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Well, got my COVID positive test this past Monday (from a test taken Sunday). Symptoms showed up late that day and have taken their toll on me all week. This stuff is terrible. You don't want it. I'm way younger than vaccine age and would consider myself healthy: eat mostly right, do HIIT workouts about 5-6 times a week, and have no pre-existing conditions. But this is so bad that I could easily see how it could take a bad turn at any time. So yall, please be careful and don't get weary or overconfident.

Did they even press 2000 I wonder? Wasn't this one on the new model of quasi-press on demand? Probably the best SQ of this material available is what I've read.

Probably priced under market but stores need cash flow.

Well said One of the best, although for me it's hard to overlook him. Those live Black Hawk dates are all essential IMO.

I enjoy that Mosaic Select of the RivBea Orchestra. Can't necessarily listen to the 3 CDs back to back, but the music is great. Haven't gotten these newest releases but definitely on my radar.

This is just what I need right now.

Toans for Joan's Bones. Ferrell & Shaw take off on this one.

Welcome RTM! I'm wondering - does copyright prevent Mosaic from reprinting booklets from the OOP sets? If printing is too much of an investment, how about PDF? They could load them on thumb drives and sell them to raise funds... Outside of that, who wrote those Commodore booklets? If they're still around maybe they can be contacted and possibly be willing to share? Just a thought.

Via the Complete 2 CD set...then, Love the trio moments here. which segue into horn accompaniments accenting the rhythm. Really, really nice record.

Ha, the balance shifts opposite for me. The nonsense gets too deep to glean the insight!

Yeah, it's a hobby. You should see some of the rods/reels of fishermen I know. Just one will catch a fish of course, but situational analysis and all...

Wait, hybrid SACD over the XRCD?

Milt Jackson's The Prophet Speaks

I purchased an LP from them to be shipped to the US and had no problem back in 2019 and their rep at that time was good. I know others that have never had issues with them too. Hopefully you get an answer soon.

I bet that music is great. Those patches on Mbenza's jacket are interesting. I wonder what the story is behind those Oyster ones is.

Those are some great titles. I broke down and got the download via iTunes (Capitol Classics series or something like that, the one that basically puts out the Mosaic sets). Waiting is by far my favorite but the whole thing is full of great stuff.

This was posted relatively recently elsewhere in this thread. Very enjoyable album.

Even those other records he did in the 70s on BN: Waiting Game, Knucklebean, The View From the Inside - none of them got a second domestic pressing until that Mosaic Select...and that didn't come until '07.

Discs 2 & 3

Great stuff all around. Thanks again for putting this together and HNY!

All right, just when I wondered what the hell I was going to be doing on NYE this year! 1 - Sounds like a version of Ray Charles' I've Got a Woman but probably not explicitly so (Some passages are really similar). Good tune, nice upbeat organ driven R&B funk. 2 - Touissant? Maybe not, but it's got a bayou feel to it. It's in the shuffle or something... 3 - Love the stop and go of the rhythm section with the trumpet sailing over them. Nice tempo on this funky tune. 4 - This pianist is crazy. Wow. Seems like everyone else is trying to catch up or stay with him. 5 - This is a familiar song. Can't name it or the artists but very nice. 6 - Great sax player. Like the stop and go aspect of the arrangement. Bass sounds a bit like a 70s or early 80s style recording. 7 - I dig the organ and the guitar on this one. 8 - This is nicely chaotic. Lots of bass craziness but the sax player is going off too. Lo fi recording maybe? Enjoyable for sure though. 9 - Dig the ensemble on this one. I like that first sax solo too. Guy is all over the horn. I like all the reverb too. 10 - Yeah, this is the stuff. I like the sax and bass playing off of each other in the start of this one. Familiar tune but can't name it...this one has the lope. 11 - Live recording I think...and I like the way it's mixed. Drums coming through and hitting hard. Love this drummer btw. Great ensemble all around. 12 - Wait - wasn't this played earlier as well? And this one is live...? Like the piano flourishes here. 13 - Good lord 16 minutes! Sounds like a Rhodes but with more traditional 50s bop style horn playing. Killer sax. Intense song. 14 - Lol. Who dis? Lots of 7+minute tracks. Enjoyable on this melancholy NYE. Thanks for putting this together!

Did Stanko ever make a bad album? Even if he's a sideman I'm down for it.