who, but this is nice. Easy-ish riff head be a demonic harmoniztion underneath! Everybody's top-shelf. Five stars, Leonar! TACK FOUR - Head sounds really familiar...Soprano reminds me of Pony Poindexter. Can't comment past that. It's good, but nothing about the world would be different if it had never been made. That's true of a lot of good things. Is that Jerome Richardson? I don't know. TRACK FIVE - Zoot Sims, "A Time For Love". I'm guessing this is a Pablo side, almost has to be. Zoot is one of those guys who never really changed, but he grew deeper in his expression using the same tools he always had. The opposite of Sonny, two different approaches to life, each valid. There is no one "right way". This is beautiful. TRACK SIX - California? First choice would be Hampton Hawes? Nice enough. TRACK SEVEN - That's Bud, on Blue Note, I forget which one. Bud was in good form for that one (and most of the 50s Blue Notes, actually), playing at times like a salsero. It's interesting to hear him deal with no changes, just a montuno-like vamp. He is not thrown off his game one bit. Bud gets ALL them stars. TRACK EIGHT - I know the chart, it's a Thad thing, but not sure I recognize the band. Gorgeous writing, but I like a band with more bite. You can be mellow and still bite. But that writing....simply gorgeous, TRACK NINE - Compared to What? (Eu)Gene Daniels, and of course it's off of Bobby's NOW! Hello to Harold Land, somebody who did not stand still, kept evolving into new concepts. This is a wonderful album, the lyrics of this one aside (kinda "sensitive" to me, but of their tim0. And (Eu)Gene doee a hundred pounds of yodelling! TRACK TEN - Glad to hear the verse. Good voice, but a bit mannered for my taste. Not sure that the actual song holds up to this groove, but I will say that such things are personal choices, and sehe certainly sounds committed to this one. Whoever this is has a strong enough voice to sing with a strong big band, and that's a fullest compliment. But this version of this song only does just a little for me. Sounds like the lyrics are secondary. TRACK ELEVEN - That's almost either Ra or a strong tribute to him. No idea, because I thought I had all Chicago-era Ra, and this is not that. But ok, not that piano solo is not Ra, not enough layers of reality going on LOL. And that's not Gilmore. But is it Pat Patrick on bari? I guess not? Ok, whatever this record is, I like it. And a longgggg fade out on the cymbal! TRACK TWELVE - Not "Ralph's New Blues"? No. Gots the feel of something off Hot Line...Curson/Barron live? Or Don Cherry? Damn that tenor player has a distinctive moan...so distinctive that I can't call the name LOL. Ibrahim? TRACK THIRTEEN - Dick Griffin, yeah. Hip Populist Jazz. His records were just so much fun. You could listen, you could party, you could to both. And there's Gary Bartz. Closing on a strong note here! Muchas gracia, Amigo! Stay air-conditioned!