colinmce

Looks like they're cutting their catalogue to the bone, core titles only (Somethin' Else, Genius of Modern Music, Midnight Blue, The Sermon, Maiden Voyage, et al). Truly the end.

Christ, what's even left?

Seconded. I've ordered Selects from Deep Discount and they arrived pristinely.

Well, inspired by this thread, I nabbed the following from Amazon: Popular Recordings 1938-1942 (3xCD), Secret Broadcasts (3xCD), Lost Recordings (2xCD) and The Best of the Army Air Force Band. Subtotal: $5.03 + shipping.

Hopefully they'll take this opportunity to also fix the jpegs for the news sets.

It'd also be wonderful if they could license and release the Don Pullen/Milford Graves stuff.

I'm intrigued. Not too familiar w/ Hemingway's work outside the AB Quartet, so I have just ordered Demon Chaser, Double Blues Crossing and Waltzes, Two Steps & Other Matters of the Heart.

Agreed in full. The music matters most.

Could never get into this one. I'm not terribly interested by Dorham to begin with and the Afro-Cuban setting does nothing for me. Good Blakey, though.

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?