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Michael Lytle / George Cartwright: Bright Bank Elewhale. Cornpride CP 003 [US 1979]

I have the CD box but should get that again, just for the accessibility of LP sides. It is a great set.

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Well, washing is not indicated if you have something with a glued on sticker - it will come off and screw up the reflective layer. Most cds and dvds you get are not like that. Washing is ok for most cds if they don't play, IMO.

Disc 1

There are special alcohol based sprays for CD cleaning and treatment. Some are really costly. Sometimes they work wonders with skipping discs, and the can improve the soundstage, depending on your player. Many consider this voodoo, but I trust my ears, and my wife confirmed what I was hearing during before/after comparisons. It is just 0s and 1s, but a cleaner data signal can make a difference.

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Oh, I was just about to put all my CDs in the dishwasher, thank you for the heads up 🙃

Disc 2

The Blessing: All Is Yes. Candid CACD 78550 [UK 2008]

There have been several reports over the years of people washing CDs like this and having the label side and reflective layer wash away. After reading this, I stopped washing CDs.

What (vinyl) did I buy today? Something that probably had the clerks at my favorite local birck-and-mortar store wondering once again about my eclectic tastes: - Champion Jack Dupree (1940-1950 recordings) on Wolf BoB-14 (one of those collector's labels that went out of its way not to duplicate other current or available reissues by the same artist) - Sauter-Finegan - The Return of the Doodletown Fifers (U.S. original on United Artists - "Ultra Audio" in "wall to wall stereo" ) Each was 5 EUR. Not bad.

AFAIK Tad did not slap together the self-published Listening to Prestige volumes and call it a book.

Thanks, looks interesting enough to me and I'll be looking forward to this one too. As hinted at in an earlier post, it will certainly be interesting to compare the presentation of label histories in this one and in the forthcoming Pacific Jazz book by James Harrod.

Table of Contents for the new book Preamble. How This Book Came About Introduction. Bob Weinstock and Prestige 1. Postwar Independent Jazz Record Labels 2. Weinstock's Beginnings. New Jazz 3. Early Artists on New Jazz 4. The Birth of the Prestige Label 5. The First Jazz on LP 6. Wardell Gray, James Moody and King Pleasure 7. Miles Davis 8. Thelonious Monk 9. Enter Rudy Van Gelder and Recording More Monk 10. The Modern Jazz Quartet 11. Cover Art, and a Dual Role for Esmond Edwards 12. Sonny Rollins 13. Miles Davis Back and Ready to Work. the Contractual Marathon 14. Changing Times and Technologies at Prestige 15. Other '50s-era Prestige Recording Artists 16. Miles's Sidemen and John Coltrane 17. Mose Allison and Yusef Lateef 18. A New Era. Soul Jazz 19. Prestige's Satellite Labels 20. Soul Jazz Organists 21. Moving On. Free Jazz and Eric Dolphy 22. Dolphy's Peers at Prestige 23. Booker Ervin 24. Stars of the Early '60s 25. Final Days Epilogue Acknowledgments Works Cited Index

Ts-find Antony and the Johnsons

Suits me fine, then ... I had noticed what you say from the sample pages on Amazon for Vol. 1 (49-53) but the "essay" character was not so clear for the to-be-released book.

From the table of contents on the SUNY page and the samples on Amazon of vols 1-4, seems like this new book is more like a book of essays on notable artists and groups at Prestige, while vols 1-4 chronologically display discog info for each recording session along with anecdotes and analysis. The kindle editions of vols 1-4 are pretty inexpensive; I will probably buy them.

Symphony No. 1 Hope to find these one day ... i think i will. Do you like these recordings ?

Ouch ... I in turn wasn't aware of these 4 previous books. So now you are forcing me to consider an order , pushing my music bookshelves closer to getting overcrowded AGAIN, though I've only quite recently expanded them to free additional space. Seriously ... So that new book is a "summary" or "Best of" of these 4 earlier ones? (Hope not ... hoping it DOES offer extra info and insights even for the period coverd in these 4 earlier books) At any rate I've just placed an order for Vol. 1 (1949-53) of which I think I have most of those on my LP shelves that have ever been reissued. (And besides, it's an era that usually has been overlooked elsewhere.) Depending how I like this one (and the new book to be published in January) I'll decide about the other volumes.

I noticed that Fri-Sat at the Bijou is "all Zorn, all the time"