Stompin at the Savoy

I bought the hi res files for the first volume from Qobuz as a trial of this release/format. The 43 files came to about 1 GB. Large files! Listening to this with LDAP on headphones I'm pretty impressed with the sound. Very detailed. When I compare to a cheapo mp3 version I had it's quite startling how much better and more listenable this is. It is also quite a bit better than streaming from Spotify.

Those are hyperlinks to articles in wikipedia. Click them and you go to the article. In this case there are only pages for certain titles.

Yeah or Jimmy Smith's The Cat (Lalo Shifrin). What about the great TV jazz bands. Tonite show, Steve Allen had a band didn't he. etc. I don't have any recordings by those bands but some were pretty tight.

Some Shorty Rogers stuff might qualify. Also Buck Clayton Jam Sessions.

You might like the Terry Gibbs Dream Band. Not exactly swing per se (though pretty close). A predecessor of the Jones/Lewis big band. Also the Bill Holman Big Band that preceded the Dream Band.

I finally scored a copy of this recently and have been happily going through it. The sound is so much better than anything I had of this material. Disk 4 at the moment.

You can often find the original covers and liner notes on https://musicbrainz.org/search For example: https://musicbrainz.org/release/8d5bebf1-2727-461e-a5e3-3cea63d67b7e/cover-art or https://musicbrainz.org/release/16f5911c-1ff9-3cdd-8acd-d3af9ea1bc84/cover-art They seem to have most of the Sonny Clark Blue Note Albums.

I stream with Spotify and Youtube, mainly to check out things I haven't heard and am considering purchasing. I've bought a few mp3s but basically stopped after I realized you can get cd quality or higher from Qobuz, Presto, and other services as m4a, flac files etc. I buy downloads mainly when I can't find something at what seems to me to be a reasonable price. I have a ton of Mosaics and other box sets as well as another ton of individual cds. I'm still buying them at a prodigious rate. I rip them all to files as soon as I get them and photograph the booklets so truth is I don't need the hard copies and in the back of my mind is a plan to begin selling them all off to save on storage costs and simplify my life. I'm old. Haven't begun yet. It's not easy to let go of things you have a sentimental attachment to...

Agree about those Capitol Teagarden sessions. I don't have this set. Listening on youtube for now. Even when he breaks the rules, he's still following the rules!

This is one of those inexpensive euro-compilations I got the other day. The sound is acceptable, if a little brittle. The music is top notch, imo. Lot's of great players - Stan Getz, Roy Haynes, Hank Jones, Zoot Sims, Mel Lewis and more. I'm enjoying it!

I did not get an email but when I looked at the order on the Mosaic site under my account, the status showed a tracking number.

I was listening to Blue Serge a day or two ago because of the Sonny Clark connection. Great album! Almost a Blue Note prototype or paradigm or something like that...

I originally thought there were one or two albums I didn't have but turned out I had them all. Nevertheless I'm happy with the purchase. I haven't compared all the various masterings but I did compare an expensive Japanese edition of Sonny's Crib I had and I was somewhat surprised to find I liked this new mastering better. If you only have one or two albums this is definitely recommended.

In another application it shows up as 1:20:03

The group was loud. It's a fairly high-level recording. So it's not going to sound good unless you crank it up a bit. Headphones and equalizers can help. If I don't have A/C on I like to just crank it up on speakers.

I don't think the Mac itself matters much. The interface between computer and disk drive is that device driver. You should be able to look up the device driver for your external drive and install the latest version on your computer. I don't promise that will fix it but it's quick and costs nothing. If you have a newer laptop or something which also can't recognize it - return it, must be defective.

If the disk is not recognized, I recommend updating the driver on your computer for the optical drive. This is pretty easy to do. Get into your computer properties and see what you have for a drive; update the driver online. How precisely depends on your OS. If the disk really is blank this obviously can't fix it. If you have a pretty old system and a driver that can't handle some newer codecs this might fix it. I had no problem reading it into my computer, a 5 year old Dell desktop running Windows 10 which is nearing the end of it's lifespan. Shows up as 1:20, 271.6 megabytes.

The set arrived today and I am just starting to listen to it. The sound is very good. I got into Sonny Clark about 30 years ago and listened to and collected much of his output then. I've returned to some of it again over the years but not that much. This time round the music is still the same but I have come along 30 years as a listener. So it's different and very enjoyable.

Every time I get the jewel boxes only I find myself compelled to get a complete set. Almost every time. If I can find the book I sigh and let it go.

At the risk of giving ass of the bass conniptions, I'll report that I have a tracking number! I mean dang this has got to be just about the premier place in the known universe to get down and discuss Mosaic. The only place, probably. And here they come. What do they call them? Muggles - folks who don't understand the magic, to carp and cast aspersions!

Wasn't Sapporo the beer company that briefly had the English slogan: "Have a Sapporo Beer! You'll never want another beer!"

It's ok to not like some artists. With Coltrane there are so many different periods. I'm very fond of the Atlantic recordings. There's a big box set, Heavyweight Giant, or something like that. All the albums with Miles are pretty fine too. The Impulse box: The Classic Quartet. The later work is harder to grok but still pretty great in its own way. I like the Prestige stuff but I recommend either the Atlantic or Impulse Quartet stuff if you want to look further and maybe see what all the fuss is about.