Charlie Mingus Candid Recordings

[hbbfam]

I recently listened to a friend's copy of the Mosaic Charles Mingus Candid Rcordings. It is really good with very good sound, IMO. It is out of print and quite spendy. Most of these tracks are on the following albums:

Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus, Mingus, Reincarnation of a Lovebird, Mysterious Blues and Newport Rebels.

Has anyone compared these CDs to the Mosaic Box? Recommendations?

[kh1958]

See prior discussion.

[Chuck Nessa]

Not sure about current versions of Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus but the early cds sounded like crap. The story told was that the original stereo masters were missing and an inferior tape was used. Because of this problem Mosaic used the original mono tapes for the set. They sound dandy.

[erwbol]

The Spanish Solar release copies the sound of the Mosaic and adds a track or two to disc two.

Their Cecil Taylor release does not copy the Mosaic sound.

I've heard some Candid CDs are now CD-Rs.