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@Mark Stryker You are correct. I do enjoy listening to this band play this music. They maximize the art and minimize the cleverness (surely as much as possible). Especially dig the cello playing. And the intro to the "Dissonance" quartet is damn near otherworldly!

Benches? Junkies? Shades of the Sonny Rollins bio!!!

But you're certain that this is Thad & Mel, together? Just asking because of the ensemble sound, it sounds different to me.

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.