Here's a look at sets that we are currently working on at Mosaic.

Each of our sets is a time-consuming affair to assemble from securing rights to tape research to studio mastering to the photographic, historical and discographical research for our booklets. Each step is fraught with surprises and therefore it is possible that the Future Projects may not see the light of day. These are not yet available for preorder.

MOSAIC LIMITED EDITION BOXED SETS:

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MOSAIC SELECT:

Mosaic Select: Denny Zeitlin (3 CDs)
(Release Date: January 2009)
Fortunately, Denny Zeitlin’s love of the piano exceeded his need to sleep. While attending the highly demanding medical school of Johns Hopkins, he found time to gig and woodshed. During a 10-week fellowship at Columbia University, the young psychiatrist-to-be was introduced to John Hammond and landed a Columbia Records contract without even trying!

His first album, Cathexis, recorded in 1964 with Cecil McBee and Freddie Waits.was an instant critical and commercial success with Zeitlin hailed as a new and original voice of the piano. His broad range of influences include Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver, Bill Evans and Ornette Coleman. Remarkably, whether he’s playing an impressionistic ballad, a hard bop classic or a free original, Denny Zeitlin sounds like no one but Denny Zeitlin. He has the technique and harmonic knowledge to execute anything his fertile imagination conjures. His music resonates with joy and honesty.

Later in 1964, Denny accepted an internship at San Francisco General Hospital. Out of his relocation emerged another amazing trio with Charlie Haden and Jerry Granelli. This trio recorded Carnival that October followed by a live album at the Trident that will hopefully be the subject of a future Mosaic project.

Denny’s fourth album Zeitgeist was recorded over 1966 and ’67 and documented the end of the trio with Haden and Granelli and the beginning of one with Joe Halpin and Oliver Johnson, two brilliant musicians who died young.

These 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 results are a dramatic improvement over the original LPs.