Which Mosaic Are You Enjoying Right Now?

[brownie]

Buck Clayton Complete CBS Jam Sessions, disc 2

[A slice of the top]

Which Mosaic am I enjoying right now? Sonny Stitt...just in case I forgot how bad he was - and I never will.

[BruceH]

Which Mosaic am I enjoying right now? Sonny Stitt...just in case I forgot how bad he was - and I never will.

I sometimes forget...but not for long.

[brownie]

Curtis Amy Select, disc 3

[jazzbo]

The Prima sides from the Prima/Manone Mosaic. (I have the Prima sides as an iTunes playlist and going).

[king ubu]

Lon, what's the Prima/Manone like? What could you compare the music to?

I just started exploring the great Max Roach set - discs 1-3, with "Max" (Argo) in between the two "Plays Charlie Parker" dates, now planning to continue with the tuba band dates (incl. Riverside & Time albums), after the live set from Newport 1958! Booker Little is marvellous already on the first date (disc 3)!

[jazzbo]

Oh it's early jazz, New Orleans style. . . I don't know how to explain it otherwise. Has lots of ARMSTRONG in it in the trumpeting and singing. I really like it. I'm a big fan of Wingy, and I like this early Prima much more than any later Prima; there are sides with Pee Wee Russell in the band that are very good.

Sound is very good; maybe a tad bright, depends on your system.

[king ubu]

Thanks Lon - that's another set where I'm not sure I really need it, but still...

[jazzbo]

Well it all depends on how much you listen to the earlier stuff. .. .

I listen to this set more often than the Donaldson or Turrentine or Mitchell. . . but I'm weird.

[ASNL77]

Jackie McLean 1964-66 Blue Note sessions. LP 2 and 3. I really like the 'Action' session.

Edited July 30, 2007 by ASNL77

[B. Clugston]

The just arrived Big John Patton Mosaic Select and Woody's Winners.

[BFrank]

JJJ - Disk V

[Durium]

FATS WALLER

Fats Waller Memorial Box no. 1

RCA

CD 2

Keep swinging

Durium

[BruceH]

Bud Shank.

[sidewinder]

Andrew Hill Mosaic Select (first set), CD2. That track 'Illusion' is a killer !

[BruceH]

Went through the whole Blue Mitchell Mosaic the other night.

[gmonahan]

Maynard Ferguson Roulette box, discs 1-2

[jazzbo]

Randy Weston Select. . . disc two. . . .

This is such a great set.

[Matthew]

The Complete H.R.S. Sessions. Disk one.

[brownie]

The Roy Eldridge on Verve box, disc 4

[king ubu]

Admiring the Herman Capitol that just arrived... no listening so far yet, though.

[king ubu]

Just played the "Quiet As It's Kept" date again (Roach disc 6), as well as the next, instrumental-only, album with the Turrentine/Priester band -very nice! Now on with Tommy T's Time album and possibly the Enja live album and then tomorrow the last of the Mercury albums done in Paris - all nicely in chronological order - fascinating to hear Max's playing evolving over the years!

[thomastreichler]

Over the last to days: The Complete Capitol Recordings Of Woody Herman (purchased on the occasion of the second chance opportunity of few weeks ago)

For the most part this is great music - an unjustly underrated period of Woody's career. The Herman herds of the Capitol period (1948-50, 1954-56) bring together first rate musicians (section players and soloists) and superb charts by some of the best arrangers of the time. By the way, until listening to this set I wasn't aware of how great a big band drummer Chuck Flores was. There are some oddities none the less: the somewhat corny dixieland sides (kind of a throwback to Woody's vaudeville days) and the slightly commercial tracks using vocal groups. But the rest is pure big band jazz outstandingly performed.

[king ubu]

Over the last to days: The Complete Capitol Recordings Of Woody Herman (purchased on the occasion of the second chance opportunity of few weeks ago)

For the most part this is great music - an unjustly underrated period of Woody's career. The Herman herds of the Capitol period (1948-50, 1954-56) bring together first rate musicians (section players and soloists) and superb charts by some of the best arrangers of the time. By the way, until listening to this set I wasn't aware of how great a big band drummer Chuck Flores was. There are some oddities none the less: the somewhat corny dixieland sides (kind of a throwback to Woody's vaudeville days) and the slightly commercial tracks using vocal groups. But the rest is pure big band jazz outstandingly performed.

Yes, I'm looking forward to hearing Flores in this context! I mostly know him from the Bud Shank Quartet (four albums in the great Shank Pacific Mosaic).

So two of those zombie Mosaics made their way to Zurich... I guess that's why everybody thinks we're rich, but God know I am so broke now

[Matthew]

The Complete Anita O'Day Verve/Clef Sessions. Disk one.