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They also got all the recent Blue Note RVGs for €6.99 each.

Am I the only one who's quite annoyed with some Savoy reissues? I don't like owning a CD and knowing that there's a track from those sessions missing - and that's what is the case with quite a few of those Savoy CDs. Take The Birth of Hard Bop - a compilation of Hank Mobley's Jazz Message albums and the Introducing Lee Morgan date. Includes several alternate tracks but omits the Ballad Medley - WTF?! Other cases: Donald Byrd - Byrd's Word omits If I Love Again. John Jenkins/Donald Byrd - Jazz Eyes omits Darn That Dream. Sonny Red(d)/Art Pepper - Two Altos omits Stop (which is available on the useless compilation CD Jazz is Busting Out All Over). Frank Wess - Opus de Swing is the same as Monday Stroll sans two tracks. Of course these days Monday Stroll is a lot harder to find than the other CD. And those discs are usually 45 minutes long at best!

And duplicate Alice' two tracks? Naw ..... Why not? After all they just did worse than that and reissued Archie Shepp's Kwanza, half of which had already been released as bonus tracks on another Impulse reissue.

I didn't realize there were no more volunteers listed for AotW nominations. I'd gladly pick an album again anytime, let's just hope I'm not the only one. One of the reasons why I picked it!

They could just release it as an extended version of Cosmic Music.

Yeah, that's the session that I'm also waiting for. What's up with that? They included the tracks without Coltrane on a reissued Alice Coltrane album but never bothered to release the Coltrane tracks with the rest of that session.

Outback was reissued just recently in Japan. The old US edition is very hard to find these days, same goes for Joe Farrell Quartet (which I LOVE, btw). If I hadn't bought both of these just a few months ago I'd be all over this combo.

I heard from their producer that they have some Joe Farrell stuff coming up, probably a two-fer including Joe Farrell Quartet and Outback on one disc. I applauded him for that idea and suggested they issue the three Farrell albums that were never issued on CD on two discs re-arranged by session. There's also quite a bit of George Benson stuff that'll be reissued. Nothing groundbreaking for the start, but then some of those albums are pretty hard to find. I'll be happy to buy his CTI live album in a few weeks.

I don't need Gazelle, I have it both from eMusic and on the Henderson Milestone Years box I bought last month. It's just that I find it funny that they'd leave off the one track that Keepnews praised in particular as being strong enough to be the lead-off track for the second album from those sessions (that was supposedly planned all along, so these weren't just leftovers).

I'm still loving the album. Highly recommended! You check out some AWESOME live footage of the quartet here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYBRfi_t3FA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBWxZAR_MsY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPdYt3v5pMo

I just came across a session that I'd like to see reissued as an RVG with the additional track (that's not on the TOCJ disc): Thad Jones Sextet Thad Jones (tp) Benny Powell (tb) Gigi Gryce (as) Tommy Flanagan (p) George Duvivier (b) Elvin Jones (d) Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, February 2, 1957 tk.5 Slipped Around Blue Note BLP 1546 tk.6 Going Off Stage Mosaic MQ5-172 tk.9 Let's Blue Note BLP 1546 tk.10 Ill Wind - tk.14 Thadrack - * The Magnificent Thad Jones, Vol. 3 (Blue Note BLP 1546) * The Complete Blue Note/United Artists/Roulette Recordings Of Thad Jones (Mosaic MQ5-172, MD3-172) I really like Detroit - New York Junction and this is the last Thad Jones BN that hasn't come out in the US and Europe yet. Would be great to see an RVG of this as that bonus track has only been issued as part of the Mosaic set.

Since there are no future AOTW posters announced right now I figured I'd just go ahead and suggest an album myself. Yes, just like that! Freddie Hubbard Quintet Freddie Hubbard (tp) Tina Brooks (ts) McCoy Tyner (p) Sam Jones (b) Clifford Jarvis (d) Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, June 19, 1960 1. Open Sesame 2. But Beautiful 3. Gypsy Blue 4. All Or Nothing At All 5. One Mint Julep 6. Hub's Nub 7. Open Sesame (alternate take) 8. Gypsy Blue (alternate take) None of Freddie Hubbard's albums have been named Album of the Week before and his debut album is still one of my favorites. This is the album that turned me onto Tina Brooks who not only contributed many fine solos but more importantly two excellent tunes that really impressed me the first time I heard them. Alfred Lion must've though the same as Brooks, Hubbard and Sam Jones were back in the studio just six days later recording True Blue - a Tina Brooks album that would actually be issued for once. This must've been recorded right around the time that McCoy Tyner joined Coltrane's quartet, just a few months after his stint with the Farmer/ Golson Jazztet. For me it's always interesting to hear him at this time.

RVG in 2009.

Is it 2008 yet? Just ordered the original Savoy set from the US. I don't know how I could have overlooked this material for so long.

The book I was talking about is titled Producing Jazz: The Experience of an Independent Record Company by Herman Gray http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...F8&v=glance

You got that right, they issued them back in the days. They didn't REissue them recently though.

Listened to the quintet session from the Coltrane Prestige box set yesterday, good stuff. I'll be getting this Savoy set soon, thanks for resurrecting this thread.

How's the Eric Alexander stuff on Delmark? I like his Milestone albums quite a bit...

Those Japanese releases are mostly 50s and 60s sessions though...

You certainly won't regret getting the Mobley set. It was my first Mosaic set and it's still one of my favorites (grabbed quite a few Select and "regular" Mosaic sets since). I'm glad that by now the only still available big set on my want list is the Max Roach box, it's really the number of interesting Select sets that is the problem for me.

I just realized that I have EIGHT Mosaic Select sets on my shopping list for the upcoming months. How dare they put out so much great music? Don't they ever think of my financial situation?!

I guess that depends on how well the Mosaic Select box does. It has certainly renewed interest in the live set for now.

There is a book about Theresa Records that I've been meaning to get for quite some time, maybe someone else can comment on it (and mention the title which escapes me right now).

Thanks! First time listening to this show, very nice indeed. The Hutcherson set is on my Mosaic wish list, I'm just waiting for a good time to spend around $300... - cause that's how much I'll probably end up paying for all the Mosaic stuff I want!