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Toshiko Akiyoshi
Mosaic Select: Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin (MS-033)
With the formation of their 16-piece orchestra in 1973, Toshiko's image shifted from being a great bop-inspired pianist to being a composer-arranger of great invention. Her scores are varied and rich in tonal colors, often drawing on traditional Japanese music as well as jazz. The band, loaded with the cream of the LA scene and led by Lew, swings the hell out of her inventive, intricate arrangements. Their five studio albums (1974-77) form the great initial opus by this distinctive orchestra; they are Kogun, Long Yellow Road, Tales Of A Courtesan, Insights and March Of The Tadpoles - Limited Edition: 5000 Copies

3 CDs - $44.00

Curtis Amy
Mosaic Select: Curtis Amy (MS-007)
Curtis Amy had a beautiful sound and a style that was both muscular and lyrical. This set comprises six albums including Katanga which is regarded as his masterpiece. - Limited Edition: 5000 Copies

3 CDs - $44.00

Art Blakey
Art Blakey - Hard Bop (MCD-1005)
Beyond Blakey's always magnificent and contoured drumming, this quintet's strongest asset was the beautiful, tart blend of Jackie McLean's alto sax and Bill Hardman's trumpet.

1 CD - $15.00

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

8 CDs - $136.00

Paul Chambers
Mosaic Select: Paul Chambers (MS-005)
This set is currently on backorder and is expected at the end of November.

Paul Chambers was more than the greatest bassist of his generation; he was the premier team player with a pliant, robust sense of swing that took any group he played to another level. - Limited Edition: 5000 Copies

3 CDs - $44.00

Al Cohn
Al Cohn/Perkins/Kamuca - The Brothers (MCD-1003)
This was the first and only meeting by Al Cohn, Bill Perkins and Richie Kamuca and their improvisations are meticulously driven by a rhythm section headed by Hank Jones.

1 CD - $15.00

Art Farmer
Art Farmer - The Time And The Place (MCD-1010)
We have uncovered the original three-track masters of the unedited performance of this classic 1967 concert and remixed them in 24-bit.

1 CD - $15.00

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

7 CDs - $119.00

Slide Hampton
Slide Hampton - Drum Suite (MCD-1007)
This album offers some of Slide's best writing, much of which was specifically written for Yusef Lateef and Max Roach.

1 CD - $15.00

John Handy
Mosaic Select: John Handy
Handy's playing, on alto sax in particular, is a wonder with a beautiful "legit" sound, perfect intonation and articulation, and an extraordinary control of the upper register which he uses quite often in building excitement and intensity in his solos. He utilizes all of these extraordinary attributes in frequent lengthy and compelling acappella solos. His unending flow of fresh ideas seemingly devoid of licks is another striking characteristic of his work

3 CDs - $44.00

Andrew Hill
Mosaic Select: Andrew Hill-Solo (MS-023)
These 1978 solos from a particularly poignant period in Hill’s life insinuate themselves gradually into your psyche until you find yourself utterly taken with their beauty and power. - Limited Edition: 5000 Copies

3 CDs - $44.00

Bobby Hutcherson
Mosaic Select: Bobby Hutcherson (MS-026)
This set is currently on backorder and is expected in 2010.

The '70s was a rough decade for pure jazz; funk and fusion had taken over the jazz market. The five albums in this collection, recorded between 1974 and 1977, were among the overlooked victims of that era. - Limited Edition: 5000 Copies

3 CDs - $44.00

Jazz Crusaders
Jazz Crusaders:Pacific Jazz Quintet Studio Sessions (#230)
This set is currently on backorder and is expected at the end of November.

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

6 CDs - $102.00

J.J. Johnson
JJ Johnson - J.J. (MCD-1004)
In 1964 the pioneer of modern jazz trombone marked his move from Columbia to RCA Victor with a dazzling album, brimming with beauty and growth. This CD is remixed from the original three-track master tapes with wonderful sonic results.

1 CD - $15.00

J.J. Johnson
J.J. Johnson & Kai Winding - Trombone For Two (MCD-1015)
This set is currently on backorder and is expected in 2010.

The J.J. Johnson-Kai Winding Quintet was one of the surprise successes of modern jazz in the '50s. They crafted well thought out, inventive arrangements that highlighted the blend of their sounds.

1 CD - $15.00

Dave Liebman
Mosaic Select: Dave Liebman & Richie Beirach (MS-012)
Coming of age in the late ‘60s, saxophonist David Liebman and pianist Richie Beirach are virtuosos on their instruments. It has enabled them to take the lessons that they learned well from Miles and Trane and create exciting, often tumultuous jazz of the highest creative order. - Limited Edition: 5000 Copies

3 CDs - $44.00

Dave Liebman
Mosaic Select: Pendulum (MS-032)
The unique relationship that was cultivated between Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach beginning in 1969 was exceptional. The deep symbiosis between them grew over the decade that followed and by the time of this gig at the Vanguard, their creative partnership had become one of the great unions in post-bop jazz.

3 CDs - $44.00

Charles Lloyd
Charles Lloyd - Of Course, Of Course (MCD-1006)
These sessions reunited Lloyd with the eclectic guitarist, Gabor Szabo and the recording group was completed by another extraordinarily empathetic team, Ron Carter and Tony Williams.

1 CD - $15.00

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

6 CDs - $96.00

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

4 LPs (180 gram) - $100.00

Gerry Mulligan
Mosaic Select: Gerry Mulligan (MS-021)
This set is currently on backorder and is expected in 2010.

In December 1957, Pacific Jazz's Dick Bock came to New York for several weeks of a marathon recording schedule that included dates by Bob Brookmeyer and Chet Baker as well as four Gerry Mulligan sessions. - Limited Edition: 5000 Copies

3 CDs - $44.00

Charlie Parker
The Complete Benedetti Recordings of Charlie Parker (#129)
This set is currently on backorder and is expected in 2010.

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

7 CDs - $112.00

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

7 CDs - $119.00

Buddy Rich
Classic Emarcy, Verve Small Grp Buddy Rich Sessions (#232)
This limited edition collection is a complete look at Rich when he was, without question, a top star. The seven-CDs features studio dates and live performances from 1953 to 1961. - Limited Edition: 10000 Copies

7 CDs - $119.00

Sonny Stitt
The Complete Roost Sonny Stitt Studio Sessions (#208)
This set is currently on backorder and is expected mid-late December.

The prime focus of this set is the ten remarkable quartet albums that the saxophonist made for Roost between 1955 and '65, usually with Hank Jones or Jimmy Jones on piano and Shadow Wilson, Charlie Persip or Roy Haynes on drums. - Limited Edition: 5000 Copies

9 CDs - $144.00

Charles Tolliver
Mosaic Select: Charles Tolliver (MS-020)
Since the trumpet is a punishing instrument to play, Tolliver was setting up quite a challenge being the only horn in a group driven by a powerful drummer. But he did it and the results are amazing to hear - Limited Edition: 5000 Copies

3 CDs - $44.00

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

5 CDs - $80.00

McCoy Tyner
Mosaic Select: McCoy Tyner (MS-025)
This set is currently on backorder and is expected in 2010.

Influenced by the beauty and intensity of Coltrane’s music and Eastern forms of music, McCoy Tyner fashioned a dense, lyrical sound. This set covers the last two years of McCoy Tyner's tenure with Blue Note - Limited Edition: 5000 Copies

3 CDs - $44.00

Various Artists
Various - The Jazz Piano (MCD-1012)
Willie "The Lion" Smith, Earl Hines, Duke Ellington, Mary Lou Williams, Billy Taylor and Charles Bell all appeared at a piano workshop on a Sunday afternoon at the Pittsburgh Jazz Festival in 1965.

1 CD - $15.00

Randy Weston
Mosaic Select: Randy Weston (MS-004)
The rhythmic drive of the Harlem stride masters, the rich chords and wide voicings of Ellington, the spare, jabbing right hand of Count Basie and melodic and rhythmic forms from Africa inform Randy Weston’s music. - Limited Edition: 5000 Copies

3 CDs - $44.00

Tony Williams
Mosaic Select: Tony Williams (MS-024)
Throughout a career filled with achievement and innovation, this body of work remains among Tony Williams' most satisfying music. - Limited Edition: 5000 Copies

3 CDs - $44.00

Denny Zeitlin
Mosaic Select: Denny Zeitlin
Three magnificent studio albums have been gathered into one Mosaic Select with 12 previously unissued tunes from the sessions. Denny flew to New York to select the unissued material and remix all the music from the original 3- and 4-track tapes with Mark Wilder. The sonic results are a dramatic improvement over the original LPs.

3 CDs - $44.00

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