Some tenor action! Dexter Gordon "Live at the Amsterdam Paradiso Vol.1" Solid Records Japan CDSOL-46967 Followed by Sonny Stitt and Gene Ammons "Boss Tenors" Japan cd UCCU-8198
This was a good day. . .Lucinda was off from Wednesday til today and I didn't get to listen much. I listened as much as I could today. I finished up the day of listening with a clean modern recording that was a bit polite but had some great late Joe Williams singing on it, Milt Jackson "The Prophet Speaks" And wrapped it up with a beloved recording that is the opposite, a swamp of sound and exploration, Miles Davis "Bitches Brew," this time the Mobile Fidelity SACDs.
Michael is 73. No one lives forever. I hope he uses the money for a nice long vacation and builds his retirement nest egg.
That’s what usually happens with small companies when the owner gets older. Wonder what that means for Mosaic’s future.
Now playing: Murley Bickert & Wallace - Live At The Senator. Really great, straightforward playing. Mike Murley - saxes Ed Bickert - guitar Steve Wallace - bass
The first thing that came to mind when I read MC's message was that the proceeds might be used to fund Mosaic.
That hadn’t occurred to me but, yes, that’s a possibility although you wonder how much he wants to invest considering he might want to retire soon.
I intermittently get the bass line from track 1 (I'll Catch You) of John Scofield's Works for Me stuck in my head but had no idea what it was. Glad I've just put in on, because now I know. Edit, to give Christian McBride the credit he deserves for the cracking bassline mentioned above, and several others throughout the album.
Thanks for the info; I don't have/haven't heard as much as I'd like; I only have Current Trends in Racism and Dust to Dust; in looking at Discogs, I see there are a bunch that have never made it to any stores around here that I know of. One of the 'problems' in liking thousands of artists is keeping up with what they are doing, both time-wise and financially...
Given how long he's been doing what he does, I'm a little surprised to see that he's ONLY 73; I had realized that he was 'young' 50 or so years ago when I first encountered his work, but I hadn't realized how young. Never made that kind of count, but I have hundreds of recordings that he was involved in one way or another, both Mosaics and 'pre-Mosaics,' Arista, etc. Michael Cuscuna
Yeah, I'm finding it impossible to keep up. There's too much interesting new music being made by great artists every week to keep up. Streaming helps in terms of access and affordability, but not everything is streaming -- I just spent $100 on two new Tum Leo Smith releases, the 4-CD collection The Chicago Symphonies, and A Love Sonnet for Billie Holiday, how I wish I could have just streamed them! Honestly, there's so much great and interesting new music arriving all the time that even if I can hear a lot of it, I can't really absorb it. Years later sometimes I find myself returning to an album that I certainly listened to and maybe liked two years or three years before, when it had been released, but never really fully took it in a way that I find myself doing later. And this year in particular it seems like there's been a bumper crop of great new jazz recordings. But every year there are more than I can keep up with, never mind all the music from the past I haven't heard.
It's a 'problem' that I've had since I was a kid, but, OTOH, 'having things I've never heard but am looking forward to hearing' is the kind of 'problem' that I don't mind having so much... then or now...
That could be true but unless he's one of those, "I'm working 'til I die" people, he should be at least thinking about retirement by now.
