Dub Modal

Ingenuity like this only comes from extreme duress and desperation. Well done!

First Then:

Via Disc 1 of the Carter/Bradford Mosaic Select. Wonderful music.

Great album with bonus cuts...only issue is the clipped version of Slavemaster but other than that, top notch reissue.

Great BFT. Really enjoyed the journey through these selections. "Percussive logic" of the Taylor piece makes total sense to me as I had to shift how I was hearing the piano in order to "get" that track. I don't have any Taylor in my collection at all, and so need to remedy that.

Insanely good album

Billy Gardner on B3. Braith's soprano sax on Cole Porter's Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye is wild.

Top notch stuff from Fela & Africa 70. Exceptional album. Then...

I pretty much think about this all the time when listening to older music that never got its due. I even carry this same sentiment over on some modern pop tracks where should the vocals be stripped and a live band was playing the music - noses that get turned up otherwise would all of a sudden stay steady while the jaws dropped. I don't have this record yet. Need to get it.

Just finished rooting for the dog in Cujo and now starting Silver Bullet.

Disc 2 of this Snapper comp that I bought a long time ago. I haven't listened to some of these Wailers songs in quite some time, having almost memorized everything about them because I was obsessed back in the day. Listening now it strikes me how many of these come across as demos, which I didn't realize with younger ears. Marley, Tosh & Bunny went on to re-record several of these tunes as solo artists with more advanced production and further song development.

Edition II

Loving these

Some classic roots songs on this comp.

Knepper. See this LA Time obit as the one in the Independent is firewalled: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jun-17-me-knepper17-story.html

I'm just reading this thread for the first time. Instabuy/preorder for the Ellington set being discussed above.

No worries I just went over to that site and saw it after I posted and had a cringewince moment.

Other than the Mobley and this Henderson, what other BN sets have they produced recently? Most of it seems to be from other labels, although most are ultimately owned by Universal. I think they stick with CDs because it's in their wheelhouse, financially and aesthetically in terms of what their customers like. Wanted to add, my statement above regarding Bandcamp has nothing to do with any of the moronic reviews currently on the Mosaic site for this set. They should scrub that nonsense ASAP.

I'd rather see Mosaic go full on Bandcamp or another download route than ever do LPs. Leave the vinyl to the Universals of the world who have economies of scale, or the small boutique co's that do one-off or double LPs. Big box sets of vinyl are way outside of the kind of ball park that Mosaic can play in right now.

I dig that album too. My first Mingus was Ah Um and it didn't really grab me. Wasn't until I heard the unedited workshop stuff on the Candid albums that I became a big Mingus fan.

Yep, he does...and Fuller is there too. It's a good album, definitely blues heavy.

Jackie on tenor for the title track, and some funny/interesting studio banter on the Take 1/False start of the same.

Great session.