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Starting off a warm morning with the lovely sound of Ruby Braff & His Buddies “Controlled Nonchalance: Live at the Regatta Bar (Vol, 1)” Arbors Jazz cd A very nice way to greet the new day.

Thanks Mark I think I will but will consume in small doses one disc at a time this kinda music asks all your attention is my experience. Must have been an amazing experience being there. Fun idea when I’ll listen that I know you were applauding there on my cd

A bit OT (because I cannot add anything about the Polydor connection) ... Don't know anything about THIS Freedom label (there were other Freedom labels of relevance to those interested in music from the 78 era, FWIW ). But as for the black-and-white Black Lion covers that you allude to, they were very typical of Black Lion LPs, and these very often came on reissues of music not just a few years old, but decades-old, sometimes dating back to the 78 rpm era. In fact, Black Lion has always seemed like a reissue label to me (maybe my tastes dictated where I came across the Black Lion LPs). Earlier Black Lions (released in the 70s and distributed by Intercord here) had white covers and differently-styled artwork (reissuing music from Eddie Laguna's label, for example). And the typical black covers must have come along in the 80s (typically with LP catalog numbers in the 60000s). Those black ones reissued a lot from the Storyville label of the 50s (Ruby Braff, Bob Brookmeyer, Jackie and Roy, a.o.), but also some extremely early Miles Davis. Not sure what you mean with "inferior-looking" covers, but to me the main snag with these was that they invariably used MODERN (very recent) photographs of the artists, which was extremely out of tune with the musical contents inside. BTW, Discogs might tell which was the original release and cover ? Checking now, I see you are right about that Marion Brown LP - the final pic in you rprevious post is the original cover, and there were four different covers used on subsequent reissues prior to the Black Lion CD reissue).

RIP Victor!

I hope you enjoy the box Pim, it's a lot of EP, a treasure trove. I was at that Vortex gig in '96

Am I the last man in America to have read this? More novellas. Memoirs of a drug smuggler. Apparently, it's easy until they all start ratting on each other.

a lovely deal on Discogs (excluding the Parker boxed set). Couldn’t resist. Haven’t spun the Evan Parker box yet but it looks like a piece of art

Encore!

Saw her about a year and a half ago at Big Ears. Really good show!

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Not a trumpet guy, got it, thank you.

Credits at: John Surman – John Surman | Releases | Discogs John Surman – How Many Clouds Can You See? | Releases | Discogs John Surman / John Warren – Tales Of The Algonquin | Releases | Discogs

Fine disc - "The Stolen Moment" is extraordinary, even for Lockjaw ...

Openness Trio (Blue Note)

J.J. Johnson Sextet, Really Livin' (Columbia)

Like him in good company, especially with brass; who is his company?

No OBI?!? 😁

Maybe in the wrong topic, explain why Shelly Manne only landed a single leader date at Impulse! Namely this one:

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I have both in my collection ...

Wow. Never even seen this! Looks great. Now: Thank you, John!

The last sleeve is the original. I have the Black Lion, but downloaded a copy shot of the Polydor sleeve, and wrapped it around that blah blah, Black Lion Cd sleeve; I did the same for the Curson, Tears for Dolphy, like any weird jazz nerd would do🤔

Per Wikipedia. Much of this is news to me, I always thought Freedom was the original company, and that Black Lion somehow just picked up the rights in the early CD era. This was fostered by the change in album covers, where I grew up with the Freedom covers, and the Black Lion CD's had all those (to me) inferior-looking black and white covers. "Freedom Records was a jazz record label headed by Shel Safran[1] and founded by Alan Bates as a division of Black Lion Records.[2] Individual recordings were distributed via Polydor Records and Transatlantic Records during the early 1970s before the company was bought by Arista Records with the imprint dubbed Arista/Freedom in 1975.[3]" Here is an example of the covers: And it actually looks like maybe neither of those was the original cover?: