Bluesnik

i have the freddie redd bn that was released in japan as a mini-lp. but i'm speaking off the top of my head because i can't find it right now. i don't remember if it had howard mcghee on board, but i suspect not, since it is not mentioned here.

i listened to this album recently after a long, long time and liked it a lot. and now, thanks to this thread yesterday i picked it up again from among the piles of recently listened albums and found it very good. it's a great album! i love that period blue note.

Kenton Jazz Presents Bob Cooper, Bill Holman & Frank Rosolino. And, I think, the only Mosaic with a white cover.

isn't that cover beautiful?

i have his tenorman album, featuring sonny clarke, james clay and jimmy bond on jazz west.

completely agree with that and i think i said it here before. i don't like the american versions of many brasilian albums nor much less those made specifically for the US market. they were made for the american market only, and they don't translate the original songs correctly (they add nasty orchestrations or are oversugared or don't translate the balanco). but it always has to be said that in many cases it was in the brasilian musicians interest to be sucessful in america, after the sergio mendes mould.

the other night i re-discovered out of the afternoon by the roy haynes quartet. i'd had it for lots of years but somehow it didn't grab me. and the other day it did.

the complete blue note hank mobley fifties sessions

yes, free for all is a very good and failproof choice.

the 45 sessions and the swingtets are two of my favourites. specially the swingtets.

grachan moncur III, which, by the way, was mosaic select #1.

count basie and hihs orchestra: america's #1 band

the complete vee jay lee morgan-wayne shorter sessions

i have one of those prestige albums, via japan, and it's outstanding. and i think i prefer the prestiges over the atlantics.

the complete hot five and hot sevens, again...

the complete savoy & dial charlie parker masters

i was going to post the same mosaic. i like it very much with that kind of medium band and mulligan and his bari, which i love.

the kenton jazz presents bob cooper, bill holman & frank rosolino. very exciting west coast stuff.

i don't. i ignore them. most of the time i don't even see them.

i also like those analog synthesizers, which seem to be very much en vogue nowadays. the fat sound of the old minimoog, the juno and all those polyphonic roland synths...

the complete thelonious monk prestige recordings

Definitely worth checking out again. For me it's one of the great Miles albums particularly for its difference. same thoughts here. i have a high oppinion of ascenseur pour l'echefaud.

breaking out of new orleans, the jsp box. it has got plenty of 20s and early 30s jazz inside.

the boogie woogie and blues piano mosaic select. it's very good with meade lux lewis, albert ammons and pete johnson among others.

i also heard about this some days back, but i completely agree with these words. always excellent packaging and service. it's a loss.