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Palpable!

A deductible expense, then.

I do remember a time when a label like Columbia, or Atlantic, or RCA would make room for a few releases that were not expected to sell big. Even if it was a bookkeeping gambit, to get the write-offs, they would at least put some records out there. They don't even do that anymore, really. Yes, the economics of the business ahs changed, but to use Bruce Lundvall as an example (again), if you want to find a way (and some hits to pay for it), a way is there. But this was dying already by the middle 70s, really. It's not like it happened all at once, but it was obvious what was happening, imo.

Maxine Vandatory w/Dan Phizerna - A Double Shot Of My Baby's Love

Not sure why you need a big band when you ARE a big band all by yourself, but nobody gets hurt. Plus, a legit Zawinul rhythm section keeps it real. Do we miss Wayne? Of course we do. But the energy is good here, and at the end of the day, it's night, which is how it's supposed to work anyway. Pretty sure there's a dance band here!

This Morty Lewis guy seem totally credible, but I'd feel better if Jazzdisco could give a citation. It's not on any of the LPs, is it?

It's not Johnny Griffin. They also call Prestige Orin Keepnews' label, so I think they are not deeply informed about some things.

I got this notice in today's Mosaic Gazette email: Thank You! We have had a very strong response for the preorder and we are on schedule to begin shipping next week. The warehouse is prepping but it will take at least a few days to ship all the orders. You should have received an order confirmation which sometimes ends up in spam folder. In addition the order status may show on hold (credit card order) or processing (PayPal payment). All orders will show as processing when we charge your credit card. Still don't have the confirmation email (yes, checked the spam folder), but at least the status nomenclature has been explained.

Ah! I have the same Prestige record by Hrant, only named named Eastern Standard Time. Got it off a blog, and it's on the Near East label, a Prestige subsidiary. Listed here as: https://www.jazzdisco.org/prestige-records/catalog-lively-arts-30000-irish-35000-near-east-45000-series/#nelp-45005 NELP 45005 The Genius Of Oudi Hrant - Eastern Standard Time 1962 Udi Hrant Kenkulian as Oudi Hrant, oud; with ensemble Morty Lewis, tenor sax Morty Lewis? https://www.discogs.com/artist/439252-Morty-Lewis https://www.discogs.com/release/1898508-The-Glenn-Miller-Orchestra-In-The-Digital-Mood https://www.radioswissjazz.ch/de/musikdatenbank/titel/99978b76e079d44713d49300514d75f8dd69

Please elaborate?

Warren McVea Earle Warren Steve Earle

The Glorabualous Pump Brothers - Like The Peach To The Plum, Here We Come!!!

Also on a/some Monday Michiru records.

Take this fwiw: Don’t Be Surprised When You Get Omicron https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/12/omicron-breakthrough-vaccine-testing/621014/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

First place I looked

Totally, the first really exciting Mosaic in longer than I can remember!

There ya' go. The Urbie Green records were pretty nice, though, so go figure. Maybe he was just following orders.

I only bought direct from Dot Time once and it went ok. But that was a one-off. Three years to get one years worth of records...yeah, that's cause for pause.

This is not a big business with a lot of employees and a multi-tiered decisioning structure. Small business, limited descioning, and starting to sound more and more like an absentee landlord scenario. Who decided to redesign the site, who decided who was going to do it, and who signed off on it going live. It's not like there was a committee or a board, right? Unintended consequences, I get. Untested outcomes, though, are unforced errors. Michael, place an order, see how it goes. Scott, place a preorder, see how it goes. Fred, take their money. Any surprises, call the kid back in for an explanation, take a nap and then try again. They can write a sort of apology for needing to register for the new site, and that's cool. 15 digit PW seems insane to me, but ok. That may or may not be configurable, but ok. I accept your apology. So just explain how the new ordering system is gonna work. If you had tried it, once or twice, you would know. And Fred would have your money! I'm not cancelling my order or anything, but, as is seemingly the new normal, this is more complicated than it needs to be.

There's a conflict between bassline and saxes. It is damn near cosmic, and would still be even if that conflict was not there. To hear this after more than half a century of The Newlywed Game is...phase-shifting, to put it mildly. I still say it's a CIA code (and maybe nobody really remembers that utterly amazing Chuck Barris autobiography...or the arguably equally amazing Chuck Barris himself...).

I think that Bob James was originally a CTI niche more than a formula. The contrast between him and Sebesky was immediately apparent (and in my case, equally immediately not enjoyed) James was kind of a double agent, doing both Kudu and CTI. Grover was Kudu. James was CTI, but his records frequently leaned Kudu..except when they didn't. Whatever one thinks about the choices and the results, I think that objectively, the ingredients they (CTI) were throwing into the mix were far from homogenous. If Creed Taylor created the illusion that it was, that was likely his intent. And then sadly, it was no longer an illusion.

Ah, the Great Lost Steely Dan Record!

Ok...you do not have a choice. Mosaic is what, a 2-3 person shop? Somebody did what, bought it out of the box, loaded it onto the site, and never even ran a dummy order just to make the stuff worked? Sounds like they hired a kid who told them yeah, it's on there, and then all went for a nap. Not that I blame them, naps are awesome, but just how much of an absentee- landlord business is this gonna turn into?

I know that "everything going to be just fine in the end". It always is with Mosaic, I don't think they're like jazz Bob Irsays or anything like that. Still, shit don't have to be this confusing. It just don't.

The thing is...Bob James has a lot of history, a lot of tools, a lot of previous life prior to his CTI stuff. I didn't know about that until I found the ESP LPs in a bin ca. 1978 or so, after which the preconceptions had become more or less entrenched. So a piece like "Nautilus" seemed to me then - and still does, to a certain extent, like a music more of devices than of substance, not unlike a lot of TV/Film scoring. But the gradual "uncovering" of James' past got me to realize that these were not the devices of a dilettante, this guy had real skills, and he was making choices...a lot of choices, many of which involved career and marketplace. But he was positioned to make those choices and follow through on them. That in and of itself is a talent, a skill. And not just anybody can get to the place to even begin to entertain their options. So Of course, times change, experiences changes lives, and changing lives can/should lead to evolving minds, and evolving minds to evolving musics.So, you know, I don't haven't exactly ran away from hip=hop and sampling, and I start hearing some of this shit and realizing, oh, THAT'S what it is, and, wow, they heard something in that that I never heard, and they were able to build with and from it. That's pretty cool, imo, the difference between a creative band covering a tune and just being a cover band. One is extending the past, the other just copying it (for whatever reasons...). IMO, the knee-jerk shit like Yanow's is just corny, period. Nothing is that simple, except to a simple mind (or a cynical one looking for marks). Let's not give it too much credit - it's just plain corny. Stay the course on that one.