Niko

Thanks for posting! Just imagine you die and your kids release a message in the local paper that they will miss their "galactic travel guide"

Thanks, very nice series!

It's a great shop, you never know what you find, but most of the stock is priced to go and condition is rarely an issue... Got the Bechet Mosaic there a few weeks back...

His 30 best albums against anyone else's... (to paraphrase Noel Gallagher)

you have to be extremely selective with collecting that type of music if you have limited shelf space... I have collected Earl Hines in the past two years, not everything, only nice stuff that's nicely priced and the result is now in the 30-40 LP range... also Lester Young bootlegs, Jimmy Lunceford, Art Hodes, Don Ewell, some others... Sidney Bechet I got more than I need by now but still, there's so much more that can be had for, say, the price of a pack of cheese... I'm now considering starting a Basie collection but it's clear that something else will have to go before I can get into this more seriously... similar for collecting Jelly Roll Morton or Duke Ellington...

We had several fine threads about this series over the years, such as this one: there's so much great music in here, favorites include the three Lucky Thompson CDs, Barney Wilen (Jazz sur Seine), Bobby Jaspar (Modern jazz au club st.-germain), Sonny Criss, Elek Bacsik (both), Eddie Louis (Bohemia After Dark), Rhoda Scott (both), René Urtréger joue Bud Powell, Art Simmons/Ronnell Bright, Pierre Michelot Round About A Bass, Donald Byrd (both)... but there are other good ones as well, also some with more of a compilation character like Clarinettes a Saint-Germain des Pres and Saxophones a Saint-Germain des Pres ...

one more (this one actually not a bad introduction to the series, except that the prime Django is on other cds...) https://www.discogs.com/release/5337816-Various-From-Belgium-With-Love it's not a compilation of tracks, just of five albums from the series that present Belgian leaders... (and some of the boxes in jazzbo's link actually are compilations of tracks from the series, like the last one, also the third to last)

Got that Dolo Coker LP earlier this year and would have played it today (after reading the Edison interview in World of Count Basie), it's a good one

I'll remember that and buy the LP when I next see it...

that would be the first Mosaic where I could claim, that I have all five of the original albums on LP already....I like his playing a lot and bought quite a few things over the years... a favorite is Live at Dino's by the John Tirabasso Quartet with Frank Strazzeri, Putter Smith and FOster

Agreed, my copy is pretty beat-up though but it's a type of music that can handle it...

Found that LP earlier this year, a real surprise and a nice one, too

in the age of AI, wikipedia is a bit underrated, but it gives a good summary: "After leaving the jazz world he worked as a messenger in New York and dabbled in jewelry; he sold brass objects at street fairs in the 1970s. After 1983, he began practicing again and playing live on street corners; shortly before he died he played with Clifford Jordan." he plays on Play What You Feel by Clifford Jordan, recorded in 1990... iirc, the beginning of the end was the loss of his cabaret card which gave him the choice between leaving music and leaving NY... but I forgot where I read that

the music is great, wish they would have tried a bit harder with the cover design