I have a bunch of images I took in Rudy's studio. One is inside the "Spirit Catcher" cd and the bulk of the rest are still in negatives. Some day I will put my scanner to work on them.
'splain that to me. The biggies are living off music publishing and the indies are gone - 'cept those bringing out live recordings "on spec", and most of those operations are hitting up the musicians for seed money.
Steve Coleman, Julian Priester and Eric Alexander are scheduled to be in Chicago next Thursday for a tribute to Von Freeman in Millennium Park. Details here,
I "inherited" 12 of these boxes going from 1930 into the '50s. I have not spent much time with them but all include interesting looking books. Time Life spared no expense in the Giants series, so I expect the choices are apt and the sound to be excellent.
A few years ago a truck backed up to my door and unloaded "The Complete Works" on the Vox label. I think it cost $33 then. I have been loading it into the ipod for months.