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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?:

Freedom Records 1001: Marion Brown - Porto Novo * 1021: Ted Curson - Tears for Dolphy * Quote:"Individual recordings were distributed via Polydor Records" Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Records

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