New Mosaic Selects

[Out2Lunch]

Blurb on the Mosaic website announces that the Bennie Green and Randy Weston Mosaics are in house and will begin shipping today,May 19th.

[Jazzmoose]

I hate to start a new thread for this question, so I'll just highjack yours, Tod.

Has anyone heard whether or not Mosaic is going to do the "$5 off True Blue CDs" sale again this summer?

[BruceH]

Blurb on the Mosaic website announces that the Bennie Green and Randy Weston Mosaics are in house and will begin shipping today,May 19th.

YES!

[ralphie_boy]

The Randy Weston Set was waiting for me when I got home yesterday.

I only had a chance to listen to disc 1 which contains Little Niles and Live at the Five Spot last night, but I can tell already that I'm going to have to add some more Weston to my collection.

[Dan Gould]

If I may hijack the thread in another direction, I saw a reissue LP at Dusty Groove that got me thinking of a great Mosaic Select title: The Complete Epic Recordings of Dave Bailey. Great bluesy jam albums with Clark Terry, Horace Parlan, Charlie Rouse and others, and maybe there are unreleased tunes to add on to the original three, One Foot In The Gutter, Two Feet In The Gutter and Gettin Into Something.

[Late]

As long as we're hijacking ( ) ... Ralphie, I would strongly recommend this Weston album:

It contains the original version of "Little Niles," which is wonderful.

This album

I don't have, but I dig the cover!

And this album

contains the original (I think) melody for "St. Thomas," which Weston titles "Fire Down There." (That's at least two melodies that have largely been attributed to Sonny Rollins — "Tenor Madness" and "St. Thomas" — that other musicians have recorded first. )

Edited May 21, 2003 by Late

[BruceH]

Late---occassionally I DO judge an album by it's cover, and that "Jazz A La Bohemia" has GOT to be great!

[jpmosu]

Late---occassionally I DO judge an album by it's cover, and that "Jazz A La Bohemia" has GOT to be great!

*Bohemia* IS great, but it's one of the most Lo-Fi titles in the OJC catalogue, IMHO.

By the way, Airborne Express just delivered the Weston box, so I gotta run...

[Out2Lunch]

If I may hijack the thread in another direction, I saw a reissue LP at Dusty Groove that got me thinking of a great Mosaic Select title:  The Complete Epic Recordings of Dave Bailey.  Great bluesy jam albums with Clark Terry, Horace Parlan, Charlie Rouse and others, and maybe there are unreleased tunes to add on to the original three, One Foot In The Gutter, Two Feet In The Gutter and Gettin Into Something.

Its a positive high, Jack! I think that is a great suggestion!!

I've been a fan of "One Foot In the Gutter" and recently a good friend turned me on to "Into Something" which I really dig. These two compiled with other material would make a great Select.

Edited May 22, 2003 by Out2Lunch

[Son-of-a-Weizen]

I like this one too......some great material there. I enjoy listening to Bailey converse with the audience between numbers on "One Foot".....sounds like quite the proper gentleman.

[ralphie_boy]

Thanks for the recommendations Late. I listened to Disc 2 last night and it keeps getting better. Piano-a-La-Mode is wonderful as is the unreleased session with Cecil Payne on baritone - how this session went unreleased is a mystery to me.

[Roundsound]

It was exciting getting both sets. I decided to go for the Weston first and listed to the first session. It is really good stuff. After reading the Gryce book, it seems that Weston was one of the artists that wanted to push hardbop into a more artistic direction. Melba Liston did the arrangements and the playing is first rate. Of course, Weston's piano playing is different from the hardbop players that grace most of the sessions, which makes the session more interesting.

[Claude]

How does the Weston Select sound?

And does anyone know how the Randy Weston "Little Niles" 2LP sampler from the 70's sounds?

I've recently started buying vinyl records again, and if McMaster produces the same NoNoise disaster as with the Moncur Select (I know some like the sound, but I find it artificially clean) I might get this LP collection instead.

Edited May 22, 2003 by Claude

[Daniel A]

I think the LPs sound very fine, and be sure; there is perfectly audible hiss on the quieter spots! Should there be any drawback, it's perhaps that the stereo separation on some tracks is a bit too heavy.

[jazzbo]

I imagine the Select Weston sounds pretty good; I'm a big fan of Addey's work, and I have similar complaints with McMaster's.

The United Artist two lp set sounds pretty darned good too, and you get a good chunk of "Destry Rides Again" on that which is not included on the Mosaic (and which I like.)

[JohnS]

They've arrived in the UK, at least mine has. Can't believe that I'll be listening to two discs with Coleman Hawkins in one week. It could become a habit.

[Stefan Wood]

Got the new Selects in yesterday. I am listening to the Bennie Green first -- excellent!!!!!!!!

[Late]

Does anyone have an idea as to why Weston particularly dislikes Destry Rides Again? Cuscuna (rather cryptically) refers to Weston's reasons in the latest Mosaic brochure (magazine), but it didn't help me to figure out the situation any more clearly. Not that it matters all too much, of course. I certainly respect Weston's call to have this album withheld from reissue. I was just wondering about the details behind the situation. Anyone in the know?

Edited May 22, 2003 by Late

[jazzbo]

I think Chuck may have some details. The gist of it I think may be that it was not a project he wanted to do but was convinced to do by the record company/producer. None of the material was an original composition of his. That said it's a good album because Randy never made a bad one!

[Gary]

Typical ,

who was lucky enough to be on the Mosaic site when they were updating the new releases page ?

(i did tell you guys first , honest )

http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...ct=ST&f=9&t=911

And who hasn't received his copies yet ?

[Chuck Nessa]

Randy felt pressured by the producer/record company to record that material. He felt more like a sideman.

[Son-of-a-Weizen]

After receiving a couple of 'dinged up' packages courtesy of Airborne Express I'd asked Mosaic if they could ship with another outfit.....but that was months ago and I figured they would forget. They didn't....UPS showed up with a box in perfect condition.

[Out2Lunch]

I got them yesterday and have never listened to much Randy Weston before. I am very impressed with what I've heard so far(discs 1 &2). Score another hit for Mosaic!

[Matthew]

Anyone have the Bennie Green Mosaic? I have all the material except for the Ike Quebec session & the 45's. So, is the sound improved over the TOCJ's of Green? I might be worth the money just to hear Jug & Green "singing" together, in remastered sound. Opinions on the set greatly appreciated.

[Stefan Wood]

I have the Green Select set and listening to it right now, in fact. I had the TOCJs -- it's close, but I have been preferring the Selects sound because of depth and richness. For instance, on the Walkin and Talkin sessions -- I forget which particular track, but I distinctly heard hand clapping throughout the entire track -- I don't recall hearing that (maybe I wasn't focusing as much) on the TOCJ.