Mosaic Select: Carmell Jones

[sidmmm]

I just ordered this one. Any comments? I loved the clips on the website!

Oh and roughly how long does domestic shipping from Mosaic take? This is the first I'm not ordering to an international address.

Cheers,

Sid

[doubleM]

This is one of my favorites. I've had shipping take anywhere from 2-5 days. Carmell Jones...talk about underrated!!!

[brownie]

The Carmell Jones Select is a wise investment. It brings attention to a very distinctive trumpet player whose albums were pretty hard to find. And those albums all contained outstanding music.

Was spinning disc 2 last night and enjoyed it immensely. The unreleased session with Frank Strazzeri and Hadley Caliman on disc 3 is a real discovery.

You'll enjoy this Select!

[wesbed]

Here is another thead containing more opinions regarding the Carmell Jones Select. >other thread<

Edited June 10, 2004 by wesbed

[sal]

Just spun disc 1 last night. Its my favorite of the Mosaic Select series so far. Fantastic set. What a discovery Carmell Jones was!!!!

[BruceH]

Delivery takes an average of 3 days, in my experiance. This is one of my favorite Selects. A talented musician who's been somewhat overlooked finally gets a showcase here. Great for either close listening or doing the dishes/driving background. Chances are high that you will like it. Enjoy!

[alankin]

Delivery usually precedes by a day the realization of how much money you've just spent.

Edited July 13, 2004 by alankin

[B. Goren.]

  brownie said:

The Carmell Jones Select is a wise investment.

You will enjoy it sidmmm. This set is one of the best on Mosaic Select. I like specially the session with Frank Strazzeri .

Edited June 12, 2004 by B. Goren.

[BruceH]

Been listening to this one again lately, and liking it even more. Lots of Harold Land here, too!

[danasgoodstuff]

Am I the only one who had a prob with the treatment of folk material here? I found it condescending. But other than that, a fine collection of work.

[wesbed]

To my ears, the 'folk music' is quite good. Yeah, each song starts and ends with the familiar folk song melody (which is well-played in its own right). In between the beginning and the ending of each tune, however, is good old jazz, played in a grand style. I have no problems with the music. It makes the old folk tunes sound the way they should have always sounded.

Carmell takes the folk out of the folk, and replaces it with some swing and funk like that form of music ain't never seen. B)

Edited June 29, 2004 by wesbed

[BFrank]

The folk stuff is an "acquired" taste, for sure. It's taken me a while to get with it, but overall, it's not bad.

Lots of Gerald Wilson here, too!

Edited June 29, 2004 by BFrank

[danasgoodstuff]

Perhaps I wasn't clear: it's not the folkness of the material that I have a prob with, it's Carmel et al's seeming need to make it 'hip'...I know this is not an attitude unique to this group or this material, but for some reason it bugs me more here. There are 'jazzed up' folk tunes that work perfectly well for me, e.g. Coltrane's "Greensleeves" or even Clifford Jordan's Leadbelly album, but this one doesn't. Carmel et al can certainly play, but I gotta wonder why they did this material. One of the things I like about guys like Ayler is that they (seemed to?) reject the whole notion of 'hipness'...but that's probably a rant for another thread.

[wesbed]

For me, Harold Land just cooks on the folk tale sessions.

[Dan Gould]

  wesbed said:

For me, Harold Land just cooks on the folk tale sessions.

Indeed!

[Gary]

Kisses Sweeter Than Wine alone is worth $39.

[BruceH]

  BFrank said:

Lots of Gerald Wilson here, too!

OH yeah!!

[Tom 1960]

I just pulled the trigger on this one. I look forward to receiving it hopefully by the end of the week and will post my impressions then. Sounds like I can't go wrong here.

[T.D.]

  Tom 1960 said:

I just pulled the trigger on this one. I look forward to receiving it hopefully by the end of the week and will post my impressions then. Sounds like I can't go wrong here.

I bought this just before the $39->$44 price increase. You won't go wrong. The Gerald Wilson and Frank Strazzeri sessions are real finds. I enjoy the folk music session (which is problematical for some), and Harold Land is in great form there. Lots of Land in the box, if you're a fan...

[sal]

This set remains one of my favorite Selects.

[Rooster_Ties]

Carmell's contribution to one of the Curtis Amy albums on the Amy Select is fantastic as well (the date with Hutch on it too). Easily the best album on that set (short of Katanga, of course).

[Tjazz]

saw 2 copies of Carmell Jones at the Pasadena TOWER for $27 each (Sat).

[BruceH]

The Carmell Jones and the Benny Green are my most oft-played Selects.

[Quincy]

I love it too. It's a great stealth Harold Land mini-Select and Gerald Wilson too.

[Rooster_Ties]

  Quincy said:

It's a great stealth Harold Land mini-Select and Gerald Wilson too.

My thoughts too. The "bigger band" dates that Wilson was involved in are really the highlight of the set for me.

Well, and all that Land too.

LOTS of reason to like the Carmell set, beyond just Carmell.

Edited December 5, 2006 by Rooster_Ties