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Gripes aside, at least ESP is still in the reissue game, which is something that can't be said for just about any other notable jazz label of the 50s or 60s. Is there even another?

It'd be nice to see the Ran Blake make an appearance.

Lots of gnashing of teeth about the price of the trumpet case over there. I figured a lot of the regulars there would be pre-ordering.. I must say, I knew it'd be pricey, but my jaw dropped.

Michael Gregory Jackson - Clarity w/ Leo Smith, Oliver Lake, David Murray (1976) Never heard of this one, but it sounds promising. Any opinions?

Really went for it last week: Jackie McLean - Capuchin Swing Clifford Brown - The Beginning and the End Charlie Parker - Complete Live at the Cafe Society Introducing Carl Perkins Earl Hines Orchestra - Harlem Lament George Gershwin - Piano Rolls Al Cohn & Zoot Sims - Jazz Alive! At the Half Note Cecil Taylor - Nefertiti (Revenant) Roscoe Mitchell - Congliptious Roscoe Mitchell - The Maze Roscoe Mitchell - Nonaah Air - Air Time Charles Tyler - Saga of the Outlaws Lester Bowie - All the Numbers I'm excited to hear the Nessas and am also glad to check off two titles-- the Brownie and the Taylor-- that I've been looking for at a reasonable price (and how on the latter-- 16 bucks!) since I first started on jazz.

I purchased a couple Black Saint titles on-demand from Amazon, and I must say they are of much poorer quality than I thought -- nothing like the Blue Notes, pictures of which were posted here a while back. Very cheap photocopy quality job, green-back CD-R and not true to the original cover art. Also, there was a rather pathetic typo on the spine of one ('Murray'S Steps'). Mind you, the price was ultimately rather fair ($9.90) and I honestly would consider buying more of the label's titles this way, but I figured I'd throw this out there nonetheless.

Er, yes I am. Maybe I'll stick around, but organ jazz is generally not my thing.

A complete schedule is here: http://www.summerofthearts.org/festival-menu/jazz-festival/schedule.aspx but the headliners are Roswell Rudd, Paul Smoker Notet and Dr. Lonnie Liston Smith. No so interested in Dr. Lonnie, but I'll turn out for the others. I'm not at all familiar w/ Paul Smoker's music, and haven't heard anything recent that Rudd has done. Any recommendations? What should I expect from these two, if anyone has seen them in the last couple years?

Wow, great interview. A lot of personalities there.

I'd be curious to know, was Roscoe on his own trip by this point, or is the music more in a contemporary hard bop mold? The instrumentation suggests something in a post-Ornette vein ... I don't doubt at all that it's worth hearing either way!

Amazon is having a box set sale, consisting mostly of JSP and Concord titles. The latter aren't much of a deal, but the JSPs are 15.99 or so apiece. I picked up the Coleman Hawkins pre-war set.

Exciting!

There's Herman on the sidebar, incidentally.

I missed out on Too Many Salty Swift..., but I did pick up some nice stuff there including Myra Melford's Even the Sounds Shine and Theo Jorgensmann's To Ornette - Hybrid Identity for $7.98 each. Great prices, but be prepared for a challenging search through their lists to find the stuff you want. I just devote some time every few weeks to searching 'jazz' by genre, making sure to check CDs so it doesn't get cluttered with DVDs. It usually turns up around 500 items. You can also search by label. Oh, and I've discovered that the Cecil Taylor set only goes for 14.98 at JazzLoft, half what most outlets who do stock it are asking.

Though I'm not one to care about these things usually, that sounds like something that would turn me off. The most-recent Virgin mastering sounds great to me-- flat and muddy, which is what the album calls for.

What 'needle-drop' music are you referring to here? The originally released tracks on the solo Select. But weren't the masters unavailable?

I'd like to hear the Dolphy, but am having trouble finding it. Any links?

I'd be curious, too. The other one looks so lonely on my shelf ...

Arthur Blythe - Blythe Spirit (Columbia 1981) Oliver Lake - Gallery (Grammavision 1986) Haven't listened to the Lake yet, but the Blythe is out of sight! Three different ensembles-- a quintet with cello and tuba, a quartet w/ Steve McCall, and another quintet with tuba and organ. I've not yet been all that able to get into Lenox Ave. Breakdown, but this one is much more my speed. What a fantastic record, a shame it'll never make it to CD. I recommend seeking it out.

Here's a nice selection of Byard performances written by Moran: http://www.jazz.com/dozens/moran-selects-byard

Really looking forward to this one. A tracklisting: 01 Blue Blocks 02 RFK In The Land Of Apartheid 03 Feedback Pt.2 04 Crepuscule With Nellie 05 Study No. 6 06 Pas De Deux - Lines Ballet 07 Study No. 6 08 Gangsterism Over 10 years 09 Big Stuff 10 Play To Live 11 The Subtle One 12 To Bob Vatel Of Paris 13 Old Babies

I finally picked this up yesterday and give it a couple listens. Very good stuff. This is my first time hearing Chris Potter and ... I'll just say that I need to listen more to get a better sense of his contribution. On first glance he does seem a bit dull, but I'm open to the notion that further listening with reveal more tact and complexity in his playing. It's wonderful to hear Moran play such subdued music, he can be such a lyrical player, something it's easy to forget on his leader dates, where I think his Andew Hill influence predominates. As far as Motian being undermiked, I disagree. I've heard recordings where he's way overmiked (Charlie Haden's Montreal Tapes comes to mind) and it doesn't suit him. I think it's his unique ability to dominate this music at such a volume.

Heard Peggy Lee doing "Lullabye of Birdland" there this morning.

Me either. I knew it was no longer around, but I recall it being rather plentiful upon release.

I think there's a OTC box languishing at my local shop.