Chuck Nessa

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.

Bill Hardman's Home on Muse. What a lovely date with Junior Cook, Slide Hampton, Mickey Tucker, Chin Suziki, Victor Jones and Lawrence Killian.

By coincidence I made a cdr of my Emarcy lp last week.

I just think it's a boring record. Nothing "definitive", just a seasoned opinion.

Forget this one. Let it go.

...taking the risk of being stoned! Being stoned has something to do with risk?

You are not as bright as I'd hoped. Only "half bright" it seems.

I do not understand why anyone stays with BMG and does not move to Yourmusic. What is wrong with $5.99 and no shipping?

and life goes on. We all have 'em.

You have to remember it was almost 20 years ago and the chance to issue "rare material" in the newer medium was a big deal. Getting stuff out was the big deal, no time to sweat the details. Lots of shortcuts were taken, just to get material reissued and in the public mind. "Hey, we have this new printing press, screw the fonts". Books a-plenty!