king ubu

hey, who took my nuts?

But no matter how much we try, we won't be able to reproduce terminology of a by-gone era nowadays... I mean I would have issues if quotes got mis-treated by fitting them into current terminology or if old books would be adapted. But I really do think Pullman is entitled to use the terminology he wants to for his own narration.

Interesting... I just got a mail from amazon.fr moving back the expected release/delivery to March 31! Lame, will compare prices with other sources, I guess. Oh well, just did... and I'll just wait and pay some euros less.

Yeah, he's great on those Lennie's discs! Plenty of music on the two CDs!

There's one he made with Art Pepper, too... haven't heard it for quite some time though.

Yeah, Thad/Mel, Elvin and RTF for me, too... with Elvin, there's a nice live one on Enja, in addition to the Blue Notes (the trio plus Hannibal on trumpet on one track). Farrell's fine on that one Hill Conn he's on (Dance with Death?) That Xanadu looks mighty interesting, Jim! Farrell and Teddy! I got to look for that!

Got the orange one last autumn... the box itself in better condition, but vinyl all looks good and clean in both boxes. Love having it all, finally! (Though I guess I would have enjoyed a complete Mosaic CD box even more.)

Yes, very much in the same boat here! (Lon, you forgot the wonderful Aladdin set!)

Gee, I guess I'd have to go through virtually hundreds and hundreds of crappy James Last and Cap'n Cook LPs to find any Hazy vinyl here! He's not stored with anything that I'm regularly browsing for... never, ever saw an LP of his!

Yes, I think I do understand Honestly, I've not (at least consciously) heard a lot of his music yet... but my interest is piqued for sure, and I do enjoy some of this jazzed-up pop stuff if it's done well (Kaempfert, for instance, though that's a different sound). Will look for the box and then see if I feel like exploring more.

You mean the music on the box is rather more adventurous (or jazzy) than that "rare jazz" disc? Just to clarify!

some details here: http://www.jazzindex.ch/de/album.php?Album=62534&Begriff=Hazy+Osterwald+And+His+Bands+-+%3D

Steve, do you happen to know this one: Seems only two tunes are duplicated between the 4CD set and this single disc. The box seems to be a bit difficult to find, got to search some more...

I like that comparison And yes, Davis is amazing on all those albums from around that time! He was one of the first bass players I ever heard that really made me listen and think and replay just listening to the bass and listen more and think more... some mind-bending stuff going on in his playing in the second half of the sixties (roughly).

That this sold so well and fast may not have anything to do with size, but maybe with the allure of Pres. I often think there's a market section that Mosaic has for the older styles of jazz that may exist outside the internet, that is there may be a sizable number of buyers that we never see on the boards, but get the catalogs and order. They may have been waiting for just such a set and hopped right on it. Anyway, I'm so glad that this set was a success. It's a well-deserved success. That may well be true indeed! Some of these "old jazz" Mosaics can occasionally still be found in some weird specialist stores, too... they just buy them for their possibly mostly non-internet-savvy clientele. I believe we learned that the target size was 7, in economic terms. Correct. Okay, wasn't aware of that... too bad, really! This may sound silly, but someone who started buying Mosaics when the Tristano/Konitz/Marsh (my first) one or the Guiffre were new, six is kind of okay, and seven or more is of course okay as well, but it's just inside my head that beginning with seven, it's a "big" box, needing more talking me into buying it etc. I think the only one bigger than six discs I bought early on was the Basie live (the studio was, alas, already gone). Guess in those days, five or six discs still made sense, economically... at least that's what the releases in the 160s and 170s suggest (okay, there's the Kenton, the Maynaaaaaard which I missed alas, the Classic Capitol which was back then the largest one around and I did eventually buy it). Economy changed alright, and Mosaic suffers from that quite some, I assume... and it would likely be suicidal to raise prices. Anyway, again I wasn't aware of the seven discs threshold.

Me, too, Jim! No tongue-in-cheek there! @mjzee: sorry for misunderstanding then. I can very well relate to what you said in the follow-up post to mine - been in such a situation for many years, too (well not one with lots of responsibility, family etc, but just having limited funds and having to take decisions upon what to buy and what not).

James Newton - Luella Some fine stuff there... I still prefer "The African Flower" though, that one's plain amazing! Whatever happened to James Newton anyway?

That's not really the question. Assuming you had $50 to spend on music, would you spend it on Joe Daley or on a few of the hundreds of other titles on your never-ending want list? Is it not? Now I'm not abstain from visiting my favorite movie theater (where I can get in much cheaper thanks to a yearly subscription), but I'm perfectly willing to now and then save on other things in order to buy more music. But to answer your question: I guess what you're implying (that I'd rather buy then cheapo sets and hence get what... 120 discs for that amount) isn't entirely wrong. And it's indeed an issue... we've all been americanized and want everything we can get for as little as possible. Too bad, really. Quality product has it's price, and that's a fact. And yes, I'm willing to pay more for it every now and then. But the big question is: are there enough people willing and interested for Jonathan to break even... I don't have the answer, but I'm lamenting that whole wide-spread degenerate consumerist attitude, I really do (and I fall into that trap too often, myself, and sometimes enjoy great deals but other times hate myself for doing it and ending up with stuff I'd just not bought if it had cost doulbe the amount).

I got my Basie 1941-51 10LP box today... so I've got all the Columbia (Vocalion/OKeh) Basie I need. The Mosaic set is very good, it has a different focus and maybe better sound than the vinyl (I've not tried to compare)... and it's of course mainly a Pres set with Basie providing the frame. Would have been even better if it had been a Pres set along the lines of the Chu Berry set, also including the Billie Holiday and Teddy Wilson (roughly 3CD?) material for the same label(s). But I love it as it is, and it's certainly more of a homogenic package as it is now. One more thought: ever since they started the Selects, smaller boxes have gotten fewer and far between... does this comparatively fast sale of the Pres/Basie suggest there's more of a market for smaller and hence cheaper boxes? I love the old 3CD and 4CD boxes... with Fuller, McLean, Rivers, Mitchell etc. etc. there have been plenty. If it's got to be five CDs to make it feasible with all the costs to produce the entire packaging, that's fine, too. Those have also gotten scarce (Turrentine, Hampton, Quincy, Hackett, Pass are the recent ones, though the Hackett's from 2001 - and I still don't have it...) Not suggesting they should first decide on size and then find what they can fit in - that would be completely wrong. But I'm sure there's plenty of options in that range, too!

Not sure what your $$ are worth, but for 50$ I can just about have one meal at a mid-class restaurant, catch 2,5 movies, drink around 10 beers or 3 whiskeys at a bar... I'm more than willing to pay that amount (I'd also pay 60) for something that I assume is great... and I bet curiosity would get the better of me even if I hadn't heard the RCA album (I have, but not in adequate form) I'd jump for it! But maybe that's just me... Also, isn't this here supposed to be the marketing campaign?

James Newton (Grammavision)

Anthony Davis / James Newton / Abdul Wadud - I've Known Rivers

Vol. XVI

Got the Basie Vol. 11-20 (1941-1951) box in... for just under 22€ - looks very good, some records virtually unplayed, some with minor fingerprints and a few scratches that look harmless... will spin some of it very soon!

and now disc 2 (1975): Twet