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Well, it has Miles written all over it .... if it was Monk, or any other Columbia artsist of that era, no chance. Miles and Trane are the only artists the majors will take a risk of such box sets. Yep - very sad that Sony didn't even get Basie right in 2004 ... and the same with Ellington - still too many open gaps there in the fifties and sixites - here's hope for another Mosaic box dedicated to ducal sounds!

Well, they do cater to classical audiences, but then those are huge compared to jazz. Is Universal the only major still doing a little bit of jazz every other year? EMI is dead, Sony has stopped nearly a decade ago ... I sure am glad I caught the tail end of the eighties and was around for most of the nineties to buy tons and tons of reissues!

(and I think we all ought to get that Alice Clark disc! at least I do have to!)

Also 154 years ago the first confirmation dog show in Newcastle-upon-Tyne ... ah the miracles of english culture!

Ace/BGP's site: http://acerecords.co.uk/bgp-label DOH! Guess I'm too tired to post ...

Definitely! They could easily reissue this as a cheapo set ... (and btw, at today' exchange rate, I paid around 200$ when I got my new copy in a local shop, sometime in the late 90s - but back then it would have been more like 130$ or so ... that also explains why Mosaic feels nearly like a cheapo label to me, these days )

Oh, good to see they're legit? Since looking on amazon is a bit hit and miss, would anyone care to share the entire list here?

some UK label (PD? is this all PD, is that the reason for no links?) did a 3CD box of the entire Gil Scott Heron material ... haven't been through it all yet, but it's a very nicely done set!

You forgot about Lenin and the dadaist movement ... that one's actually real (well, maybe ... Hugo Ball writes about the balalaika orchestra playing at Cabaret Voltaire and some weird Russian-looking chap visiting). Tom Stoppard wrote a great play, "Travesties", about Joyce, Lenin and Tristan Tsara (sp?) all being in Zurich at the same time. Got to look for that, thanks! (The spelling is Tzara, btw ... bag of hot air mostly, but fun hot air for sure!)

Yup, very good music!

Satchmo and Kenny G ... oh, wait!

Indeed, Byas wasn't served too well so far ... there was another disc of his predating the black digipack series, but I never actually saw it for sale anywhere. I'd still love someone serious re-do those cheapo Definitive boxes and compile all his American and European sessions from those years - there's lots of wonderful music to be found there!

I'd not hold my breath ... but yeah, and if they include "Zodiac" I will get the next box, too - that's for sure! They did take a few silly decisions here though, I find - like including halves or thirds of previous discs. I didn't check, but does it say anything about remasterings? I'd have expected this box to use the ones from the "Original Vogue Masters" series (ca. 1997-2000 mostly, and sounding alright to my ears).

Oh, sure it's common knowledge, but I still get the impression - and heavily so! - that his fanboys are in full denial mode (and that includes with one or two notable exceptions all his heirs and profiteers).

So gardening is important but sexual orientation is not? Frankly, the mind boggles. I'm entirely with Larry here. I also cringe about all the Wagner jubilee activities where they totally ignore his blatant antisemitism (he wrote that one essay in Zurich and he's being celebrated all over here, but not a word one hears). It's all part of the big picture -

Damn, it's the other Hill I need!

Only got hold of the Singer recently ... and yes, it's fine indeed! Go get it, MG! (edited for typo)

Oh, wow! I had no idea, thanks!

Oh, I do! Rollins I missed once, but caught him another time, saw Mitchell in a very strong solo performance once, but never yet Ornette - no one willing to pay his fees in rich Switzerland, I guess. Okay, obviously those locations where he'd fit aren't rich at all ... and the high-brow places that do book Rollins have no use for Ornette's - or Taylor's - music, alas.

I guess I can gladly book that under "superfluous" ... no need to re-buy stuff again and again, I'd rather see the few remaining rarities out and around. And maybe - despite Cuscuna's reluctancy - the odd unissued/canned session, too.

Ram Ramirez Carlos the Jackal Jack the Ripper

Happy Birthday!

Exactly. Sorry I wasn't clearer. Beside his playing....you really have to marvel at it all. One of those I will road trip/fly to anything I can, Oh, okay - I thought you meant something like he was in decline or some other negative thing. Glad it's the other way 'round! I only had one chance to see him live so far - in duo with Tony Oxley -, travelled quite a bit, too (including a stay overnight), and it was more than worth it!

What's the state of EMI anyway? Whom do they belong to, and do those have any interest in releasing any jazz at all? In classical, they seem to run their new productions mainly via Virgin Classics, but EMI itself seems to have mostly turned into a reissues operation. Wish it were at least that in jazz, but it's rather totally quantité négligeable there, it seems (no matter if Was or not).

What's that supposed to mean?