Sets you wish Mosaic would do

[Late]

... you know that Bley got tape ...

True that.

[crisp]

Highly unlikely given Michael Cuscuna's tastes, but I would also like to see:

Cal Tjader on Verve

Jonah Jones on Capitol

Andre Previn on Columbia

Actually, Columbia ought to do a Popmaster-style original jacket box of Previn's jazz albums. He's a big name and it would sell to classical listeners wanting to add a little jazz to their collections.

[medjuck]

Back to Mosaic, I've always wanted to see a set of all the Sony BMG-owned early jazz recordings that fell out of the scope of other sets (not just Mosaic). So, for example, all the Teddy Wilson sides without Billie; the Basie sides without Lester Young, etc. Also, aren't there sessions that couldn't be used in some sets because they were owned by Decca? ISTR Bix and Mildred Bailey were two of them. A set covering that sort of material would be good, if there's enough of it.

I'm all for the Teddy Wilson sides without Billie. IIRC Sony Canada (maybe it was just Columbia then) once released a 2 Lp set of Teddy Wilson that included some of the Billei sides but a lot of other material. I stupidly didn't buy it at the time.

Edited May 21, 2013 by medjuck

[crisp]

I wonder how much non-Billie Teddy Wilson material there is. Enough for a set of its own? Perhaps padded out with Wison's later material for Columbia?

[mikeweil]

Highly unlikely given Michael Cuscuna's tastes, but I would also like to see:

Cal Tjader on Verve

Forget it. There have been considerations many years ago and inquiries, but Universal said they weren't interested. Hip-O-Select? I dunno ...

[crisp]

Highly unlikely given Michael Cuscuna's tastes, but I would also like to see:

Cal Tjader on Verve

Forget it. There have been considerations many years ago and inquiries, but Universal said they weren't interested. Hip-O-Select? I dunno ...

That's strange. Mosaic is interested but Universal is not? I thought Universal would license Mosaic anything. A Hip-O would be nice.

Edited May 21, 2013 by crisp

[Stefan Wood]

A Don Byas Mosaic. Yes, his stuff was reissued, throught mostly European labels, but if you can get Malcolm Addey's hands on them.......

[Joe]

A Don Byas Mosaic. Yes, his stuff was reissued, throught mostly European labels, but if you can get Malcolm Addey's hands on them.......

Another vote for this. Would be especially nice to have his 40's discography straightened out.

[king ubu]

Oh yes, absolutely Don Byas!

[clifford_thornton]

A Don Byas Mosaic. Yes, his stuff was reissued, throught mostly European labels, but if you can get Malcolm Addey's hands on them.......

And our cih could contribute handily to it!

[J.A.W.]

I could be totally wrong, but I doubt Mosaic would do a Don Byas set; I think the research and licensing cost would be too high with all those labels he recorded for, it probably wouldn't be cost-effective - unless someone would sponsor the whole project, of course

Edited May 22, 2013 by J.A.W.

[king ubu]

Alas I'm afraid your doubts are right on the money ... I still love the idea though.

[James Accardi]

Another "vote" for a Wardell set!
I'd love to see a "Count Basie at the Royal Roost - The Complete Recordings", as there's still a lot of unissued material from Boris Rose's collection.

And a Teddy Wilson (minus Billie) set would be fantastic.

Masters of Jazz of course put out five CDs exactly like this: two volumes of "The Legendary Small Groups", and three volumes of "Teddy and the Girls".

[crisp]

How about:

Roland Kirk on Atlantic

Lee Konitz on Verve

[romualdo]

How about:

Roland Kirk on Atlantic

Lee Konitz on Verve

Yes on both, esp Konitz - Michael C talked about a Konitz Verve set years ago - hasn't happened

[jazztrain]

Another "vote" for a Wardell set!

I'd love to see a "Count Basie at the Royal Roost - The Complete Recordings", as there's still a lot of unissued material from Boris Rose's collection.

And a Teddy Wilson (minus Billie) set would be fantastic.

Masters of Jazz of course put out five CDs exactly like this: two volumes of "The Legendary Small Groups", and three volumes of "Teddy and the Girls".

Excellent issues of Teddy WIlson small group sides are still available on Hep (1012, 1014, 1020, 1029, 1035, and 1043). There's also Hep 1043 which covers his big band sides as well as four small group sides from 1940.

I only wish that Hep had issued material from the 9/16/41 and 7/31/42 small group dates for Columbia.

[SwingItTrev]

I was wanting that recently released early Earl Hines set for ages, so now that that's done, next on my fantasy Mosaic list is a 30s/40s Charlie Barnet set (there's not much out there in good sound).

Otherwise something like an Andy Kirk/Mary Lou Williams set, or a 40s Lucky Millinder set would be next on my dream list.

[colinmce]

Any Mary Lou set would be very valuable.

[Bol]

Lars Gullin & Bengt Hallberg Metronome & Phillips sessions

I know that many of these are available through Dragon. But those CDs sound like the music has a severe cold.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I was wanting that recently released early Earl Hines set for ages, so now that that's done, next on my fantasy Mosaic list is a 30s/40s Charlie Barnet set (there's not much out there in good sound).

Otherwise something like an Andy Kirk/Mary Lou Williams set, or a 40s Lucky Millinder set would be next on my dream list.

Millinder's 1941-1950 material is available on 3 Chronological (sorry Chronogical ) Classics CDs. Very nice stuff but I wonder what the benefit of a small Mosaic box (which they no longer do anyway) covering the same period might be.

MG

[J.A.W.]

I was wanting that recently released early Earl Hines set for ages, so now that that's done, next on my fantasy Mosaic list is a 30s/40s Charlie Barnet set (there's not much out there in good sound).

Otherwise something like an Andy Kirk/Mary Lou Williams set, or a 40s Lucky Millinder set would be next on my dream list.

Millinder's 1941-1950 material is available on 3 Chronological (sorry Chronogical ) Classics CDs. Very nice stuff but I wonder what the benefit of a small Mosaic box (which they no longer do anyway) covering the same period might be.

MG

Probably better sound, but that's hypothetical now.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I was wanting that recently released early Earl Hines set for ages, so now that that's done, next on my fantasy Mosaic list is a 30s/40s Charlie Barnet set (there's not much out there in good sound).

Otherwise something like an Andy Kirk/Mary Lou Williams set, or a 40s Lucky Millinder set would be next on my dream list.

Millinder's 1941-1950 material is available on 3 Chronological (sorry Chronogical ) Classics CDs. Very nice stuff but I wonder what the benefit of a small Mosaic box (which they no longer do anyway) covering the same period might be.

MG

Probably better sound, but that's hypothetical now.

Well, I greatly enjoy those recordings on Chronogical Classics. I doubt if anyone would ever have thought of issuing the material in excellent sound. Would enough people be sufficiently interested in Millinder to secure a profit for the company doing to? We're all jazz fans (to some degree) on this board, but I bet there are precious few of us who have these 3 CDs. Fewer than 6, I'd guess.

MG

[miles65]

Well, I greatly enjoy those recordings on Chronogical Classics. I doubt if anyone would ever have thought of issuing the material in excellent sound. Would enough people be sufficiently interested in Millinder to secure a profit for the company doing to? We're all jazz fans (to some degree) on this board, but I bet there are precious few of us who have these 3 CDs. Fewer than 6, I'd guess.

MG

Let's start counting: I'm number 1

[J.A.W.]

I was wanting that recently released early Earl Hines set for ages, so now that that's done, next on my fantasy Mosaic list is a 30s/40s Charlie Barnet set (there's not much out there in good sound).

Otherwise something like an Andy Kirk/Mary Lou Williams set, or a 40s Lucky Millinder set would be next on my dream list.

Millinder's 1941-1950 material is available on 3 Chronological (sorry Chronogical ) Classics CDs. Very nice stuff but I wonder what the benefit of a small Mosaic box (which they no longer do anyway) covering the same period might be.

MG

Probably better sound, but that's hypothetical now.

Well, I greatly enjoy those recordings on Chronogical Classics. I doubt if anyone would ever have thought of issuing the material in excellent sound. Would enough people be sufficiently interested in Millinder to secure a profit for the company doing to? We're all jazz fans (to some degree) on this board, but I bet there are precious few of us who have these 3 CDs. Fewer than 6, I'd guess.

MG

Well, Millinder is not to everyone's taste

[SwingItTrev]

Probably better sound, but that's hypothetical now.

Well, I greatly enjoy those recordings on Chronogical Classics. I doubt if anyone would ever have thought of issuing the material in excellent sound. Would enough people be sufficiently interested in Millinder to secure a profit for the company doing to? We're all jazz fans (to some degree) on this board, but I bet there are precious few of us who have these 3 CDs. Fewer than 6, I'd guess.

MG

Well I'm #2.

Good sound would be the goal. My fantasy wish list is for good music that has only ever been released in relatively muddy sound and could use an overhaul. Lucky Millinder falls into that category and I would hope that anyone with an interest in Swing Era dance music or early Rhythm and Blues would snap such a thing up.