http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=101644613

JazzTimes is no more.

Duke Ellington's 1932-1939 Big Band recordings....Brunswick/Columbia material from Mosaic in 2010. As in, around 10cds worth of prime Duke!




Artie Shaw - Bluebird and Victor recordings between 1938 and 1945. As in, around 7cds of the best of Artie Shaw.


See post #9!

A interesting interview with Tim Berne.


http://thebadplus.typepad.com/dothem...rne-intro.html

Lee Konitz who is 3 months away from his 82nd birthday has been hospitalized.



http://tinyurl.com/ltpyab

Under the whatnots dept....


http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=28883



1. Take notice of the date of this "news article"....and than read the responses.

2. Especially by the "jazz historian and preservationist".

April Fools' Day

As I said....the date of the article was the key....and even if someone forgot the date....you would have thought this





would have been a major hint!

I received this this from Mosaic Records....

"We've all become accustomed to bad news for the past five years, both in the United States and globally and in the arts as well as the world economy. But what we just discovered is a first in bad news for Mosaic Records.

Each of our sets is manufactured by the label that owns and licenses to us the masters contained in the set. One of our major licensors changed pressing plants for the tens of thousands of titles it manufactures. Unfortunately a number of Mosaic titles (mostly Selects) were deleted and all of the components and masters were destroyed in process.

Mosaic Records cannot afford to remaster and remanufacture components for the remaining run of these titles and due to contractual issues there is no relief from the responsible parties. We have no choice but to prematurely retire these titles. For some, we still have some inventory. But for others, we are forced to tell you without warning that we are out of stock and these titles will never be available again.

As champions of the completist concept, we know how important collecting a complete set of releases is and heartfully apologize for this set of circumstances."


Limited Inventory Available:

The Complete Blue Note Lou Donaldson Sessions (#215)

The Complete Roulette Dinah Washington Recordings (#227)

Mosaic Select: Bennie Green (MS-003)

Mosaic Select: John Patton (MS-006)

Mosaic Select: Curtis Amy (MS-007)

Mosaic Select: Duke Pearson (MS-008)

Mosaic Select: Bud Shank/Bob Cooper (MS-010)

Mosaic Select: Pacific Jazz Piano Trios (MS-019)


The following titles are no longer available:

Mosaic Select: Bob Brookmeyer (MS-009)

Mosaic Select: Don Pullen (MS-013)

Mosaic Select: Dexter Gordon (MS-014)

Mosaic Select: Art Pepper (MS-015)

Mosaic Select: Johnny Richards (MS-017)

Mosaic Select: Freddie Slack (MS-018)

P.S. Some of those are still available from the usual suspects.