Which Mosaic Are You Enjoying Right Now?

[adh1907]

J J Johnson,  JJ, Mosaic Singles CD. What a beautiful CD. Great sound, great players. Love the 2 McFarland arrangements. 

[ghost of miles]

Prompted to pull this one off the shelf last night after a friend mentioned that he’d been listening to it. The set includes a session that Getz and Raney recorded for Prestige in 1953. Are there any other Mosaic sets that include dates done for any of the labels that eventually came under the Fantasy umbrella? (Later absorbed into Concord) That catalogue always seemed to be a no-fly zone for Mosaic—I’m assuming that was because Fantasy preferred to issue their catalogue themselves. The Getz-Raney Prestige date on the Mosaic was done under Raney’s leadership… maybe that factored into Fantasy’s willingness to license when this set was being put together in 1989/90? 
 

Edited September 16, 2024 by ghost of miles

[gmonahan]

[mikeweil]

Disc 6 with the Benny Golson Quartets.

[gmonahan]

6 hours ago, mikeweil said:

Disc 6 with the Benny Golson Quartets.

Me too. Disc 1.

[T.D.]

Listened to the whole set over the weekend. Doubt that any of the individual albums rank as "classic", but the package works really well and is one of the Mosaics I play most often.

Edited October 22, 2024 by T.D.

[Chuck Nessa]

1 hour ago, T.D. said:

Listened to the whole set over the weekend. Doubt that any of the individual albums rank as "classic", but the package works really well and is one of the Mosaics I play most often.

Jim and Susan Neumann are friends and I have fond memories of listening to "pre-release" tapes in their living room.

[Stompin at the Savoy]

[jlhoots]

Fuller

[John Tapscott]

[T.D.]

Maybe not the most imaginative selection, but it's of course excellent and an "old reliable".

[Chuck Nessa]

Attempting to clear the shit from my brain!

 

Edited November 7, 2024 by Chuck Nessa

[jazzbo]

Art Hodes is good for that! I'm going to revisit the Lennie Tristano set soon to achieve the same.

[mikeweil]

[ghost of miles]

The Sunny Side Up part of disc 6:

Edited November 11, 2024 by ghost of miles

[John Tapscott]

[Chuck Nessa]

Disc 5 with Mezz and Frankie Newton ao.

[romualdo]

just found a second hand copy (CDs) here in Australia - wonderful stuff - Mosaic has done quite a service wrt JT with two dedicated sets (Capitol 50s & Roulette) plus partial (Classic Capitol, Commodore, HRS, Okeh/Brunswick (Beiderbecke), Savory, V-Disc)

[jazzbo]

Yes, I love Teagarden's work and there are plenty of sides on Mosaic to enjoy.

[mikeweil]

This afternoon, James P. Johnson, Disc One

[T.D.]

I like this one a lot, but it's never commanded much of a price in the "secondary market".

[exponent_of_sock]

Finally grabbed the Bunny Berigan Brunswick/Parlophone/Vocalion set the other day. The sound quality is overall decent for the time, but many of the tracks in the first half, especially the first CD, could benefit from being redone someday due to being over-declicked, causing distortion in the hottest brass passages.

[ghost of miles]

So many good collections in the old Mosaic Select line:

[Chuck Nessa]

disc 3

[exponent_of_sock]

On 12/5/2024 at 8:34 AM, exponent_of_sock said:

Finally grabbed the Bunny Berigan Brunswick/Parlophone/Vocalion set the other day. The sound quality is overall decent for the time, but many of the tracks in the first half, especially the first CD, could benefit from being redone someday due to being over-declicked, causing distortion in the hottest brass passages.

Hadn't listened to the Louis Armstrong Decca set in a while either...halfway through the first disc...also over-declicked...