colinmce

Abbey Road?

A couple price reductions.

Pacific Jazz and Cohn/Newman/Green have sold.

The reason I priced that one so modestly is that it has been piling up on Ebay in 1-cent CD auctions and has been selling for about $45-50 as opposed to $80-100 like it used to. Though maybe people weren't as aware of that as I thought! Damn

Shank/Cooper is Sold.

Reece is On Hold.

Pacific Jazz Piano and Shank/Cooper On Hold.

Pullen is sold.

$50 shipped. MS-07 Curtis Amy MS-09 Bob Brookmeyer

I just noticed that in some of the sessions, Horace Tapscott plays the trombone. He can also be heard to this effect on Lou Blackburn - The Complete Imperial Sessions from the BN Connoisseur series.

Dude, that is 7 years after our first born and 3 after our second. Why should I take you seriously? I'm afraid to even ask now ...

I have not heard of him but that is very sad. He sounds like a very inspired individual.

This is one of the Selects I'm waiting for Mosaic to get back in print . Seems like it will be very enjoyable, swingin' music, played by true greats. How's the sound quality? I don't pay much attention, but it sounds fine to me. An easier swinging set of music you will not find. Just absolutely blissful stuff.

Also like to see Dewey Redman - Ear of the Behearer/Coincide

Let's not forget he also played on Braxton's massive "Composition 96". Consequently, I spun In Deep End Dance from 2002. A fine set that truly exceeds the "master jazz soloist + students" genre.

So what does this mean for releases by Fresh Sound and the like that fall between 1941 and 1961. Will they now be in violation and have to be withdrawn? Why? Can't you just freely publish orphan works as long as reasonable efforts have been made to identify the owner? Not so easy. Read up on the Savory collection.

Wow.

First: Now:

Maybe my favorite Mosaic set, period. It was a revelation to me.

While there were no "bad" titles per se in the series, and in fact some were very, very good I found the selections to ultimately be a bit odd. I'm a big fan of "mainstream", but this accounted for a bulk of the releases to me. While I applaud them for going outside the hard bop box, they might've gone a little too far.

Yeah, I'm disappointed to hear that. Maybe the jewel cases account for the doubled price ... : /

It should be illegal to sell those kinds of partial sets. I mean, I exaggerate but I've been disappointed a million times browing Mosaics and other box sets Amazon when I see an amazing price and click to find it's just discs (and usually just one!).

Always best to play this one LOUD.

Why is that tired? What endeavor in art or life can get anywhere or be worth a damn without the basics? It's tired because it's almost always applied incorrectly. It's often argued that these traits need to be foregrounded. I subscribe to the radical notion that swing and blues qualities can be implicit. Does George E. Lewis always "swing"? No. Is he "swinging"? Always. To jump to the present: does Taylor Ho Bynum always play the blues? No. But the blues is the root of his craft and I know this. What use would either of these players be to me or to the music if they just rehashed JJ Johnson and Kenny Dorham? But do they know and appreciate the music of these forebears? Again, I have no doubt. This is not a game of absolutes. If no one learned that from Bird or from Cecil or from Braxton or from John Zorn then I don't know what to say. And you're right who knows if KR was talking about the avant garde or not. But their very existence disproved his point, scant and incoherent as it is. So does, you know, the equally great mainstream jazz being made too.

His best on Novus for sure. The version of "Cliches" (duet w/ thumb piano) is stunning.