Hoppy T. Frog

Has anybody been to the ESP Disk retail storefront in Brooklyn? They're advertising that they have an actual store now at the 990 Bedford Ave address.

Only the record companies. Maybe the artists. But the bands that are being pirated seem one to whom a few quid one way or another wouldn't make much difference. MG I think the choice is: Do you want to enrich a capitalist or a Chinese Tong/Russian mafioso?

I'm glad my momentary frustration yielded a great thread! (it was in the last place I looked!)

Moran and Mary Halvorson will be playing together at the "CareFusion" NY Jazz Fest. Too bad it is happening the weekend my sister is getting married in Minnesota!

FOUND IT

How can I lose a box set, and one I just bought a couple months ago!

Excellent taste, sir!

Without the wit or good looks.

If the music is right, relentlessness is great! Hop to that! Ah, 70 minutes of it it just left me exhausted and looking at my watch towards the end. If it was 50 minutes, it would have been perfect.

Hey Allen-- I saw this today from Roots and Rhythm. Is this really ready to drop? Will you have any copies for direct sale? VARIOUS ARTISTS Really The Blues? A Blues History, 1893-1959, Vol. 1 West Hill Radio Archives 6028 $99.98 Due next week. This looks like being one of the best and most important blues releases of this year. The first of four nine CD sets tracing the history of the blues from 1893 through 1959 compiled and remastered by Alan Lowe who compiled the superb "Minstrel To Mojo" and "That Devilin' Tune" sets. This first volume features 234 tracks recorded between 1893 and 1929 including some of the earliest recordings of African-American music (Unique Quartet, Cousins And DeMoss, Bert Williams, Fisk University Jubilee Quartet, etc) - not strictly blues but some of the music that laid the foundations, early recordings of W.C. Handy tunes, the earliest blues recordings (Mamie Smith, Ethel Waters, Sylvester Weaver, Bessie Smith, etc), the blues as part of jazz (Kid Ory, Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Benny Moten's K.C. Orchestra, Johnny Dodds, etc.), the blues influence on white urban vocalists (Sophie Tucker, Marion Harris, Annette Hanshaw, Eddie Cantor, Lee Morse, etc), the blues influence on white rural music (Blind Andy, Wade Ward, Sam McGee, Ernest Stoneman, The Allen Brothers, Roan County Ramblers, etc.) and, of course, a broad spectrum of African-American Blues and Gospel from the early through late 20s (Ma Rainey, Sippie Wallace, Leecan & Cooksey, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Arizona Dranes, Henry Thomas, Luther Magby, Sara Martin, Washington Phillips, Gus Cannon, Lonnie Johnson, Tommy Johnson, Barbecue Bob, Julius Daniels, Mississippi John Hurt, Gladys Bentley, Bernice Edwards, Robert Wilkins, Blind Blake, etc.). Recordings are presented approximately chronologically and a full track listing will be found on our web site. The set also comes with a CD-ROM with over 100 pages of notes. We haven't heard this yet but Lowe is noted for the quality of his remastering so we expect it to sound very good. I've long thought it would be great for someone to tackle a project like this and now they have. At first glance I would say that there is not enough emphasis on the many female singers who recorded in the early/ mid 20s but other than that this looks like being an invaluable release.

Saw them in Baltimore, and while impressed, I thought the relentlessness of it was too much of a good thing.

But you can order through foreign Amazons. I got mine last December from Amazon.de.

I think that this is true in "overground" circles, but not true in "underground" circles where lately stylistic flitting is seen as a virtue (I don't mean that in a pejorative sense), and artists sometimes end up in different places from where they began. These artists aren't maybe anonymous, but they exist outside the label/tour complex where there isn't $$$ depending on fulfilling "expectations".

I'm pretty sure we'll get to the point--if we haven't already-- that some bootleg label will just bootleg some other bootlegger's bootleg.

I think that last one is the winner. Thread closed. There are no covers weirder than that.

I was going to post this somewhere else but as it's mentioned here and in another Konitz/Solal thread I thought I'd just plant it here. It looks like somebody has gotten around to getting this on CD. I saw it in Tower here the other day, I think I'll have to pick it up. I take it it's up there with "Star Eyes" ? Duplicity. Cliff, I'm pretty sure that is part of the so-called "Atomic Records" unauthorized Andorran reissues discussed elsewhere. Aldo Sinesio himself has come on this board to call them bootlegs.

Emusic has the lot, if you are a subscriber. World's Records has some of them for clearance prices, as well. Apparently the new owners of Storyville have cut them out.

Any of youse guys in the Washington DC aureolae, CD Cellar in Arlington has a used(!) copy of the Marsh/Konitz box for 24 bux! Go get!

That's what I thought, but I didn't want to say so for fear of scaring Moms away. BTW, check out Moms' numerous Amazon.com reviews: http://www.amazon.co...ef=cm_cr_dp_pdp That's also what I thought as I read his post. Do we know for sure that he's not? I don't. But, again, I wouldn't make a big deal of this. If it is Clem and he wants to come back in this form, fine with me. Let's just react to what Moms says, if we feel like it. Agreed. But I think it's interesting that at least 3 of us--and probably more--had the same reaction. Whoever Moms is, I hope he/she sticks around. Whoever he/she is, he/she/it seems to be really into Renaissance and Baroque music. I hope he/she/it/they stick around, as this is an area of music I am also just stepping my little toe into.

The Cuneiform label added! Nice.

What ECM titles, I couldn't see any in the New Releases list. Incidebntally, when the jazz selection palls, there is a lot of classical to explore. Much of my queue is classical now.

Great find - congrats ! Are the shops in Israel that good, or was that a fluke?

A romantic night in with the dog. What's so "uhhhh" about that?

What do you charge for shipping of single discs to the USA? And if you don't do Pay Pal, what will you take? Would Amazon gift certificates as payment work?

Tricro-tastic