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sgt1372<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Jazz</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Music</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/HardBop" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HardBop</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Vinyl" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vinyl</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/LP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LP</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CD</span></a></p><p>Here&#39;s a great article from the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MosaicRecords" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MosaicRecords</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/JazzGazette" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JazzGazette</span></a> about <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CliffordBrown" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CliffordBrown</span></a> (<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Brownie" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Brownie</span></a>) -- one of my all time favorite jazz <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/trumpet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>trumpet</span></a> players -- whose brilliant talent was tragically ended much too early as a result of an auto accident in 1956 when he was only 25 yrs old.</p><p>I&#39;ve got 28 single/double LP albums &amp; 2 <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MosaicRecords" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MosaicRecords</span></a> LP sets of Brownie&#39;s recordings and a <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/DVD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DVD</span></a> called <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BrownieSpeaks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BrownieSpeaks</span></a> in my collection. </p><p><a href="https://www.mosaicrecords.com/the-great-jazz-artists/clifford-brown/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mosaicrecords.com/the-great-ja</span><span class="invisible">zz-artists/clifford-brown/</span></a></p>
sgt1372<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Jazz</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BlueNote" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BlueNote</span></a> </p><p>If you&#39;re a <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/JazzFan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JazzFan</span></a>, you already &quot;in love&quot; with Blue Note Records &amp; it will take a lot more lot more than 5 minutes to listen to all of the suggested tracks in this NYT article -- it&#39;ll take you over 8 mins to listen to the 1st -- but, take my word for it, it&#39;s worth the time.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/WayneShorter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WayneShorter</span></a>&#39;s <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SpeakNoEvil" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SpeakNoEvil</span></a>; <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/LeeMorgan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LeeMorgan</span></a>&#39;s <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/PartyTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PartyTime</span></a>; <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ArtBlakey" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ArtBlakey</span></a>&#39;s <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Pensativa" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pensativa</span></a>; <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BobbyHutherson" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BobbyHutherson</span></a>&#39;s <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Avis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Avis</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CliffordBrown" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CliffordBrown</span></a>&#39;s <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/EasyLiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EasyLiving</span></a> are my favorite tracks among those mentioned. </p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/arts/music/blue-note-records-jazz-music.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/02/05/arts/mu</span><span class="invisible">sic/blue-note-records-jazz-music.html</span></a></p><p>BTW, this is a gift article provided by <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MosaicRecords" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MosaicRecords</span></a> in the current issue of its <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/JazzGazette" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JazzGazette</span></a> which you can find here:</p><p><a href="https://www.mosaicrecords.com/jazz-gazette-news/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mosaicrecords.com/jazz-gazette</span><span class="invisible">-news/</span></a></p>
sgt1372<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://heads.social/@innergroove" class="u-url mention">@<span>innergroove</span></a></span> I&#39;ve got 11 of <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/HankMobley" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HankMobley</span></a>&#39;s <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BlueNote" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BlueNote</span></a> albums but also own these 2 <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MosaicRecord" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MosaicRecord</span></a> sets that fill a lot of gaps in my collection of his music and, if you&#39;re missing any of his Blue Note recordings from the 1950&#39;s to 70&#39;s, I recommend looking for these <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MosaicRecords" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MosaicRecords</span></a> sets:</p>
sgt1372<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Jazz</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Blues" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Blues</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/LPs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LPs</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Vinyl" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vinyl</span></a> </p><p>I don&#39;t frequent <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/RecordStores" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RecordStores</span></a> very often anymore but I was in <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Martinez" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Martinez</span></a> today &amp; happened to notice a small record store there.</p><p>I browsed thru their 3 small bins of jazz LPs &amp; found the 1984 <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MosaicRecords" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MosaicRecords</span></a> release of the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/PortOfHarlemJazzmen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PortOfHarlemJazzmen</span></a> which includes the 1st recordings ever produced &amp; released on an album by (the to be named) <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BlueNote" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BlueNote</span></a> records founded by Alfred Lion in 1939.</p><p>The sound quality on the album isn&#39;t great because it&#39;s mastered from the acetates used to cut the original 78&#39;s during 2 sessions in 1939. If you&#39;re into listening to &quot;vintage&quot; jazz music, that&#39;s par for the course but the poor sound quality does not detract from listening to <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SidneyBechet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SidneyBechet</span></a> play a soulful version of <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Summertime" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Summertime</span></a> on the B-side of the LP.</p><p>I could have bought a copy off of <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Discogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Discogs</span></a> but part of the fun of collecting LPs is going <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BinDiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BinDiving</span></a> &amp; I consider this a great <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/LP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LP</span></a> find!</p><p>However, I am now thinking about buying the a Japanese re-issue of the original album for comparison.</p>
sgt1372<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Jazz</span></a></p><p>Spent the last roughly 3 hours listening to the 6 <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/LP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LP</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MosaicRecords" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MosaicRecords</span></a> set of &quot;The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Sidney Bechet&quot; recorded between 1939 &amp; 1953. </p><p>I&#39;m not really a <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Dixieland" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dixieland</span></a> or <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/TraditionalJazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TraditionalJazz</span></a>&quot;fan but the time flew by as I changed/flipped the LPs every 15 mins or so listening to this amazing 70-85 yr old music. </p><p>Sidney Bechet played jazz <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/clarinet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>clarinet</span></a> long before <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BennyGoodman" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BennyGoodman</span></a> came on the scene &amp;, while it&#39;s undocumented, I dare say that what <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Goodman" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Goodman</span></a> learned about how to play the jazz clarinet, he learned from <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SidneyBechet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SidneyBechet</span></a>.</p>
sgt1372<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Jazz</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MosaicRecords" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MosaicRecords</span></a> </p><p>Mosaic Records (the premier re-issuer of old jazz classic sets) is now accepting pre-orders for a new 11 CD set of V-Disc (V for Victory) recordings produced between 1942-1949 for the US military. </p><p>Since the US govt ordered that all of the masters &amp; stampers be destroyed at the end of the program, Mosaic re-mastered the recordings from available 78s (&amp; in some cases from masters that were saved from destruction).</p><p>I just ordered it &amp; haven&#39;t heard all of it yet but clips from the set are provided in the link below. Since this music was produced during the hey-day of <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SwingJazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SwingJazz</span></a> (prior to post-war <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Bop" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bop</span></a>) that&#39;s what you&#39;re going to hear on this set but it&#39;s music that no one except your parents or grandparents ever got to hear when the music was originally produced &amp; aired. </p><p>Some great jazz artists of the era are listed in performing on these CDs, including but not limited to <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/LouisArmstrong" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LouisArmstrong</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ArtTatum" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ArtTatum</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BenWebster" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BenWebster</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BobbyHackett" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BobbyHackett</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/HerbEllis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HerbEllis</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/JackTeagarden" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JackTeagarden</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.mosaicrecords.com/product/classic-v-disc-small-group-limited-edition-box-set-279-11-cds/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mosaicrecords.com/product/clas</span><span class="invisible">sic-v-disc-small-group-limited-edition-box-set-279-11-cds/</span></a></p>
sgt1372<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Jazz</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Legend" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Legend</span></a></p><p>I&#39;ve been a collector of <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MosaicRecords" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MosaicRecords</span></a> sets going back to when the company was 1st founded in 1981.</p><p>Just got notice from Mosaic that Michael Cuscuna, who had a hand in distributing &amp; unearthing some of the most important jazz music ever recorded in his time as a producer w/Columbia Records and as the co-founder of Mosaic Records, just died. ☹️</p><p>Here&#39;s a link to Mosaic&#39;s announcement of his passing:</p><p><a href="https://www.mosaicrecords.com/jazz-gazette-news/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mosaicrecords.com/jazz-gazette</span><span class="invisible">-news/</span></a></p><p>And, in case the link to his interview w/DownBeat mentioned in the announcement doesn&#39;t work, you can find it here:</p><p><a href="https://downbeat.com/news/detail/michael-cuscuna-lifetime-achievement-in-recording" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">downbeat.com/news/detail/micha</span><span class="invisible">el-cuscuna-lifetime-achievement-in-recording</span></a></p><p>**Michael Cuscuna**<br />**1948 – 2024**</p>
sgt1372<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Jazz</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MosaicRecords" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MosaicRecords</span></a></p><p>Mosaic Records is a reissuer of jazz music that finds the original tapes, cleans them up, presents the recordings in chronlogical order &amp; presents them completely (or as completely as possible) in limited LP/CD (mostly CD now) boxed sets.</p><p>Mosaic Records was founded in 1982 &amp; has since produced 275 boxed sets. I&#39;ve been a collector of Mosaic sets almost since the day they were founded &amp; currently own over 120 of their sets.</p><p>Mosaic&#39;s most recent set is a complilation of all of the Norman Granz produced &quot;Jazz at the Philharmonic Jam Sessions&quot; from 1950-1957.</p><p>If you are a collector of jazz LPs (as I am), you know how hard it is to find some (let alone ALL) of the original recordings of these &quot;jam&quot; sessions.</p><p>I just placed my order for this CD set &amp;, if you&#39;re a fan of the post-Bop &amp; so-called &quot;Modern Jazz&quot; period of the early 50&#39;s, as I am, then you should definitely consider buying a copy of this set.</p><p>Here&#39;s a link to a description of &amp; audio clips from the set:</p><p><a href="https://www.mosaicrecords.com/product/classic-jazz-at-the-philharmonic-jam-sessions-1950-1957-mosaic-records/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mosaicrecords.com/product/clas</span><span class="invisible">sic-jazz-at-the-philharmonic-jam-sessions-1950-1957-mosaic-records/</span></a></p>
sgt1372<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zirk.us/@Indigo" class="u-url mention">@<span>Indigo</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Jazz</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MilesDavis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MilesDavis</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/GilEvans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GilEvans</span></a></p><p>One of the better Davis/Evans collobrations for Columbia IMO. Listening to it via the link you provided now.</p><p>I&#39;ve got a copy of all of the individual Davis/Evans Columbia LPs including the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MosaicRecords" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MosaicRecords</span></a> compliation pictured below. </p><p>If you&#39;re not familiar with this release, you can find some more info about it here:</p><p><a href="https://audioquarterly.com/miles-davies-gil-evans-the-complete-columbia-studio-recordings-mosaic-records-mq11-164/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">audioquarterly.com/miles-davie</span><span class="invisible">s-gil-evans-the-complete-columbia-studio-recordings-mosaic-records-mq11-164/</span></a></p><p>and here:</p><p><a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/3771363-Miles-Davis-Gil-Evans-The-Complete-Columbia-Studio-Recordings" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">discogs.com/release/3771363-Mi</span><span class="invisible">les-Davis-Gil-Evans-The-Complete-Columbia-Studio-Recordings</span></a></p>
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