No Love for Stanley Turrentine set?

[connoisseur series500]

  John Tapscott said:

  connoisseur series500 said:

I ordered the Turrentine Mosaic yesterday. 

Had a few beers in me, but I don't think I'll regret the decision. 

Oh boy, I buy too much cold sober. I can't imagine what would happen with a few beers. I'd be clicking every "buy it now" icon I could find!!!

In any case, I don't have the Mr. T. set, but I have at least half the set on LP. You're going to love it!!!

I've got about 2/3 to 3/4 of the set on cd!

I bought it for two sessions. Got all the Japanese masterings already. I'll probably hang on to them as well.

[wesbed]

The Great Mosaic Trilogy. The Horace Parlan, the Stanley Turrentine, and the Donald Byrd/Pepper Adams. Get it. Understand it. Appreciate it. Groove to it. Enjoy it.

[connoisseur series500]

  wesbed said:

The Great Mosaic Trilogy. The Horace Parlan, the Stanley Turrentine, and the Donald Byrd/Pepper Adams. Get it. Understand it. Appreciate it. Groove to it. Enjoy it.

If I have a few beers tonight (and I just might to drown out that horrible piano playing on the part of my wife! ) I will end up purchasing this holy trinity even though I've got all the individual cds.

[wesbed]

  connoisseur series500 said:

If I have a few beers tonight I will end up purchasing this holy trinity even though I've got all the individual cds.

You can't go wrong here.

All three sets blend right together. You can go from one box to the next, listen straight-through, and never hear a bad note. You said it, the fucking Holy Trinity, the Cream of the Cream, the Mosaic trilogy of jazz trilogies. Give Mosaic your money, get the merchandise. Listen to it. Learn about it. Be enlightened by it. Don't leave home without it.

Edited April 26, 2005 by wesbed

[sal]

  connoisseur series500 said:

I ordered the Turrentine Mosaic yesterday.

Had a few beers in me, but I don't think I'll regret the decision.

I've done that before.

[jazzbo]

I can even make bad expenditures like that stone sober. . . did that this weekend with a stereo equipment purchase I shouldn't have made!

[Ron S]

  jazzbo said:

I can even make bad expenditures like that stone sober. . . did that this weekend with a stereo equipment purchase I shouldn't have made!

Finally got that Victrola to play your oldest 78's?

[jazzbo]

No, I play those at my parents' place in Bay Village, Ohio. Big Victrola there, about the size of a chest of drawers!

I ordered THIS:

Zbox

To use as a preamp between my DEC 685 modified sony SACD player and my Decware EL 34 Monoblocks.

[Ron S]

  jazzbo said:

No, I play those at my parents' place in Bay Village, Ohio.  Big Victrola there, about the size of a chest of drawers!

I ordered THIS:

Zbox

To use as a preamp between my DEC 685 modified sony SACD player and my Decware EL 34 Monoblocks.

Hmmm . . . based on aesthetics, only, I think I prefer the Victrola--unless you're into that 2001 Monolith kinda look:

[jazzbo]

I don't care what it looks like!

I love Decware products. . . have their source, amps and speakers and now I have a linestage as well.

The amps and speakers are prettier, granted!

[Ron S]

  jazzbo said:

I don't care what it looks like!

Aaaaaaaah, but Lonson my friend, always remember, it is better for stereo equipment to LOOK good than to sound good!

[jazzbo]

But NO. . . I've gone on a different path. . . I want it to sound spectacular, I don't care what it LOOKS like!

Forget THIS

I want THIS

(that is one of my Monoblck amps).

And I'd LOVE one of these for my Ovation Breadwinner!

Edited May 21, 2005 by jazzbo

[sidewinder]

My Turrentine Mosaic set has just arrived and so far it's sounding great - a definite for this one. I went straight to disk 5 for the 'Another Story' material and - wow - how come this session is so obscure? Stanley's solo feature on 'Stella By Starlight' is just beautiful, one of his best ever ballad features I think. The front line with Thad is a very compatible pairing.

Another good example of Mosaic taking a logical grouping of undeservedly obscure sessions as a vehicle to feature particular aspects of the artist in question and add new 'focus' to his legacy. Sound quality sounds AOK to me too, although I've yet to check the first couple of disks. The usual great session photos in the booklet too, thanks to the Francis Wolff archive.

So far, so good !

[mrjazzman]

I bought discs 4 and 5 because i already had the other material of individual cd's. Disc 5 has the best jazz cover of the Beatles Can't Buy Me Love I'v ever heard..............

[wesbed]

  mrjazzman said:

Disc 5 has the best jazz cover of the Beatles  Can't Buy Me Love I'v ever heard..............

←

Yes. I believe it's better than The Beatles.

[Free For All]

  jazzbo said:

But NO. . . I've gone on a different path. . . I want it to sound spectacular, I don't care what it LOOKS like!

Forget THIS

"One grande latte w/a double shot of espresso, please."

[BFrank]

Is it just me, or are the "Jubilee Shout" and "Wahoo" audio clips disabled on the website?

[BruceH]

I love this one so much that I find it hard to express in words.

[Kyo]

Time to revive this ancient thread as I got my Stanley T box this week, hooray!

I must really say that I think the sound on the first disc is downright horrible.

WAAAAAY too trebly. Once again I must note that I'm anything BUT an

audiophile, but this is really hard to listen to (the cymbals really hurt my ears).

On my home stereo I can just turn the treble way down and then it sounds fine

but I can't do this that easily on my discman and my car radio.

Did the original US CD version of Comin' Your Way sound that bad as well?

I fear I'm gonna have to do some doctoring myself (no idea how at this point...)

or just grab a copy of the old version. It really is pretty annoying!

Btw, the rest of the set sounds fine to me (yes, even disc two, although it

often gets lumped together with the first when it comes to audio complaints).

And the music is excellent, but then that was pretty clear from the start.

Edited August 16, 2006 by Kyo

[Kyo]

  Kyo said:

I fear I'm gonna have to do some doctoring myself

Done (using Acoustica)! And I'm very happy with the result!

But seriously, how could they ever release this in this condition?

[connoisseur series500]

I listented to disc 1 yesterday. Sounded fine to me. I like lots of treble. Stanley's sound is very deep so the cymbal work is a nice trebbly compliment.

Maybe my ears aren't sophisticated enough.

[Ron S]

  connoisseur series500 said:

I like lots of treble.

That's your problem--always getting into treble.

[RDK]

  connoisseur series500 said:

I listented to disc 1 yesterday. Sounded fine to me. I like lots of treble. Stanley's sound is very deep so the cymbal work is a nice trebbly compliment.

Maybe my ears aren't sophisticated enough.

But then wouldn't the other discs in the set sound dull or "muffled" to you?

[connoisseur series500]

  RDK said:

  connoisseur series500 said:

I listented to disc 1 yesterday. Sounded fine to me. I like lots of treble. Stanley's sound is very deep so the cymbal work is a nice trebbly compliment.

Maybe my ears aren't sophisticated enough.

But then wouldn't the other discs in the set sound dull or "muffled" to you?

Will get back to you on that, Chief. Have to pull em out and give them another listen.

[RDK]

  connoisseur series500 said:

  RDK said:

  connoisseur series500 said:

I listented to disc 1 yesterday. Sounded fine to me. I like lots of treble. Stanley's sound is very deep so the cymbal work is a nice trebbly compliment.

Maybe my ears aren't sophisticated enough.

But then wouldn't the other discs in the set sound dull or "muffled" to you?

Will get back to you on that, Chief. Have to pull em out and give them another listen.

Don't burden yourself with having to listen to Stanley's music on my account.