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Yes, Slave's Mass looks great. .. I'm hoping to snag a copy from Dusty Groove when they become available. . . .

I like it! There's a killer Ponder solo or two, the usual fantastic drumming from Idris, and although this may not be the very best of this band's output, it's a solid effort in my estimation.

I'm fond of the Hutcherson. . . and expanded, no less, great! Wish they weren't Connoisseurs however, for sonic reasons.

Yes. There is also a two cd set on JSP that has material NOT on the Mosaic set.

I can recommend an album that is available by Aleuda that Hermeto produced, arranged, and plays an awful lot of the accompanying music on, that Dusty Groove has been stocking for some time. . . . Very interesting session. . . ! Has a fusion feel, has that Hermeto wackiness too.

Agreed: James Baldwin's work should be read and savored.

I'll bet that was indeed a great concert! I love Hermeto's music. . . . His writing for big bands is really wonderful, as witness one of his very first recordings outside Brazil, the Cobblestone/Muse huge band recording. . . . I've never seen him perform, but that joy of playing (and that exploratory drive and real mastery of so many many instruments) comes through in his recorded performances, indeed.

The sound quality is quite comparable in all ways to the Bix/Tram/Tea set. The material is varied. . . I personally don't feel that this is very similar to Django's music, it's different, and there are duets between Lonnie Johnson and Eddie Lang and other combinations that make this different than the Django sides as well. In a lot of ways the material is more comparable to the Bix/Tram/Tea set, when Lang and Venuti are in jazz groups. I really like this stuff. I had most of the material on other sources, and still preordered the Mosaic because I am very excited at the direction that these represent, and happy with all those released.

Looks as if these can still be purchased through the amazon.fr site, they still show a good number of these as "available in one or two days". . . . I must admit that I have had success ordering a Charlie Christian Master of Jazz from them after the label went out of business. Try doing a search for "Masters of Jazz Sidney Bechet" . . . .

I hope it was a great show. I ended up being unable to attend!

Hmmmm. . . just thought it looked a bit lilke Humair to me but I haven't seen many photos. I have both Combelle Chronogical Classics and really enjoy them.

I've been listening to the early Liszt transcriptions for piano of some Beethoven symphonies lately. . . . Wonderful stuff!

Ah, Cordwainer Smith! Yes, an excellent writer. . . !

Naomi Mitchison "The Corn King and the Spring Queen" . . . a novel of ancient Scythia, Sparta and Egypt published in 1932. Sort of fantasy, nicely written. I'm digging it!

The two Paul Jeffries I have on Mainstream are FANTASTIC!

I think that is likely Daniel Humair on drums in that photo. . . . What's the educated guess on the bassist? Michelot? Rovere?

A wonderful player! I have to get more of his work! Brownie, nice to hear he was a nice person. That would have been my guess!

Mosaic truly did the jazz world a great favor when they produced these sets. It's unlikely we'll ever see Universal do the material justice in reissues. And it's amazing material! Much of the material has made it's way into the digital world via Classics and Neatworks; probably if they keep cranking those out and get to artists like Mel Powell etc. . . .

yes, it really isn't! in fact . . . it's good!

Some Mainstreams HAVE appeared on cd on Columbia and possibly also on Japanese reissues. . . .

Agreed one hundred percent. Doesn't stop me from wishing that Mosaic would do a Complete Black and White box a la Commodore . . . !

Hey, I'm not going to get deep into the arguments either side of the pirating labels! I agree, both that McVea is a KILLER player (love him on the T-Bone sides et al and all the way into his fantastic arranging and production work for B. B. King et al) and that there is not likely to be any company that would put the stuff out. Mosaic, maybe. . . . in ten or fifteen years. The Grimes material. . . I don't have that series, but I do have the three Gotham Grimes that were put out by Collectibles Records, the stuff with Bird, etc. which is the bulk of the Blue Moons. . . . Great stuff, you'd likely dig a lot of it. Golson and other jazzers appear. . . .

Yeah, I know. . . it's all PIRATE STUFF! Here we go again. . . . As I said, a lot of it has been out, but not officially and not comprehensively.

Yes Chuck, I have an aversion to anthologies too. . . though in this case the Pickwick way made sense as they lumped together a lot of clarinetists for instance that didn't make enough 78s for a disc of their own. . . . I mentioned the Pickwick releases in passing at the top of my message.

How about: Broadway Intermission? Choise? Fat Cat? Dream Street? Horizon? Improvising Artists? Incus? Inner City? Merry Makers? Metronome? PM? Palo Alto? Pumpkin? Some of these may have had a few cd releases. . . but. . . .