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Anyone know what makes these new?

Yes, but the bottom line is, Michael is unconvinced of the sales potential of a full Mosaic box. Going with the smaller, less costly Select approach will minimize the risk of a full set that doesn't sell.

Brad, you missed my last message from Michael, which I relayed in another thread. He made it pretty clear to me that the three Select concept is going to be a go. This may have been asked and answered before , but why 3 selects instead of a single big box? Because there were so many of them (13 sessions if you include Babes Blues which was released in the late 80s), it would make for one big ass box that wouldn't exactly be cheap, especially since its almost a given that a full blown Mosaic box will include unissued tunes, making it even bigger. The Selects are a lower price point and I would assume that Michael expects more people to buy one or two of the Selects and not all three; better to give them the chance to sample than to ask them to pay $100+ for the whole shebang, especially when, and even the former GHF will admit this, there isn't a lot of variety to the recordings.

Brad, you missed my last message from Michael, which I relayed in another thread. He made it pretty clear to me that the three Select concept is going to be a go.

Enjoy your sleep, Harold, cuz when you wake up, Wright will still be on the DL and being replaced by a mediocre AAA pitcher and your team will still be under .500.

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OK, here's the deal, in a nutshell: Michael Cuscuna has gone back and forth on a Three Sounds Mosaic set. He's expressed an interest in doing one but has also found stumbling blocks, like the fact that their albums have a certain "interchangeability" and lack of variety. He's considered many different possibilities, and the very latest is that it is likely that he will try to issue the Three Sounds LPs that were recorded from 1958 to '62 for Blue Note (they're "classic" period) on a series of three Mosaic Selects. That was the gist of what he told me, the remaining question would be when this might happen.

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Well, its official Obviously bad news, but as I said above, Wade Miller is very close to being ready, so Halama probably won't have to start more than two games before he can return to the bullpen. And this will keep Arroyo in the rotation, and he's done nothing to deserve getting bounced, as he was going to be when Miller is activated. So: Schilling Clement Miller Wake Arroyo I'll have no trouble sleeping nights.

Here's a setlist I've heard: Wayne Shorter at the Village Vanguard 1965 1) Eye of the Hurricane 2) Just in Time 3) Oriental Folk Song 4) Infant Eyes 5) Fran Dance Shorter, tenor sax Herbie Hancock, piano Gary Peacock, bass Tony Williams, drums

As long as its not the fruit of anything else ....

Its far from his best, but its not unlistenable.

Speaking of kharma.... How long will Wells be out w/ this sprained foot!? Damn! at least last nites ERA won't go anywhere. I think we'll be OK, especially since Wade Miller has a AAA rehab start Thursday, maybe one more after that and then he will probably join the team. That would put him on target to make his first start by May 7th, so maybe Halama has to start one or two before then. That's the beauty of stockpiling pitching: If Wells is out for any length of time, Miller steps in, and Arroyo can stay in the rotation. Unlike, say, the Yanks, who have to dip into AAA for a guy who's ERA in Columbus is well over 4. I can't imagine they really hope to have to use this guy for six weeks, but they don't have much choice anyway.

I'm really not sure ... one of Michael's other reasons for not wanting to include this in any Three Sounds set was, "questionable ownership". There is some question about the circumstances of the recording, because Bill Dowdy says that while the band rehearsed at Boddie Recording "all the time" he says that at no time were they aware that they were being recorded, which contradicts what Gene told his wife. So maybe that's what Michael was referring to, that there may be some claim of ownership by the recording studio?

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I agree, but its not the way Michael sees it, and since Blue Note is where the music belongs and between Mosaic and his other gig he pretty much controls BN reissues, I'm not sure it will have a chance to be heard. That is unless someone comes up with what he suggested was the place for it: "Curios of the 1950s"

Of course, but Michael has also said that one of the reasons he doesn't intend to use your transfer was fidelity.

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Would he consider adding several of the unissued tracks to the 1958-62 Selects that he's planning? I don't think so, for two reasons. He spoke of "fitting them" into three Selects, which suggests that he realizes that with all the recordings they did in that period, it might be a snug fit to include all of them. His statement that he doesn't think the unissued stuff is deserving of release. Also, other than the Hill Select, haven't the Selects just concentrated on original albums only and not considered alternates or unissued tunes? I think he wants to stick with that approach, and leave alternates/unissued stuff for the full Mosaic boxes.

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