Which Mosaic Are You Enjoying Right Now?

[HutchFan]

Disc 1

Love this music!!! One of my favorite Mosaics.

[alankin]

Stanley Turrentine – Mr. Natural [(F) in The BN Quintet/Sextet Sessions Mosaic] (Blue Note – Mosaic)

— With Lee Morgan, McCoy Tyner, Bob Cranshaw, Elvin Jones, Ray Barretto

[John Tapscott]

[BFrank]

Just got this today and plan to start enjoying it SOON!

[alankin]

Buck Clayton – The Complete CBS Jam Sessions [(E) – Aug 1954] (CBS—Mosaic Records)
— With Buck Clayton, Joe Newman / Urbie Green, Trummy Young / Lem Davis, Coleman Hawins, Charles Fowlkes / Billy Kyle, Freddie Green, Milt Hinton, Jo Jones

 

[aparxa]

The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis - LP1

 

[gmonahan]

Commodore/Decca Eddie Condon, disc VII.

 

 

gregmo

[John Tapscott]

 

Bought this on the recent shipping sale. Just finishing up Disc 7. Amazingly good music. Arguably the best Mosaic set I own (and I have some dandies). 

Edited July 1, 2015 by John Tapscott

[sonnyhill]

[mjzee]

I've started listening to the Sidney Bechet BN set on LP I recently picked up on Ebay.  I thought the LP length was nicely suited to the music - 6 tracks on a side was just perfect (though I had to get up to turn the disc over).  Great music, nice sound.  I had most of this material on other releases, but this allowed me to appreciate the music anew.

 

[mikeweil]

Bob Whitlock's passing made me pull the Mulligan-Baker Mosaic - those LPs are plain flat and noise-free.

[xybert]

Have been immersed in the Ellington small groups set over the last couple of days: discs 1-5 on Sunday, discs 6 and 7 Monday night. Majorly enjoyable.

[TedR]

Roy Eldridge Verve Studio sessions, disc 5 with Benny Carter. Some of my favorite Benny Carter......and RE responds......and/or vice versa. Either way, this is a classic session.

[BFrank]

Bobby Hutcherson Select, disk 2

[jlhoots]

Threadgill

[Clunky]

Curtis Fuller - disc 1

 

not played this in years, it's just fantastic music. The Mosaic sounds terrific.

[alankin]

Louis Armstrong And The Mills Brothers – The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions [(NO) Apr, Jun 1937] (Decca / Mosaic )
Louis Armstrong And His Orchestra – The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions [(PQR) July, Nov 1937] (Decca / Mosaic )
— With Henry "Red" Allen, J.C. Higginbotham, Albert Nicholas, Luis Russell, Pops Foster, Paul Barbarin, etc.

Edited July 12, 2015 by alankin

[BFrank]

Threadgill

Yes - that, too.

[mikeweil]

Yesterday it was single discs from the Beiderbecke/Trumbauer/Teagarden, Lionel Hampton Victor, and H.R.S. Sessions boxes.

[TedR]

Roy Eldridge Mosaic, disc 6, the Dixieland session. I'll play the other discs (haven't listened to disc 7 yet) more than this maybe. But they sure are having fun and for a studio recording to have this much energy (some over the top drumming and all) is pretty unique. Committed playing all around. I've gained a greater appreciation for Roy Eldridge because of this set. 

Edited July 16, 2015 by TedR

[Justin V]

I picked this up last month.  I'm about to listen to the half of the set with Stanley Cowell, Clint Houston and Clifford Barbaro.  I enjoyed the tracks with Cowell, Cecil McBee, who is easily one of my favorite bassists, and Jimmy Hopps, whose playing I hadn't heard before.

[sidewinder]

 

 

Complete Horace Parlan Blue Note set - LP7 ('Happy Frame of Mind' session). I'd forgotten just how good the sonics were on this set, helped by the 180g pressing weight. Lovely !

[BFrank]

I picked this up last month.  I'm about to listen to the half of the set with Stanley Cowell, Clint Houston and Clifford Barbaro.  I enjoyed the tracks with Cowell, Cecil McBee, who is easily one of my favorite bassists, and Jimmy Hopps, whose playing I hadn't heard before.

FYI - that set is ALL good! 

[Justin V]

I picked this up last month.  I'm about to listen to the half of the set with Stanley Cowell, Clint Houston and Clifford Barbaro.  I enjoyed the tracks with Cowell, Cecil McBee, who is easily one of my favorite bassists, and Jimmy Hopps, whose playing I hadn't heard before.

FYI - that set is ALL good! 

After hearing the Cowell/Houston/Barbaro tracks for the first time last night, I definitely agree.  I actually picked it up without even knowing who was on it, so I'm glad that my blind faith was rewarded.  For being a live collection, both bassists were recorded particularly well, which is a blessing given how strong McBee and Houston are. My only Tolliver-led date that I owned before picking up the Mosaic Select was With Love, so I think that I made a great decision in picking up this set.

EDIT: I hope that that was a general FYI for the uninitiated and that I hadn't given the impression somehow that I didn't like the band with Cowell,Houston and Barbaro, which I was about to hear for the first time when I posted.

Edited July 19, 2015 by Justin V

[BFrank]

I picked this up last month.  I'm about to listen to the half of the set with Stanley Cowell, Clint Houston and Clifford Barbaro.  I enjoyed the tracks with Cowell, Cecil McBee, who is easily one of my favorite bassists, and Jimmy Hopps, whose playing I hadn't heard before.

FYI - that set is ALL good! 

After hearing the Cowell/Houston/Barbaro tracks for the first time last night, I definitely agree.  I actually picked it up without even knowing who was on it, so I'm glad that my blind faith was rewarded.  For being a live collection, both bassists were recorded particularly well, which is a blessing given how strong McBee and Houston are. My only Tolliver-led date that I owned before picking up the Mosaic Select was With Love, so I think that I made a great decision in picking up this set.

Those original Slugs albums were the first I heard of Tolliver, and became a huge fan after that. Still some of my favorite music.