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I’m a pianist too, but my tunes almost never start at the keys. Like you, the ideas pop up while I’m walking the dog, stuck in line at the grocery store, or half-awake at 3 a.m. I’ve learned to treat my phone like a butterfly net: the second I hear something in my head, I hum it into a voice-note app before it flutters away. Later, when I’m back at the piano or in a DAW, I flesh out the harmony, tweak the groove, and build the arrangement Instrument by instrument.

RIP Used to dance to this one when clubbing 60 years ago

Atlas LA27-1011 (Promo Japan) - Armen Donelian " Stargazer" - rec. 1980 - Engineer: David Baker

A fine one of the 4 albums I know and have - love it. 💗 Both excellent 😁 💗

Woah, wow, thank you for this insight, and I mean that (not being a dick at all).... what I meant by "inferior-looking" eg., Fontana: Shitty Black Lion/Freedom Sleeves: Who owns what? And the downgrade in art qualitly. Rather have an orginal Ploydor than a Freedom or Black Lion. Albiet, if it wasn't for Alan Bates, maybe we wouldn't have any of these titles. Guess I should be grateful.

An excellent MLC season concluded tonight, but I hate it when a team barely makes the playoffs and then wins it all. Especially MINY.

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I get dizzy reading that!

Been close to 20 years since I’ve heard “Turkish Women” — and only briefly (must have had a friend spin theirs, I’m guessing — or I sampled it in-store, possibly — and I passed on it). Perhaps I should start an entirely different thread for jazz studio albums that sound noticeably worse than their recording date would suggest they ought to. Live — now that’s a whole different story — and the range of live recordings of every sort of sound quality have been issued (based on the import of the recording, usually). But there can’t be more than a dozen (or perhaps two dozen) studio albums that truly sound way, WAY worse than they ought to. (I mean there’s “not particularly good” — and then there’s “inexplicably bad”.)

yes, the Cecil and Ayler stuff was on Debut (as well as Bley's "Touching") and then folded into Fontana under Bates' direction. Danish Debut was a fan club label that licensed some American Debut titles as well as releasing music by Danish musicians and visiting Americans... some of the Danish productions were licensed back to Fantasy in the '60s (Ayler, Taylor, Pettiford). Bates didn't seem to have much interest in picking up the titles by Danish artists, some of which have been reissued by various companies overt the years. Earlier thread is here:

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That's too bad. I certainly remember his posting in this community, though IIRC it had been a while.

So that's how Freedom ended up with Cecil's Nefertiti...? And some of the Ayler? The revived Candid catalog seems to have vanished from the collective consciousness? 0h, how did Bates get that Debut catalog?

The Essen date was a Danish Debut originally and Bates got that catalog. I have the PJJ on Polydor UK and it sounds great. Fabulous session.

Mixture of smaller & larger groups on the first two, Algonquin is a bigger band throughout. I’d say it’s integral in either case!

Very sorry to hear this. Victor visited me once when I was living in Paris. He was a wonderful person. RIP

I really like the Villa-Lobos string quartets (Cuarteto Latinoamericano) on Dorian. I own all but one of the component CDs. That is an attractive offer.

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How did they end up with that Essen date with Bud & Hawk?

When I think of Black Lion I think of Dexter, Webster and Griffin at Cafe Montmartre. The Muzak editions of these sound so darned good!

It's worse than the audio of Pete La Roca's "Turkish Women At The Bath"? That's hard to do.

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