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Black Lion Records - Wikipedia https://share.google/xsMepK6SinGbUjs8p RIP Alan Bates 1925-2023 (Black Lion / Candid Records) – and Tributes - UK Jazz News https://share.google/DXPKAoAUyGgjFlfsX

That all began with Alan Bates.

RIP Certainly one of the most magnanimous people to grace our presence here.

Oops, 1970s...

Sign stealing:

Late career Harold Land with strings worked out well. Hopefully the same will be true for George Coleman!

They keep thinking/hoping it will disappear.

They handled ECM in the US before Warner Brothers.

This was mid-late 1879s. No Internet and lots of older, neighborhood record stores that didn't return stock, and you could literally pick an area, look in the Yellow Pages and leisurely walk in and say howdy. LPs at old prices? Howdy! Also, "collectors" were not really out in force then. So finding stuff like this was something you could look forward too, not unlike fishing, just be patient and know where the good spots are. Different world.

I found that record without knowing it existed. Talk about a thrill, not just finding something you've never seen, but something you never knew about, period. A major artist on a major(ish) label, WHAAAAAAT?!?!?! One of the many joys of youth!

https://www.stonesthrow.com/news/records-are-your-best-entertainment-value/

That session has been out in various guises over the years. I think it was recorded for a porn soundtrack iirc? But maybe not? https://www.discogs.com/artist/16968-Harlem-Underground-Band

The horns are not always the best-recorded (Ornette considered it an "unauthorized" release). But it's got a good groove. This title cut kills: It's worth having it, if only because that's better than not having it.

No hugs needed. No hugs asked. No hugs given. No hugs needed. Not sure what I was expecting, but it wasn't this! My experience with Haydn has almost always been that for whatever reason, there's just too much time between then and now for there to be any real "now" in the interpretation. It just gets too "respectful" in the end. Not so here. Some of these movements are...bracing. Like, Presto means PRESTO, not just tempo, but energy as well. These guys refuse to let anything drift off or away, in any way. A fine way to end this set of "popular" composers on a Columbia subsidiary label by a world class band at the top of their game. But Summer With The Juilliard String Quartet is not over yet. More to come!

VERY vivid early memory of hearing that at a Dairy Queen, after dark, on the outside speakers, loud, with the neon BRIGHT.