Which Mosaic Are You Enjoying Right Now?

[BillF]

Brookmeyer Select

Watching the market carefully with view to selling and living off the proceeds!

[mikelz777]

Complete Blue Note Elvin Jones Sessions

[John Tapscott]

Randy Weston Select

[Ron S]

The Complete H.R.S. Sessions--discs 3 and 4

[sidewinder]

Stuff Smith, CD1

[mellowT]

George Wein - Is Alive And Well

[John Tapscott]

Gerry Mulligan Select

[Werf]

Art Pepper Select, beautiful stuff.

Louis Armstrong Complete Deccas 35-46, man this stuff just keeps getting better.

[blajay]

First listen to: Classic Columbia, Okeh and Vocalion Lester Young with Count Basie (1936-1940)

[gmonahan]

Just received and listening to Denny Zeitlin Select, disc one. So far, I really like it!

greg mo

[sidewinder]

HRS CD1 and Brookmeyer Select, CD1.

Nice to see this thread taking over from the 'Disaster at Mosaic' thread again..

Edited September 20, 2009 by sidewinder

[Clunky]

Roy Eldridge- disc 7-( this was still sealed until a few minutes ago - bought the set 3 yrs ago !!!!) lovely session with strings, pales after more than a few tracks ,the following session with Ronnie Ball is effortless swing. Lovely, great sound.

[gmonahan]

Denny Zeitlin Select, disc 2, nearly as good as disc 1.

greg mo

[Ron S]

The Complete H.R.S. Sessions--discs 5 and 6

[AllenLowe]

wait, that makes no sense - if you are only listening to discs 5 and 6 than it's the partial HRS sessions -

to listen to the complete you would need multiple cd players -

am I the only guy around here who's paying attention? This has happened before -

[Ron S]

Allen, I would try to explain it to you, but it involves quantum mechanics, existentialism, and a working knowledge of ancient Sumerian gerunds. I don't think you're quite up to it.

[AllenLowe]

got ya - I've always had problems with the Sumerian language - ever since I translated all those Dead Sea Scrolls into Pig Latin -

[sidewinder]

Quincy Jones ABC/Mercury Big Band Jazz Sessions, CD2. Living up completely to expectations.

[Clunky]

Two arrivals today ordered 10 days apart both appeared on my doormat today

Bud Shank/Bob Cooper Select discs 2 and 3... material with strings exceeds expectations significantly,

Duke Pearson Select disc 1.....ordered 3 days ago (sent by surface option)- arrived today !!!- so far very nice

[king ubu]

Quincy Jones ABC/Mercury Big Band Jazz Sessions, CD2. Living up completely to expectations.

Glad you snagged that copy!

It's fine music - there seems to be a bias (with reason I guess) against Q on this board, but regardless of all the debates, the music on this set is great!

[sidewinder]

Quincy Jones ABC/Mercury Big Band Jazz Sessions, CD2. Living up completely to expectations.

Glad you snagged that copy!

It's fine music - there seems to be a bias (with reason I guess) against Q on this board, but regardless of all the debates, the music on this set is great!

The thing to bear in mind with the 'Q' Mosaic is that I think his key role here is as driving force/organiser and not necessarily as arranger. There's mighty fine stuff from Bill Byers, Benny Golson and Bill Potts for example on this set and pretty well a who's who of top early 60s soloists. Great set !

Two arrivals today ordered 10 days apart both appeared on my doormat today

Bud Shank/Bob Cooper Select discs 2 and 3... material with strings exceeds expectations significantly,

Duke Pearson Select disc 1.....ordered 3 days ago (sent by surface option)- arrived today !!!- so far very nice

Whoah ! The very same titles have just been delivered from Mosaic 'chez moi'. Uncanny !

[sidewinder]

Lou Donaldson Blue Note 57-60, CD1

[BillF]

The thing to bear in mind with the 'Q' Mosaic is that I think his key role here is as driving force/organiser and not necessarily as arranger.

So that explains how the Impulse CD of Quincy Jones's This Is How I Feel About Jazz includes 6 tracks by West Coast saxophonists where the only Q link is that he is named as producer.

Edited September 23, 2009 by BillF

[sidewinder]

Duke Pearson Mosaic Select, CD3. Nice !

Really like Duke P's interpretations of the Xmas classics on 'Merry Ole Soul'. Not like me to play Xmas music in September , I think it's going to get lots of airplay during the Xmas Season this year.

Edited September 25, 2009 by sidewinder

[Clunky]

Duke Pearson Mosaic Select, CD2. Nice !

Really like Duke P's interpretations of the Xmas classics on 'Merry Ole Soul'. Not like me to play Xmas music in September , I think it's going to get lots of airplay during the Xmas Season this year.

the Xmas selections are a lot tougher than I expected, certainly not trite interpretations by any standard, I haven't listened to them thoroughly , saving that for xmas itself.

Currently listening to Dizzy Gillespie Disc 6, universal edition, unusually for Mosaic the CD tray insert has track/personnel listings that are all wrong and belong to Discs 3&4 rather than 5&6.