it would be interesting to see the actual original contracts; from what I've been told, Stollman was very open about the terms, and the musicians agreed to them -
thanks for the link, Jim, I will order that - and David was indeed one of the nicest and most open people I ever met, happy to talk about the "secrets" -
"wonder how Dusty Groove goes about selecting (and then getting licensing rights to) certain recordings"
I know exactly how they do it:
eenie, meenie, miny, mo -
Coleman is a very educated player - interestingly enough, he is one of the few post-modernist (for want of a better term) horn players that I ever heard Barry Harris praise, for his harmonic acuity -
hmmmm......finally somebody's offering me a reasonable deal - let me think about it a minute.......
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sorry, changed my mind -