BeBop Posted February 28, 2012 Report Posted February 28, 2012 Running Low e-mail reminder this morning. Don't miss out! Quote
king ubu Posted February 28, 2012 Report Posted February 28, 2012 Huh? Didn't get any mail... good for them that they seem to sell out one for a change again... the Smith and Rich have been running low for ages by now. Quote
Pete C Posted February 28, 2012 Report Posted February 28, 2012 No. The stuff on disc 4 of the #1 band set was out before (on Masters of Jazz) and it's worth the price of the set alone! It's absolutely fabulous, some magic Pres there! I love Spotify. Listening to this disc now. Quote
mikeweil Posted February 28, 2012 Report Posted February 28, 2012 Geez! I must have sensed this when I ordered a copy two weeks ago ... glad I did. Quote
Pete C Posted February 29, 2012 Report Posted February 29, 2012 Huh? Didn't get any mail.. This is the content of the email: http://m.news.emihosting.com/nl/jsp/m.jsp?c=f54d481f93deda0311 Quote
mikeweil Posted February 29, 2012 Report Posted February 29, 2012 Mail arrived today ...Maybe it takes those mails a day longer to get over the drink and over the alps ... Quote
Brad Posted February 29, 2012 Report Posted February 29, 2012 1330476448' post='1177649'] 1330463738' post='1177613'] Huh? Didn't get any mail.. This is the content of the email: http://m.news.emihos...d481f93deda0311 Great interview with Rudy via the Gazzett. Quote
brownie Posted February 29, 2012 Report Posted February 29, 2012 Running Low e-mail reminder this morning. Don't miss out! Yessss... one of the best Mosaic ever! Quote
king ubu Posted February 29, 2012 Report Posted February 29, 2012 And still no email here... weird! Quote
golfcrazy1984 Posted February 29, 2012 Report Posted February 29, 2012 I didn't get the email either???? I mean I have the set, but I like to be up to date on what's happening at Mosaic. Highly recommended set, vastly improved fidelity and a GREAT booklet. Quote
king ubu Posted February 29, 2012 Report Posted February 29, 2012 I got my Basie 1941-51 10LP box today... so I've got all the Columbia (Vocalion/OKeh) Basie I need. The Mosaic set is very good, it has a different focus and maybe better sound than the vinyl (I've not tried to compare)... and it's of course mainly a Pres set with Basie providing the frame. Would have been even better if it had been a Pres set along the lines of the Chu Berry set, also including the Billie Holiday and Teddy Wilson (roughly 3CD?) material for the same label(s). But I love it as it is, and it's certainly more of a homogenic package as it is now. One more thought: ever since they started the Selects, smaller boxes have gotten fewer and far between... does this comparatively fast sale of the Pres/Basie suggest there's more of a market for smaller and hence cheaper boxes? I love the old 3CD and 4CD boxes... with Fuller, McLean, Rivers, Mitchell etc. etc. there have been plenty. If it's got to be five CDs to make it feasible with all the costs to produce the entire packaging, that's fine, too. Those have also gotten scarce (Turrentine, Hampton, Quincy, Hackett, Pass are the recent ones, though the Hackett's from 2001 - and I still don't have it...) Not suggesting they should first decide on size and then find what they can fit in - that would be completely wrong. But I'm sure there's plenty of options in that range, too! Quote
David Ayers Posted February 29, 2012 Report Posted February 29, 2012 Not suggesting they should first decide on size and then find what they can fit in - that would be completely wrong. But I'm sure there's plenty of options in that range, too! I believe we learned that the target size was 7, in economic terms. Quote
jazzbo Posted February 29, 2012 Report Posted February 29, 2012 One more thought: ever since they started the Selects, smaller boxes have gotten fewer and far between... does this comparatively fast sale of the Pres/Basie suggest there's more of a market for smaller and hence cheaper boxes? I love the old 3CD and 4CD boxes... with Fuller, McLean, Rivers, Mitchell etc. etc. there have been plenty. If it's got to be five CDs to make it feasible with all the costs to produce the entire packaging, that's fine, too. Those have also gotten scarce (Turrentine, Hampton, Quincy, Hackett, Pass are the recent ones, though the Hackett's from 2001 - and I still don't have it...) Not suggesting they should first decide on size and then find what they can fit in - that would be completely wrong. But I'm sure there's plenty of options in that range, too! That this sold so well and fast may not have anything to do with size, but maybe with the allure of Pres. I often think there's a market section that Mosaic has for the older styles of jazz that may exist outside the internet, that is there may be a sizable number of buyers that we never see on the boards, but get the catalogs and order. They may have been waiting for just such a set and hopped right on it. Anyway, I'm so glad that this set was a success. It's a well-deserved success. Quote
J.A.W. Posted February 29, 2012 Report Posted February 29, 2012 Not suggesting they should first decide on size and then find what they can fit in - that would be completely wrong. But I'm sure there's plenty of options in that range, too! I believe we learned that the target size was 7, in economic terms. Correct. Quote
king ubu Posted February 29, 2012 Report Posted February 29, 2012 One more thought: ever since they started the Selects, smaller boxes have gotten fewer and far between... does this comparatively fast sale of the Pres/Basie suggest there's more of a market for smaller and hence cheaper boxes? I love the old 3CD and 4CD boxes... with Fuller, McLean, Rivers, Mitchell etc. etc. there have been plenty. If it's got to be five CDs to make it feasible with all the costs to produce the entire packaging, that's fine, too. Those have also gotten scarce (Turrentine, Hampton, Quincy, Hackett, Pass are the recent ones, though the Hackett's from 2001 - and I still don't have it...) Not suggesting they should first decide on size and then find what they can fit in - that would be completely wrong. But I'm sure there's plenty of options in that range, too! That this sold so well and fast may not have anything to do with size, but maybe with the allure of Pres. I often think there's a market section that Mosaic has for the older styles of jazz that may exist outside the internet, that is there may be a sizable number of buyers that we never see on the boards, but get the catalogs and order. They may have been waiting for just such a set and hopped right on it. Anyway, I'm so glad that this set was a success. It's a well-deserved success. That may well be true indeed! Some of these "old jazz" Mosaics can occasionally still be found in some weird specialist stores, too... they just buy them for their possibly mostly non-internet-savvy clientele. Not suggesting they should first decide on size and then find what they can fit in - that would be completely wrong. But I'm sure there's plenty of options in that range, too! I believe we learned that the target size was 7, in economic terms. Correct. Okay, wasn't aware of that... too bad, really! This may sound silly, but someone who started buying Mosaics when the Tristano/Konitz/Marsh (my first) one or the Guiffre were new, six is kind of okay, and seven or more is of course okay as well, but it's just inside my head that beginning with seven, it's a "big" box, needing more talking me into buying it etc. I think the only one bigger than six discs I bought early on was the Basie live (the studio was, alas, already gone). Guess in those days, five or six discs still made sense, economically... at least that's what the releases in the 160s and 170s suggest (okay, there's the Kenton, the Maynaaaaaard which I missed alas, the Classic Capitol which was back then the largest one around and I did eventually buy it). Economy changed alright, and Mosaic suffers from that quite some, I assume... and it would likely be suicidal to raise prices. Anyway, again I wasn't aware of the seven discs threshold. Quote
Face of the Bass Posted February 29, 2012 Report Posted February 29, 2012 Why do people consider this to be one of Mosaic's best sets? Isn't most of this music available elsewhere? My problem is that I've come to learn that I'm just not a big Count Basie fan. I tried to be, but I'm just not. And that's the way it is. Oh well. Quote
jazzbo Posted February 29, 2012 Report Posted February 29, 2012 For me it's because of Pres. I'm a huge Lester Young fan, more a Lester Young fan than a Count Basie Orchestra fan. I had (have) this material on other discs, but the mastering, source material and sound is all over the map and here it's all together in excellent presentation and sounding fantastic. So this is one big hunk of Pres I can grab and spin. If I have this and the Savoy two cd set and the Keynotes, Commodores and the Verve set. . . I'm ready to go to that island. Quote
JSngry Posted February 29, 2012 Report Posted February 29, 2012 Why do people consider this to be one of Mosaic's best sets? Lester Young changed the world, and this set has a big chunk of the details, that's why. Quote
danasgoodstuff Posted February 29, 2012 Report Posted February 29, 2012 Why do people consider this to be one of Mosaic's best sets? Isn't most of this music available elsewhere? My problem is that I've come to learn that I'm just not a big Count Basie fan. I tried to be, but I'm just not. And that's the way it is. Oh well. "I ain't got no Basie with lester/i ain't got nothing but the blues" that's why Quote
mikeweil Posted March 1, 2012 Report Posted March 1, 2012 For me it's because of Pres. I'm a huge Lester Young fan, more a Lester Young fan than a Count Basie Orchestra fan. I had (have) this material on other discs, but the mastering, source material and sound is all over the map and here it's all together in excellent presentation and sounding fantastic. So this is one big hunk of Pres I can grab and spin. If I have this and the Savoy two cd set and the Keynotes, Commodores and the Verve set. . . I'm ready to go to that island. Why do people consider this to be one of Mosaic's best sets? Lester Young changed the world, and this set has a big chunk of the details, that's why. Pretty much the same here ... hope my set will arrive soon. Quote
king ubu Posted March 1, 2012 Report Posted March 1, 2012 Yes, very much in the same boat here! (Lon, you forgot the wonderful Aladdin set!) Quote
Brad Posted March 1, 2012 Report Posted March 1, 2012 What Jim said. The Basie sound is distinct and unique. Maybe you don't dig him now but maybe someday you will. Quote
jazzbo Posted March 1, 2012 Report Posted March 1, 2012 Yes, very much in the same boat here! (Lon, you forgot the wonderful Aladdin set!) Yes, indeed. And many live dates. Sigh. So much good Pres. Quote
sidewinder Posted March 1, 2012 Report Posted March 1, 2012 Just priming my Mosaic trigger finger with this one ! Quote
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