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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"

Thanks for this, enjoyable.

Love all those Garland lps for decades. Tonight -

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Been printing onto my CDrs (see example) for years now - using Canon MG printers, especially the 6250 that has a CD printing capability - gone through 3 of them over the years I've been trading CDrs with Dan S (who started this thread) for years now - he's got a few of these printed CDrs I've sent him

Sometimes you can get them to play by washing them with warm water and dish-washing soap in the sink. I get a drop of liquid soap on wet hands and rub together then gently rub the cd between hands for a minute, rinse thoroughly and dry with microfiber cloth. This will often fix a cd that had glue (or soda, etc) spilled on the groove side, which you can sometimes detect visually as cloudy areas. It's surprising how often a little soap and water will fix it. Of course if you can rip it, you're home free, just create another disk. A couple of times I've been totally unable to get one or two tracks to play and have been able to buy a cd quality download of just those tracks. Create a new disk and bob's your uncle.

I recently reproduced my faulty Dorham "Blue Bossa In The Bronx" (tracks 6 & 7), creating a CDr that played normally

I was not aware of this but he has also written four other Listening to Prestige books.

Now that album cover I recognize! Good one!

My Sun Ra collection has taken over a good part of my music room so I am thinning the Sun Ra cosmos at my house and offering the following 4 Sun Ra lps (and one is 2lp) for one low price of $98 (+ $8 shipping). All are NM/NM Stray Voltage 2 LP, Modern Harmonic, 2025. RSD 2025. Color (orange frosted) vinyl. Although a few Arkestra members appear on a few tracks, this is mainly just Sun Ra on a variety of electronic keyboards and synthesizers. Excelsior Mill Modern Harmonic, 2024. Color (violet) vinyl. Another Sun Ra electronic keyboard and synthesizer workout. Cosmos Inner City, recent (perhaps 2010 or so) 180gram reissue Sun Embassy Roaratorio, 2018 $98 (+ $8 media mail shipping) U.S. shipping only I can only ship on the weekend Payment by pay pal friends/family

If one just follows the notes, one will always hear some surprise notes that seem to go out of their way not to sound like surprises. Same thing with most of his writing. On an otherwise dispiriting record, this happens: Oliver Nelson was a very stealth guy

Time to play holiday music! 🎄

Hmmm. Maybe I should qualify "inventive" within Nelson's own parameters. Nelson's stretching past what he usually does (in his "Shadow" solo), and stretches even further during his "Elegy For A Duck" solo. Parts of his soprano playing remind me of what Wayne Shorter would sound like about two years later. I wonder if Shorter was aware of Nelson's playing, particularly on soprano.