Sets you wish Mosaic would do

[king ubu]

A Joe Harriott box?

That's four votes: you, me, Bol and Romualdo...

:tup :tup

Vocalion have now put out so much of the previously rare Joe Harriott Lansdowne Series material and with much of the earlier stuff also on CD (Proper etc.) such a set - although a fantastic option - has probably now been overtaken by events (sadly).

Ditto. What's missing? (though of course the thought is beautiful!)

Hum Dono?

And that's enough to fill a box?

A whole box of 'Hum Dono' plus Tyrone Washington's 'Trainwreck' would get the orders flooding in..

Somebody definitely needs to write a folk ballad about that session.

Percy Mayfield's long gone ... and Terry Callier, too, by now. Guess it's too late.

But yeah, give us a 4CD box of "Hum Dono" (and three blanks if needed), I'll gladly pay the price

Edited June 6, 2013 by king ubu

[crisp]

........ but Mosaic seems to avoid organists for some reason.

...because they don't sell? I speak as someone who doesn't really enjoy jazz organists.

they did very nice big boxes of Jimmy Smith and Larry Young

But those were a loo-oong time ago. John Patton could have justified a big box but instead he got a rather frustrating Select. A Freddie Roach Select was mooted at one point, but never happened. I'm guessing Head Man is right and that they don't sell. Pity as a Shirley Scott Impulse box would be great.

[sidewinder]

A Freddie Roach Select would have been great ! Too bad it won't happen..

[romualdo]

A Freddie Roach Select would have been great ! Too bad it won't happen..

I contacted MC about this one a number of years ago (thought it would make a great Select) - he didn't think it would sell

Only one of the Roach's has been released in the US - the remainder Japanese only

[ghost of miles]

Carmen McRae, COMPLETE DECCA RECORDINGS.

[mjzee]

Lou Donaldson - Complete Argo & Cadet Recordings

[Chuck Nessa]

Complete Gennett jazz recordings, complete Pathe Ellingtons, complete Cecma sessions, complete John Lindberg sessions, and on and on.

Edited July 9, 2014 by Chuck Nessa

[Leeway]

I'm all in on CECMA and Lindberg.

[colinmce]

Any Mary Lou set would be very valuable.

Still waiting. Seems a natural fit...

[sidewinder]

Any Mary Lou set would be very valuable.

Still waiting. Seems a natural fit...

It would get my vote.

[romualdo]

Any Mary Lou set would be very valuable.

Still waiting. Seems a natural fit...

It would get my vote.

Same here but I'm still hanging out for the Giuffre and/or Konitz Verve sets that were mentioned by Michael years ago

[SwingItTrev]

Any Mary Lou set would be very valuable.

Still waiting. Seems a natural fit...

It would get my vote.

Mine too

[Leeway]

I wish Mosaic would do a John Carter box. I can foresee difficulties in obtaining the various rights, but such a box set would have a lot of artistic value.

[Jason Bivins]

Enthusiastic agreement on Carter! I've just been writing about Roots and Folklore for a book I'm completing and I can't believe how criminally overlooked Carter remains.

[mjazzg]

Enthusiastic agreement on Carter! I've just been writing about Roots and Folklore for a book I'm completing and I can't believe how criminally overlooked Carter remains.

A great run of albums

That sounds an interesting book....can you tell us more?

[Jason Bivins]

Yes, and thanks for the interest. As more than a few people on the board know, my day job is professor of religious studies. There's never been a decent book written on jazz in American religions, so I've written one. Oxford will be publishing it in 2015, likely in the spring. I'll start some kind of self-promotional thread when the time comes, I suppose, but Carter appears in a chapter focused on musicians who engage African-American religious history as such (so, Carter, Ellington, Marsalis, and in a different inflection, Mingus, Roach, Shepp, and Fred Ho).

[Chuck Nessa]

I'd wondered how that was coming. Best wishes.

[tranemonk]

I'm still waiting on my Betty Carter Select or full set...

[Chuck Nessa]

I knew Betty and if she was alive, you'd get a "FULL SET".

[tranemonk]

Can you go slap some sense into Cuscuna?

[Chuck Nessa]

LOL!

[colinmce]

Maybe after the Johnny Mathis set ....

[danasgoodstuff]

My personal dream set from Mosaic would have everything by the Muscle Shoals/Memphis hybrid band Atlantic assembled for a few choice sessions in '66-68. Most famously for aretha's first few for the label but also for an album and a half for Wilson Pickett, King Curtis Plays Great Memphis Hits, and one from Solomon Burke. (I don't have the albums or a discography in front of me but the defining aspect would be the exquisite and unusual combination of drummer Roger Hawkins from Muscle Shoals and bassist/guitarist tommy Cogbill from the dusty in Memphis band.) Make a nice Mosaic select.

Still my wish.

[Larry Kart]

Luis Russell, Bob Crosby -- perhaps they could be combined.

[JSngry]

Ok, fantasy wish - Mosaic gets, culls, and releases Paul Bley's private tapes, everybody makes money, and there comes world peace.

In that order.