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I usually check eBay looking for lp sets, for bid or just to know what is the average price. I think there are Mosaic lp sets really hard to find at a "fair" price, or simply hard to find like Spann/Hopkins, Jones/Lewis, Mobley, Evans, Mitchell, Parlan, Walker. What is your opinion? Is it just a personal feeling or, for some reasons, they are really hard to find?

I tend to see friends as a matter of history. I have a couple of good friends from school days, but I can see them often, because we live in different city. I have more good friends from university years, but I can see them often, because we live in different city. I have found some friends in my workplace. I have a couple of neighbours that are good friends. If you have children you meet other parents at school's reunion and they could become "friend". Actually in my life I passed across a lot of phases: from sport to politic, from music to motorbike, from travelling to cinema, from climbing to cooking, from sex to drugs to rock'n roll, not in a specific order! So I meet a lot of people: we shared a period of life with its passions, interests, and some of them still are "friends" even if we had and have complete different life and opinions.

This is a little out of the topic, but what about the original ESP vinyl?

I just bought the latest Tom Waits REAL GONE. TW can't fail!

DOLLAR BRAND "Round Midnight At The Montmartre" BLACK LION

Nor the original lps are always so better than good remastered cds. It depends on mastering and pressing of originals. In Italy the quality of vinyl has been always very bad, so italian originals (I mean a italian Impulse! or Columbia) is usually awful. The reissues of Get Back and Earmark are even worst!! I go for american, german, dutch or UK pressings. Of course a true original american first pressing of labels like BN, Prestige, Impulse!, ecc. are IMHO usually better than any remastered cd I listened to.

Booker Erwin's The In Between

I subscribe. My Sundazeds are fairly good and the price was around 15 bucks at Acousticsounds. If you could find a mono pristine original of "Blonde on Blonde" for less than 200 bucks you would be very, very lucky.

The Cannoball Adderley Quintet At Lighthouse. A pristine Riverside Original

I subscribe. I think we have to judge an artist for his whole career and music. Consider Miles, if he would have died very early we would have judge him like a weak trumpet players who could not play like Dizzy, or a Roy Eldrige disciple. I was listening at Dohram "Trompeta Toccata" this morning and the bass line remebered me an Ennio Morricone western theme. Is Morricone a thief? I think he knew Trompeta, because Morricone is a trumpet player and probably know the works of Dorham, but he transformed a bass line in a powerful comment of Sergio Leone's movies.

I have a Linn, and it satisfieds my analog ears.

I don't have a satellite receiver to watch US leagues on tv, and with time zone difference it would be difficult for me anyway. It's not the same to watch a game six hours later!

I knew it, I own this Lp. All this story remember me that old, and fair, complain about whites stolen music from blacks. (in Miles self biography there is almost a whole chapter about it) Beethoven stolen something from Haydn, and Elvis from Chuck Berry, and Sonny Stitt from Byrd, it's a complex matter, maybe we could start a new post about "Influence or Robbery". In my point of view, all musicians start as "thief" and later become "victim".

Maybe it's out of this topic, but I am one of the few europeans who love baseball. I played baseball in my youth, there were too much competition for regular player in soccer teams, so I headed for baseball. I won for three years the awards as better hitter for in the junior leagues, that was my only sport awards in my life. I was a fan of the Cincinnati's Big Red Machine, I mean back in the seventies.

Mosaic eBay is definitely crazy, one small example: I lost a Blakey lp set that went for more than 500 bucks, I won the same set for 250 three weeks later. My opinion is: sit down on the banks of the river and wait your enemy's corpse, (chinese wisdom) B-)

The T-Bone Walker was a CD-set. I had an eye on that one, but $333 is a bit too rich for me... I bought a sealed cd set on eBay one years ago for less then 250 bucks. There must some hardcore Mosaic Cd fans who just got heritages!!!

Are you talkin about cd sets?

I couldn't imagine RRK playing in "Acqualung" or Ian Anderson playing in"Domino". Maybe they are share the same KARMA

Ian Anderson? Yes Jan Anderson of Iethro Tull

42, as Jan Anderson pointed out "Too Old To Rock'n Roll, Too Young To Die" B-)

I used to listen at Ascension and Free Jazz (and Ayler, AEOC, etc.) when I was preparing my examination at the end of Art School. Because it was pure avantgarde, we were pure avantgarde at Art School, and my parents hated that music B-) . At that time I snobbed "mainstream" music, that in my judgement included Ellington, Pink Floyd, Dylan and Art Blakey, (the only admitted rock group were the Clash). Now I am older, bought a little Ellington, more Dylan and Floyd, a lot of Blakey, but I still love Ascension PS, I have an old italian Lp, wich version do you think I knew?

Sunny Murray ESP 1032, just to warm up the neighbours B-)

Toys for children compared to my favourite system: The Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound http://www.audioheritage.org/images/jbl/ph...rs/grateful.jpg

Agree with Wolff, I bought some, unpredictabile quality: the "electric" Hancock's is not bad, Davis quintet is awful, I avoided them since my first, and last, purchase. And the originals still have reasonable prices, except some Davis' titles. And you could find better Davis vinyl on Mosaic.

CLIFFORD BROWN'S MOSAIC