David Ayers

Woah!

Glad you went for it. I don’t see how it could not be worth $100!

This is going to drive us NUTS! OK I’m going to call it. German release, 1970.

What about the ones that had Ron Carter on them?

Apparently Don Was had all of Hank Mobley’s parts on Blue Note erased and replaced by Branford Marsalis in a secret studio near R*ckw*ll, N*w M*x*c*. That’s all I can tell you. Suffice to say that: they are out there.

Meanwhile this huge London structure is being converted into an overflow hospital with 4000 critical care beds. I feel quite familiar with this building as, up until last year, I did the annual London Tri there. So I’ve biked swum and run around it quite a few times and I can easily imagine the thousands of beds in those massive open spaces. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/25/nhs-nightingale-video-shows-scale-of-london-coronavirus-hospital-excel

London woman, 36, dies of suspected Covid-19 after being told she is 'not priority' https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/25/london-woman-36-dies-of-suspected-covid-19-after-being-told-she-is-not-priority I’m not impressed.

Meanwhile, NHS staff without proper PPE say they may quit: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/24/doctors-threaten-to-quit-over-protective-equipment-shortage

I remember. I also remember what a supply driven recession was like. Escalating prices as demand outstripped supply.

DaAmmit!

Trying to figure out what letter you asterisked there...

The Long Box. Those really were the days. Well, they were days.

Convinced I own this LP but have never been able to find it. That ever happen to you?

https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2020/03/24/le-saxophoniste-manu-dibango-est-mort-des-suites-du-covid-19-annoncent-ses-proches_6034197_3382.html

UK on three week lockdown 🙁 Here’s why... https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/kent-coronavirus-full-story-behind-3972491.amp

Thanks for sharing all of that. Nicely written to boot!

I agree and we have been lucky in how much has come out of the archives - especially Blue Note. One thing we learn a lot about is why things made it to release or not. Some unissued titles were pretty good, some very good in parts, some had a nice feel but maybe nothing special, and parts or all of some just didn’t come off at all. It all tells us something and gives us a better feel for things we care about. Contrast the Atlantic warehouse fire where we’ll just never know.

The meaning and purpose of an archive changes over time. If Cuscuna made it his business to remove items I wonder about the legality but I really question the seriousness. How would he have felt if the unissued sessions he did issue had been been disappeared from the vaults by a previous archivist? I don’t know the facts and the cases seem marginal, but even so...

Well literally, if Cuscuna was taking out the tapes and giving them away to be destroyed.

Not good.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/mar/19/david-bowie-50-greatest-songs-ranked Nice bit of fun. There’s a Spotify playlist at the foot of the page.

LSO, from the archive. Should be good, not least for the view of the back of my head. https://lso.co.uk/whats-on/2019-20-season/alwaysplaying.html

The song is Life during Wartime, which I mentioned above. Usually it’s me that doesn’t get any of the references. By Talking Heads, I should have said.

Burned all my notebooks...

Today’s soundtrack is Life during Wartime.