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Just pick up the Mosaic before it goes OOP. You'll get that PLUS a ga-zillion other sessions all at once.

Mine is #2973.

Enjoy the big 5-0, Lon. I hope you get a nice fat Mosaic for your birthday!

I got my Anita today. I've only listened to 1 1/2 disks so far. I would say that anyone on the fence should order one TODAY!

Me too! ← Hopefully the re-master will make it all worth it.

... or the Buddy Bolden!

It's fairly straight ahead Messengers-style jazz. Nice to see that getting released again. It's been OOP for far too long. FWIW, my best friends' wife did the original cover photography for all of those albums.

Let the buyer beware!

Maybe, but I wouldn't hold my breath. Of the labels with big catalogs, only Blue Note seems to be making a concerted effort to reissue Mosaic material. What other Columbia Mosaics (not counting the Miles sets) have had material reissued post-Mosaic? Only the Woody Shaw comes to mind at the moment. Edit: Ok, the Mingus stuff has also come out, obviously, but the Mingus dates generally have a reputation as essentials that the JJs don't really have. That leaves the Buck Clayton and Eddie Condon sets, I guess. ← Of course.........I'm also trying to justify why I'm not buying JJJ, too.

I may be totally off-base here, but I have a sense that there would be a better chance of Columbia (Sony) re-releasing some of the JJJ stuff after the Mosaic goes OOP than Verve or Clef (who owns the Clef material?) releasing much, if any, of the O'Day music.

I caught their San Francisco debut (opening for Santana and the last ever performance by Janis Joplin with Big Brother & the Holding Company) at Fillmore West Aug. '68 ← Nice going David. That must have been SOME show! In the liners of this Rhino re-issue there's a small reproduction of a Fillmore West poster that has CTA opening for the Moody Blues. It doesn't say what year, but I would guess 1969.

He was all over these sessions, too. Bye, Al.

This is about as high as I've seen Curtis Fuller go for: $191.50 Curtis Fuller Mosaic Complete Blue Note/UA Sealed!

120 X $144 = $17,280 (sweeeeeeeet!)

98 Had to do it.

You mean like the Pearl Jams, the Creeds, the Ian Astburys of the world? But then, I remember being 15 years old, and thinking that No One Here Gets Out Alive was as seminal a rock manifesto as there ever was. Yeah, I even scrawled the spoken interlude from “When the Music’s Over” on my Sociology book cover. Tried to grow my hair long (oh, THAT was a bad idea!). Collected all the records. About the only thing I didn’t do was harbor a resentment towards my parents. Could never do that: mine were always way cool. My friends thought so. Heck, even I told ‘em so! I laugh about that shit now, but here I am twenty years later, and I’m listening to them even as I type this. Deep music? Yeah, right. But enjoyable? Damn straight! I still crank it up for “Roadhouse Blues,” “Moonlight Drive,” and “LA Woman.” “Wishful Sinful” is just flat-out gorgeous. “Riders on the Storm” is just plain eerie. Sure the words are dated, (REEEEEEEEEEEALLY dated), but they were a tight band. Nothing more, nothing less. ← *** What Big Al said!

From BMG: Hank Mobley - "Hi Voltage" Tina Brooks - "True Blue" Wynton Kelly Trio/Wes Montgomery - "Smokin' at the Half Note" (the new Verve "complete" version) Chicago Transit Authority (first album)

Nice price! Larry Young

Added to the "Last Chance" list: The Complete Aladdin Recordings of Amos Milburn (#155) LP

I have "Anita Sings the Most". I assume this is typical of the rest of the set?

Maybe Marky Ramone can get some guys from Brooklyn together and take the Ramones out on tour.

They just added "Body of Song" to eMusic today. Listening to the clips - it sounds pretty good. Very Husker Du-ish.

I'm watching the Cubs/Giants on TV and they say it's 89 with 95% humidity. I can't imagine what that's like (the humidity, that is).

Considering I have so much more music like JJ than Anita, I'm leaning towards O'Day, but both are pretty pricey. I might not be in the running for either, right now. I'll have to do some thinking on this one. Even though AO is on Last Chance, I don't think it's going to disappear as fast as Byrd/Adams did, if only because of the price.

DAMN! No way I could afford both JJ and O'Day. Might have to pick just one.