Face of the Bass

It's pretty funny, actually. A thread about a thread. The Jazzcorner thread is pushing 500 posts, this one is pushing 100+...let it never be said that Stanley Crouch fails to draw a crowd.

Or better yet, judging by the enthusiasm for Mosaic's products, you could reserve one last box set of every OOP set in their back catalogue. Hide them all in a room full of straw that goes up to your knees. You have five minutes. Go.

Seriously, that's a pretty lame contest. What they should do instead is make it like that game show for kids in the 80s where they had to run around a toy store frantically throwing as many toys as they could into their shopping cart. Same deal, except cds. Aisle after Aisle of common, uncommon, hard-to-find, and OOP cds from the Concord vaults. You get a shopping cart and five minutes. Go.

Holy crap, when do you guys have that kind of time to listen to 30+ discs from one shipment? I mean, if you buy too much heroin you just overdose, but you actually have to listen to the CDs, you can't just inject them into your arm...

Yeah, the thread is getting uglier. Lois has really shot herself in the foot with her behavior. It's not a good idea to piss off the people whose participation keeps your site active.

Well, I've been posting at JC for almost three years. It's like a strange addiction. I've been trying to move over here for jazz-related discussion, as there is little to be found there, but it's hard to do. I used to post at JC as crawjo, now I go both there and here as Face of the Bass. JC does have a lot of nice people there, and it is a great place to talk about sports and the like. Hi Chris.

Hmmm...good point. I should be more specific: I wish they would reissue more titles that I'm actually interested in. Every Blue Note batch, there's usually at two or three that grab me.

PM sent on the Jones Select.

It'd be nice if the Prestige reissue program would mix in a few more wildcards and less of the obvious stuff that has already been released/reissued many times, like the Miles, Dolphy, and Rollins.

Well, this one here is a 24-bit RVG remaster. I just love the mini-lp design and the sound on this one is great to my ears. I read in a different thread where somebody suggested that the quality of the remastering of the Japanese reissues has declined in the last few years or so, so I was wondering if it was a "safer bet" to go after the JRVGs from the 1990s, as opposed to the more recent ones.

I recently picked up my first of these from another board member, Kenny Drew's Undercurrent, and on my third listen I am blown away by the sound quality and also love the packaging. I'm starting this thread to see if anybody has any more of these that they are looking to unload, but also to try to find out the ins and outs of Japanese reissues, which seem to be ubiquitous. From comments made on other threads, I gather that some feel that the remastering quality has gone into decline in recent years. If this this the case, when did these reissues reach their peak? Thanks!

PM sent on Strange Strings and Night of the Purple Moon.

PM sent on three discs.

Glad you're enjoying it, Conn. That's one that I could just never get into.

pm sent on the Tolliver. pm sent back

I have for sale or trade the Andrew Hill and Charles Tolliver Mosaic Selects. If interested in buying, the price is $30 for each set, shipping in the US included. Both sets are in used but like-new condition. For international shipping rates, please contact me to arrange a price. I will only accept payments via Paypal. If you'd like to trade, send me a list of what you have available. I'd be willing to do a straight up Mosaic-for-Mosaic deal depending on the set, and also am right now looking for some 1960s Impulse cd reissues. Thanks!

PM sent on Sun Ra's Nuits de la fondation maeght, vol. 1.

I picked this book up on a whim last week and have been extremely impressed with it so far, about 50 pages in. The design and layout of the book are worth the price alone, but it also contains a lot of very interesting nuggets and anecdotes about the music, as well as the personalities behind the label. The best jazz book I've come across in the past couple years.

Perhaps I should listen to it again. It struck me as containing mostly throwaway material...easily my most disappointing Select purchase so far (I have about 7 or 8 of them).

Specific examples, please. Just listen to his own Blue Notes (compiled on the Chambers Mosaic Select) and you get lots of examples. I have listened to it many times. I was hoping you could list a specific solo that demonstrates the point you are trying to make, so I could evaluate for myself.

Hopefully this Hill Select will be better than the last one.

Specific examples, please.

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Blasphemer!