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  4. Jazz Record Mart for sale

    in Miscellaneous Music

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    I was there yesterday. The sale and the end of the JRM could happen in a matter of days.

    Above and beyond my working there (a season before JRM hired Chuck Nessa) and my buying records there, the JRM was enormously important in my life. We're enormously indebted to Bob Koester, a great guy to learn from.

  12. Greatest LPs to never make it to CD

    in The Vinyl Frontier

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    For that matter, a lot of good music that was on the 2-LP Savoy reissues that Bob Porter produced in the 1980s doesn't seem to have reappeared on CD. Especially anthologies like "The Trombone Album," "Black California" with Patricia Willard's great liner notes, '40s-'50s swing and r-&-b, etc. Or a hot  Mutt Carey NY band from about 1947.

  23. Christmas Jazz we would like to see/hear

    in Recommendations

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    Unfortunately, Hal Russell's NRG Ensemble never made a Christmas album. But the NRG players plus some fellow Chicagoans formed Witches And Devils to do Christmas concerts. The next is next Sunday, it's called Mars Williams Presents An Ayler Christmas. Imagine the maniacal Gene Ammons-Tom Archia "Swingin for Christmas" turned even wilder and faster. Wish they'd make an album of it.

  24. Stanley Turrentine

    in Artists

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    22 minutes ago, Larry Kart said:

    May have been introduced to him on Tommy Turrentine's Time album, which is the Roach group under Tommy's name. Immediately clear that he had his own thing, so damn melodic. Caught him once live in 1984 at a Chicago club. Sounded great. Review of that performance (with a typo):

    http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1984/06/29/page/197/article/turrentines-soulful-saxophone-speaks-a-sound-all-its-own 

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    Thanks for the review, Larry. That's it, exactly! That's his feelings, that's how he tells his stories. And yes, he should have been from Texas.

  25. Is Naxos feeling the pinch

    in Classical Discussion

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    On 2/28/2012, 2:12:13, Rooster_Ties said:

    As long as we're in a thread about Naxos, I used to buy nearly every disc in their largely fantastic "American Composers" (which often included transplants to America).

     

    I had an e-mail exchange with someone at Naxos years ago (around 1999, iirc) asking if/when Naxos was going to offer a disc (or two?) of music by Carl Ruggles. There was this (then thought to be) "Complete Works of Ruggles" 2-LP set that Michael Tilson Thomas was largely behind in or about 1980, but other than that - anything approaching a 'complete' set of Ruggles has never appeared on CD (much to my great disappointment). Seems like a Ruggles project (at least with all the orchestral works) would be a text-book case for the Naxos "American" series.

     

    Back then (my exchange with the random Naxos person by e-mail), they indicated such a project was in the works (for Naxos).

     

    Here it is 2012, and still nothing that I'm aware of. What the hell?

    That Columbia collection of Ruggles is now on CD. http://www.discogs.com/Carl-Ruggles-The-Complete-Music-Of-Carl-Ruggles/release/4369640

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