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  1. Mosaic Records is releasing a Savory collection set

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    Yeah mine arrived yesterday. I preordered within the first few hours it was available and mine is numbered 2 thousand something which I couldn’t really care less about. I knew they didn’t go in exact order but I thought it was more in order than that. On the other hand I would love for them to have sold that many already.

    And for those who get tired of only hearing about shipping notifications: the first 3 Coleman Hawkins tunes are the only ones I’ve heard so far. I am astounded by the audio quality seeing that it’s from 1940. And each song is truly a treasure. To think how close these recordings were to being lost forever. Might take a while to get to disks 5 and 6 which are made up completely of Count Basie material - what I’ve been looking forward to the most. But so far I’m enjoying it and hope you all do too.

    Long live Mosaic!

  4. MLB 2018: let the games begin!

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    19 hours ago, ghost of miles said:

    Yankees bullpen imploding yet again. :rolleyes: Tonight it's Chad Greene against the Orioles. 

    I wouldn’t worry too much. As an Orioles fan since I was born in ‘85 (two years after their last World Series championship in ‘83), I’ve seen this happen every year. Yankees bring in the expensive big name players. They struggle a little at the beginning, then the mix between the expensive off-season signees and their always amazing farm system grown players start to gel and they end up grinding us and Tampa into the ground. I know it’s been a while since the Yankees have won the division outright, but I have a feeling my poor Orioles have squandered their last opportunity at making a real playoff push for many years to come. With the possibility of losing Machado (to the Yankees is my guess) and Jones this offseason, it’s probably going to be the better part of a decade before we might field a team that can compete.

    Don’t get me wrong, I love watching the Yankees struggle. It does my heart good. But it never lasts. 

  8. Miles Davis Bootleg Series Vol. 6

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    What's happening with this release? The Amazon price jumped to 49.98 USD in the US. I preordered it a long time ago at the lower price, but it hasn't arrived yet and the tracking says there's been a shipping delay. The 8-11 days thing seems to me to be due to more demand than there is supply, but that is pure conjecture based on no facts by me. I know that almost everyone here has had these recordings from previous releases, but personally I've never heard them. I'm excited about it but not angry about the delay. I know it will arrive eventually.

  9. Hey Kids, Have You Heard The News? MOSAIC's IN TROUBLE!!!

    in Mosaic and other box sets...

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    Well yesterday I made my pilgrimage of sorts to Stamford from Baltimore (about a 4 hour drive each way, not too bad). A great experience. Got to talk to Scott and Michael which was really nice. Turns out Scott and I are both Towson graduates which was neat to find out. He said they need more young people like me getting into the music (I’m 32, so not really all that young but hey thanks).

    I’ll also say there’s quite a bit more than what’s on the circulating list, especially in the partial sets department, so if you have the opportunity, do stop in. I ended up purchasing a copy of the Basie Clef/Verve set (amazing, listened to the first 4 discs on the drive back), the HRS sessions and an incomplete Earl Hines set. Would have bought more but cash is always tight with a young family. Scott said that this was all part of the master plan to keep the business viable and I think every single person that stopped in said they hope there’s still a long future for the company. He also said the Teddy Wilson set sounds amazing and that the preorders should be finished being shipped out next week which has already been mentioned on the board. Very excited for that one to arrive.

  11. Hey Kids, Have You Heard The News? MOSAIC's IN TROUBLE!!!

    in Mosaic and other box sets...

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    Sorry, that was me. I edited my post. Because of a private message from a member here I was unsure if Mosaic wanted the list publicly published, and the last thing I would want to do is act outside of their desire. They are my absolute favorite record label as I'm sure they are for a lot of people on this board. J.A.W. posted the link with the available products a few posts up and I know from previous posts he is very careful not to put out anything Mosaic doesn't want released. So hopefully no harm no foul.

  19. New Soul Station XRCD Blue Note - out now. Sounds great!

    in Re-issues

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    On 1/9/2017 at 11:53 AM, Dmitry said:

    Unless I'm mistaken, at this juncture, 19 titles have been released, 5 more are announced as 'preorder', and the following are oop-

    Lee Morgan - Tom Cat

    Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin'

    Tina Brooks - True Blue 

    Horace Parlan - Speakin' My Piece

     

     

    That was true at the time of the post but since then those 4 titles have come back in stock (Soul Station was out of print too but has since returned). So if you were considering purchasing a copy of one of these from a second-hand dealer for more than retail price, this might be a better option.

  22. Classic Blue Notes on SHM-CD

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    On 1/7/2017 at 4:26 PM, RPF1990 said:

    These were the titles released Sept 28: http://www.universal-music.co.jp/jazz/jazz-hyakkaten/cat/201609bluenote/ The BN Masterworks was not duplicated as such, the BN releases are part of a Universal cross-label re-issue program (CD Japan identifies this as follows:  Reissue with SHM-CD format. Comes with new liner notes. This series features the album with the following product numbers: UCCO-5551 through UCCU-5704. The site mentions Riverside, even though this re-issue 'event' covers other labels.) I 'believe' each BN title was part of the Masterworks release schedule.  

     

    The only other title I have (alongside Somethin' Else) from the Sept releases is Newk's Time and this does seem to adhere to the Masterworks sound profile as much as I can tell, also. Probably a good idea to check the the sound samples between BN 75 and the later crop of releases; I'm not really the best person to comment on sound quality, as I'm not really a sound-chaser, usually happy just to have the music, for the most part. I do see how some masters can bring music to life and can see why the chase could be fun.  I'm too lazy and poor to do this :-).  Probably, mostly the latter. 

     

    From what I've noticed this is exactly correct. I've bought about 15 of them so far. Comparing the sound to the samples of the blue note masterworks they sound the same to me. Also, they all have the bonus tracks that were only available on these editions. Not definitive proof, but compelling.

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