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+ an uncredited (or even noticed!) Mickey Fields on the Sonny Stitt record + the whole Palo Alto fiasco + the liner notes booklets too often being full of fluff and low on substance + the ongoing overkill of self-serving hype in the press releases All told, I'd be happy if he focused on getting the work done correctly first.

Again going to visit our daughter and check out some jazz. Here's the lineup: Friday, Aug. 29 Carhartt Amphitheater Stage 6:00 pm Dr. Valade’s Brass Band Featuring Shannon Powell 7:00 pm Keyon Harrold ‘Foreverland’ 9:00 pm 2025 Artist-In-Residence Jason Moran and Jeff Mills with special guest Jessica Care Moore Detroit Jazz Hall located inside the Gretchen C. Valade Jazz Center at Wayne State University 10:30 pm Emmet Cohen Trio (Midtown After Hours Special) Saturday, Aug. 30 Carhartt Amphitheater Stage 2:30 pm Wayne State University Jazz Warriors Big Band (under the direction of Professor Vincent Chandler) 4:45 pm Herlin Riley Quartet 7:00 pm CHRIS POTTER TRIO Featuring Matt Brewer and Kendrick Scott 9:15 pm Hiromi’s Sonicwonder JPMorgan Chase Main Stage 2:45 pm Zen Zadravec 4:30 pm John Pizzarelli 6:30 pm Kenny Barron Voices featuring Tyreek McDole 8:45 pm Maria Schneider Orchestra Absopure Waterfront Stage 2:30 pm William Hill III 4:00 pm GSL (Gayelynn Sequoia Laura) 5:45 pm Allen Dennard Quartet 7:00 pm Tatiana Eva-Marie “Paris Je Taime!” 9:15 pm Endea Owens & The Cookout Detroit Jazz Hall located inside the Gretchen C. Valade Jazz Center at Wayne State University 12:00 pm High School Showcase: University of Detroit Jazz Orchestra, Ludington High School Jazz Ensemble, Notre Dame Preparatory High School Jazz Band, Utica High School Jazz Band, Northville High School Jazz Ensemble 10:30 pm James Carter Organ Trio (Midtown After Hours Special) Sunday, Aug. 31 Carhartt Amphitheater Stage 2:00 pm Downbeat Blindfold Test 3:20 pm Michigan State University Jazz Orchestra/Bebop Spartans (under the direction of Professor Rodney Whitaker) 5:15 pm Lakecia Benjamin 7:15 pm Omar Sosa Quarteto Americanos 9:15 pm Branford Marsalis Quartet JPMorgan Chase Main Stage 2:45 pm Randy Napoleon and Waking Dream 4:30 pm Connie Han Trio 6:30 pm 2025 Artist-In-Residence Jason Moran presents the music of Duke Ellington featuring the Detroit Jazz Festival Collegiate Jazz Orchestra 8:45 pm Chucho Valdés & Paquito D’Rivera Reunion Sextet Absopure Waterfront Stage 1:30 pm J.C. Heard JazzWeek All-Stars featuring the 2025 Youth Jazz Vocal Competition Winner Kyla Deboes 2:20 pm Tottori Jazz Mission – Takumi Inoue Quartet featuring Himiko Kikuchi 3:05 pm Tottori/J.C. Heard JazzWeek Youth Bands combined Jam Session 4:15 pm Detroit Jazz Queens – Paying Homage to Those Upon Whose Shoulders We Stand “Ella, Nancy, Dinah, Etta” 5:45 pm Ian Fink 7:30 pm Zambra (featuring Devon Gates, Ria Modak, Angela Varo, Bahar Badieitabar and Queralt Giralt) 9:15 pm Walter Smith III Quartet Detroit Jazz Hall located inside the Gretchen C. Valade Jazz Center at Wayne State University 12:00 pm High School Showcase: Grosse Ile High School Jazz Band, East Kentwood High School Jazz 1, Meridian High School Jazz Ensemble, Rochester Adams High School, Northview High School Jazz Ensemble 10:30 pm Rodney Whitaker Sextet Performs the Music of Joe Henderson (Midtown After Hours Special) Monday, Sept. 1 Carhartt Amphitheater Stage 1:30 pm Nick Collins Sextet 3:00 pm Louis Jones III & The Flood 4:45 pm John Scofield Quartet featuring Vicente Archer, Bill Stewart and Nicholas Payton JPMorgan Chase Main Stage 1:00 pm University of Michigan Jazz Ensemble (under the direction of Professor Ellen Rowe) and University of Michigan Jazz Trombone Ensemble (under the direction of Professor Dennis Wilson) 2:30 pm Kris Davis Trio featuring Robert Hurst & Johnathan Blake 4:15 pm James Francies Trio 6:00 pm 2025 Artist-In-Residence Jason Moran and the Bandwagon w/ special guests Meshell Ndegeocello and Akili Bradley Absopure Waterfront Stage 1:30 pm Tiffany Gridiron & Friends 3:15 pm Collegiate Combo Competition Winner 5:00 pm Marion Hayden and Legacy with special guest Kamau Kenyatta Detroit Jazz Hall located inside the Gretchen C. Valade Jazz Center at Wayne State University 12:00 pm Detroit Public Schools Community District Showcase: Edward ‘Duke’ Ellington Conservatory of Music and Art at Beckham Academy, Cass Technical High School, Henry Ford High School, Renaissance High School, Detroit School of Arts The Detroit Jazz Festival will be held in downtown and midtown Detroit on Aug. 29 – Sept. 1 (Labor Day weekend). I'm currently not as mobile as usual, but I'm still going to see (and hear!) Kenny Barron Maria Schenider JAMES CARTER ORGAN TRIO!!!!! Lakechia Benjamin Omar Sosa Quarteto Americanos (maybe) Branford Marsalis Quartet (maybe) 2025 Artist-In-Residence Jason Moran and the Bandwagon w/ special guests Meshell Ndegeocello and Akili Bradley Perhaps not as stuffed with "must see"s as in the past, but still, that a good weekend. And there are othe acts that I would think about going to if mobility was not an issue. But hey, that's still a good, full weekend of music!

The Huss Charles issue definitely made him out to be not much of a detective! 🙄

Because he "detected" that there was a market for it even if the decision to shelve it originally (and not release it during the heyday of reissue programs) was more than a defensible one.

Liner notes, yes. The OJC releases reverted to the original liners notes which was often a loss.

I am with Kevin-I like most of the stuff that Zev has been involved with. But, thinking of Blakey's "Just Coolin" date, how can you call him a "Detective" when the session is listed on discographies?

A friend's band is playing it, so at least I know that much!

Perhaps more accurately, the majority of the lineup will be announced.

I believe I had five or six "twofers" by Miles Davis. I was first exposed to "The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever" (Bird, Dizzy, Bud, Mingus, Max) through a Milestone twofer. The liner notes were generally excellent. Having first-rate liner notes was a key part of my early jazz education. I too had The 101 Best Jazz Albums--a vital resource.

Recent purchase on LP in part inspired by the recent Clark Terry thread. Great music. I like this way more than I thought I would. Only bad thing is the pressing leans heavy into snaps and crackles. Was this common with Mainstream LPs by chance? I don't have any other Mainstream records, just CDs so just wondering if this is somewhat of a known factor with their vinyl.

https://www.discogs.com/label/847424-Prestige-24000-Series

Same here - these were a huge part of my introduction to the music in the early 1980s. I still have most of them. The liner notes are often very informative and I learned a ton from them (in addition to the Len Lyons books, "The 101 Best Jazz Albums" which recommended a number of 2-fers).

300×300 10.9 KB Count Basie “Basie Roars Again” Verve mono LP I’ll have to dig out the Verve Basie Mosaic set soon, this is a great LP also included in that set, from 1956.

I remember how many twofers I found in used stores as promos, which were the introduction to many artists for me while I was in grad school. Pretty much most of them have been replaced by CDs or boxed sets, although there is the occasional one, like Ben Webster with Joe Zawinul, Travelin' Light, which has bonus tracks not found on later CDs. What drove me nuts was when labels compiled more than two LPs in such sets, leaving out many tracks that I wanted to hear, much like the problem with later Fantasy CDs, which frequently omitted a track or two to squeeze the music onto a single CD.

I have digital versions of this LP in stereo, but this mono Roulette LP has a rich sound of its own that I wanted to hear. Jack Teagarden “Portrait of Mr. T” Don Goldie was an excellent trumpeter and vocalist and is a real asset in the late Teagarden bands. And how cool to have a version of Bix’s “In the Dark”. . . .

I like a lot of the stuff Zev has gotten issued. What I don't like about some of the things I've heard about him is that he (or those who know him) call him the "Jazz Detective", implying that he discovers these sessions that no one else found and puts them out. This is not always the case. Just because something has only been circulating via bootleg tapes doesn't mean that it was "lost" before he heard it.

Erroll Garner “The Complete Concert by the Sea” disc 1 This release continues to fascinate me. I had earlier versions of this acclaimed and extremely popular release, but not only is the complete, twice as long as previously released, concert here, but the extraordinary Plangent Process has been used to TRANSFORM the sound here. And if I had a time machine I’d go back to this performance night and revel in the delight. I am certain that visually Garner is as riveting and involving as the audio material is for me. He was one of a kind and like other great pianists I love to hear he is a master of a musical universe. If you have been familiar with the other editions of this music the transformation of the sound is fascinating.

More awake now, I want to hear a bigger sound. . . . “Duke Ellington: Live At The Berlin Jazz Festival 1969-1973” Lost Recordings/Diavelet cd It took me a while, but I’ve learned to really love “late” Ellington. This one is in excellent sound.

August 16 Ellery Eskelin - 1959