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Yeah, I've been having second thoughts... Chuck, how do the new Bowie/Mitchell/Art Ensemble reissues compare? Much of a difference, or would you say the box is fine enough? (I'm sure it is, actually! But still...)

so this is the HQ of the British crown?

plus just added the Billie Holiday as a birthday gift for my mother!

Just ordered the Ellington - missed this thread before... I guess with a few previously unreleased RCA tunes, this might even stay in the collection once a big Mosaic will be around, too... I have the RCA box, but not yet the Small Group Mosaic... and quite a few Classics, too... most of those won't be needed any longer if Mosaic indeed releases a 30s Columbia big band box.

This one's pretty good: And it's been on sale (9$) for quite a while: Freddie Hubbard - Super Blue

Not a "who" but a "what"... Sonny Rollins' Milestone albums - recently bought "Horn Culture", "The Cutting Edge", "Don't Ask", "Love at First Sight", and "Falling in Love with Jazz", and just now returned with "No Problem" (spinning now!) and "+3". The highlight of the bunch though is the most recent one, "This Is What I Do" - magnificient Rollins there, on each tune... amazing!

Never bothered me, really... but it's still nice to have what looks more like the "original" product!

And I trust all the names will be spelled correctly. Looking forward to the Bobby Bradford! Booby Bradford? Recently saw him live with Frode Gjerstad's Circulasione Totale Orchestra, he turned in some great solos! Will get that and the Wadada (and I guess skip the others as I have the Art Ensemble 5CD set)

By the way, the outside box of this Euro set has the normal Mosaic number, and the booklet is normal as well, but no handwritten number, just the blank line (the earlier Euro sets used to have a printed line stating "This is one of an edition of 10000 sets" or something). Probably cheaper to have just one set of boxes/booklets to print... it's still clearly a Euro-version, with glossier paper (or has Mosaic changed in that respect, all my recent ones have been Euro-sets, the latest of the US ones is the Columbia Small Group I think) and that outside paper thingie giving some general introduction about the set. (The Quincy Jones box, the other most recent Euro-box I got, also had very glossy thick paper used for the book, the Dizzy one has a "normal" Mosaic booklet, paper-wise)

Flurin, sorry, just remembered your mail when I read this ... sorry. Been too busy with getting into mud-wrestling fights with the state legislature. A new OP "fan"? Who might've thunk it? There's a definite need to get the OP trio with Ed Thigpen (and, of course, Ray Brown) out as a Mosaic set, hopefully with better sound than some of the Verve remasters. I'm a huge fan of the London House sessions, but (although the original tapes might leave much to be desired?) the Verve 'boxed set" (more of a layout and design clusterfuck) is just too thin in the sound department. I do believe a decent engineer can get more out of it. Some of the earlier OP CDs by Verve (f.ex. "Plays Porgy & Bess") are fabulous, sonically. I am one of the (very) few that believe that OP did better in that trio setting than the "classic" one before that. YMMV. I'd spring a huge amount for a complete (alternates at the end, not one after another as, f.ex. again, "Plays Porgy & Bess" is about as complete a gem as it stands with perfect sequencing) Mosaic boxed set. So, no need for me to answer anymore as you bought it all, hook. line and sinker? > P.S.: Glad you got with the programme. V. I guess for my ears, the London House set should be ok... but I'll report back. Next up on the menu is the one OP set I've had for a few years, the great Lionel Hampton w/OP set - loved that one even before I "got" OP!

Oscar Peterson (fire away, but I'm really starting to love his music big time!)

Does the Mingus have anything on it which wasn't on the great 3CD set that came out several years ago? Is there really any reason for me to buy it or Sketches if I already have the Mingus box set and the Davis/Evans box? thx Not only does the Mingus not have anything that wasn't on the 3CD set, it appears to be missing the three alternates from Mingus Dynasty that were on disc 3 of that set. I guess they could not fit the entire earlier set onto 2 CD's. Given this, I see no reason to buy the new legacy edition, even if the mastering is slightly different and the notes are nice (which they also were on the 3CD set). That's a bit weird... that 3CD set was sold for the price of two CDs over here, and it's indeed great, definitely among the best recording ever made by Mingus, and great to have them all restored and in one place! As for the Brubeck 2CD set, that one looks tempting, I don't think I know that live recording so far... does anyone have more details about the bonus disc? (Disc 2, I don't care for the DVD, really, unless of course if it was a live show, but it's not...)

Got this box a couple of weeks ago in a local store, immediately read the lenghty introduction, but only started listening on Friday night... been on a trip, also bought 8 of OP's 9 MPS studio albums (skipped the one w/voices, I might reconsider...) and 3 of the 6 "Exclusively for My Friends" (will be looking for more... there's a nice Universal sale going on, also including quite a number of re-pressed OJCs). Anyway, I'm really turning into a fan right as we speak (well, right as I'm typing, that is). Does anyone know, are there plans for further Mosaic sets, most obviously the Ellis or Thigpen trio studio recordings? There's a hint going in this direction in McDonough's (very good, I found, but I'm an OP neophyte, so...) notes.

there are plenty of threads on Mingus, for instance: Mingus' most unappreciated album Music Written for Monterey... and one more Debut box set Sue Mingus interview on AAJ Town Hall Concert (OJC) Let My Children Hear Music The Great Concert of Charles Mingus The Birdland 1961/62 sessions Live at Montreux 1975 DVD Mingus At Monterey Reed players with Mingus Changes Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus and I'm sure there are other interesting threads not linked above...

you said it very well. thank goodness i got to hear him innumerable times! I envy you very much for this! The best I can get is watching some DVDs...

Besides the Barney Wilen (which I got a while back), that's the one I really want! They should venture out and bring back some of the more adventurous stuff, too... Cecil in the Black Forest and that Indian album with Wilen, Schoof and Irene Schweizer would be high up on my wishlist! I think the later was on one of the Motor Music world twofers, but I missed that one...

That's very sad news. Lots of good European jazz there, too (think of Henri Texier mainly).

also Randy Newman... bought four new (old CDs), but had "Good Old Boys" and "12 Songs" for a while.

I quite like the new CD! That one parlour song kind of thing is terrific, "Life Is Hard", I think?

I don't have it yet, as it's not running low... but I'll definitely try and grab it in time! http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=35215

of late: Milcho Leviev - a nice trio album, "E.B. Blues", on a tiny/non-existing Swiss label, as well as the Don Ellis tribute solo album on Mighty Quinn Tons of Bossa Nova, mostly from the Elenco Series (Nara, Vinicius & Cayimmi, Vinicius & Odette Lara, Odette Lara, Sergio Mendes, Jobim, and more), as well as five or six from Universal's Heritage Series (Baden Powell, Tania Maria, Sivuca, Luiz Bonfa), and more (the "Tom Feminino" sampler, "Os Afro Sambas", the soundtracks of "Orfeu Negro" and "Garota de Ipanema") also other recent discoveries include: Fletcher Henderson and Eddie Condon (their respective runs of Chronological Classics) and next up will likely be a first bigger dip into Oscar Peterson's music - got the Mosaic recently and hoping to get the "London Sessions", too (ordered from a marketplace seller, hope it's actually in stock...)

I think Sangrey gave the answer above... Mingus is Mingus, no use in trying to cover too much of the music. And though I appreciate and enjoy the Mingus Big Band, even there, much of the music sounds tame and softened/sweetened, compared to the raw energy of Mingus. It was his own uplifting bass playing and band-leading genius that made him so special, and to bring all that to the fore, he obviously needed his own music... it's a whole musical universe there, and I guess I could live in it exclusively for a couple of years without missing anything! Probably indeed, his music is even more difficult to cover/revive than Monk's...

yeah, but they had things go OOP only to let the resurface as RVGs a bit later... and Cliff Jordan has not been in print for a while

post-haste my friend!!! Salomão is no lounge music - it is SMOKIN HOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Some of it is on that compilation, will dig up that one first!

I have the Dave Pike Set "Masterpieces" compilation from the earlier generation of MPS CDs (Motor Music, mid/late 90s), and I think that will do... some of the MPS albums are available now on that label selling their CDs for fantasy prizes... The Riverside is much more interesting, I find, and if I want nice easy listening/loungs stuff, I'd rather go with "Manhattan Latin" than the MPS. Though it does seem like I should check out "Salomão"...