On 06/11/2014, Tom Fine wrote:
> Long ago, Mosaic Records released a box set of Maynard Ferguson's
> Roulette albums:
> https://web.archive.org/web/20010512113844/http://www.mosaicrecords.com/Discography.asp?SelectionID=11
> (this web page retrieved from 1999)
>
> At the end of the discography is a list of the original Roulette
> albums.
>
> Given that this material is long out of print now, have any of the
> European gray-market jazz labels ripped the Mosaic CDs and repackaged
> this in original Roulette album sequences? I found very little on
> Amazon USA, and what I found might well be crapola LP dubs. Other
> Mosaic sets, for instance the Duke Ellington Reprise albums, were
> quickly out as gray-market CDs after the Mosaic set sold out.
>
> -- Tom Fine
I didn't see anything on Amazon.co.uk that looked likely.
The cheapest jazz reissue albums seem to rely on transfers from vinyl.
(In the case of Avid, rather good transfers.).
I doubt they would run to the expense of buying Mosaic sets.
Regards
--
Don Cox
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