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“While Mosaic never does wrong, this set is absolutely perfect. Three CDs of Andrew Hill, almost all of it previously unheard by the public. While these sessions probably sat in the vaults to lack of commercial viability at the time, they are every bit as good as Hill's contemporary Blue Note releases that have been released. Some of the lineups are chock full of heavy hitter sidemen- Sam Rivers, Lee Morgan, Woody Shaw, etc. Overall the set is a good indicator of the diversity of Hill's compositonal ideas in the late 60s. He is heard in large group settings, trio settings, and most amazingly working with a string quartet. I find the string quartet sessions to be the most remarkable on the set.” - Customer Review
"A remarkable burst of creativity over a two week span. Of course the Chet Baker reunion is marvelous. The Vinnie Burke strings are a great complement to Mulligan. I have to admit I was a bit worried about it. To be honest, while I love Gerry, I really bought this set for the Annie Ross session. Just fantastic! Her version of "I Feel Pretty" was worth the price for me. Transcendent.” - Customer Review
“ I've been purchasing Mosaic sets since the 90s and this is among my top five. Tyner's vision comes into focus on these sessions--powerful piano, extended modal songs, Eastern influences, and beautiful melodies. Remastering is top-notch as are the sidemen throughout.” - Customer Review
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“This is such a great session. It is still so surprising that this lineup of the Messengers is overlooked and underrated. This lineup deserves to be heralded as one of Blakey's best alongside the Golson/Morgan/Timmons/Merritt '58 and the Shorter/Hubbard/Fuller/Walton/Merritt or Workman '61-'64 lineups. And, of course, this set has all of Mosaic's usual exemplary production hallmarks.” - Customer Review
“ The mastering on this disc is fantastic. Excellent sonic clarity all around. That, combined with Lloyd's great sense of melody and forward-thinking songwriting make for a satifsying listening experience. Lloyd's cool and progressive style is a joy, and the interplay between all the band members is superb. Tony Williams was one of the funkiest jazz drummers around, too! Buy this and you will find yourself seeking out more Charles Lloyd. Not to be missed! ” - Customer Review
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 | Louis Armstrong The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions 1935-46 (#243) Some of the performances are among the most significant of his life and a lasting gift to music - there isn't a trumpeter since who hasn't marveled at the brilliance of his tone, coherence of his soloing, and perfection of his execution on the 1938 "Struttin' With Some Barbecue." It is, plain and simple, a flawless record. - Limited Edition: 10000 Copies
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 | Chu Berry Classic Chu Berry Columbia and Victor Sessions (#236) A Master Class in Swing.This is a comprehensive collection with countless pivotal sessions. If he hadn't died young, Chu Berry might have become the most influential tenor saxophonist of the 20th Century. - Limited Edition: 5000 Copies
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 | Anthony Braxton The Complete Arista Recordings of Anthony Braxton (#242) What made Braxton's output at Arista (1974-80) so unique was the range of projects he was able to realize thanks to the supportive budgets of a major label. This 8-CD set rescues his entire 13-LP Arista output from forgotten vaults. - Limited Edition: 5000 Copies
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 | Clifford Brown & Max Roach The Clifford Brown & Max Roach Emarcy Albums (4 LPs)(#3004) In the words of liner note writer Bob Blumenthal, “the Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet created one of the very greatest string of small-group recordings in jazz history, worthy of consideration alongside the Hot Fives and Sevens of Louis Armstrong and the quintets of Charlie Parker and Miles Davis.” - Limited Edition: 2500 Copies
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 | Bing Crosby The Bing Crosby CBS Radio Recordings (1954-56) (#245) This set is on backorder and is expected to be restocked in the 2nd half of 2013. The 160 songs in this Mosaic collection were recorded with the Buddy Cole Quartet between 1954 and 1956 for Bing’s CBS show are absolutely revelatory. Crosby’s early jazz roots informed his influential career as a pop singer. To our knowledge, these are the only recorded performances of Crosby singing the Great American Songbook in an informal atmosphere with a consummate small jazz ensemble. - Limited Edition: 20,000 Copies
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 | Duke Ellington Duke Ellington: 1936-40 Small Group Sessions (#235) This set gathers together all the small group sessions led by Duke Ellington and his sidemen Rex Stewart, Barney Bigard, Cootie Williams and Johnny Hodges, during the years 1936-40. - Limited Edition: 10000 Copies
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 | Duke Ellington The Complete 1932-1940 Bruns./Col./Master Rec. of Ellington "Sophisticated Lady." "Stormy Weather." "Solitude." "In a Sentimental Mood." "Echoes of Harlem." "Caravan." All of them and many more are a part of "The Complete 1932-1940 Brunswick, Columbia, and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra," an unprecedented 11-CD set that compiles these recordings for the first, and quite possibly the last, time. There would be many more exceptional compositions in the years following, including his highly regarded suites and longer works, but the scope of our latest, lavish Mosaic collection is the period when Ellington would establish himself as the most important composer ever in jazz. - Limited Edition: 5,000 Copies
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 | Stan Getz Stan Getz:The 1953-54 Norgran Studio Sessions (4 LPs)(#3003) Four LPs comprise our box set, with 26 tracks arranged by session and accompanied by our exclusive Mosaic booklet. It includes an essay by Ashley Kahn with track-by-track analysis and a complete discography. Photos from the era capture the magic as they were making it. The 180-gram pressings of this 4-LP set were mastered from analog sources using the original Clef/Norgran master tapes for unparalleled sound. - Limited Edition: 5000 Copies
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 | Dizzy Gillespie Verve/Philips Dizzy Gillespie Small Group Sessions (#234) At long last, we have obtained the rights to a cache of music by Dizzy Gillespie, much of it available for the first time on CD, and some for the first time anywhere. And fortunately, for the select group of jazz fans that will snap up this release, the music represents a time in Dizzy's career when he was peaking creatively. - Limited Edition: 10000 Copies
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 | Benny Goodman The Columbia and OKeh Benny Goodman Orchestra Sessions (#240 A treasure trove of seven CDs, spanning nearly 20 years of Goodman's musical life, from the late 1930s when his popularity was already well established, throughout the 1950s when Benny would assemble the cream of the mainstream jazz world to be, even if it were just for one session, the Benny Goodman Orchestra. - Limited Edition: 5000 Copies
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 | Bobby Hackett The Complete Capitol Bobby Hackett Solo Sessions (#210) Most of these hard-to-come-by Capitol sessions have been long forgotten and unavailable for decades. However, we’ve decided it was high time to bring the beauty and charm of these 10 classic Hackett LPs back with a box set of 5 CDs. - Limited Edition: 5000 Copies
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 | Lionel Hampton The Complete Lionel Hampton Victor Sessions 1937-41 (#238) We regard this set as among our very significant releases, because of the moment in music it captures; because of the quality of the music and the sidemen; because of the comprehensive nature of the collection; and because of the sound restoration. - Limited Edition: 5000 Copies
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 | Coleman Hawkins Classic Coleman Hawkins Sessions 1922-1947 (#251) The man whose innovations elevated saxophone to its rightful place in jazz is finally getting the retrospective he deserves, in a presentation that you've come to expect from Mosaic Records. - Limited Edition: 5,000 Copies
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 | Woody Herman The Complete Woody Herman Columbia (1945-7)(#223) These are the recordings that introduced a new sound and fury to Big Band music in the 1940s. Here they are, massively collected on seven CDs from the Columbia vaults for the first time anywhere. - Limited Edition: 5000 Copies
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 | Earl Hines Classic Earl Hines Sessions 1928-1945 (#254) For the first time ever, you can own a set that brings together Earl Hines' important work as a leader and soloist spanning 1928 to 1945. This unprecedented collection draws from all the important labels that recorded him -- OKeh, Victor, Brunswick, Vocalion, Bluebird and Signature. - Limited Edition: 5,000 Copies
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 | Ahmad Jamal The Complete Ahmad Jamal Trio Argo Sessions (#246) Ahmad Jamal's recording as a piano trio leader on Argo, owned by Chicago's Chess recording label, began in 1956. And that's where our new retrospective begins on The Complete Ahmad Jamal Trio Argo Sessions 1956-62. The first definitive collection of his work from this seminal era of his career, it includes all the tunes for which Jamal became renowned, such as “Ahmad's Blues,” “Poinciana,” “But Not For Me,” and “Billy Boy,” a song so often re-done in Jamal's style that his version has almost become the new standard. - Limited Edition: 5,000 Copies
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 | Jazz Crusaders Jazz Crusaders:Pacific Jazz Quintet Studio Sessions (#230) This set is on backorder and is expected to be restocked in the 2nd half of 2013. This is the first major retrospective of The Jazz Crusaders and this collection, from the 1960s, presents them at a time when they were largely un-amplified, full of energy, and unbelievably prolific. - Limited Edition: 5000 Copies
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 | DVD Jazz Icons Jazz Icons DVD Box Set This 6 DVD set includes the 1965 Antibes concerts by the John Coltrane Quartet that captured the only public performances of "Ascension" and "A Love Supreme" and a little known 1969 color program of Thelonious Monk alone and free-associating in a Paris TV studio - Limited Edition: Playable In All Regions Copies
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 | Quincy Jones The Quincy Jones ABC/Mercury Big Band Jazz Sessions (#237) It didn’t make sense economically, didn’t make sense logistically, didn’t provide ego satisfaction for star players, but Quincy Jones formed a big band. For the sheer sake of the music. - Limited Edition: 7500 Copies
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 | Jimmie Lunceford The Complete Jimmie Lunceford Decca Sessions (#250) With reliable interest in the Swing era, you’d think the industry by now would have commissioned comprehensive retrospectives of every name of seminal importance. Every band of era-defining significance. But you’d be wrong. Inexplicably, there has been a glaring omission. Until now. With Mosaic’s latest set of The Complete Jimmie Lunceford Decca Sessions, one can appreciate the innovations and brilliance of this band as never before. - Limited Edition: 5,000 Copies
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 | Charles Mingus Charles Mingus - The Jazz Workshop Concerts 1964-65 (#253) This set chronicles the essential live performances of this genius of modern music as his compositions achieved a depth and complexity we would come to know as Mingus’s most signature work. It includes (on the earlier recordings) the brilliant Eric Dolphy, along with Jaki Byard, Dannie Richmond, Johnny Coles, and Clifford Jordan -- certainly one of the best assemblages of musicians ever. - Limited Edition: 7,500 Copies
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 | Hank Mobley The Complete Blue Note Hank Mobley Fifties Sessions (#181) As one of the founding members of the original Jazz Messengers, tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley was part of a brilliant innovation. The world came to know it as hard bop. It was the sound of its day, and it codified what came to be called the "Blue Note sound." - Limited Edition: 7500 Copies
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 | Modern Jazz Quartet Complete Atlantic Studio Rec.- The Modern Jazz Quartet 1956- The Modern Jazz Quartet was certainly one of the most distinctive voices in the history of jazz, thanks to the unique qualities of personal expression and collective vision of its members Milt Jackson, John Lewis, Percy Heath and Connie Kay . They were also exceptionally prolific during their tenure at Atlantic Records, producing 14 albums in eight years. - Limited Edition: 5,000 Copies
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 | Thelonious Monk Thelonious Monk /John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall-LP (#231) The discovery of more music from the Thelonious Monk quartet with John Coltrane is made all the more extraordinary because so few knew it existed and the only official recordings by this band were made in its first weeks of existence. - Limited Edition: Unlimited Copies
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 | Thelonious Monk The Complete Thelonious Monk At The It Club (MRLP-3001) Monk was at a particular high point pianistically during this gig. Mosaic has returned to the original three-track tapes and mixed them done to beautiful sounding analog stereo masters, presenting the six sets they played that night as they happened. - Limited Edition: 5000 Copies
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 | Oliver Nelson The Oliver Nelson Verve/Impulse Big Band Sessions (#233) One of the most important big band composers and arrangers of the 1960s. Thirty years after Oliver Nelson's sudden and tragic death, we at Mosaic Records believe it's high time for a major re-evaluation of his music. - Limited Edition: 10000 Copies
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 | Charlie Parker The Complete Benedetti Recordings of Charlie Parker (#129) These are the Benedetti recordings in their entirety, and after 40 years of rumor, speculation and debate, they are at last available to the world. - Limited Edition: Unlimited Copies
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 | Joe Pass The Complete Pacific Jazz Joe Pass Quartet Sessions (#207) Always clean, articulate, and effective, Pass had unstoppable swing and an ability to create memorable, beautifully-constructed solos. The Mosaic collection lays out the full range of what this musician could do. - Limited Edition: 5000 Copies
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 | Oscar Peterson The Complete Clef/Mercury Rec. Of Oscar Peterson Trio (#241) This Mosaic Records collection is the first comprehensive study of Oscar Peterson's earliest trio recordings, the setting for which he was best known, throughout his reign. - Limited Edition: 10,000 Copies
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 | Django Reinhardt The Complete Django Reinhardt HMV Sessions (#190) From the vaults of HMV and Swing, these recordings -- 118 in all - span Django's most productive years, from 1936 to 1948, and feature him performing solo guitar and in duet with Grappelli as well as with the quintet. - Limited Edition: 7500 Copies
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 | Artie Shaw Classic Artie Shaw Bluebird And Victor Sessions (#244) This set is on backorder and is expected to be restocked in the 2nd half of 2013. An improviser and technician of the highest order, Shaw’s inventions were a never-ending stream of melodic perfection cradled by a tone that was as full as any a clarinetist could wish for. To offer the finest sound possible, we've located the original metal parts and pristine vinyl test pressings from the Victor and Bluebird vault. - Limited Edition: 5000 Copies
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 | Woody Shaw Woody Shaw: The Complete Muse Sessions (#255) Release Date: Early June Included in this collection are the mid- to late-1970s recordings that established Woody Shaw's musical identity, and saw him break through as an inspiring and influential musician and bandleader. Also included are the Muse sets from his return to the label from 1983 through 1987, where as a mature musician he displayed his range on the instrument and his appreciation for music of many jazz disciplines - Limited Edition: 5,000 Copies
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 | Jack Teagarden The Complete Roulette Jack Teagarden Sessions (#218) Especially on the live material from the Roundtable in New York City, which occupies half of this set, this group’s ability to work together and inspire each other to create joyful jazz is especially rewarding. - Limited Edition: 5000 Copies
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 | Henry Threadgill Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (#247) These eight CDs are filled with music that was carefully imagined, deeply felt, and wonderfully executed. The period begins in 1978 with Open Air Suit, hailed for its complexity and for the uncanny way musicians could instantly communicate through improvisation, The set moves from three albums by Air and one by Threadgill's "X-75" to three on RCA with his seven-man Sextett and ends with his three albums for Columbia. Along the way it unveils for the first time ever, a completely unheard Arista/Novus X-75 session from 1979. - Limited Edition: 5,000 Copies
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 | Stanley Turrentine Blue Note Stanley Turrentine Qt./Sxt. Sessions (#212) Strong, bluesy and soulful. The six Blue Note dates collected on our Mosaic set are in a class by themselves; they are pure hard bop with Stanley Turrentine sharing the front line with a horn equal to him in talent. - Limited Edition: 5000 Copies
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 | Sarah Vaughan The Complete Roulette Sarah Vaughan Studio Sessions (#214) Listening to this music in its entirety, you hear how the simplest tune could become the canvass for a singer’s art. Sarah Vaughan could hit a note head on and hold it, pure and clean. Or, at her command, add a pretty vibrato. - Limited Edition: 5000 Copies
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