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Yeah, I had one no-go with the Pacific Trios as well... immediately sent in a second order, but no news... The Brookmeyer is great! Don't give up trying! Oh, and I've had the Mobley for many years - it's fantastic! (what else to expect!)

The Traveling Wilburys Collection (2CD + DVD, regular version) John Surman & Norma Winstone ECM Touchstones (dirt cheap from the sales bins, or I'd have skipped the Surman... the Winstone is a dupe, for my mother as a gift I guess...) and that disc by Allen Toussaint & Elvis Costello (from the sales bins as well)

My Curtis Amy is ordered from Movie Mars - no word on shipping after 2 days, but they still have it on Marketplace (price increased from approx $44 to $75). Let's hope we're lucky Tom! Similar situation here (different seller) with the Pacific Jazz Trios set... anxiously awaiting some kind of shipping/payment notification! Ordered on Thursday it should have been confirmed by yesterday evening, one would guess...

and Baden Powell! And what's that guy, he's got an early Blue Note session, Josh White? Guitar + whistling... I think I've only heard one tune (on that Dan Morgenstern-produced "Hot Jazz on Blue Note" box set).

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Might be nice to have some of the "backing" players there as well... Freddie Green (of course!) Al Hendrickson there's someone else I forgot about right now (would be on your list anyway I assume) George van Eps Robbie Robertson - or is that too far removed? Curtis Mayfield

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They're asking around 25$ for the single disc reissues here! Crazy! Even if I paid 10$ shipping per disc, buying them in the US would be cheaper!

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not strictly correct... Roy Ayers Ubiquity: S/T, has the bonus "He Gives Us All His Love" - previously available only on a rare promo 7". Yeah, it appears that McCoy's Today and Tomorrow is also retaining all the bonus tracks from the GRP edition. Oh, that's good to know! Will look for this one then! It does not... and of course I didn't check before ordering it, only saw it tonight, when it finally arrived... grrr! Will still keep it, these Originals have turned into lovely digipacks by now and I have a CDR of the OOP GRP CD with the bonus tracks... Hmmmm, Amazon showed the same track listing as the GRP release. Strange. Well to be honest, I don't think the bonus tracks really add much to the first half of the cd, which is amazing to say the least, so I would say that one wouldn't be missing a whole lot if they didn't get those extra tracks. Just my opinion of course. Well, as I said, I do have them... just wanted to do the right thing and replace the burn with the new CD, but I'll just keep both. I'm most interested in the three sextet titles anyway, and there were no bonus tracks from that sessions, so...

not strictly correct... Roy Ayers Ubiquity: S/T, has the bonus "He Gives Us All His Love" - previously available only on a rare promo 7". Yeah, it appears that McCoy's Today and Tomorrow is also retaining all the bonus tracks from the GRP edition. Oh, that's good to know! Will look for this one then! It does not... and of course I didn't check before ordering it, only saw it tonight, when it finally arrived... grrr! Will still keep it, these Originals have turned into lovely digipacks by now and I have a CDR of the OOP GRP CD with the bonus tracks...

Good, thanks for mentioning it!

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The saxist I play with - a great guy and player and teacher - knows Mobley, but I don't think he has one of his records. Simply too much music out there, the curriculum focusses on other players, and his personal models are other players with an edgier sound. On tenor, he favors Brecker for his sound, like most of his generation. my teacher's favorites were doldinger and bob mintzer iirc... (for my saxophone teacher on the other hand, the basics of learning to play tenor were hank mobley and dexter gordon ... took me a few years to realize that he was quite remarkable (non-mainstream in a good way) in that respect) The guy at my highschool knew Mobley (he copied the "Messages" Prestige vinyl twofer for me, with that track missing on the CD). He also knew Lester Young (and copied me some cheapo 2LP set as well). So, that's nice... so far... BUT: the guy (who sounded like a mixture of... I don't know how to describe it... Sanborn and Candy Dulfer, not to say Gorelick...) only made these tape dubs because I told him how cool I found Hawkins... and Stanley Turrentine, who's "Sugar" we played (and where I had the tenor solo spot and usually sort of freaked out... wild youth, ya know...). And he *hated* (probably still does) Hawkins and that whole school of tenors... I still don't like the Brecker, Mintzer etc. Coltrane clone guys to this day, and I bet having known this funny guy has helped quite a bit in shaping that dislike...

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Just in case this went under in the other thread yesterday and the day before: I asked them about the backordered sets and it was confirmed that they would indeed be back by the end of the year, including the Crusaders, the Mulligan Single, the Stitt etc (I posted a list there, of the sets I explicitly asked about - but I guess in general it seems all the backordered items should be back by the end of the year).

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I guess most folks already have the 2008 Euro-Sony Original Masters Ellington 1932-1939? Those are 'gray-market' in the USA for exactly the same copyright/royalty issues as affects 'Andorran' imports or 'Euro-Mosaics', so some may have scruples. If you can find one though they are dirt-cheap and well worth a few $$$ investment as a bulwark against the non-emergence of the proposed Mosaic 10CD epic. Did the price for that box come down again? It was pretty impossible to find a while back... but I definitely want the Mosaic as well, in this case! And I guess Ellington being a big name, it might also be a set where they actually could print a 10000 edition and sell it within a few years, no? The Capitol and Reprise sets went pretty fast (or rather: the Capitol was sold out quickly in the centennial year, I think).

Yup, two things: limited or not, I don't bother... I have never even remotely considered selling any of my Mosaics (and I guess a few could be turned into cash cows or some such...) Second: their releases are just happening at a too fast pace to catch up with all their back catalogue at the same time as buying the new sets! If I could afford it, I'd have bought their whole catalogue years ago and kept up with their new releases, that's completely out of question! But my musical interests are too broad to just limit my buying to Mosaic...

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oh, and I asked about the Mulligan Select - that one as well should be back by the end of the year!

Gee, we all do love Mosaic, don't we?

hah, now I got a bold (bolt?) one!!! Auguste Bolte (there we go again!) Witwe Bolte Dubya (for those not familiar with the widow in the middle: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_und_Moritz)

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Well, it seems that except for the Pearson, it took only a few minutes for all of these to sell out... there's no reason to hold this against Mosaic! I sent them a mail within a few minutes as well, I got a kind reply (as always) but I guess they were flooded with orders and mails and they being such a small company - two or three people? or just Cindy being at the office regularly? It's always she who answers my mail concerning orders, and she's always been perfectly polite and on several occasions extremely kind to me.