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I am very excited about the news and hope to visit as soon as it is ready, hopefully I can do so on a weekend. Sheet music will probably only be viewable onsite. There is also material at the Library of Congress which I made them bring in from copyright 30 years ago. I had sent Wayne copies of all of it, I wonder if what I sent him will wind up at NYPL! I am very curious about a number of unknown pieces, including Mass '65. One piece that was not at LC was his very first composition, La Vie Et La Mort, intended for two organs but eventually played on solo piano. I hope NYPL will have it. I attended the lecture where this blog post was presented. The presenter did not address where the material came from, but I suspect he thought the Library had somehow acquired it. Jazz Scholar Willard Jenkins Reflects on the Library’s Jazz Collections | In The Muse

Alto sax Erena Terakubo at Takoma Station in DC - fabulous! She just started teaching at Michigan State in East Lansing so maybe she will team up with Jim and the cats from Organissimo!

Same guy who recorded Hassan.

Is it too late to tell Blue Note?

That session with Cannonball exists?

What the hell is that??? Is it real? FM records had a motto: 'no static at all'.

Never noticed that! Did Blue Note try to sign Dolphy away? So FM records is Kay and Kameron, but the name Fred Miles also pops up. What a mess.

Not familiar with this label at all. So what label did Iron Man come out on? Blue Note had to ask permission for Out To Lunch?

Really? What is FM records?

The date I have heard that is being hunted for is a live date shortly before Out To Lunch. Maybe it has been found. I am always the last to know. I doubt Dolphy was under contract with Prestige by then. I always wondered if the Blue Note date was a one-off, or if he was going to make another record for them which of course was never to be.

He delegates plenty. The Mingus Ronnie Scott was also hardly lost.

From my brief experience trying to help him, 'easily distractable' is the understatement of the year. Is this the Dolphy thing with Joe Chambers or something else? The tapes for the one with Joe have not been located yet, IIRC.

The family had some of their own copies of material, which has allowed some unissued sessions to be released. But it is not clear if they have anything left or if that has been completely mined. I am curious about some of the last sessions, like the one Pim mentioned.

Gregory did pass away. His mother might still be around.

I can't find much about him online. Maybe one photo.

I was being facetious of course, but seeing these kind of collectors' prices when the artists were barely making a living is depressing. That True Blue price would have been a little under $700 in 1960. I doubt Tina made that much from sales of the LP in his lifetime.

Does Tina Brooks' estate get a cut of the sale price?

Avoid that wretched TV movie with Andra Day. Total crap.

Please message me your email address. So the New York Bass Violin Choir is from multiple sessions, but the Tom Lord Discography has it wrong, claiming all 7 tunes were done at one time, plus 4 extra tunes done live. Only 3 tunes were at the studio session, the other 4 live: https://www.jazzdisco.org/the-new-york-bass-violin-choir/discography/

I never shared the blog post! Here 'tis: https://americanart.si.edu/blog/take-five-duke-pearson-and-blue-note-records

Please message me your email address.

A very interesting conundrum has arisen related to this. For those of you who were fortunate to hear the rejected tune from the Grant Green Solid date: it was supposedly called Spanish Dancer, and was credited to Duke Pearson (who plays trumpet on the tune!) Although there is no copyright or BMI registration. Well, the song Spanish Dancer from the Brass Company Colors album seems to be the same tune, in a very different arrangement. I assume it is credited to Bill Lee. So what is the story? I see two options. 1) It is a Pearson tune that Bill Lee somehow appropriated. 2) It is a Bill Lee piece, but then how did it make it to a Blue Note date from 10 years before? Bill Lee was not part of the Blue Note family. A mystery that will probably never be solved.

Where can I find the Stars of Jazz book?

More info: https://www.nypl.org/press/archive-legendary-composer-and-musician-wayne-shorter-has-been-acquired-new-york-public

All good questions. It will get archived by someone very good at their job. I am most interested in the sheet music. Maybe some of the questions I had back in 2006 when I put together the inventory of his compositions for the bio will finally be answered. One question: does any sheet music exist for the 10/13/70 unissued Blue Note session.