Stompin at the Savoy

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.

Listening to it on Spotify. Some fine playing and excellent sound.

I think I actually have that 4 disc collection but in a cheapo edition with no documentation. I've been thinking about getting the 11 disk Mosaic and bid on one the other day but lost.

So why does it say RCA on the cover?