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And in the *really* old days, occasional journeys to Rose Discount Records in Chicago, with all its LPs numerically arranged by LABEL (and little Schwann catalogs all over the place) and an upstairs floor completely given over to cutouts. The days of my youth! greg mo

Mosaic often reissues labels in batches. In the past there have been batches of Pacific Jazz's, Verves, Roulettes, Capitols, and now Columbias. Blue Note has been a constant, but that surely owes to Cuscuna's long-time association with that label. I imagine this "batching" owes to many factors--personal associations of Mosaic people with individuals at the labels in question, discoveries of one set of recordings when they're searching for others, the ease of negotiating a second, third, or fourth contract once you've gone to the trouble of negotiating a first, or maybe just to a concerted effort to explore labels one at a time. I was happy to hear about the possibility of a live Akiyoshi-Tabackin set. I'm listening to the first disc of the new select as I write this! greg mo

Even without the additions posted after it, this is a very sobering list. greg mo

Nah...Basie-like in his simplicity and economy of notes! greg mo

Bobby Jaspar played some very fine jazz flute, but like others, I love Frank Wess and Sam Most. Wish more of the latter's work for Xanadu was available on cd. greg mo

Complete Jackie McLean Quartet Quintet Sextet Sessions, disc 2. greg mo

Ouch--this one is hard! Basie Live Roulette set (though I love the studio stuff too) Teagarden Capitol set Anita O'Day (though I do love the Herman Phillips Select--sorry Lon!) Greg Mo Fascinating how many lists the O'Day set made.

Hers is still one of my favorite Mosaic sets, and one I return to more often than most of the others. Greg Mo

It may have been mentioned SOMEWHERE on this thread already, but another thing I like about this series is the cover photos, which tend to be great. The one above is a perfect example. An non-musical consideration admittedly, but a nice extra in my book. Actually, I think that has been remarked on, but it bears repeating--the photos are cool, and the remastering is generally very good, even if the timings on some of the cds are pretty stingy, and available bonus tracks weren't always reissued. I'm thinking maybe this new Grappelli single (The Nearness of You) might be a "one-off" like the Django Reinhardt "Place de Brouckere" was. That one also followed the issuing of a box set collecting prior issues by Reinhardt in the series and one disc of new stuff. Interestingly, *that* one was followed by another ten or so volumes in the series, so I guess hope springs eternal! It's a very cool series. Greg Mo

Apologies if I missed it in this rather long but interesting thread, but has anyone mentioned here the sessions he made with, of all people, the Dukes of Dixieland? I was really surprised when I got hold of those fairly recently just how well he played on those, and the sound was outstanding. I think these recordings were discussed (by me, probably!) in another thread, but I think they merit mention in discussions of the great trumpeter's late work. Greg Mo

The first six discs are direct re-releases (no bonus tracks) of six volumes in the series: Oscar Peterson/Stephane Grappelli Quartet, vol. 1 Oscar Peterson/Stephane Grappelli Quartet, vol. 2 Stephane Grappelli, Improvisations Stephane Grappelli Plays Cole Porter Stephane Grappelli and Stuff Smith, Stuff and Steff Stephane Grappelli, Django The seventh one, however, is new. AMG now lists a 2008 release in the Jazz in Paris by Grappelli titled "The Nearness of You" which includes all these tracks. My understanding was that Gitanes had decided to end the series, but this one suggests not. Does anyone know of any other new releases in the series this year?! It's a great series, and I've tried to make sure I have all of them. Greg Mo

Art Tatum's "Tatum Art" on Storyville, disc 2. Some very fine Tatum on this set! Pretty good sound too. Greg Mo

I'm giving it to myself for Christmas, along with the Peterson, and maybe the Braxton sets. Still struggling with whether to get that last one. Greg Mo

A complete set of the Shorty Rogers Victors would be nice. Greg Mo

I wish they'd gone the end-of-the-disc route. According to the blurb accompanying the announcement, that's precisely what they did do, so enjoy! Greg Mo

I can't find it right now, but it seems like we had a thread on this a year or so ago comparing the Collector-Choice with the Columbia (2-disc) set, didn't we? I'd assume that Russell Connor's BG on the Record: A Bio-Discography of Benny Goodman would have the information. You can get it pretty cheap from Amazon. Greg Mo

Sinatra's version for Capitol. Greg Mo

Love the duets with Buddy Defranco. Very fine pianist. Greg Mo

Absolutely. Yes, this represents the Board at its absolute best: earnest questions respectfully asked and respectfully answered. It's the reason I love to read it. Well, that and some of the MOST obscure--but crazy wonderful--discographical arcana available anywhere!! Greg Mo

It's comforting somehow to know I'm not the only one who does that now and then! Greg Mo

What?! You mean, you don't trust Wynton? Greg Mo

And even though we all like to diss Mel Torme (I plead guilty!), I do like some of the things Shearing and Torme did together for Concord. Greg Mo

Sorry, I didn't see this response till now. I'll definitely look into it, and many thanks! Greg Mo

The crazy completist in me wishes he could have both the original cover art AND the original liners. Especially in the case of the latter, those are sometimes both insightful and interesting. That said, I understand and accept that Mosaic probably couldn't afford to put out nearly as many sets as it does if it had to license that material AND print it in color, especially in large format. As for the O.P. box, I'll end up getting it. Just haven't yet. I wonder if Mosaic didn't issue it in part to make a bit more money. O.P. is a more popular artist than some, and maybe he could help the bottom line? I'm not dissing the music, by the way. I'm looking forward to hearing it. In that vein, perhaps someone who has it could offer us a review? Greg Mo

Smoking? Me? Who? What were we talking about? Does anybody have some chips? You're right, Lon, a lot of the Decca stuff was issued on LP, though often in those dreadful artificial stereo LPs in the old Decca Jazz Heritage series, and often not in any very systematic way. Not that I don't love the music...but the sound.... I think I'm actually more concerned about the Coral 50s stuff, but like I said, that's another thread. About the only guy I know on the inside fighting for reissue of Chicago-jazz-style stuff in any coordinated, logical way is Scott Wenzel at Mosaic. Thank God for him! I wasn't familiar with Buck, though. I'll check that out! Greg Mo