sidewinder

Cindy, I recall, did the extremely neat numbering of the booklets. Important to us Mosaic obsessives !

The BBC refused to broadcast the recording - and then lost the tapes.

That was one of my very early ones too.

CD4

Beats using these damn LED eco-lights

Yes, indeed he was and very much missed - used to enjoy meeting up at Turner Sims. I think our last get-together was to see The Cookers at that venue. John, I recall, was witness to that Albert Ayler broadcast foul-up at the BBC back in the 60s.

It was into the 2000s before I picked up my first sets - it might have been partial CD sets of Larry Young and Jackie McLean which Scott put together for me, plus the Gerald Wilson, which had just come out. I then proceeded to play catch-up. I was aware of their early sets in the 80s via Jazz Journal adverts but at the time the cost and importation were too daunting.

No doubt - wasn’t it somewhere near the Reeperbahn/red light district of Hamburg?

I think I saw them but can’t recall where. I did see Elmes doing a Saturday afternoon impromptu outdoor solo spot on Yonge Street though. Might have been near the Eaton Center.

Eric - I just went along to a trusted fine art framer and got them to advise on matte, glass and frame. They were able to mock up a partial frame and border sizing for a print corner using samples in the shop, to fine tune the layout. Easy peasy.

Capitulating and assuming Brad will bail me out as and when required () here’s a pic of the Melvin Lastie that I’ve already framed. Here’s the new McLean print.

Mine is totally blank at the back, no stickers or writing. In fact, just like the previous prints I bought years ago.

Can’t believe it but my print has just arrived !

Nice haul - the Martino and John Patton are very cool finds. Shame the Patton has the corner clip but often the case for that era.

Yeah, I wasn’t sure. Can only recall seeing them on the site from the 2000s but they were probably already there beforehand.

Saw him around 2007/8 with his Trio in a Contemporary Music Network tour over here at two venues. Former board member JohnS (RIP) was with me at the Southampton show. After the Bath show (Tippett Centre) managed to wangle a nice chat with him afterwards and he signed some CDs, LPs and the Mosaic booklet. Diabolical handwriting, a delight to chat with !

Dirty Harry Dirty Den Dirty Digger

Peppa Pig The Fat Controller Thomas the Tank Engine

Yes, this was already a superb sounding album in previous versions but Mosaic did an outstanding job on their CD reissue. Woody’s finest hour in the latter part of his career, especially the Basin Street West material.

Mosaic Single

I found a Jon Eardley Esquire 10” LP in the racks of a store in Auckland, New Zealand. About $20 with some sale discount additional to this, 30% I think. A very obscure pressing indeed, not only in the UK but more so in NZ. Blow me down but elsewhere in the racks there was another identical copy of this Esquire, around the same price !

Wow - that was fast ! Hope that UPS expedite mine across the pond. The quality of these prints, from experience, is absolutely first rate. I don’t recall Mosaic selling these before the 2000s but may be wrong. With a Charlie Lourie sticker maybe these were 90s promotional stock intended for exhibitions/publications etc.? Yeah, right...

‘California Soul’ and ‘Eternal Equinox’ on CD5

It was the Dizzy Gillespie Group at Onkel Po’s that I was wondering about, not with Hayes. That T.S. Monk Group, as I recall it, had Don Sickler on trumpet and I think Bobby Poricelli on saxes. Not sure who was on bass. They played quite a few of the Sickler arrangements which are on the TS Monk Blue Notes, including some of Thelonius’s tunes of course but also gems by Kenny Edited to say that the bassist, I think, was Scott Colley. Next time I saw him was in the UK with Jim Hall ! Can’t recall if Willie Williams was also in the band on tenor but he might have been.