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Do you need a quad player or can you do it via surround sound on your blu ray player?
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1 hour ago, felser said:
Mosaic contents + 2 additional tracks. 1/5 the price.
What are the two additional tracks and are they available separately? (I know that may be answered somewhere in this thread but-- as is often the case-- I'm getting confused.)
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I try to listen to every new cd I buy at least twice before shelving it. Nowadays I often listen to a cd I've just bought via streaming services while I work out (stationary bike) at the Y while listening through over the ear head phones which I've learned to love.
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15 hours ago, felser said:
Not ideal, but full album is available on youtube.
Thanks! (I never think of looking there.)
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I see the Lp for sale on Discogs but I no longer have a turntable. According to "And Did Those Feet.." , which makes it sound very interesting, no cd of "In the Public Interest" was ever released. Does anyone know of a downloadable or streaming version? (I guess I could buy an Lp and try to get it digitized. I used to be able to do that myself back when I still had access to a turntable.)
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On 12/1/2023 at 9:42 AM, HutchFan said:
Any initial impressions that you'd care to share about the music or book, @sidewinder?
I'm very tempted to order it.
This is re: Did These Feet: I like most of the music on the cds but the sound seems "thin" to me (sort of low-fi) maybe because it was all recorded for radio several decades ago. The book is very informative though I didn't really need to know the politics of each musician and didn't Whitney Balliett not Martin Williams coin the term "the sound of surprise"?
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10 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:
Duke Ellington's "Old Man Blues" from August 26, 1930.
Featured in the film "Check and Double Check". A great tune.
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On 10/29/2023 at 9:53 AM, Dan Gould said:
But on the other hand I was excited to read this:
The Savoy and National sessions which are owned by the Concord Music Group
Hasn't it been said before "that's owned by Concord now and they won't deal with Mosaic"? If that is changing ...
I've heard from a reliable source that a Vanguard package is in the works.
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IS that a deadline to sign up or to submit a song?
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10 minutes ago, hbbfam said:
Has anyone found this available as a download?
Went to their website, think it will be tomorrow.
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Me too. (Gonna be hard to pick the track).
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That was the first Mosaic box I ever bought. IIRC it was one of their first cd boxes.
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18 minutes ago, sgcim said:
The kid was born in 1944. In a later interview in the 90's he describes himself as the poster child for Ritalin.
I used to see the Collins Kids on tv a lot in the '50s.
23 hours ago, mikeweil said:IMHO Guitar Forms would have been a top notch album if they had done all of the tracks with Evans. The combo tracks do not live up to that standard.
Just my two cents, of course.
Ditto. However if they waited for Gil to do 4 more arrangements we might still be waiting.
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4 hours ago, mikeweil said:
I'm not surprised, as Herbie Mann was one of the first to really get the Brazilian feel, much better than Getz or most others. A compilation with all of Mann's versions of Brazilian tunes would be great. "One Note Samba was originally issued twice, one a Mann LP and on an album with half Joao Gilberto's first bosssa nova tunes, licensed from Odeon in Brazil.
An earlier version was on a United Artists LP:
Never heard the Shank LP, btw.
The article is referring to the Mommas and Poppas version on which he takes the flute solo. And it might be claimed that Shank had the first Bossa Nova Lp with Brazilliance which he did with Laurendo Almeida in 1953. (Excuse the probably spelling mistakes.)
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Maybe everybody but me already knew this, but.. Yesterday in response to Andre 2000's new flute album, the LA Times listed what their reviewer called the best "flute-y classics". Number three was California Dreaming of which he wrote "It gets a lot of its witchy allure from Bud Shanks alto flute solo which he reportedly improvised in one take. "
And BTW In the number 1 spot, beating out The Beatles, The Beastie Boys and even Lizzo, was Herbie Mann's "One Note Samba".
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On 11/16/2023 at 8:33 AM, mjzee said:
Upon reflection, this is a very cold anecdote and doesn't reflect well on Steely Dan. They're fabulously wealthy, yet can't empathize with Tariq and Gunz's bad fortune. At some point, SD should have nullified the contract and kicked back some money to T & G. Especially considering that, unless SD wrote every note that Sample played, Sample probably had some compositional input too.
People who make a lot of money almost never think they have enough.
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I heard that about 60 years ago but not sure it was more than a rumour. Sounds like Waller, but McHugh and Fields were no slouches either.
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Have the other numbers with Ellington in the film ever been release on cd? (Hesitation Blues, Troubled Waters etc.)
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After you've played through a chosen album on Spotify it will continue playing random songs in the genre of the album. It's often led me to interesting music I've never heard before . Yesterday at the gym I was listening to Mile's Davis' '57 Amsterdam concert (sounded like a needle drop) after which I got cuts from Ellington's Blues in Orbit, Charle's Lloyd's Of Course, Of Course, Horace Silver's Sabu, Gil Melle's New Faces, Bird's Nows the Time, Bobby Hutcherson's Candy, The Duke Plays Ellington, Sonny with the MJQ (Prestige), The Peaceful Side of Billy Strayhorn, Gil Melle again, but then Eric Dolphy's The Illinois Concert with Something Sweet, Something Tender seemingly segueing into Trane's You Don't Know What Love Is.
The latter two played so perfectly together that I began to wonder if some hip jazz dj had done the programming. I've always presumed that it was done by an algorithm or AI but now I wonder. (BTW If you play the same album at another time it will be followed by the same songs.)Anyone know how this is done?
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10 hours ago, felser said:
Saw him with Beaver Harris, Dave Burrell, Cameron Brown, and Charles Majid Greenlea at the Empty Foxhole Cafe in mid-70's. Unforgettable, especially "African Drum Suite". Harris was a monster live.
I saw him with Beaver Harris shortly after the release of Momma Too Tight and remember thinking that this drummer could make a 50 piece brass band swing.
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Just because no one's mentioned it.
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8 hours ago, Big Beat Steve said:
The (mostly John Hammond-produced) 50s mainstream sessions on Vanguard? There were at least two major reissue series that I personally found comparatively sensibly programmed and packaged.
Example:
https://www.discogs.com/release/7100734-Vic-Dickenson-Vic-Dickenson-Septet
This was a UK reissue but came with various covers and countries of origin (see listing under the above link) and was re-reissued not long after in the UK in the Vogue Jazz Double series distributed by Pye :
https://www.discogs.com/release/4045920-Vic-Dickenson-The-Essential-Vic-DickensonThis BTW was one of the blatant cases of totally different covers and artwork where a buyer too far from home to check (like me ) can be lured into thinking he doesn't own it yet. So after two trips to London in the 90s I ended up with copies of both of the above (took me a while to pass on the Vogue/Pye reissue).
There were plenty of other mid-50s Vanguard releases reissued in the RCA-distributed series. But as they originated in the UK they may not have made it into too many US shops at the time.
IIRC in North America Vanguard was bought by the Lawrence Welk Music Group (!) who did a good job with the Spirtuals to Swing concerts but often put out cds that combined 2 Lps by leaving out some cuts.
Don Byas Mosaic set available for pre-order
in Mosaic and other box sets...
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Got mine today here on the left coast. No notification. Next time I think I'll use USPS. Actually find them better than UPS. (We have a very nice mail woman.)