Stompin at the Savoy

Here are the clips in a spotify playlist: Some good stuff in there.

I understand your point there about the immediate outlay and I don't know what the jazz buying public wants or needs; possibly you are correct about the business prospects for large box sets. The flip side of your observation - that buying a bunch of disks at once is a problem - is that some of us actually really like getting big, coherent chunks of work all at once. Recently I got interested in Chu Berry and ended up getting the Mosaic. To me this is very good when I think of all the gyrations I would have to go through to hear all this material otherwise, with varying quality masterings. You may be correct that there is an age factor at play here. Younger people are used to buying single tunes as downloads. Their music buying habits are the opposite of us geriatric hippie jazz collecting types?

Actually they are not all that pricey. When I first started getting them I think they were something like $15 per disk and more recently it has been something like $17 per disk. Which is less than the $20 single reissues you mentioned earlier. If you buy a bunch of those, it actually costs more than a Mosaic box. It really depends on how you feel about large sets, complete xyz, etc.

I'm 70. I started buying the sets around '95 or so. I used to love reading the lavish Mosaic pamphlets and I would order by phone. Over the years I picked up quite a few of the boxes new. The last several years I started buying up sets I missed when they came out from ebay, discogs, etc. I enjoy the whole esthetic of the boxes, their distinctive look, the large format booklets, the exacting discography and research. They have introduced me to a lot of swing, big band, west coast and other jazz. I've particularly loved the Basie sets and in a way the Basie interest has reoriented a lot of my jazz listening. I like the fact that Mosaic sets are quirky and unique. I also own and enjoy plenty of single disc issues and other styles of box set. In my view there is and should be plenty of space for different types and styles of publishing for jazz music and music in general.

Something Larry Kart said in another thread made me want to go back and listen to all these Dream Band recordings again. Mel Lewis!

Enjoying the show!

I haven't actually listened to the 5 minute presentation but from my point of view anything that promotes jazz listening is good. Far be it from me to quibble about the choice of excerpts, etc. If the NYT is going to promote jazz I like it. I even swallowed my reservations when Ken Burns did his thing on jazz. OK I hated it but it was promoting jazz, so you know, good, I guess... edit: OK I listened to the excerpts, which were mostly 29 second sound clips. Um, good, I guess? I mean they had people like Andrew Hill and Ahmad Jamal. I don't think those clips will make you love jazz. But in this case any publicity is good publicity.

Sometimes his stuff can seem arranged and mannered. But there are some nice, in the pocket, swinging things in there so I like it.

Checking it out. Nice flugelhorn you've got there.

I finally found a nice copy of this at a very affordable price, completing my set of Basie Mosaics! Funny, when asked what music I was into I used to say Miles, Coltrane, Blue Note label etc. Now it's Basie and big band generally.

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I started with the flac and eventually bought a set. (Somehow I always seem to do that if the set is not too crazy expensive). They are the same.

The full flac download is 1.8 gigabytes (compressed as zip). I have the disks and they are 1.9 Gigabytes. This is the full file.

You can get it as lossless flac files here - https://archive.org/details/completecapitolrecordingswoodyherman

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A couple were pretty tight on my set. I think the key thing when they are very tight is not to pull up on one side only - that will snap the disk. Pull up all around the disk and wiggle a bit raising left, right, top bottom slightly as you pull it out.

Frank Foster - No 'Count https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QHWbT_KEQE

It sounds like something you would find in a Shakey's Pizza parlor circa 1968. Oddly hollow and metallic.

The piano seems bad. I mean the instrument. Tuning or maybe just a bad piano. Conceivably the way it was miked... But the tone of it sounds bad to me. Nevertheless the recording has much to recommend it and I'll probably end up getting it. I was particularly interested to hear Larry Young on piano and he is playing pretty well but the piano.