Helping Mosaic by Suggesting Artists and Sets, Part Deux

[felser]

20 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Seriously? 

The Complete Albums 1959-62 https://a.co/d/4GzNcee

[JSngry]

Wow. What about Shelley Berman and Mort Sahl? 

Oh, there are more Winters albums on Verve, post-1962.

[felser]

Berman, but not Sahl.  I have the Winters and Berman, and actually get more from the Berman.  And the early Lenny Bruce stuff is brilliant.

https://images.app.goo.gl/PjskuQSiPyc27zMJ8

[JSngry]

Winters benefits from the visual component, for sure. But the voices alone carry weight! 

V erve actually did a buttload of comedy albums, 50s and well into the 60s. Attention should be paid. 

[felser]

5 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Winters benefits from the visual component, for sure. But the voices alone carry weight! 

I saw a good bit of Winters on TV in my youth, know exactly what you mean.  Most of the Euro PD labels cut off at 1962, hence the missing Winter titles, though Enlightenment takes their sets through 1964.

Edited November 4, 2023 by felser

[mikeweil]

On 11/1/2023 at 12:27 PM, Big Beat Steve said:

In short, a set off the beaten tracks of the usual suspects could be made up that aims straight at those who bought the Black & White box set. Likely???

I had similar thoughts.

[Big Beat Steve]

20 hours ago, felser said:

The Complete Albums 1959-62 https://a.co/d/4GzNcee

BTW, Acrobat isn't "the Andorrans" but "dem Brits".

[mjzee]

Now that Universal owns/controls Blue Note, Fantasy and Impulse, Mosaic could release:

The Complete Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Wayne Shorter 

It would comprise:

Africaine

The Big Beat

Like Someone I Love

A Night In Tunisia

Meet You At The Jazz Corner Of The World vols. 1 & 2

Pisces

Roots And Herbs

The Witch Doctor

The Freedom Rider

Jazz Messengers (Impulse)

Three Blind Mice vols. 1 & 2

Mosaic

Buhaina's Delight

Caravan

Ugetsu

Free For All

Kyoto

Indestructible

Hmmm, that would be a huge box.  Studio Sessions only would comprise 15 albums - still huge, but possibly 10 CDs.

[Chuck Nessa]

No thank you.

[GA Russell]

18 minutes ago, mjzee said:

Now that Universal owns/controls Blue Note, Fantasy and Impulse, Mosaic could release:

The Complete Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Wayne Shorter 

It would comprise:

Africaine

The Big Beat

Like Someone I Love

A Night In Tunisia

Meet You At The Jazz Corner Of The World vols. 1 & 2

Pisces

Roots And Herbs

The Witch Doctor

The Freedom Rider

Jazz Messengers (Impulse)

Three Blind Mice vols. 1 & 2

Mosaic

Buhaina's Delight

Caravan

Ugetsu

Free For All

Kyoto

Indestructible

Hmmm, that would be a huge box.  Studio Sessions only would comprise 15 albums - still huge, but possibly 10 CDs.

Michael, when did Universal obtain Fantasy/Concord?  I am aware of their distribution relationship, but not one of any control.  

[Kevin Bresnahan]

11 hours ago, mjzee said:

Now that Universal owns/controls Blue Note, Fantasy and Impulse, Mosaic could release:

The Complete Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Wayne Shorter 

It would comprise:

Africaine

The Big Beat

Like Someone I Love

A Night In Tunisia

Meet You At The Jazz Corner Of The World vols. 1 & 2

Pisces

Roots And Herbs

The Witch Doctor

The Freedom Rider

Jazz Messengers (Impulse)

Three Blind Mice vols. 1 & 2

Mosaic

Buhaina's Delight

Caravan

Ugetsu

Free For All

Kyoto

Indestructible

Hmmm, that would be a huge box.  Studio Sessions only would comprise 15 albums - still huge, but possibly 10 CDs.

Mosaic already put out 6 CDs of that material:

[JSngry]

Yep. 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

It contained:

BST-84029 The Big Beat
BST-84049 A Night In Tunisia
BST-84054 Meet You At The Jazz Corner Of The World Vol. 1
BST-84055 Meet You At The Jazz Corner Of The World Vol. 2
BST-84156 The Freedom Rider
BST-84245 Like Someone In Love
BST-84258 The Witch Doctor
BST-84347 Roots And Herbs
GXF 3060 Pisces (Japanese)

Edited December 13, 2023 by bresna

[mjzee]

13 hours ago, GA Russell said:

Michael, when did Universal obtain Fantasy/Concord?  I am aware of their distribution relationship, but not one of any control.  

Huh.  Thought I saw it on UMG's website, but I don't see it now.

2 hours ago, bresna said:

Mosaic already put out 6 CDs of that material:

Thanks.  I wasn't aware of it.  Although my suggestion would stretch for more years and encompass other labels.

[mikeweil]

On 7/21/2023 at 9:05 PM, mikeweil said:

The Complete Clef/Norgran/Verve sessions of Louis Bellson

If they can do Buddy Rich, why not Bellson? Lots of Ellingtonians and other good soloists here.

 

I'm still for this, as well as for sets of the Clef/Verve seseions of Ben Webster and Illinois Jacquet.

[romualdo]

now that one of my most wanted has come to fruition (Byas set) there's now only two left 

Wardell Gray (James Accardi would be of immense assistance here)

Joe Harriott (very slim chance but here's always hoping)

Edited December 14, 2023 by romualdo

[tranemonk]

I just want my live, unreleased Betty Carter set. Let me have that and I will be quiet....

[jazzbo]

I'd like that one too. And also a Ricky Ford Muse Sessions box set.

[romualdo]

has the Giants of Jazz (Gillespie, Winding, Stitt, Monk, McKibbon, Blakey) Euro/UK tour of Oct-Nov '71 been mentioned?

Only half of the material recorded in the UK concert (Victoria Theatre, London) for Atlantic (10 of 20 titles) has been released - does the unreleased material still exist or was it lost in the 2008 fire?

There were also recordings in Milan (RAI Radio broadcast), Paris (both concerts were ORTF recorded broadcasts), Prague, Warsaw, Budapest, Belgrade (JRT Radio broadcast), Rotterdam (NOS Radio broadcast), Berlin, Boblingen (Sudwestfunk broadcast), Copenhagen (Danish Broadcasting Corporation), Uppsala - much has been previously released on semi/non-legit labels

plus the outlier is the earlier Australian (Melbourne, Sept 24) performance (ABC Radio broadcast)

I'm sure these concerts were well attended but were the performers generally up to scratch - have read mixed reviews of these concerts

[mikeweil]

Completed sessions of several 1950's Savoy arstist would be nice.

14 hours ago, romualdo said:

has the Giants of Jazz (Gillespie, Winding, Stitt, Monk, McKibbon, Blakey) Euro/UK tour of Oct-Nov '71 been mentioned?

Only half of the material recorded in the UK concert (Victoria Theatre, London) for Atlantic (10 of 20 titles) has been released - does the unreleased material still exist or was it lost in the 2008 fire?

There were also recordings in Milan (RAI Radio broadcast), Paris (both concerts were ORTF recorded broadcasts), Prague, Warsaw, Budapest, Belgrade (JRT Radio broadcast), Rotterdam (NOS Radio broadcast), Berlin, Boblingen (Sudwestfunk broadcast), Copenhagen (Danish Broadcasting Corporation), Uppsala - much has been previously released on semi/non-legit labels

plus the outlier is the earlier Australian (Melbourne, Sept 24) performance (ABC Radio broadcast)

I'm sure these concerts were well attended but were the performers generally up to scratch - have read mixed reviews of these concerts

Here's a pretty much complete listing: https://jazzdiscography.com/Artists/thelonious-monk/thelonious-monk-discography.php#sess-year_1971

[sidewinder]

I'd still like to see a James Moody Argo/Cadet.

[mikeweil]

4 hours ago, sidewinder said:

I'd still like to see a James Moody Argo/Cadet.

That may be a problem due to the loss of many tapes from the Chess archives, and the existence of a cheapo box set covering most of the albums:

https://www.discogs.com/release/15300702-James-Moody-The-Complete-Argo-Collection

[romualdo]

9 hours ago, mikeweil said:

Completed sessions of several 1950's Savoy arstist would be nice.

Here's a pretty much complete listing: https://jazzdiscography.com/Artists/thelonious-monk/thelonious-monk-discography.php#sess-year_1971

thanks Mike - I actually used that discography - btw it hasn't been updated with the Monk Byas Rosencrantz Mosaic session

[HutchFan]

THE COMPLETE REGGIE WORKMAN ON DENON (1977-78): Leader, Sideman, and A & R 

Leader

• Reggie Workman First - Conversation (1977)
• Reggie Workman - The Works of Workman (1978)

Sideman

• Bridgewater Brothers - Lightning and Thunder (1977)
• Bridgewater Brothers - Generation Suite (1978)
• Grachan Moncur III - Shadows (1977)
• Max Roach - Live in Tokyo, Vols. 1 & 2 (1977)
• Hilton Ruiz - Fantasia (1977)
• Archie Shepp - Ballads for Trane (1977)
• Sonny Stitt - Moonlight in Vermont (1977)
• Mickey Tucker - Sweet Lotus Lips (1978)

A & R

• Alex Blake - Especially for You (1978)
• Walter Davis Jr. - Abide With Me (1977)
• Tommy Flanagan - Alone Too Long (1978) 
• Tommy Flanagan & Kenny Barron - Together (1978)
• Billy Harper - Soran-Bushi, B.H. (1978)
• Billy Harper - Knowledge of Self (1978)
• Archie Shepp - On Green Dolphin Street (1978)
• Archie Shepp - Lady Bird (1978)
• John Stubblefield - Midnight Over Memphis (1978)
• Kazumi Watanabe - Lonesome Cat (1977)

I think others have proposed variations on this idea before.  And I realize that it's probably neither feasible nor commercially viable.  That said, I think it would make a fascinating set.  Also, the music is not readily available; it hasn't been reissued on Euro PD and grey market labels (yet).

Another thing to consider: Since Denon was very focused on audio quality, a set like this set might make a splash in the audiophile marketplace -- at least among those audiophiles who aren't anti-digital.

I assume these twenty-one LPs would translate into about a dozen CDs. 

I'd buy it.  In a heartbeat.

 

Edited January 21 by HutchFan

[felser]

I'd also buy it.  There's albums on there I've never heard of!  And anything to get Max Roach titles from that era on CD.