Which Mosaic Are You Enjoying Right Now?

[Stefan Wood]

Don Byas disc 1.

Absolutely loving this.  

[T.D.]

[Stefan Wood]

Gerry Mullian Concert Band recordings disc 4

[John Tapscott]

[BFrank]

[Ed S]

Edited August 22 by Ed S

[ghost of miles]

[John Tapscott]

Yep. Me too!

[mikeweil]

[Stompin at the Savoy]

I hesitated over this set for a long time because I had a lot of it on individual releases and the set ran a bit expensive used.  Recently I came across a copy for quite a reasonable price and it arrived yesterday.  I did not realize that this set had so much more material than some of the original releases!  Very nice sound on the Malcolm Addey mastering, too. 

[mikeweil]

[GA Russell]

Disc 3

[gmonahan]

Relistening to the Bob Crosby set, now on disc 2.

 

Edited November 7 by gmonahan

[gmonahan]

And disc 3. Some fine work by Irving Fazola on this one.

 

[jazzcorner]

On 8/3/2025 at 7:32 PM, John Tapscott said:

❤️

Mosaic MD 5 -237 - Quincy Jones "The ABC / Mercury Big Band Sessions" - rec. 1956 to 12964

[gmonahan]

[Dub Modal]

the Hank D'Amico tracks on CD2 are gold. 

D'Amico on clarinet was completely off my radar before. Those songs are tight. Keeping going on this one...

[Big Beat Steve]

7 hours ago, Dub Modal said:

 

the Hank D'Amico tracks on CD2 are gold. 

D'Amico on clarinet was completely off my radar before. Those songs are tight. Keeping going on this one...

The Hank D'Amico session you are referring to has been present on the reissue market since the 80s on the 2-LP anthology "The Changing Face of Harlem Vol. 2" (Savoy).  A  very nice compilation, and along with its Vol. 1 companion volume it occupies some space in the "Second copies" corner of my record shelves (which I guess is saying something ).

Additional listening suggestion for Hank D'Amico: "Holiday With Hank" (recorded for Bethlehem in the 50s and reissued most recently in Japan).

[Dub Modal]

1 hour ago, Big Beat Steve said:

The Hank D'Amico session you are referring to has been present on the reissue market since the 80s on the 2-LP anthology "The Changing Face of Harlem Vol. 2" (Savoy).  A  very nice compilation, and along with its Vol. 1 companion volume it occupies some space in the "Second copies" corner of my record shelves (which I guess is saying something ).

Additional listening suggestion for Hank D'Amico: "Holiday With Hank" (recorded for Bethlehem in the 50s and reissued most recently in Japan).

I may have seen those LPs in a store around here recently. Will keep my eyes peeled for it. Thanks for the rec as well 🍻

One thing I didn't realize with this set after ripping it to my library is that several discs are tagged as "pop" instead of jazz in the metadata. That kind of mislabeling leads it to being missed when using my player and selecting the jazz category. Anyway, remedied that issue.

[jlhoots]

McLean

[Big Beat Steve]

3 hours ago, Dub Modal said:

One thing I didn't realize with this set after ripping it to my library is that several discs are tagged as "pop" instead of jazz in the metadata. That kind of mislabeling leads it to being missed when using my player and selecting the jazz category. Anyway, remedied that issue.

Don Byas? Pop?? This??? 

What were they thinking at Mosaic??

I could understand the "pop" tag with some of his French ballad recordings from the 50s, but here??

[medjuck]

22 minutes ago, Big Beat Steve said:

Don Byas? Pop?? This??? 

What were they thinking at Mosaic??

I could understand the "pop" tag with some of his French ballad recordings from the 50s, but here??

Do the labels create the metadata?

[Big Beat Steve]

Someone who digitized the recordings, I guess? So wasn't Mosaic involved at some point (remastering, for example??) in this process for each of these recordings that went into their releases? Even if they weren't the first to have digitized the music.