Chuck Nessa

The answer is no. You takes your chances.

BMG does not require a monthly purchase Since I currently have 22 discs in my queue it certainly ain't a problem for me. $5.99 a month - that's the ticket.

Being able to pay for the CDs AFTER you've received them, as opposed to before you receive them. Since I don't buy as much music as I used to, I can wait until a good sale like the "5.99 & free shipping at 5 discs" deal. Helps keep my budget in check. Since they are charged to my AmEx account, I pay for them later than I paid for my BMG shipments.

Tis possible if you received the correct disc, your message would be the same.

RRK got Von a "scale" date with a "major indie" at the time. Von was happy.

Jelly Roll Morton. I seem to discover him every 10 years or so. Have not been disappointed yet.

We loved it. The kid on the other hand, he walked around with a three foot long face and his headphones on. It appears either we, and, or Manhattan is not cool enough for him. He is wrong on both counts. We've got rain at the moment. Kill the kid and have a life. I hope my post doesn't make this a target of the feds for child abuse. Maybe this should be moved to the political dept.

Yup! All really interesting stuff. Russ Freeman was one of the first "real" musicians I met. The Fischers were issued at a time I was "ready to go there", if you know what I mean. I do have to admit when I met Clare he "set me straight"! In spite of the stupid crap he spewed, I still like these dates a bunch.

First place I encountered his name was as producer for some very nice Hifi records - Harold Land's The Fox and Elmo Hope's Trio.

Half my wardrobe was purchased before that date.

I was being a wiseass when I listed all those "sales" sites but for other research/info I usually start with Mike Fitzgerald's site found HERE.

More information, please... Private lp made of a concert at Grinnell College on Jan. 10, 1957. Grinnell student Herbie Hancock is listed as one of the folks involved in a jam session the following day.

If they are only a management company, what to they keep in the "warehouse facilities" listed on their website? Do they really have so much management they need a warehouse? I wanna meet these guys.

Duke Ellington Fifteen Swing on Grinnell.

OK, I've resisted 'til now. May 20, 1944 if you please. Thanks.

Cadence, Jazz Loft, Verge, DMG, Amazon, Dusty Groove, Berkshire, Tower, Half, Barnes & Nobel, CDUniverse, AllDirect, Mosaic, True Blue, etc.

Couldn't this all be settled by listening to the dang music? Bertrand, it is your question and you have the avenue to solution in front of you. We expect a report.

Not familiar with Cool Summer or tade. Can you 'splain?

Richard Carpenter.

The material on the Mosaic is slicker, less "rough and ready".

But is this really any different from how most labels have handled their catalog over the years? I surely don't have to remind you, Chuck, of how many Blue Note or OJC labels titles were oop over the years on LP (let alone the myriad smaller labels). Heck, when I was discovering jazz in the early 80s, I had to hunt down oop Mingus for crissakes - and to me that's like making Shakespeare unavailable. Weren't deletions a necessary part of the business model, cutting the chaff as it were and opening up shelf space for new records? I can't help but think that we may have become spoiled somewhat by Fantasy's willingness (or ability) to keep everything in print. Don't get me wrong - like everyone else I think it will be unfortunate if Concord deletes titles, but are we expecting/presuming too much in thinking that they wouldn't/shouldn't? Or that perhaps Fantasy's decision to keep everything in print may have helped lead to the circumstances requiring them to sell out in the first place? Given the widely reported "low sales" of most jazz titles it's astounding that Fantasy was able to do what they did for so long and remain profitable. Even before the sale to Concord I figured it was only a matter of time before Fantasy made much of their catalog on-line only, per something like emusic or itunes. I certainly hope that Concord continues to keep the OJC titles in-print, but i find it curious that we expect them to do something that no other label - jazz or otherwise - has managed to do with their respective back catalogs. What don't you understand when I said "I never really understood how Fantasy managed such a huge catalog of very slow selling titles"? The terrible situation of you hunting Mingus titles in the early '80s had me in friggin' tears.

Just a gentle reminder of how Concord has treated "their own" catalog. I do not believe their PR dept. I never really understood how Fantasy managed such a huge catalog of very slow selling titles. I still believe as inventories dwindle, much will go away. I heard rumors of a big lp "fire sale" recently.

So, you're his mom?

Mosaics with a beer back is the only way to go.