Dub Modal

Listening again. Really liking these tunes on the second go-round, especially 2 & 3, 7-13... Is that Phil Woods on 5? Is #7 Illinois Jacquet with Wild Bill or Milt Buckner? Tyrone Hill on #9? I'm thinking Fathead is somewhere in here too...not #10 since that was already guessed...the second one #12 then? Steve Grossman on #13? Or is it Liebman & Brecker? Some wild guesses here but figured I'd give it another go.

Via the '97 Legacy CD which has the Wilder remastering.

Well, new release announced: https://www.facebook.com/20544755421/posts/10165155229335422/ 4 x 45rpm LP set of Lanquidity, to include the rare "stripped down" Twin Stars of Thence and alternate versions of other tunes. https://www.instagram.com/p/CKgroQIAq2O/?igshid=1e43p30po9eua

Strange Blues and then: So Much Guitar...but before both of these it was:

Hmmm...probably wont include those Morgan albums he worked on as sideman or will it? If so, then that cramps the idea of an eventual Morgan box right?

Don't know but great sets. There were some on eBay last year that sold for bargains as well. Bottom has fallen out of the traditional jazz market I think. Domestically in the US at least.

First, thanks for spreading the word. Only advice regarding editing the post is to try (if you haven't already) just deleting all the spaces - or - copy and paste in Notepad, remove the spaces and then c/p back here.

Interesting - yeah, my Snow Dog edition of Spring Rain is LOUD. Will be interesting if this new remastering services the music a bit better.

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Got the email today that this set is now for sale in both CD box set and download options.

Very sorry to hear that. I do hope he is able to recover.

I'd buy that for a dollar!

I thought that when he was on a recent BFT, but his playing keeps it firmly out of any smooth jazz cheese. Some of the production elements flirt with smooth jazz but he and his bandmates keep it interesting. I'm not a smooth jazz hater either, FTR.

Wait, is Herbie's name misspelled on the TP cover?

Very cool to hear this. I'm currently in grad school, but am about 20 years or so most of my classmates' ages. None of them have any CDs. There may be a small number of them with records but music is almost exclusively accessed via streaming. Albums have a kitsch factor that CDs do not, and I don't ever see these kids adopting a preference for CDs. As stated above, if Mosaic's CD sets are probably aimed at Gen X or older domestically, and the international segment abroad that still buys them. Ah, my apologies @David Ayers I mistakenly missed your wording regarding transfers.

Tommy Flanagan's Something Borrowed, Something Blue

I think all the vinyl they're producing is AAA with Kevin Gray mastering. The Mobley CDs were done by Malcom Addey, so I don't think they're the same.

Well, the Mobley set got them some cash flow and maybe they think the JH set will do the same. I'm thinking a Lee Morgan set would do better in that regard - more like Mobley in that some of those albums aren't easy to find on CD and SQ improvements (more than marginal IMO) would help move product. Then use that cash flow for other connoisseur sets.

I have to assume they've got everything relevant listed at this link: https://archive.org/details/audio?sin=&and%5B%5D=black+and+white&and%5B%5D=subject%3A%22music%22&sort=&page=2 If you scroll down there's a good amount of B&W 78s, etc. listed and downloadable in several different file types.

Oh, for sure. It's easy to come by for pretty cheap. My reasoning for possibly getting the Mosaic set was because they improved the sound so much on those Mobley albums that if the same was done for JH then these would become my go-to's for them. A difference here too is that at least some of those Mobley CDs weren't so easy to come by (Hi Voltage, Thinking of Home...). The Henderson BNs aren't so hard to find. I think it was Universal that put that Henderson 5 Original Albums set out which included Our Thing, Inner Urge & In N' Out (along with the 2 VV trio sets). Great music but with BN pushing out their own specialty vinyl now at AAA, these may be a harder sell than the Hank set for newbies. (also likely a reason these will be CDs instead of LPs - can't help but think it would not be licensed for vinyl with Tone Poets & BN 80s/Classics being produced in house) It would be awesome if they could reissue the Hank 50s set. I missed that one.

I've had one Collectables CD, a Lester Young comp that was so no-noised I had to sell it back.

If it's just the BN albums from this era (and I guess it would have to be, unless there's some live material to be included?) then the only one I don't have is Page One. I'd be tempted to pick up a Mosaic set if the SQ is done the same as the Mobley one.

I searched archive.org for Basie on Columbia and came back with this: https://archive.org/details/audio?and%5B%5D=count+basie+columbia&sin= Not exactly what you may be looking for, but it may be an opportunity to comb through various CDs/LPs and check for SQ. Searching for Decca and I found this: https://archive.org/details/audio?and%5B%5D=count+basie+decca&sin= Looks like a lot of 78 transfers, which may beat GRP. I think you can download these and make your own CD-R if necessary.

Stenson's Cantando really was not working for me, so I moved on to Sam Jones' The Chant which is really good. Les Spann's guitar is way in the back and completely understated. If I wasn't listening on headphones I may have even missed it... Then on to Non jazz but Leroy Sibbles is always good so here it is.

Thanks Glad you're hanging in there. Good idea on the journal, and I'm not reading much of anything mainly b/c I don't have the energy. Short windows of time happen when I can jump on here or elsewhere online and then it's back to laying down. So at least that keeps me away from reading covid stuff online. 100% this is a bad bitch.