New Lester Young set from Mosaic Records coming

[medjuck]

Lucky you!  Mine's not scheduled to arrive till Thursday. 

[jazzbo]

I live now in what used to be 'the western reserve' of Connecticut.

[ghost of miles]

Scott told me that mine's shipping either today or tomorrow, so hoping that it might show up on my Indiana doorstep by the end of the week.

[jazzbo]

#188 just arrived.

FAT booklet. Yay! And odd packaging: a single disc, and two fat boys one with three discs and one with four discs. But I think that was because of the number of tracks to list on the back covers. 

Will begin listening soon.

[Don Brown]

I haven't received my copy yet but I think I know why it's packaged that way, Lon. The single disc is manufactured by Sony since they own all the material contained on that disc while the seven discs in the two fat boys are manufactured by Universal, the owner of all the rest of the material

[jazzbo]

Thanks Don, that makes sense.

[gmonahan]

Still impatiently awaiting mine out here on the West Coast!

 

 

gregmo

[John L]

Yea, mine hasn't shipped yet either.  I wonder if they ran out of the first batch already?

[medjuck]

Mine's "out for delivery"!

[medjuck]

The Eagle has landed!   Number 0184.

[SwingItTrev]

1 hour ago, medjuck said:

The Eagle has landed!   Number 0184.

I’d love to get your initial thoughts.

[jazzbo]

2 hours ago, medjuck said:

The Eagle has landed!   Number 0184.

Awesome! 

[medjuck]

 

2 hours ago, SwingItTrev said:

I’d love to get your initial thoughts.

Just playing 1st disc (the Sony one).   I already had all but six of these cuts and I've got most of the rest of the whole set, but the sound is great, the packaging lovely and the music as beautiful as ever.    What I've read of Loren Shoenberg's notes has added to the pleasure. 

Edited July 29, 2016 by medjuck

[sidewinder]

6 hours ago, medjuck said:

 

Just playing 1st disc (the Sony one).   I already had all but six of these cuts and I've got most of the rest of the whole set, but the sound is great, the packaging lovely and the music as beautiful as ever.    What I've read of Loren Shoenberg's notes has added to the pleasure. 

Shhhhh !!   I'm still trying to catch up with my ever lengthening Mosaic backlist This thread is coming across all Dusty Groove..

Edited July 29, 2016 by sidewinder

[ghost of miles]

I'm really looking forward to reading Loren's commentary while revisiting this vast and amazing stretch of Prez's career. His notes for the previous Young set were, as always, dense with insight and appreciation.

[Steve Gray]

I would love to hear your views on the alternative take of "Lady Be Good'.

 

How does it compare to the issued one, which to my mind is one of the very greatest of all jazz solos.

[gmonahan]

#0121 has arrived, and Mr. Five-by-Five is singing "Boo Hoo," but I ain't cryin'!

 

 

gregmo

[medjuck]

On 7/31/2016 at 10:47 PM, Steve Gray said:

I would love to hear your views on the alternative take of "Lady Be Good'.

 

How does it compare to the issued one, which to my mind is one of the very greatest of all jazz solos.

So far I agree with Loren Schoenberg's comment that the only alternate that might be considered equal  to the original release is "Boogie Woogie".  He presumes that the alternate take of "Lady" is the second take and writes "it sounds as though he (Lester) had already said what he had to say". Not s sure of the order of the takes-- hard to believe that they thought they'd need another one after the one we're all familiar with  but maybe they always did two to have a backup. 

Edited August 6, 2016 by medjuck

[jazzbo]

 

Here's my impressions regarding the Decca sides: there are imo some improvements to the sound from the source cds, but if you are buying the set for improvements of the Decca sides alone I think you'll be a bit disappointed. The Decca tracks that are sourced from non-CD sources do have a certain vividness to them that put them a bit over the others, but the homogeneity of the mastering is quite good from track to track and disc to disc. 

The Una Mae Carlisle and the Sammy Price and the Commodore sides have never sounded better to me on CD. Also Clef, Mercury, Alladin and Philo sides etc. transferred from disc sound excellent.

Edited August 2, 2016 by jazzbo

[hbbfam]

If this was covered, I apologize. How much overlap is there between this 8CD set and the 4 CD
Mosaic Classic Columbia, Okeh and Vocalion: Lester Young with Count Basie (1936-1940)?

[medjuck]

5 tracks are on both. (I think I got that right.)  

[John L]

You did. 

Mine is finally shipping.

[SwingItTrev]

On 2 August 2016 at 11:29 PM, jazzbo said:

 

Here's my impressions regarding the Decca sides: there are imo some improvements to the sound from the source cds, but if you are buying the set for improvements of the Decca sides alone I think you'll be a bit disappointed. The Decca tracks that are sourced from non-CD sources do have a certain vividness to them that put them a bit over the others, but the homogeneity of the mastering is quite good from track to track and disc to disc. 

The Una Mae Carlisle and the Sammy Price and the Commodore sides have never sounded better to me on CD. Also Clef, Mercury, Alladin and Philo sides etc. transferred from disc sound excellent.

Excellent, This is what I was hoping to hear. Mine arrives soon.

[Fred]

Just arrived! It's on the shelf with his sisters and brothers.

[HutchFan]

6 hours ago, Fred said:

Just arrived! It's on the shelf with his sisters and brothers.

Wow. 

I'm green with envy!  

Edited August 5, 2016 by HutchFan