Bluesnik

Very nice.

Enjoying this thoroughly! It's part of the 10" series and was a BN 5000 series member.

An album I like very much. First for the cover, then for its strange coming into being (it was recorded in Paris for Eddie Barclay) and last but not least for the presence of Dick Twardzik. This last one outdoes the other ones. I think Baker found a very strong pianist in him after Russ Freeman.

That boogie woogie Select is very good. Buy it up before it disappears.

I have the Mecca as a standalone mini LP CD on Toshiba. BN 5000 series piano & guitar. TOCJ 9228. I also have aJutta Hipp CD from the same series: TOCJ 9227.

I have the Vogue box and IMO the only point open to critique are the numerous Air Force Bands sessions. On the other hand it's very interesting to have the early Ultraphone sesssions there.

I love this set and the way it allows all those giants to be heard individually.

Good that that often overlooked harpist gets a revisionistic look.

I'm just now listening to which was released as a mini LP in the LPR series by Universal back in 2003. I like it, though I like the 3CD Freshsound box Mikeweil commented on earlier better. And which collects her earliest efforts for Regent, Prestige/New Jazz and Argo.

I'm rereading it, while getting ready (it's raining horribly here) to pick up my copy of

Yes, same question here. I think the original shop is in Barcelona.

Nice cover of one of bossa's greats.

Thanks Brownie for the reccomendation years ago.

Listening to the Mulligan Concert Jazz Band set the other day whetted my appettite for this. I searched and found a new one from a seller for about 20 dollars more and got it. I found out (to my absolute pleasure I must say) that Hall and Raney play together on one album here, The Street Swingers.

R.I.P. I have his early Blake-based solo albums and like them.

I agree with that. I also have it in that Conn 10" series. Really good (Farlow is also on the McGhee sextet session). The Verves are collected in the Mosaic, but the earlier Blue Note is in that series.

Yes, that's one of my all time favorite albums. And the cover wasn't bad either (and clearly superior to this one, that's true).

It's very good.

I just found out Big Bill Broonzy (at an early stage of his career, I suppose) plays on five tracks here.

That's common to all Mosaics because as somone here said they own the rights to all Wolff pictures.

Thanks for that, but all of those Mosaics will be OOP, I'm afraid. Besides I discovered (I listened to the dic last night) there's not one Bechet/Port of Harlem Jazzmen track on the disc. So it's a hodge-podge of Port of Harlem Seven, Sidney Bechet Quintet, Frank Newton Quintet, J.C. Higginbotham Quintet, Sidney Bechet Blue Note Quartet and Josh White Trio. A kind of compilation.

I have Sidney Bechet and The Port of Harlem Jazzmen (don't know if it's the same) as TOCJ-66007. That's one part of the BN history I'd like to see more of.

And one of them was Lee Morgan's Taru, recorded in 1968. I'm listening to it for the first time now. Had it for maybe fifteen years.

I have that Lou Mecca album as a mini-LP from Japan. Wasn't it from the 5000 series?