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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.

...no, I made it to Amoeba. A friend was doing an in-store there, so we hung and I picked up a couple of things. Great store. ← Did you happen to be there on Wednesday? This from the gossip column in today's Chron: Tim Sullivan tells me that Robert Plant, formerly of Led Zeppelin, went shopping at Amoeba Music on Haight Street on Wednesday. The store's Naomi Salazar confirmed this, saying several folks from his record label who accompanied him kept their eyes on him from afar, allowing him to browse alone. When one Amoeban sang one of Plant's songs in spontaneous tribute, the rocker smiled and said he couldn't sing it himself anymore. Plant bought what was described as "a lot'' of music, told workers he liked the store, and then went hippity-hopping out to Haight Street.

So, Chuck, you see no redeeming value in this show?? Looks to me like they're putting together a blowing session in the spirit of the original concept (whether that was ultimately successful or not). You gotta admit, the original lineup was very promising ... and so is this.

Wow, didn't know there WERE that many! Which of them do you consider the standout discs? ← I had no idea there were that many, either. I've got 4 LPs and 1 CD.

So, no music, CD shopping......nuthin'??

Here's the official lineup of this show at Yoshi's: September 1 - 4 Night of the Cookers Billy Harper, James Spaulding, John Hicks, Charles Tolliver, David Weiss, Roy McCurdy

Uh, Trane........I think SS has already come and gone.

Mid-upper 70's today and very little wind. Where's the FOG??????????

SF Currently: 73° ... but no fog today - bummer.