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Just finished "At the Jazz Band Ball" by Nat Hentoff. Sixty Years on the Jazz Scene" I read his YA novel "Jazz Country" as a kid from my school's library, and liked it so much, I never returned it. The book "ATJBB" is just a series of interviews and magazine pieces that he wrote from 2004-2009. There's a lot of repetition by NH regarding quotes he repeats in each interview from Ben Webster, Dizzy, Clark Terry, Phil Woods, Hank Jones,etc... that could have been edited out, and there's a jazz and politics section that I just skipped over, but other than those two things, it had some great stuff. Other than the free stuff, I liked his taste in music, and there was a chapter on Phil Woods which was great. I never knew NH was a Woods fanatic, and that he produced Woods' one release on Candid which Nat owned. Towards the end, it starts to get deadly serious with two great interviews he did with Jon Faddis and Ron Carter. Where else would you learn that the Black press in NYC plus Oprah both hated jazz, and did their best to kill it off? Jon Faddis is very candid about the realities of being a jazz musician in those years, and doesn't sugarcoat anything. Ron also tells it like it is, and it ain't very pretty.

GGRP Folding Cardboard Phonograph

The archiving team at the Owsley Stanley Foundation

Japanese jazz kissas

It's Bandcamp Friday tomorrow. There are a few things I've been thinking of ordering. Still not quite sure what I will get, though I thought this was pretty nice: Ben Crossland w/ Alan Skidmore The Northern Run: https://jazzcatrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-northern-run Probably this Sun Ra release (with unreleased tracks): https://sunramusic.bandcamp.com/album/east-two-7 Maybe this live (radio) date by Eero Koivistoinen: https://jazzliisa.bandcamp.com/album/jazz-liisa-13 As always, just a bit too much to listen to thoroughly.

RIP

I have remastered quite a few things from LPs - first thing is to get a good turntable transfer, and then get rid of the LP crackle, which is generally easy to do these days, though you have to be extremely careful not to degrade the sound. After that is the more straightforward part, which is to EQ it, because this is where the original engineers usually had no idea what they were doing or, at the very least, knew very little about frequencies. I used to do this for a living, and listeners were often shocked at how sonically improved the re-master was. I assumed this was a prostate issue.

Grateful Dead “Terrapin Station” 2004 cd Listening to the bonus tracks on this cd, which I have not listened to in a long time!

👍- as RLP 12-203 (blue label) on my shelf ...

I had that Interplay and recall it being good. None of the Wergo-Jazz series (Gunter Hampel, Pierre Favre Quartett, Manfred Schoof Sextett, Willem Breuker Orchestra) have made it to CD. It's a shame, as they're all excellent.

More John Prine

There are some Quintet and Sextet sides here with Jimmy Rowles at the piano that are very cool, this disc is Capitol records material. Probably among the earliest Jimmy on record. Benny Goodman "1947" Chronogical Classics cd

Three more bari sax LPs that never made it to CD for the "needle drop" pile: Nick Brignola's "New York Bound" (Interplay), "Northern Lights (Discovery) & "Signals... In From Somewhere" (Discovery). Cheesy covers for sure...

Gosh, I sure wish both those Brackeens on Tappan Zee had been on CD at some point, Japanese, wherever. I’d pay a little premium for both — among her finest work, far as I’ve heard anyway. They were released (maybe just distributed?) by Columbia in the US, CBS in Europe, and CBS/Sony in Japan — so what’s the holdup? Sure are plenty of OTHER Tappan Zee titles on CD (see link below, Discogs says over 150 titles! — but some may be compilations). In any case, what’s the deal with those two fantastic Brackeen dates?? — never having been on CD. https://www.discogs.com/label/31669-Tappan-Zee-Records?format=CD

Did it ever get mastered but just didn't make release on CD? I'd go for a download at this point.

Harry James really did lead some good bands through the fifties into the early sixties. This one has some fine Ernie Wilkins arrangements.

And liner notes by Larry Kart

The Joseph "extras" were 4 alternates, no new material.

they do. But that doesn't mean they aren't of questionable legality here in the US.

Saw him with KB last summer in Detroit and he was rock solid RIP

Oh man... he was such a big part of Kenny Barron's trio. Great bassist. RIP Kiyoshi.

Yeah. When I dictate using my voice, my iPhone tends to AutoCorrect something that shouldn’t have been.

Bass player and longtime member of the Kenny Barron Trio passed away on 28 April. Rest in peace Kiyoshi.

I first head him on a post-Charles Lloyd Chico Hamilton record. I was not particularly impressed. On Round Trip, he damn near gets drowned by the rhythm section. No shame there, truthfully, those guys were on their own plane. And then he made that record where he "interpreted" Bird solos. Why? Hell if I know. Overall, he's not somebody I really care about