Which Mosaic Are You Enjoying Right Now?

[Clunky]

1 hour ago, gmonahan said:

Disc III:

 

Another great set which I picked up just as it was going OOP. So glad I did. It's timeless music

[sidewinder]

On 05/05/2017 at 9:20 AM, Clunky said:

Commodore & Decca Condon & Freeman Sessions: disc V

beautiful music perfectly presented

Just about to crack that box open this morning, as I work through the pile !

[Clunky]

Gerry Mulligan Sextet on emArcy -LP4

 

pleasant, if not exactly earth shattering. 

[sidewinder]

Savoy Bebop Set CD1 on rotation here. Dexter doing his best to lift the roof !

[Clunky]

56 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

Savoy Bebop Set CD1 on rotation here. Dexter doing his best to lift the roof !

how do you find the sound ? 

[sidewinder]

59 minutes ago, Clunky said:

how do you find the sound ? 

No complaints so far, nice clear sound - having said that, I haven't tried comparing against the Arista 2LP sets (which I will probably do for the Dexter stuff). I like the booklet with this one - with the excellent introductory essay on Teddy Reig. What a mark that guy made on the world of music !  Too bad there weren't any Savoy session photos but I guess Mr Lubinsky didn't believe in all that..

Edited May 10, 2017 by sidewinder

[Clunky]

55 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

No complaints so far, nice clear sound - having said that, I haven't tried comparing against the Arista 2LP (which I will probably do for the Dexter stuff). I like the booklet with this one - with the excellent introductory essay on Teddy Reig. What a mark that guy made on the world of music !  Too bad there weren't any Savoy session photos but I guess Mr Lubinsky didn't believe in all that..

encouraging ,  I think there have been some negative comments about the sound on this and the Dial set ( which I don't have either). Music on both will be great and I have loads of it on 2LP sets and a few CDs and even a very few original Savoy 78s

[sidewinder]

I've been listening to both sets and so far, the view is positive. Don't have other CD sources to compare with but the sound is pretty clear, considering this is 70 year old music (gasp) and it is great to have it all compiled in archival sets. I think they did a pretty good job ! (stands back awaiting flame-out response..).

The music, of course, on both sets - is historic.

Edited May 10, 2017 by sidewinder

[sidewinder]

Just run a comparison between LP 1 track 2 'Blow Mr Dexter' from the Arista 2LP set and the same track on the Moaic set. There's no question that the sound of Dexter comes across in the Mosaic as more in focus and with a 'bigger' sound. Noticed though that there was what sounded to be a very short duration drop off on the Mosaic just before the piano solo - tape deterioration perhaps? All in all though I prefer the sound of the Mosaic, although the Lps are no slouch.

[Justin V]

Bunny Berigan - The Complete Brunswick, Parlophone and Vocalion Bunny Berigan Sessions, Disc 1: Imagine listening to the radio in the '30s and having Berigan's glorious trumpet come out of nowhere to smack you in the head.

[OliverM]

Just borrowed the Roy Eldridge from the library, listening to CD5 with Benny Carter, great music.

Edited May 13, 2017 by OliverM

[sidewinder]

 Condon/Freeman CD1. They have done the usual great job on the sound and some lovely music here.

[sidewinder]

CD1. More classic stuff.

[Ed S]

Listening to the Hines set that I recently picked up from Mosaic.  Disc 6 on right now, but I've been listening when time allow to the entire set starting Friday evening.

I am impressed.  Great set.

[mikeweil]

Same here, So far discs 1 and 7, right now I'm spinnging disc 2.

[mikeweil]

A great reminder for all those who didn't already know that Shearing was a great musician. But being aware that he was being recorded, he played it a bit safer than the exuberant Newport performance recorded a few months before the earliest session in this box set.

[king ubu]

Not enjoying it yet ... but I'll be picking up my JPJ (used/mint or near mint, around the same as official price, but no custom fees/taxes ) on the way home tonight ... and looking forward to that immensely!

Very happy to hear the news it's likely going to be re-pressed, but when I heard the bad news a few weeks ago, I just had to go for that one offer I could find that was sanely priced.

[AllenLowe]

5 hours ago, mikeweil said:

A great reminder for all those who didn't already know that Shearing was a great musician. But being aware that he was being recorded, he played it a bit safer than the exuberant Newport performance recorded a few months before the earliest session in this box set.

that does remind me that the best Shearing I ever heard was at Newport, around 1975 or so.  Nothing I have heard of him on record - or even live - since then comes close to his use of harmony on that gig (I remember a particularly amazing version of Django). Just in this sense I consider him one of the greats, and wished he'd opened up that  palette on more public occasions. It's a real loss to jazz that there is so little documentation of this side of him.

....though interestingly enough, I do remember that my mother, a pianist, had a book of Shearing's arrangements of standards, and Over the Rainbow was quite amazing - somewhat related to Bud's re-harmonization but still quite unique.

and holy moly, just in time for Mother's Day, here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs4y4pi6xzQ

 

[AllenLowe]

....and if you listen through this concert, there are some amazing points - part Tristano, part Nat Cole, but very personal (even though his bebop is strange):

 

 

 

[mikeweil]

That's great - his beat is as strong as that of the old stride pianists, in his own, very personal way. Shearing had an enormous palette, knew much more classical music than every other jazz pianist, I think. 

Your friend Dick Katz has a lot of good things to say about Shearing in his notes to the Mosaic box.

Oh, and I love his humour, the announcements and the musical side.

 

[mikeweil]

Bebop? He plays a Parker tune, but not boppishly - when I listen to the early quintet sides, there are tunes that are stylistically bebop, but he never plays typical bop piano - he listened to all the cats but was wise to never imitate them. He never swung his phrases like Bud or Hampton Hawes, his rhythm was different, a bit wilder.

7 hours ago, AllenLowe said:

(even though his bebop is strange)

 

 

 

 

[AllenLowe]

I think a lot of it has to do with his time sense, which is more pre-bop.

[mikeweil]

[gmonahan]

Disc II. Didn't like the first disc, but the second one is kind of a hoot.

 

[BFrank]

Disk #7. The last 2 disks (from the 80s) are much weaker than the rest of the box. I suppose they had to include them because it's "The Complete Muse Sessions," but I would have been happy with a 5-disk set of only the 60s-70s dates.