JETman

Most of it. I can remember hearing the news that Magic had HIV in my science class in high school. Our teacher turned on the radio. I cried. For who? The countless women he infected?

They've gotten cut-outs of the cd Chuck mentions at Dusty Groove from time to time. I picked it up new a couple of years ago for about $5. I checked and they don't currently have it in stock new or used, but I've seen it relatively frequently there over the last 6-9 months. It's going for mad money on the Amazon Marketplace now. Had no idea it was THAT sought after.

Don't know how accurate this is, but the rights to these recordings were acquired by Koch Records in 2005, according to this: http://rateyourmusic.com/label/charlie_parker_records

Knicks beat Pacers in back-to-backs! Take that, Danny Granger!

Where did you get the set, Lon? Wasn't most of the previously available stuff put out by Collectables? As we all know, the sound on their product has been nothing to write home about.

Thanks! Btw, least expensive option for 'mericans seems to be through Amazon Germany.

Are the discs packaged in jewel cases or mini-lp sleeves?

Were you an altar boy? My post in no way implies that we should look the other way. I was taking a swipe at the paranoia that runs rampant in our society.

The biggest problem for the Knicks is they, as a franchise, have continually put themselves in a position to NEED a quick fix. As a result, the team has usually consisted of a mismatched bunch of players, who have no idea how to or are too selfish to play together as a TEAM (or both). This is not always a situation which can be remedied by a coach. D'Antoni, for all his apparent faults, should not be blamed. As I stated earlier, he was never given a fair chance to develop a "concept" because he never had a relatively constant group of players during his tenure. He was brought in as a (well-paid) "name" to serve as a sacrificial lamb while the team got out from under the salary cap woes caused by that faux G.M. Red Auerbach or Red Holzman could not win with this group. Phil Jackson will NEVER take this job, and it's not because he doesn't want to coach again. After all, he was ON the Knick team that won its last title in 1973. I'm sure there would be a strong sentimentality component for him, especially since he is a Holzman disciple. He knows he'd be working for a doomed organization, though. At this point he wouldn't want to damage his legacy. I don't blame him.

Didn't I already say this?

Ater having won more championships than any team in the last 20 years, you're entitled to a few WTF moments with no right or reason to complain about them! With the Knicks, it's been one WTF moment after another for far too long. For a team whose success is directly tied to the success of the league itself (more than any other NBA team), this is just a sin and a shame (or a shame and a sin).

Yeah, you're totally right -- NBA owners don't have/exercise nearly enough power. If only they could all get together, collectively, and tell the players they're not going to let them play until the players give up some power. That would never happen, though, because of those gosh darn hip-hoppers like Carmelo and all those kids who like them. It was Dolan's choice to hire D'Antoni, a coach known for running a system-heavy offense; it was Dolan's choice to pair Carmelo (an isolation-heavy ball-dominating player) with the systems coach he had hired; it was Dolan's choice to ignore his GM (and D'Antoni) when they said it would be a terrible idea to gut the team to trade for Carmelo, when they could just wait until the end of the season and sign him. Based on most of the roster moves Dolan made while D'Antoni was coaching, it seems as if upper management was never really interested in building a team appropriate for D'Antoni's style of coaching; they hired D'Antoni not for his coaching, but because they had wanted to hire a "big name" coach and he was the highest on the list who said "yes". They threw so much money at Amar'e and so many trade prospects at Carmelo for similar reasons -- not for any coherent vision of how they would fit together, but just because they were Names and look, we're bringing Names to New York! I'm no fan of Carmelo; I think basketball is a lot better when offenses run like D'Antoni's, not like Melo's; but this one is on Knicks ownership, not on Anthony. They knew exactly what they were getting when they traded for him, just like they knew they were getting a scorer who can't play defense and definitely won't stay healthy for more than a year or two in Amar'e. The Knicks defense actually wasn't bad at all this year, in spite of D'Antoni's rep and Carmelo/Amare's indifference -- Chandler, Schumpeter, Jeffries, etc, were good enough to put them around 9th in the league at defense. Their offense was the real problem. First of all, I said it was on ownership in my first post. For more, see the Isaiah debacle. Secondly, you can't really blame D'Antoni since, for the full 3 1/2 years he was here, the management never provided him with a roster that remained constant. The Knicks have been in a rebuilding phase for like forever. They hired Walsh expressly to undo the mess that Isaiah created (see above), and then the owner, while drooling over that big name, overrode Walsh when he advised against the Melo trade. The Knicks operate in a truly dysfunctional way. They will no sooner win a championship than they will stop sucking Spike Lee's cock. I do not care if they knew what Melo is/was. Athletes like him do NOT belong in professional sports, period. He's being paid. Fucking force him to play a team game. It is that simple.

Ya think? I guess the salary they are paid is only for offense. "If you actually want me to play defense, you'll have to pay me another $10 mil". As long as the Knicks are owned by someone who continues to intercede in basketball decisions, they won't be going anywhere anytime soon!!! Melo has turned out to be one of those rapper/hip-hop "look at me" type players so prevalent in the NBA today. Highly over-rated, highly overpaid, and given far too much control over how the team operates. Geez, you would think that getting paid $20 mil a year would be enough for these fools, but no, they have to "control their own destiny" too. Say what you want about A-Rod, but I've never heard him demand anything from the Yankees or the Steinbrenners other than his salary. I'm sure doing so would have gotten him an invitation to leave the party, and rightfully so. It's time for the NBA's owners to show some fucking stones.

Very nice!!! I find this current trend of overreaction in our society highly disturbing. It seems to be predicated on the "political-correctness" that we have over-preached, and on the avoidance of law suit litigation at any cost. Teachers here in New York have become robots lacking any semblance of imagination. They are required to answer any email/phone call from all parents, no matter how ridiculous. The State has made courses on the awareness of bullying, sexual predators and the dangers of Facebook part of the core curriculum. It's gotten so ridiculous that anytime an unfamiliar car is seen in any of the school parking lots more than once, I receive an email warning me to "watch out for" my kids' safety. I shudder to think what message all of this is really sending to our children.

I did, too. Same time, same place. On Wells St., don't recall the name of the club/bar (the Something or Other SquIre), but I know where it was physically, that you could see the band in the front window (I think), and that Shaw played great. There was a fine Litweiler review of the band in Down Beat. There was/is a joint in NYC called the Angry Squire down in Greenwich Village near NYU.

Savoy's catalogue is primarily controlled by Nippon Columbia (Denon), a Tokyo, Japan-based public company which purchased Savoy in 1991. Nippon Columbia's wholly owned subsidiary, Savoy Jazz, handles Savoy Records distribution in the United States. FWIW, the Newport in New York set currently available is DEFINITELY a boot, and sounds like one. This would not be the first time that one of these nefarious Andorran labels has managed to circumvent the whole P.D. thang. The issue of who owns what for all of these small, independent label recordings is not likely to ever be sorted out easily, Fantasy's former control of the Prestige/Riverside/etc. catalogues notwithstanding. This seems to be why LARGE (read: wealthy) companies like Sony (Columbia) and Universal (Verve/Impulse/Norgran/etc.) have been the biggest players in the jazz reissue market for at least the last 25 years.

Joe Fields owned Muse, and now he owns High Note and Savant (along with his son, Barney). That is the connection. Those Shaws he released on High Note were archival, and have absolutely no connection to Muse. I am sure he received permission from the estate to release them on his current label. He has nothing to do with the Muse catalogue anymore since he sold it in 1996 (the same year he founded the two aforementioned labels) to Joel Dorn for release on the 32 Jazz label. After Dorn passed, the Muse catalogue somehow ended up with Savoy. As a side note, Fields also owned the rights to the Savoy Records catalog for a time in the 1980s, having purchased the catalog from Arista Records, and subsequently selling it to Denon. Hope this clears it up for you.

as are the Cannicks.

Knicks win by 42! Go figure.

'Twas the Mingus.

It's the one which combines the previous two into one.

The owners of Black Saint and Soul Note sold their catalogues to Cam Jazz, a company which is more corporate in nature and thus has more money to keep recordings in print. Personally, I find Moms' artist against the world take on things to be old, petulant and just plain naive. It presumes all artists to be wonderful human beings who only make wonderful recordings and who are forcefully taken advantage of by nefarious music industry personnel. I couldn't take Braxton for awhile. I realized that was because a lot of people thought (in a blind, cult-like sort of way) he could do no wrong musically. When I accepted that a lot of what he has recorded just SUCKS, I was able listen to what he has offered with a much more open mind, and really learned to appreciate a large part of his catalogue.

Why is it my responsibilty to answer those questions? I am a music lover, no more no less. Your assumptions are mainly based on the misguided assumption that you should, or have a right to know everything. Take it up with the appropriate power brokers.

I share the same birthday with M Jack. I console myself by reminding myself that I share the same birthday with Bird and Dinah Washington!

I have way more than that. New York's a dangerous place; as long as you have the means, you have access to anything you want. I just might cave one day and drop the $150 people want for Willisau. $150? I want $1000 for mine. I'd pay $150 just for a second copy... Back on the producer vs. artist soapbox, I see.