bertrand

The three of us (2 adults, 1 child) are trying to go up to NYC for 4/30 and 5/1. We're trying to find a resonably priced hotel. My two regulars are booked, and hotels.com only shows pricey options. I may have to just get a list of 20-30 places on the web, and call each. Any other recommendations/tricks/preferred hotels? We'd rather be in Manhattan. Bertrand.

Here's a theory: the liners on the Fresh Sound are wrong because they copied them out of the All Music Guide (or some other such unreliable source). It could happen: David Weiss pointed out that his bio at amg is all wrong; it's the bio for another non-jazz David Weiss. The CDs listed are his, however. Bertrand.

This thread sucks. Bertrand.

Power To The People has never been issued as a single CD in the U.S. Bertrand.

'If the amount read by the machine matches either one of the amounts on the coupon, that's as far as it goes - all the checks that meet this criterion are bundled together and sent off for encoding, and then straight to the bank for deposit, etc.' If the machine did read an extra $1,000 from my check, then it would have noticed a mismatch with the pre-printed amount on the coupon (I was paying the full balance, not the minimum). So right there extra processing was required. From what they told me at Discover, they don't do this first match as you described. That's what made me angry. I stopped using the card, but my wife continues to do so. Bertrand.

Is the Fez thing still happening? I got a postcard that said that they were now at Joe's pub on Thursdays. Oh, this is Wednesday - did the Fez thing move to Tuesdays? What night is the Iridium gig? Bertrand.

Discover once helped themselves to an extra $1,000 when I made a payment. They claimed the computer misread the amount (through the envelope!), but I say that's bullshit. I asked my other cards, and they said their computer matched the handwritten amount to the amount in digits, so this should not occur. I asked Discover to let me know if they plan to change the computer program, but I've heard nothing so far. Bertrand.

Didn't you see the article at cnn.com? Rooster is already camped out in front of the club. He'd appreciate some food and drink, for you New Yorkers out there! Bertrand.

Same reason a lot of jazz musicians don't: giving up the publishing rights to their music was one of the conditions for getting a record contract. Alfred Lion (among others) insisted on this. Remember that interview with Moncur where he speculated that the reason he was dropped from BN was that he refused to give up his publishing? Some BN artists were able to keep the publishing rights (Silver and Shorter). I suspect this is even why Wayne did not sign to Blue Note as a leader until 1964. I bet Lion was courting him before. Bertrand.

On the topic of the WSQ for a moment: I saw Oliver Lake last night (fantastic show!). I asked him about this. Dewey was never in the WSQ. However, Sam Rivers did fill in once for David Murray! Bertrand.

'Last time I saw him live he was with Miles'. Holy crap! We're talking 35 years or more! Glad to see you enjoyed the group so much. Wayne has been through many changes since. They probably played a lot of material from the forthcoming album, which features a lot of new compositions. Bertrand.

Their site now has the times. I will most likely be at the 6/9 show, and perhaps also 6/12. Bertrand.

Chris sure must have a pile of newspapers in his house! Bertrand.

This sounds like a great show! Sorry I'm not in Philly. Alan, if you do go, please say hello to Fred from me. This also gives an interesting clue: some of Sun Ra's arrangements are still in possession of the band. I had always assumed they were scattered to the four winds after he died. Bertrand.

Herb Alpert may not be jazz, but he publishes Wayne Shorter's music (Rondor music). Of course, he only 'publishes' in the sense of collecting money and administering rights. If you think he'd actually take the initiative to put out a complete collection of scores/transcriptions, dream on. Bertrand.

Very bad news. We knew this day was coming soon, but it still hurts. Glad I stocked up on Fantasy over the last few years. Of course, I didn't get every title in the catalog that I could possibly want, but I just don't have the money, space to put it all, or time to listen to it. Bertrand.

For the Miles 60's quintet box, I bought the 'missing' tracks on iTunes and will eventually burn a CD. I hope to do the same for the Seven Steps Box. So far, I bought the individual CDs of Berlin and Tokyo, but those are not missing tracks (Tokyo is CD #6 from the box, and Berlin is #7). It's the cheapest way to go, although some people are against the whole downloading thing. It's not my ideal choice, but it's convenient and quick and cheap. Bertrand.

That's too bad, but I know how you feel: I was tempted to try to go up to NYC tomorrow night to see the Herbie Nichols project, but I was just too tired to make any plans. I've had an unbelievably stressful month at work. I need a vacation big time. Bertrand.

Yes, when I used the term 'packaging', I meant 'everything but the CDs themselves'. For completeness sake, I have a xerox copy of the Mosaic booklet. Sure wish that Herbie Nichols/Tina Brooks/Roswell Rudd gig at Yale had been taped! Bertrand.

The Mosaic set is equivalent to the BN CD except for the packaging. I put the whole shebang on my iPod and reorganized it by original issue format and track order (with the alternates at the end), because the strictly chronological approach bugged me in this case. This yields 4 'LPs': Prophetic Herbie Nichols, Volume One (6 master takes, 3 alternates) Prophetic Herbie Nichols, Volume Two (6 master takes, 4 alternates) Herbie Nichols Trio (10 master takes, 4 alternates) Herbie Nichols Trio, Volume Two (this is an extended version of a Japanese-only release and contains the 15 leftover tracks - 8 master takes and 7 alternates) Bertrand.

This is a free festival in Wilmington, Delaware. I saw that on June 9 (my birthday) both the Ingrid Jensen organ group and Lou Donaldson with Dr. Lonnie Smith are playing (also, there's Louis Hayes' Cannonball tribute band on 6/12). Since it's not too far from DC, I was thinking of taking a road trip with my 5-year old (who's actually met Lou). The website does not give too much info on the set-up, though (www.cliffordbrownjazzfest.com). I'm trying to see at what time the show starts and how long the sets are to see if I need to plan to sleep over or not. Also, I have mixed feelings about some festivals: a lot of clueless people show up and kind of ruin it. Has anyone been to this festival? Do you know if the music is in the afternoon or at night? How crowded does it get? Thanks, Bertrand.

What is the point of these hidden tracks? Bertrand.

I thought not. I knew Liston Smith had played with Kirk, which is why I assumed it was him. I remember the Doctor telling someone (while I was in earshot) that he didn't start out on piano (unlike a lot of other organists). He has of course recorded on piano since. Bertrand.

This is Lonnie (Liston) Smith, not Dr. Lonnie Smith, correct? Bertrand.

Bfrank, In your 1967 list, shouldn't we include After Bathing At Baxter's, or was that released in 1968? Bertrand.