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Which reminds me of something more recent - are the liner notes in the US edition of Charles Earland's Black Talk RVG complete? All the copies I've seen on sale in Germany cut the notes off in mid-sentence.

No surprise there as far fewer vinyl sets were made available to start with (if I remember correctly).

It would be nice to see Mosaic pick up the Lou Donaldson Argo/Cadet box that Verve was working on. I doubt they're still planning to go ahead with that project after the recent changes.

It's not a Mosaic set but this is just insane: Tony Williams - Tokyo Live 2CD set for $88!!

I'd buy a Mosaic Single of that without thinking twice!

Those were issued along with the other Congo Lament tracks as "Easy Living" unless I'm confusing some things here.

Speaking of "lost" Ike Quebec sessions, I wonder why the two good tracks from this session didn't make the "Complete 45 sessions" two-fer. Was it just lack of space? I don't have that "Complete" 2CD set yet so I wouldn't know the running times. Ike Quebec (ts) Edwin Swanston (org) Clifton "Skeeter" Best (g) Charles "Sonny" Wellesley (b) Les Jenkins (d) Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, July 20, 1959 tk.8 Uptight Blue Note (J) TOCJ 66083 tk.12 Cry Me A River - Latin Strain (inc.) rejected * Ike Quebec - From Hackensack To Englewood (Blue Note (J) TOCJ 66083)

Finally got Blue John and Blue Mode. Awesome! Also ordered Fred Jackson's Hootin' 'n Tootin' (the US Conn edition with the additional session). It won't be long before I own ALL the stuff mentioned in this thread.

Ike Quebec Quintet Ike Quebec (ts) Freddie Roach (org) Grant Green (g) Butch Warren (b) Wilbert Hogan (d) Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, May 25, 1962 Sonny Boy Blue Note rejected Take Your Shoes Off - Cop 'N Blo - Early Morning Shuffle - Travelin' - Born To Be Blue - Throwing A Brick - Ike Quebec Quintet Ike Quebec (ts) Freddie Roach (org) Grant Green (g) Butch Warren (b) Wilbert Hogan (d) Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, June 1, 1962 tk.8 Take Your Shoes Off Blue Note rejected tk.13 Cop 'N Blo - tk.20 Sonny Boy - tk.32 Throwing A Brick - tk.40 Early Morning Shuffle - tk.44 Travelin' - Almost identical song selection, so someone obviously wasn't satisfied with the first session. It's interesting that despite that the band didn't change at all between the two recording dates. I wonder if this might become a Connoisseur disc in the future...

I don't see the advantage. If you truly can't stand hearing those two sessions back to back you could just buy two CD-Rs and split them up. I wouldn't want to wait even longer for the other session to be released and pay twice as much.

The CD "Introducing Duke Pearson's Big Band" includes 6 of the 9 tracks from Now Hear This. They omitted Amanda, Dad Digs Mom and I'm Tired of Cryin' Over You, about 10 minutes of material. I don't have the Duke Pearson Mosaic Select (yet), but wouldn't there have been enough space left on those three discs to include those omitted tracks?

That's what I expect at least - I can't imagine them not including the whole New Time Shuffle LP and it seems logical to include both complete sessions on one disc (they'd fit). This would be a good chance to release the June 9th and July 28th material as well, which would make this a double disc release. If they were going to do that, there might be enough space left to include all of The Look of Love and thus have all the remaining Turrentine/Pearson material compiled on one 2CD set. I can dream, eh?

Would this fit on one CD along with Braith's other Prestige album Musart?

Any news on the reissues of Paper Man and the two big band albums?

I'm guessing that they changed the title for a reason, that reason probably being the fact that they will include more of the Pearson-scored Turrentine sessions from that time - who knows, it might even be a two-disc set with all of their collaborations that haven't yet been released on CD. We'll find out soon enough.

Damn! Too bad they didn't try the material again with a different drummer later on. Thanks for the information!

Just stumbled over this discography entry: Jackie McLean Sextet Woody Shaw (tp) Jackie McLean (as) Tyrone Washington (ts) Bobby Hutcherson (vib) Scott Holt (b) Norman Connors (d) Plaza Sound Studios, NYC, July 5, 1968 3054 In Case You Haven't Heard Blue Note rejected 3055 Hymn To Rap - 3056 One For Jeru - 3057 Kupenda - 3058 Abrasion - Why has this session remained unissued until today? The lineup sounds very interesting IMO!

Seeing how the upcoming Stanley Turrentine Connoisseur release is titled Blues for Del it seems probable that this session will be included.

Am I missing some kind of irony here? It's still easily available from Warner - since 1988...

It seems George Benson's Good King Bad will be among the first Mosaic Contemporary releases in early April. That's great as I've been trying to hunt down an affordable copy of the 1989 CD edition for quite some time! Let's hope they also release some of the CTI stuff that's never been on CD!

Allmusic.com and several other websites mention the existence of this: I can't find a single online store that offers it though. Does it really exist? This would be a good two-for-one deal for me since I don't have White Rabbit yet and Good King Bad is somewhat hard to find cheap these days.

Time to dig up an ancient thread once again since I'm buying tons of organ albums these days... After reading this I ordered a copy of this OOP disc for ten Euros (lucky me!). I really like Reuben Wilson's Love Bug - is this really that much better? I would've ordered this one as well if it wasn't so hard to find for a decent price. Gotta keep looking... Both of those are on the way to me right now! I want that Baby Face Willette Select that the Mosaic guys hinted at sooo bad... The only album he plays on that I own is Lou Donaldson's Here 'Tis which I love.

I had both for a while and solid the "Complete" set - the Birdland RVG discs sound MUCH better.

I got the CD yesterday and have listened to it a few times now. It's pretty cool, that's for sure. Less accessible than her recent material, but that might me a good thing in the long run. Some of it is bordering on prog rock, especially the opening track. Starts out with a fast odd-metered piano run, then the band enters with a similar but muuuuch slower riff against that with the guitar then doubling the fast piano thing before the next part kicks in. Cool! Fuze fits right in, really a good combination. I think it's interesting that some tracks are less busy than was the norm with Hiromi's trio - despite the extra voice. There are some great groovy sections, too. I haven't really made up my mind yet, but it's certainly worth getting and offers quite a bit of variation. This might even be a future classic - I definitely want to keep listening for now! Oh yeah, the bonus track has too much of a loose jam feel for me. It's not bad , but I don't think it's essential. So no need to get the import unless you really can't wait any longer. The other tracks (other than the "Time's Up" joke) are all worthy additions to Hiromi's discography and should be great fun in a live setting. I heard that they've planned some live gigs with this quartet for the summer - should be good!

According to jazzdisco.org there are only three titles from the Smalls' Paradise session that remain unissued, alternate takes of Lover Man and Indiana plus one take of Rhapsody In Blue.