David Ayers

I guess these are works, like Messiah, best heard in performance - can't get interested in the recordings... but that's just me

True, it's a tricky economy, which is why what he's doing really makes even less sense. Okay, I am beating a dead horse. Nooo - the horse is alive! There's always hope!

I hear you. But we know from Chuck Nessa among others how tricky the economy of these things is - and CD is a declining market whether we like it or not. But yeah, I won't buy that new stuff, and it is easy for me to be relaxed about the oop CD titles as I already have them. I don't take a harsh view though - it is just one of those things in life, and in fairness there are quite a few great hat titles that *are* in print...

I agree with you guys about the Braxton situation, as the listed-as-upcoming-but-missing titles are two of his best by a long way. But. You can't criticize the guy for releasing three new titles - that's up to him, more power to him, not things that excite me either but I don't have to buy them. It is great that he is funding a reissue, obviously one he knows will sell. Hat have brought back some classic titles in recent times - Lyons, McPhee, Braxton - and among the new stuff the Blaser was very well received. i just think really he has done well now that he seems to have lost his funding. And yeah, labels tend to hang on to what they have paid for and own - and we know that can be something that plays out over a long cycle.

His birthday's 6 October, same as mine. Do you mean 2014? MG 2014 yes - it's all on the link.

We've got AB coming to London for his birthday so come and see him/us and ask him about this in person! http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/baraka/

Mosaic was half-owned by Capitol EMI and that part of EMI is now owned by Universal. Those megacorps, eh?

MG - I'll pm you when I'm not on the fly...

@MG - if you had time, one use of spotify would be to start a playlist of the African stuff you like so we can share a little without maybe investing in the old K7s with you....

Under your name? I can only see Woyzeck's Death and American Song Project here in the UK. Spotify license content and the name of the company that licensed it can be seen on the album page. That is something you could look at. I don't know what the contract is with Soundcloud when material is uploaded. Are you sure you're not doing an MG?

Some things may never be digitized. But those that are will all be distributed online. The only question is how. What do you think is going to happen?

Oh OK thanks - I thought you meant something CD-related - got it!

Not sure what is the 'factory in China' you are talking about but a lot of intra-EU investment is going to Poland now because conditions are right in various ways. I really don't think exploitation comes into it though someone might weigh in and explain why I am wrong. There seem to be few CD plants in Europe - does anyone know the story on this?

MG's hard drive is safe! That was fun

Thanks for posting.

I know this from LP. Apparently the OJC has the wrong bonus track (from a compilation). The Fresh Sound has the correct bonus (which is the one featured in the youtube clip). I remember buying it for the fact it was all on bass clarinet and I had never seen another album all on that instrument. Apart from the Murray I wonder if there are others led all the way through by b. cl.?

Glad he went through the set so carefully before he posted.

Another one - bit OOP maybe....lean and sharp

When I saw that photo I literally tasted cigar.

My move from music "ownership" through CD or download into streaming is only bringing my music consumption into line with my other cultural consumption. I watch several films a week, either in the cinema or through streaming or DVD hire - nothing is "owned". But it's with my reading that your capitalist model is defeated, Bev. Nearly all the books I read come from Manchester Public Libraries or University of Manchester Library - for free! Ah yes - and the authors lose a great deal of income...

Blimey. Have you heard any of them...? Found a York Bowen Phantaisie-rhapsody thingy for bass clarinet and string quartet.

With Bev on Dolphy's bass clarinet as an early fave - Green Dolphin Street! - and also loved discovering John Surman's use of same. Unlike so many jazz musicians on a 'second' instrument, ED obtained a beautiful tone and, as others have said, played it well throughout its registers and not just for effect. Made me love the instrument and still listen keenly for B.Cl passages in classical concerts. It helps that ED's B.Cl. was sometimes so well-captured in the recordings. Have we mentioned Broetzmann's use of it? Not at all the same thing but I'm an enthusiast of PB as what he is so I am glad to see him pick it up. Trying to think who composed any chamber music for B.Cl. Not even Hindemith who got as far as a sonata for double bass and covered bassoon and oboe in his sonata writing, but apparently even for him B.Cl was not sonata-worthy. There must be something out there I don't know though, I don't have a much knowledge of chamber music.

Don't understand the question. That was in response to David Ayers' post. Either that or he abstains (or he is an indecent man). I'm saying that would be the logic as I know you know No-one here seems to have a problem streaming from youtube.

Historically the only performer on a jazz record who might have a royalty in her/his contract was the named leader. That was part of the entertainment industry's system of exploitation. The only decent thing to do is not buy those recordings.