Michael Fitzgerald

Re: Dinwiddie - have you looked at the dreaded allmusic site? If not, why not? Mike

Actually, sruti - http://www.remembershakti.com/video.html Mike

There's more out there - it's just tricky because of misspellings of the name. But websearches will turn up stuff. Apparently Syyad has done a lot of playing in the NYC subways. Mike

I'm one of the last three people still on dialup - and I don't have any problem with 98% of the images. Even the recent one of Cosmic Music took only a moderate time to load. Of course, I don't frequent some of the image-intensive threads (racy album covers, etc.). As for smilies - hey, use 'em if you want to, but remember that for thousands of years people have been communicating fine with just words on the page. My Internet posting philosophy tends to align with the kind of stuff here: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Unfortunately, more and more this kind of thing seems to be considered "quaint" or something like that. "Oh - we don't need etiquette." Yes. You do. Mike

Unfortunately some of us do NOT use signatures for pointless things that just take up space. My signature (when I use it - and I don't always) is a vital part of my posts. And no, I'm not going to start typing out those URLs - that's the whole damn point of having a signature! Mike

The band is coming to the Jazz Standard in NYC again - it's a short run: March 24-27, 2005 Mike

No, no - I can see them fine. It's a "post option" - I just don't use them myself. Besides, I have seen inadvertent problems - smilies were getting created unintentionally - I forget what it was - (b) or -b or something like that. I don't need 'em. But if you want to use them, fine - I'll be able to see them. Mike

You can turn off signatures? News to me. That's kind of stupid in my view. But I suppose there are a few I wouldn't want to see again, though I deal with them. Before I submit I have to decide whether or not to include the signature. And I always turn off the smilies. Now when are we going to get some *useful* tools like the "ignore user" function. Re: the Hill film - I know nothing more at this point. Mike

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/ind...s=U1ARTU0000005

Both those URLs are very clearly shown at the bottom of the post. Mike

See the Hill discography that Ronald Lyles and I put together on my website. Mike

EVI - it's the trumpetish model. Don't ask me why. Mike

See the Shirley Horn discography on my website. Horn and Miles appear on only one tune together (1990). Mik

That's OK - I checked it on gemm.com. Fortunately, they don't have the kind of website that will tailor recommendations based on what you've looked up. Mike

Here's something to think about: The *inaction* of a label could very well be a sales strategy as well. Make something unavailable and people will hunger for it and when you finally DO reissue it the sales are increased. Absence makes the heart grow fonder and all that. So, although it *seems* like something being out of print isn't in the best interest of the label, maybe it really is. And I guess it's the right of the label to determine what their approach should be. And yes, I would love to have everything available all the time. But I'm not fronting the money to record, press, package, and warehouse this stuff. Mike

Michael Cuscuna recently told me: "In most cases, it is very difficult to clear this stuff, lots of lawyers, managers and record companies to deal with for proper clearances. For the most part it is out of our league." This was referring to Mosaic. Now, one of the big - what are we down to: three? four? - could throw enough money around to make something happen. This is why Columbia and Blue Note can issue "new" Miles Davis stuff. The problem (OK, *a* problem) is that the big labels don't care so it's unlikely that we fanatics will see legit issues of 99.44% of this stuff. Mike

Of course - just about anything between 1955 and 1985 or thereabouts was available on vinyl. The G-ster's first five albums definitely were. I think the first CD-only album by the dreaded one was "Live" (more accurately "undead" perhaps) from 1989. Mike

Wait - doesn't this require PLAYING said albums post-cleaning? Mike

"Safe" ? EMI still holds the copyright of this recording. LP, CD, whatever. Even in the 50-year world, this is not out of copyright. It's been out on CD - twice, at least. You can find it right now on amazon (mistitled "Rituals") - as low as $4.56! Why should this be considered "safe"?? Mike

Chuck - I think we are speaking of the same book. But this is only the "Birdland" book (incl. Royal Roost, and later things like Half Note) - there are many many other broadcasts not included. I will have to investigate further, but I'm pretty sure I have seen a book about the size of a telephone directory with additional things, and I think that was only partial. Another interesting thing is that there are Birdland broadcasts that are known (some issued even) that are NOT listed in Rose's Birdland book. Mike

The Boris Rose collection is now held by a university - I forget which. The respected sound engineer Doug Pomeroy has been contracted to assist: http://www.smokebox.net/archives/rootcella...otpomeroy2.html I have info on a lot of the recordings, but *definitely* not all. I am in the process of getting this info into my database. Rose's notes do not give all needed information - dates (usually accurate), locations, leader, many titles (but not all - and there are misspellings to watch for), approximate timings, but rarely sidemen. Mike

Doesn't Cadence sell t-shirts for such a purpose - or will the Cadence socks work? Mike

Like, dig, I'm in step When it was hip to be hep, I was hep I don't blow but I'm a fan Look at me swing - ring a ding ding I even call my girlfriend "man" 'cause I'm hip Mike

Thank you - that's what I would have liked to have linked to but I didn't find it. The "we respond to Fantasy" letter is very important, and not just for addressing that situation, but in setting down discographical intent, history, and practices. Mike

All three of those tunes were issued on the Pablo boxed set "Live Trane" - where Fantasy claimed they were from Hamburg, Germany 11/25/61. See http://home.att.net/~dawild/jcdisc62.htm#620209 When the error was brought to Fantasy's attention, they refused to acknowledge it. Mike