Interview With Scott Wenzel

[sidewinder]

Spotted this - sure to be of interest on the Board:

Scott Wenzel - Part 1

Scott Wenzel - Part 2

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Good spotting! Most interesting.

MG

[Cliff Englewood]

Nice one !!! Thanks for that.

[Parkertown]

Oooh...he hinted that they might consider getting back into vinyl!!!

[GA Russell]

Thanks, sidewinder.

[J.A.W.]

Thanks for posting the links. Scott is a great guy.

Edited July 4, 2008 by J.A.W.

[sidewinder]

Oooh...he hinted that they might consider getting back into vinyl!!!

Yep, I noticed that. What a tease !

[televiper]

Thanks for everyone who checked out the interview. Scott was really generous with his time. Lots of great stuff happening with Bop and Beyond this summer.

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http://bopandbeyond.wordpress.com

[Late]

A good read. Wenzel seems to have a considerable influence, based just on the time frame of certain sets, on Mosaic's offerings — which is a good thing.

Mosaic Select seems the place nowadays for more "modern" stuff. I sometimes wish that Mosaic would explore more "avant garde" recordings, but am still listening to and enjoying the Andrew Hill and Sam Rivers.

What a great thing that Mosaic has grown and prospered over the years, and now decades. I hope there are many more decades to come.

[gmonahan]

One of the things I've most appreciated about Scott is that he occasionally answers emails from loons like me and appears to have an inexhaustible (so far) tolerance for all the suggestions we inflict on him.

Of course, *mine* are particularly valuable!

Greg Mo

[televiper]

Thanks again to everyone who checked out the interview. I hope to be talking to Scott again soon!

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http://bopandbeyond.wordpress.com

[crisp]

Buried at the end of Mosaic's Sunday email was a link to this interview with Scott Wenzel.

Most interesting is this part: "At Mosaic I’m currently working on a James P. Johnson set as well as yet another Count Basie/Lester Young project." Any ideas what those could comprise?

 

[king ubu]

The James P. was mentioned before here, I think ... another Basie/Lester sounds great ... but what is left from later years? Much of it is transcriptions and live recordings, would be a first for Mosaic to do such as set (and obviously there'd be some terrific live recordings from the period covered in the 1936-40 set).

[John L]

Basie/Lester - Maybe a small group (i.e. Kansas City 6) set that could start out with the still unreleased alternates from the first 1936 session.     Gathering all of Basie's or the Basieites' small group sessions from the 30s, 40s, and maybe early 50s would be a pretty substantial set, although it would probably require too many copyrights for Mosaic.

Or could it be a complete Basie live at the Lincoln Hotel 1944 with Lester?    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 21, 2015 by John L

[bluesoul]

A short follow up to the original 2008 interview

Edited August 14, 2015 by bluesoul

[ghost of miles]

It really is too bad that the Selects and Singles weren't financially sustainable; so much excellent material that came out in both of those series.