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Is that one a needle drop?

I am friends on Facebook with the person who found the tapes. There was nothing in the logs indicating Sonny Clark was involved at all, so he is not getting credit. Supposedly Hampton Hawes in his book mentions Sonny Clark playing the ending for one tune. Do we know which piece and has anyone confirmed it?

Sitting in the room with the band, eh? Do you remember who the organist was

So how does this work legally - European copyright law, or did they clear everything with the Monk and Blakey estates for example, as well as Blue Note and Sony?

I always heard they did, perhaps there is mention in the Young Mosaic set. I certainly don't remember any specific dates but there are tools such as ripmjazz and newspapers.com that one can use. In the Iron City discussion a couple of months ago, some clever sleuths were able to find lots of documentation of Grant Green gigs with either Young or Patton, but this was the post-Elvin era. If a specific date is pinned down, the next question of course will be...

Not Mingus, but I always thought the first side of Jackie McLean and Co. Would be a great soundtrack for a spy movie.

I have the Andrew Hill and Freddie Redd shows which are wonderful.

Compare it to the Spiderman theme.

It was in the Talking Jazz interview. And yet I was at a gig the other day where they played Nardis and announced in all seriousness that it was written for Sidran.

Are people still hung up on this Nardis thing? The title has nothing to do with Ben Sidran.

This is so sad.

Dr. Lonnie Smith covered it on his last record with Iggy Pop on vocals. What did Thomas play and what year(s) did he play with Byrd? Nothing in the Lord disco.

This is a CD-R though, right?

Yes, that is a clue. How can he be contacted?

The Cooker is such a great record.

An alternate take of I Wanna Blow, Blow, Blow can be found on the Jimmy Forrest Soul Street record, which is itself a compilation. I got confirmation that it was a different take from Pepper Adams scholars Gary Carner and Frank Basile.

RSD is for vinyl only, right? I assume I can the Mingus Live at Ronnie Scott's (my title) online later?

The slurring is more pronounced in the last few years and sadly, may have been a result of his disease, not yet diagnosed at that point. Definitely noticeable on Montreux 1975.

Will there be a CD of this? I feel the same way.

Apparently even the CD release of this set will be a limited edition also...

Has it ever been on CD?

So Mingus actually took the entire band back in the studio to record the edits? Someone had to pay for that, and I assume that someone thought they could insert them somehow. That is very interesting. Mingus was one of the first in jazz to tinker with the recordings and not feel a need to present a session as is, starting with Mingus Ah Um which had many edits. What annoys me personally about the marketing hype is the fact that I feel I am being talked down to. I can decide if a set of previously unreleased Mingus music is important to me or not, I do not need to have it sugar-coated. The problem with the over-hyped new releases is identical, plus in that case it is insulting to the other artists who were not fortunate enough to become media darlings. Lazy journalists are at fault there. At least the release now has a confirmed target date and I will not be asked to take down any mention on Facebook. I guess that's progress.

I agree.

Calling something lost when its location has been known all along smacks of Hucksterism to me. At least they didn't try that with Just Coolin'.

Lost and unreleased are not the same thing. Were the tapes missing? It sounds like they were in a Vault the whole time.