Stefan Wood

Happy birthday! All the best!

...... in addition to the Captain and Tenille collection you keep boasting about, that alone can rot foam, wiring, and the faux wood panelling of the speakers!

The problem for me is that I have not met anyone who is interested in dating an "artist." Sure, it sounds cool when you are telling your friends that you are dating an artist, but to have a relationship? Not in my world, try as I might. Problem too is living in DC there are too many people who don't look favorably on my profession, for whatever reason. I've met and went out with some nice ladies, but I have never had a long term relationship. I like where I live and my job, but socially it is rough. I am in a deadly circle that is hard to get out of.

Heard from bertrand yesterday. I tried to post a note here but the board was down, at least temporarily. Moncur was supposed to be smoking, I mean freakin fantastic! If he comes to your town, check him out -- he has a working group that is all great. Hopefully we'll get more details about the NYC concert.

Yes indeed. But why sell at all? I've held on to my Mosaic vinyl, as I recall that at least one early review of the Blue Note CD set complained of bad sound and drop-outs. Can anyone confirm this? Not true. It sounds fine.

Honestly, I haven't had any problems with McMaster's remastered cds. I pick up the McLean and the Evans.

Gotta disagree with you there; his incessant and self-congratulatory rambling has made listening to this broadcast a freakin' chore! Schapp's voice is the sound of a man who thinks he knows everything there is to know about jazz, and he'll be the first one to tell you. Hell, I got so frustrated today I fired off an e-mail to WKCR to ask them to PLEASE make Schapp shut up and play some music! It's like we get a half-hour of music, and then a half-hour of talkin' a lot and sayin' nothing (as JB once said). I was being kind. He ticks me off as well at times; however, for all the babbling there is info to be gained; and given the state of jazz radio today that is a compromise I can deal with. That station is at its best with these tributes; its an education.

If it's Phil Schaap, he does talk a lot. Wealth of info, though.

James Brown - Hot Pants (Polygram) $1 in mint condition Three Sounds (Limelight) $1 Japanese import, also mint

Dynasty. Friggin masterpiece!

I wish his Mainstream lps would be reissued in total. Mosaic Select anyone?

I picked this up - the Complete Planet of the Apes set. It's for freaking completists, but I love it. The movies, not the packaging. I have to hide the Cornelius in the closet, cause it's freaking me out!

Great!!! I have the Blackburn/Hill Fresh Sound, and will sell it once the Connoisseurs come out. This is some good music the people should check out.

It exists. I saw the footage at the Library of Congress, along with Bertrand.

Damn, has it been 12 years????

I might pick this up. He's one artist whose studio and live performances are very different.

Got a huge stack of modern classical for a $1 a pop, like Elliott Carter, Richard Yardumian, Xanaksis, etc., and a nice stash of Louisville Records as well.

Look, if you guys don't come to DC, I'm gonna have to dump you guys and go with the Bad Plus forum......

Look, I love Wayne Shorter, and I do agree that his compositions on those lps are overlooked -- I listened to Phantom Navigator recently, and the tunes are great, but the 80's synthesizer and electric bass kills it for me for repeated listening. I can't filter it out. I don't usually have a bias towards particular instruments used in certain periods of music, but this is an exception. Perhaps it also has to do with recording for CBS, as I have heard live recordings which make for more interesting listening.

This is probably a match made in hell. Wong Kar Wai's films take a looooooong time to produce, and he changes directions in the middle of filming, which would drive the Hollywood suits nuts. And why Lady from Shanghai????

I had the original pressing, which I used in the test. This is a smoking session all the way!

Sorry for the delay, but now there's a snowstorm outside I have time to relax a bit and finish giving the answers. Here are those for disc 2: 1 - Inward Fire - Clifford Jordan (Inward Fire - Muse) Dizzy Reese - t, Pat Patrick - sax, Howard Johnson, Muhal Richard Abrams -p, Richard Davis - b, Louis Hayes - d 2 - Rising Daystar - Malachi Thompson (Rising Dayster - Delamrk) with Gary Bartz, Fred Hopkins, Dana Hall 3 - Hominy Grits - JFK Quintet (New Jazz Frontiers from Washington - Riverside) w/ Ray Codrington - t, Andy White - alto, HArry Killgo - p, Walter Booker Jr. - b, Carl Newman - d 4 - Still Life - The Jazz Five (The Five of Us - Jasmine) Vic Ash - tenor/clarinet, Harry Klein - baritone, Grian Dee - p, Malcolm Cecil - b, Tony Mann - d 5 - Convulsions- The Awakening (Hear, Sense, and Feel - Black Jazz) Ken Chaney - p, Frank Gordon - t, Richard Brown - tenor, Arlington Davis - d, Steve Galloway - trombone, Reggie Willis -b 6 - Gypsy Blue - James Spaulding (Blues Nexus - Muse) Dan Faulk - tenor sax, Ronnie Matthews - p, Ray Drummond - b, and Louis Hayes - d 7 - Charles McPherson - Explorations (McPherson's Mood - Prestige) Barry Harris - p, Buster Williams - b, Roy Brooks -d 8 - Eighth Wonder - Dick Griffin (The Eighth Wonder and More - Konnex) Sam Rivers - sax, Ron Burton - p, Cecil McBee - b, Freddie Waits - d, Warren Smith - vibes, Leo Smith - perc 9 - Quicksand - Ted Curson (The Trio - Interplay) Ray Drummond - b, Roy Haynes - d 10- Get Out of Town - Frank Strozier (Remember Me - Steeplechase) Danny Moore - flugelhorn, Howard Johnson - tuba, Harold Mabern - p, Lisle Atkinson -b, Michael Carvin - d 11 - Fun Time - Paul Horn (Profile of a Jazz Musician - Columbia) E,il Richards - vibes, Paul Moer - p, Victor Gaskin - b, Milt Turner - d 12 - The Groover - Pucho and the Latin Soul Brothers (Best of Pucho and the Latin Soul Brothers - OJC) 13 - Conquistador - Chico Hamilton (El Chico - Impulse!) Sadao Watanabe - alto, Gabor Szabo -g, Al Stinson - b, Jimmy Cheatham -trombone, Willie Bobo and Victor Pant - percussion

Weren't we discussing what Mosaic was going to do next? This is very good news indeed.