Braxton Arista titles: vinyl or Mosaic box?

[colinmce]

You know I'm sure it's a mixed bag. I can see it in some cases better than others. But for example it was definitely brilliant and rather unconventional to open SOUL STATION with "Remember".

[Chuck Nessa]

True.

Probably thank Alfred.

[David Ayers]

Programming in session order is not a great idea. Studio records were made with an album in view. It was always understood that the material *would* be resequenced by the musicians and/or producer. Sessions would often open with a mid-tempo number, often in an easier key, to warm up - though recorded first these numbers are not intended as first thing on the album. When recording, there is no need to worry about key and tempo relationships - these can be projected and finalised at the stage of assembling the album, but are not relevant at the session. Reverting to session order after decades in which the album has become familiar can be simply jarring - there is no argument other than pedantry for resequencing Ballads on the Classic Quartet set, but they did it, and - uh - I don't think anyone has congratulated them on that decision yet... Really it is most true for hard-bop that recorded sequence is irrelevant, since those albums are built to a clear, commodified format which only changes a little over time, and the goal of the session is to create the album, not a document.