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I'm taking the same policy about record stores that I am everything else - wait and see. I figure we'll have a good picture of what's happening 4-6 weeks after "opening up". If it looks safe enough that a mask and stuff is a pretty sure safe bet, I'll get out there and resume the hunting. But if things are getting spiky again....no.

And that brings us back full-circle to the original liner notes for the Woody In The Beginning LP, which does refer to the material as "demos" (although kinda avoiding the issue of who made them to begin with). No mention of an actual; contract anywhere, correct? Like you, I wonder who else was in that mix? Or, for that matter, how many other demo sessions were made for/by Blue Note, period, intended for some kind of iissue or not.

I did reach out to Scott yesterday. To his total credit, he reached back out, identified the issues with my order and made it right. One of the issues was really pretty funny, really - my card # had auto populated with a correct card #, but with an expiration date from a previous iteration - the auto-populate expiration date was the end of April, and my order was placed the afternoon of the last day of April. By the time they ran the card as submitted (whenever that was), it had already expired as submitted! That's a lesson for me, never assume that everything is going to auto-populate correctly (and time again to consider changing banks, as this one has dome some really wonky things with reissuing cards for various reasons at various times, but that's another story altogether...they too always make it right, but they don't always have an immediately credible explanation at hand...) Scott didn't make excuses, just identified all the issues and offered an exact remediation of the issue, which he then followed thorough on, as/when promised. Not necessarily my Plan A of a business model (nor, I'm sure, his), but lord knows, I've been living on Plans B-Z for as long I I can remember Lincoln being on the penny, so....I get it. And as a Plan B, in both conception and execution, this one was pretty damn good! So thank you, Scott! Full props here.

I love her, but at this point in time, the only set I would consider buying from Mosaic about her would be like if they came across a buttload full of unissued Bet-Car stuff.

I seem to recall Larry playing golf with Ken Nordine? Or, to be accurate, an anecdote about same?

Y'all need it to last for more than one use?

A name you appear to be fortunate to know, and one that I have just gotten to know as of this exchange! Any way to get the entire list, if only by link? Indeed. I can certainly hear what was probably then considered allusions to Wagner in the harmony, but looking forward...there's Webern in the concision, a little bit of Monk, and a little bit of Wayne...so may great minds getting to the same type of place in their own ways/times....

Yeah, especially when you don't take care of something as simple as having a common database between the two shops. It needn't be complicated and it needn't be expensive. I'm not making excuses for these guys anymore. The lack of basic - basic - technological and communication skills has them jumping the shark for me.

25 is a bit high for me? It's in my top 10(ish). Not Top 5, though. I'm with you on Point Of No Return, though, that one is quite good, and seemingly woefully underrated. Stordahl creates a nifty parallel universe for a Capital Sinatra World that is meatier than Jenkins, softer-edged than Riddle, and Billy May not even in the equation (thankfully). That's one of those things that is easy to yawn on unless/untill you start paying attenttion to the detais, and then it's like oh, yeah. really?

Not helpful. "Helpful". Reactive, always. It's just a different game now. The fact that I place an order, get an order #, and then have nowhere to go look at it anywhere is just...ugh. So where is that order # stored, and what is it used for then? It'll get here when it gets here, or maybe not. Can't complain if it's not billed, and, you know, I have already heard a lot of Paul Desmond, so if I don't get to hear this bit more, hey, won't be my fault or my concern, really, as far as that goes. All I know is that when it comes to Mosaic, I'm now back into the "it was fun while it lasted" camp...happy 20th Century, I guess.

Who is that on 312/313? Pretty..non-literal!

I think they're better, actually. Obviously not as obviously brilliant, but...they're perfect for the set. Sacrilege time - I think that Wee Small Hours is an immature record for Sinatra, all things considered. I mean, I get it, but it sounds immature emotionally to me, like he's still "acting" the songs rather than getting the all the way out of the gut like he later would. It's Only The Lonely for people who find Only The Lonely too dark. That would not be me. Swingin' Affair is fine, of course, but Sinatra "swinging" is always going to come with qualifications of one kind or another. Sinatra singing ballads will not.

Do you know if he got paid good bread for the Baja Marimba Band gig?

Hey yeah, I got a shipping notice and a price reduction notice!

That is the concept! Riddle's just fine here, imo. Footballs, yeah, but, so? It works with those tempos and those songs, and it totally is in sync with the concept. If it's Joe Comfort on bass, his time, his pocket, is exactly where it needs to be for those tempos (and those "in-between" tempos are the toughest, always). This record has a pocket! I think it's a great album, really, or if you don't want to do great, then unique. It's Sinatra at the peak of his vocal prowess, with absolutely zero angst, bluster, or brashness. It is nice, it is easy, and against possibly all (and at least some) odds, it's musically and emotionally rich because of that, not in spite of it.

If I don't know what you look like, how would I know it was you? Serious question. I just loaded the site up, rewound back as far as it would go (12 hours from wherever it begins?) and am just going to let it play i(in the foreground or in the background, wherever I am at any given moment) until it stops. It raises an interesting question, though. Why does it look like everybody's reading this (or are every time I stop to look)? Does nobody know it well enough to just sit down and play it? Or is that part of the concept?

Yeah, unless there's like, only 100 actual copies ready to actually ship? I mean, I ordered within hours of getting the email, literally, hours, like 3-4 hours. And I got an order confirmation, with an order #. And then the next they said, don't worry, everybody who ordered yesterday (one of whom would be me), your order is going to be shipped, don't worry, it'll be on the way tout suite. And since then, nothing. No bill, no further notices, nothing. I would call, but I've gave up on that, when, last year? I guess having some kind of central record that cross-references order # with shipping status, and then sending out a bulk email to the people whose orders are still pending shipping but who are thinking, on the basis of public pronouncements, they shouldn't be...I guess that's asking too much in 2020? I mean, I want to hear this set, but the only reason I jumped like I did was because my previous experience with the Mobley was, like, old-school Mosaic in every way. THIS nonsense...I'll be in no hurry to order anything from them going forth, unless it's that Bill Barron set. And even then....

Some of what filmed? Newport NY? Left Bank? None that I know of, but I wouldn't be a deep source on that, sorry? I found the link, how does one go about listening ? Jam session, group 2 (Dizzy Gillespie, Jon Faddis, Art Blakey, Curtis Fuller, Larry Ridley, Hank Mobley, Joe Farrell, Stan Getz, Cecil Payne, Barry Harris, John Blair). https://star1.loc.gov/cgi-bin/starfinder/13967/sonic.txt

https://www.buoncompleannosatie.it/ and/or

But look, timmy, it's on a reel!

To where, Iowa (or wherever she was from)? Happy Birthday, and don't relocate anytime soon, ok?