Bluesnik

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?

Moovin and Groovin, Us Three and into Headin South now, which is the usual trio plus Ray Baretto on congas.

No, I wouldn't say so. There are 24 pages, plus Track credits, which include original release, personnel and recording date and place. The text is mostly about Kerouac himself and speaks of how he loved jazz and admired and enjoyed his bebop contemporaries, but also (surprisingly) their forerunners like Roy Eldridge, Lester Young and Lionel Hampton. There are no pictures in the booklet. The one I included in my post showed up (I don't know why, maybe beat generation or something like that) when I searched for the cover, and I liked it enough to place it there. The Kerouac readings are about the early history of bop and their musicians, which he frequently mentioned in his novels.

It's only one CD, but it's presented in a boxset with a booklet. So like a one disc boxset. Or at least I like to look at it that way. With Roy Eldridge, Miles, Getz, Dizzy, Monk, Lester Young and many others. Plus Kerouac readings.

Yes, it's a very good set. I love the McLean, Moncur, Hutcherson combination. And One Step Beyond and Destination Out are two gems.