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had this in mind all the time, reading those posts . Jamal is a great stylist. His Digital Works and Rossiter Road -sure not his best recordings- have been the first cds I had, still at college back in 1984, a strong introduction to jazz and jazz piano made me fell in love and look for more. I'll buy this set because I never had any Argo recording. I love his Impulses, though (The Awakening, Freeflight) ; these could fit a beautiful Select, with some new material.

Hers is still one of my favorite Mosaic sets, and one I return to more often than most of the others. Greg Mo So am I, a great Mosaic work indeed. The music I discovered in that box was and is wonderful! Her segment in Jazz On A Summer's Day is just as magic as those recordings. Peter Cavolina's documentary work about Anita O'Day is very good, (I saw the Europe's Premiere in 2007, if I remember well) with some wonderful never seen -at last froom me- hystorical video footage. A work of love I hope to see finally in DVD soon

... definitely NOT, indeed

Happy Birthday mr.Rudd! Thank you for all your beautiful heartfelt music. I wish there were more, more musicians like you. "You blow this side of the horn, then sound comes out the other and disrupts the universe" (attributed to RR)

I am really not an expert of Braxton's music. It's years I really love Basel, Dortumund and some more Hat and Black Saint cds he made. A few days ago I had this Mosaic box I preordered the momenti I saw it coming. Actually I am listening a third time around the first two cds. As I expected from my aforementioned previous listening, this is thoughtful, surprising and wonderful music. Almost perfect, classic balance in "freedom" forms. Incredible musicians (have I ever heard Holland, Wheeler or Atschul so great?). I wish many Zorn's fans listen close to "old" Braxton music to get a realistic idea of what a genius and a great perfortmer is (though I appriciate musicians as Zorn too; sometimes).

1965 Live At The Trident is a wonderful trio live performance I am still very fond of. One asks himself how such a great record could be so little known... Surely I'd reccomend that trio performance (with Granelli and Haden) and 1993 Venus Jazz As Long As There's Music (B.Williams and Al Foster) as a proper introduction to Zeitlin's music. I'll be one of the early buyer of this Mosaic Select, though.

This is mine. I had in Japan some years ago this very "obscure" Live At The Trident. A gem, an awesome live performance. Charlie Haden and Jerry Granelli are great interacting by themselves and with Zeitlin's oblique playing; the sound is very good too.

Hey sidewinder, I saw this one myself and was more than a bit curious, but I had just purchased the Fresh Sounds 2 cd set and wasn't sure it would be up to the same standard, is it? Cliff - I don't know the Fresh Sounds Shihab set but can vouch that this one is top notch Shihab. Up to the best standard of sessions like 'Seeds' and 'Companionship' and the work with CBBB etc. I don't have the CD but I have one of those Oktav Japanese facsimile LPs, which sounds fantastic. Recommend that next time this comes in at Dusty, press the trigger marked 'fire' . I think the fact that it has at least one (???), vocal track on it was putting me off, oh yeah, that and the price. I think it was nearly €20 or something like that. After years adoring Shihab's very singing on his tune "Please Don't Leave" in a CBBB record, I think I had this CD also because of it. Instrumentalists can be greatly expressive singers, sometimes.

Indeed. This and Sentiments are great. I had both by Amazon.com at a really good price. I am really fond of Seeds and Live at The Montmartre on Black Lion too, maybe more. Shihab made some really wonderful records. I started to understand and love his smooth, strong musicianship in CBBB records. What an underrated musician.

The charges to retailers for using Paypal are higher than for many other forms of financial transactions so I guess they're just trying to protect their margins. Although some of their e-mails are not terrible 'user friendly', I've always found them very helpful and they do stock some very 'hard-to-find'' releases. Indeed, not very friendly nor sophisticated. Once I ordered some cds, payed with their KeptPrivate service. After some two months waiting I asked some notice about them, wether they'd send them again. They replied stiffly that in "a corrupt country as Italy is" -I live there- they cannot be blamed if mail does not work... :-((( CDS arrived later, anyway. I forgave'm recently and buyied Blue Notes cd box, which arrived in two dry weeks. This made me very pround to give them a a thank and a confirm that mafia business does not still destroys Italian mail completely, after all. In NY they have a dark and little store full of wonderful stuff; many CDR long OOP -if ever available- sold directly by the artists (I had many cds, some Threadgill rare stuff).

Thank you GoM. Great work; I love reading musician interviews such this

I totally agree Guy. I listened a thousand times to Air Lore (1979, I love that record), where Threadgill plays mainly tenor sax. The match with Rollins always came natural to my mind. Another easy consideration that makes him "close" to Rollins somehow is that Threadgill is an absolute, deep Master in his own way. He's surely not considered enough in his artistic rilevance as a performer and composer.

Well said JSngry! Hope someone not knowing the group will be pushed to learn more about Air with your -deserved- enthusiasm

I am deeply sorry for this sad new Mikeweil. Thank you for your words I completely agree. I love the albums with Tabakin I have of her. She was a very personal, dedicated and skillfull singer. "Listen Here" or "The Sweetest Sound"or "Mood Swings" are well worth an AOTW thread as vocal jazz cds, in my opinion. I ordered her last recording and miss the choice to hear again new Carla's music or to see her performing live

Did you know? In Hampton Hawes' autobiography "Rise Up Off Me", the pianist remembers the wild days spent under the army in Japan, late '40s. He tells he has met Toshiko and uses anthusiastic words for her Bud Powell influenced piano playing and her already deep skills as a jazz player. I love her '70s Big Band recordings with Tabakin, a little more every time I listen to some of them. I wish Mosaic was planning a big fat box of these records -someone close to Cuscuna listening?! I'd be one of the first very happy buyers!

Guy, you should give a close listen to Roswell's music. He's a real giant. Check out the few Lacy/Rudd recordings, the ones with Shepp, his group with Enrico Rava, his interpretations of Nichols and Monk (I'd remember that terrific Allen Lowe record too). I absolutely admire him, and I discovered him with the first cd edition of Four For Trane -still one of the most loved jazz record in my collection.

That's a great cd for sure, with an unusual bright, warm sound for 1956. Pepper Adams is a treat to listen, here, as Kenny Burrell. A pretty different sounding Van Gelder work -I thought it wasn't his sound, comparing with the usual Blue Note work. Some of my favourite Clarke ever

If you want to go a little deeper, some of the best writing about jazz I ever red is "Free Jazz" by Ekkehard Jost, a book reprinted many times from his first publishing in 1971. Talks about many Impulse! artists (Coltrane, Shepp, Sun Ra, Ayler, Mingus etc.). A deep and thoughtful work. Another really great book is Bill Evans' byography "How My Heart Sings", which now I cannot remember the writer. These two classic books are made by professional musicians, pretty gifted in writing and heartly involved in their subject. Bye

:-D Nice point Dmitry. I'm a pround BOX owner too. Never seen anything musical more lasting -jet oxidable, must be said- than THE BOX.

Agree, these are very important records, music I'm listening to from the '80s without any bore. I think another landmark in Bley's music is his contribution in the Sonny Rollins group (early '60 RCA years) that produced the epocal "Sonny Meets Hawk". That Charlie Haden Montreal Tapes cd dedicated to the Bley/Haden/Motian is magical music for me (and magical live captured sound).

I recently had the Jazz Icons box set, and I have been greatly deighted too discovering that video footage... A real "new" gem. Dizzy seemed to enjoy plaiyng with the Clarke/Boland band pretty much. In the past ten years I had all the CBBB cds I could find, the small combo being generally my favourite ones (like the awesome Rearward/Schema compilation "Sahib Shihab And All Those Cats", often confused with the baritonist's "Seeds" session but indeed much longer and different). I'll be one of the very first to buy a forthcoming box set for sure.

Mosaic booklet speculate 1903- 1951 life span for Mildred Bailey...

True about the "stamp of Roach" thing, (...) Whatever the case, Roach-Lincoln were a startlingly powerful team in those days, and I think it really came out where the sides were as violently aggressive as could match that power (some, but not all, of Straight Ahead).

Agree. There's a video with an early '70 -likely- live version of "I Say A Little Prayer" I dowloaded, where Kirk and his group play this pop tune with the kind of intensity they were playing A Love Supreme -another prayer, indeed. I am enlighted by this matching of Kirk with Booker Ervin. True; great tenors, great players both