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here's the mail: MOSAIC SELECT - NEW RELEASE Mosaic Select: Pendulum (MS-032) (3 CDs - $44) In February 1978, saxophonist Dave Liebman assembled a formidable quintet with trumpeter Randy Brecker, pianist Richie Beirach, bassist Frank Tusa and drummer Al Foster. The gig was recorded and one stunning album was released on Artists House. Liebman recently revisited those tapes and has come up with 3 CDs of post-bop heaven with scorching versions of Solar, Well You Needn't, Blue Bossa, Impressions and more. MOSAIC SINGLES - HELEN MERRILL NEW RELEASES "You have a magical way of touching people's hearts." - Roland Hanna The Helen Merrill- Dick Katz Sessions (#1019) (CD - $15) In the mid '60s Helen Merrill and Dick Katz collaborated on two magnificent albums, "The Feeling Is Mutual" and "A Shade Of Difference", both originally issued on the Milestone label. These were the greatest example of Merrill's artistry since her collaborations with Gil Evans and Clifford Brown. The repertoire fits her like a glove and sidemen include Thad Jones, Gary Bartz, Jim Hall, Katz, Ron Carter and Elvin Jones. Both albums are on one CD for the first time. Helen Merrill - Casa Forte (#1020) (CD - $15) In 1980, she collaborated with her future husband, arranger extraordinaire Torrie Zito and he created the gorgeous setting for a career-defining signature album. RUNNING LOW: MOSAIC LIMITED EDITION COLLECTION The Complete Verve Roy Eldridge Studio Sessions (#222) 7 CDs - $119 "Few jazz trumpeters-even the young Louis Armstrong-have achieved Eldridge's pure, graceful hotness. Yet he is often academically dismissed as being merely the connecting link between Armstrong, who unwittingly formed the style of almost every trumpeter (Eldridge included) of the twenties and thirties, and Dizzy Gillespie, who, in turn, influenced (after a brief period as an admirer of Eldridge) almost every trumpeter of the forties and fifties. Eldridge is, however, far more than a transitional agent, for his is a highly original musician whose dignity and intense inventiveness are, at times, peerless. His style is wild and dancing and nervous, he seems to bite at, instead of merely blow, his notes, which rise in sudden, breathtaking swoops to the upper registers of his instrument or plummet to the low registers, where he often achieves a bleary, guttural sound. Eldridge also possesses a gift that is rare among jazz musicians; at his best-his unruly imagination now and then outruns his sizable technique-his solos are marvels of spontaneous construction, which march with a steady, unbreakable logic from oblique, studied beginnings to soaring, hats-off climaxes. When this happens, one gets the impression that Eldridge has exhausted for all time the melodic potential of the material at hand." - Whitney Balliett, Sound of Surprise NEW ADDITION TO OUR UPCOMING RELEASE SCHEDULE The Complete Clef / Mercury Recordings of the Oscar Peterson Trio (1951-1953) - 7 CDs This collection captures this remarkable pianist during his early years on Norman Granz' Clef label. Granz' aim for these sessions was to showcase the Peterson touch in a series of songbook albums which included interpretations of Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers and Vincent Youmans. Peterson and his trio (mostly backed by Barney Kessel's guitar and Ray Brown's bass), execute these classics superlatively and have long been out of print. Not only are the complete songbooks from those early years present but a number of other highlights include: rare singles only issued on 78 and 45; 8 previously unissued performances of which only 2 are alternate takes; the "Oscar Peterson Sings" album; the "Oscar Peterson Plays Pretty" album where Irving Ashby substitutes for Kessel; and an OP Quartet date with Alvin Stoller on drums that includes a swinging "The Astaire Blues" and "Tea For Two". Most of the set came from the original master tapes and rare photos from the Institute of Jazz Studies and photographer Esther Bubley decorate the insights of jazz historian John McDonough's wonderful notes. (Please note do not reply to this email as it cannot be delivered. You may e-mail us at info@mosaicrecords.com ) Sincerely, All of us at Mosaic Records www.mosaicrecords.com www.truebluemusic.com Email: info@mosaicrecords.com 35 Melrose Place Stamford, CT 06902 203-327-7111

I got the mail a few minutes ago. I don't remember any vocals, but it could be that there are a few in between and I forgot? Fantastic set! Loads of great music! The session with Benny Carter, the two trumpet stuff with Dizzy, the one with Dizzy and Sweets, the album with Ronnie Ball, some sweet stuff w/strings... I got the Universal/European edition for a good prize, and while I wasn't sure I really needed it, I never regretted buying it at all!

Allen: Given your description, I bet that you have in mind the other OJC release, "Bird on 52nd Street." In fact, there is a lot more where that came from (Onyx mid-48) on the Benedetti box. Is the Debut/OJC material from "Bird on 52nd Street" covered in the Benedetti Mosaic? I have "Bird at St. Nick's" already, but not the other one, and will skip it if it's in the bigger box... My understanding is that all of "Bird on 52nd Street" is in the Benedetti Mosaic. Bird at St. Nicks is not. ok, for once my shopping strategy was smart, then...

no need to write them anything, just use the link in their mail, enter your ZIP code, and you're in your "account" (which is really just a list of your orders"), there you can see the status and you can cancel orders (not just by hitting cancel, but by chosing "cancel an item" on top, and then the same orders get listed again, which is when you can finally hit a cancel button for the respective order). It's true that this have never been a problem, even if I have voiced some negative opinions in the past about their non-delivery of rarer/just OOP items.

add the Joe Maini set to the list of fine Lone Hill reissues - separate thread here

well, for them it was learning experience, wasn't it? others pay for that (aren't similar stories being told about Braxton when doing large ensemble stuff with young musicians?)

Thanks for your impressions. Hope this also applies to fairly obscure collector labels (where the CD is listed on that label's website). As for Amazon.de buyers outside Germany they might of course be better off with buying from their own Amazon branch (if one exists for their countries, e.g. Amazon.fr). Of course there's none in Switzerland... there's one fairly good website for *some* jazz (www.discplus.ch - great prizes/offers sometimes for hatOLOGY, for instance, quite a lot of Chronological Classics available), but as far as Amazon goes, German is the best site for their own offerings (free shipping for orders over 20 euro), but Marketplace is better on French Amazon (cheaper shipping). Priceminister.com beats both though, if what you're looking for is a wee bit less obvious/new. Some of the same sellers (DVDmars, DVDlegacy) are active there, too, but the real plus is the private sellers. Only good experiences so far, very fast delivery, discs usually in the shape they were described being.

Thanks for confirming... I don't really trust my own ears that much!

Since the Uptown comes directly from the original acetates and not via cassette dubs and LPs, I think we can look forward to improved sound. Great! I missed that discussion, thanks for filling me in!

If the CD is in print, they'll follow through. And for everyone else outside of Germany, the fee is 6 euro, which isn't that cheap (even less so if you order a disc from a German seller... and if you order two from the same seller, it's 12 euro, etc).

This is a great site, I am ordering more and more from them (among others "Tentatives" by René Urtreger just about a week ago). Yes, it's indeed a great site! A couple of weeks ago I ordered half a dozen Stephan Oliva discs from there, the first one arrived a day after I sent in the order! Just to be correct: two of the Emarcys I ordered from French Amazon.

Allen: Given your description, I bet that you have in mind the other OJC release, "Bird on 52nd Street." In fact, there is a lot more where that came from (Onyx mid-48) on the Benedetti box. Is the Debut/OJC material from "Bird on 52nd Street" covered in the Benedetti Mosaic? I have "Bird at St. Nick's" already, but not the other one, and will skip it if it's in the bigger box...

I'm just doing some loud wishful thinking... I guess Concord would be among the companies that would ask way over the top money from an outfit like Mosaic... (that impression is based on the general impression I have from Concord, since they started selling out/cutting down the Fantasy catalogue, and then started their own, weak/absurd reissue series)

Olio (Thad Jones, Frank Wess, Mal Waldron a.o. - OJC) Hal McKusick/Betty St. Claire (Fresh Sound) and just now fell weak to priceminister.com again an ordered a shitload of René Urtreger discs: - Onirica (Sketch) - Tentatives (Minium) - Masters (Emarcy) - En direct d'Antibes (Emarcy) - Récidive (Emarcy) - Jazzman (Emarcy)

and another fine sax player (baritone & alto, also pennywhistle), Shannon Mowday from South Africa: Her website: http://www.shannonmowday.com/news.htm

Géraldine Laurent, sax player and leader of the Time Out Trio is great! Here's Joe Fordham's review of their CD: http://music.guardian.co.uk/jazz/reviews/s...2183772,00.html The disc can be bought on CD Universe:

Now that Concord is somehow (only as far as distribution is concerned?) connected with UMG, could there possibly be any Mosaics drawing from the ex-Fantasy labels? Not that they'd need to reissue stuff in boxes that has been available for a long time, but for instance a Select of all of Ahmed Abdul-Malik's albums would be terrific! And I'm sure there are plenty of somewhat more obscure albums not on CD yet - Freddie McCoy was mentioned elsewhere, for instance.

Slow Boat to China!

Single track would likely be "Bluebird", but that's an extremely tough call to make.

Would that Dizzy set contain the live broadcasts that were on Masters of Jazz Vol. 7/8? That was a 2CD set ccotaining Dizzy big band airchecks plus that film soundtrack (minus the two or three tracks that were by this annoying organ duo or whatever it was)? Shall be great to have this material with the usual careful Uptown treatment applied! And I guess if it's indeed a 2CD set and doesn't also contain the soundtrack, chances are there's more music on it than there is on the OOP Masters of Jazz set! First time I heard about either of these new releases - very excited! Please keep us posted, Chuck!

I still need that Benedetti... the Rockland I have (2CD set) but I'm not yet really familiar with it... I keep starting to listen to Bird in chronological order (the great six CDs of "Young Bird" on Masters of Jazz, some of the Jay McShann material, then the early stuff w/Dizzy, the Savoy/Dial box...) and then I somehow don't have the time to continue into the 50s... next time I'm in for some Bird, I'll start straight with the Verve box and the live material from 50/51.

I somehow missed how this turned into a Beatles thread.... but back on topic of Morgan: First, here's a working link to the blog of Larry R. Thomas (welcome here!) http://carolinajazzconnectionwithlarrythomas.blogspot.com/ I'll gladly read that article, wasn't aware of it! And as a little remark of a historian... weird as it seems, but just as often as not, eye-witnesses are wrong about what they think they have witnessed. It may seem weird, but it's not uncommon at all.

now if you all allow me to mention something actually related to CT again for a change... a friend of mine finally got hold of "Akisakila Vol. 1" (the Konnex CD, I own Vol. 2 which holds the final 20 minutes of the 80+ minute improv by CT/Lyons/Cyrille, plus a solo album called "Lono"). Now what about sound? It seems the recording is balanced rather badly, too loud at some moments. Was that the case with the original vinyl issue already? Has this never been a great-sounding recording, really? Can anyone shed some light, please?

I hear you, John! These were the first sessions that came to mind! The Carnegie Hall concert while certainly great wouldn't have come to mind I guess if it hadn't been in the title of this thread. Runners up: The KoKo session, while somewhat chaotic - some severely great Bird on there! (Nov 26, 1945) Also the two Dial sessions with tenorists added (Mar 28, 1946 w/Lucky T & Feb 26, 1947 w/Wardell Gray, both with Dodo Marmarosa) The two Dizzy Gillespie Guild sessions (Feb 28 & May 11, 1945) And I think the Savoy session w/Donna Lee (May 8, 1947) ain't too shabby, either (but it's been a while that I played that one). Honorable mention then, for "Repetition" w/Neal Hefti from "The Jazz Scene"!

I suggested that to Mosaic. They were not interested. They said that the albums were too inconsistent in quality. Hm, that would be a project for Revenant... or make that "The Complete Sun Ra Sessions - Every Note, Every Fart" or something like that... instead of a box, it could come in a pre-furnitured house so that all the CDs would fit in