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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

Keith Jarret PERSONAL MOUNTAINS ECM

I just bought a couple of used HORO Lps: Archie Shepp JAZZ A CONFRONTO vol. 27 (with C. Greenlee, D. Burrel, D. Williams, B. Harris), and Lee Konitz JAZZ A CONFRONTO vol. 32 ( with D. Cliff, P. Ind, A. Levitt). Not a "state of art" vinyl, compared to early BN or ECM, but not so bad for 5 euros each! B-)

For me too!! IMMO there are too many people and machines involved in a recording and mastering/remastering process, is not easy to find the guilty! (and there are a lot variables in a home reproducing system too!!) You have also to consider the ageing of master tapes. I heard a Keith Jarret concert some years ago in wich he was complaining that todays cd players has too many bass frequency. B-)

I am too lazy. expecially with bigger LP sets. I always think I will have some spare time to listen at them carefully one of these days... Wolff, I heard some rumors about total embargo of Cuban Cigar in USA, you will have to change your avatar, or your government

I agree with you on most points. In most case I prefer the singles. I go for single Lp, that is usually more expensive but leave me the time to listen at them carefully. Sometimes I am scared by all the music on a 7 cd set, that makes more then 10 hours of music, alternates, false start. Music is a pleasure not a job!!! The Parker's Dial and Savoy are almost unlistenable. I have a different feeling about Mosaic, because of the useful booklets, if you put all them togheter you have a serious book about jazz. Wich I do not like of Mosaic is the poor quality of boxes, on LP versions, fragile and easy to break. And I didn't buy the Golson set, I bought some of the Jazztet vinyls, still a reasonable priced originals.

The same thing happened to me!!! At the end I got the Mosaic Lps and sold the cds!! Suonds better and no more glue!! B-)

Something different just to start the week end NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS "Kicking Against The Pricks"

I was lazy because I found this http://www.bsnpubs.com/abc/impulse.html on google

I am looking for IMPULSE! discography, possibly on the web. (maybe I am lazy or stupid, but I didn't find it).

FRANK ZAPPA WAKA/JAWAKA

Apart jokes, what convinced me in this "poem" is: 1 use different solutions 2 rinse well between solutions with distilled water 3 use the cleaning machine at the end to vacuum cleaner all the residues 4 clean brushes for not moving dirt from one record to another. 5 replace inner sleves. I think I will try one of these days a much simplified version of the "poem". I will let you know

Hey, I am a groover now!! B-)