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Are these real CDs?

His parents are Moose and Squirrel Charlap.

It was apparently a problem with the original tape machine, so fixable, as opposed to an error during the transfer. But someone from the record label would have needed to get a musician involved. Why this is not standard practice when dealing with non-professional archival recordings baffles me.

First ever livestream from the RVG studio with a celebration of Hank Mobley's 90th birthday! Paging chewy. https://www.vangelder.live/events/hank-mobely-tribute?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mobley-tribute&fbclid=IwAR1z2VDiyM10BJrjJdOG6bAJodjDbrMKMytSr-0stKAyPmepJg8VraVi7Jg

All the more reason to place the unusable ones in an archive for research purposes.

A handful of members, one of whom just died. It may be mostly the one guy who is 77.

I am surprised no one is asking what will happen to the tapes Blue Note chooses not to release. How and when do we get to hear them? This has been doing on for years. Loyola University in Baltimore had made an arrangement which would have resulted in some archiving system, possibly including public auditioning options for researchers, but Left Bank got cold feet and pulled out. All we got out of this was the Walter Namuth/Mickey Fields CD. This project has never come to anything coherent, because the record industry and researchers have goals that are polar opposites. I have some ideas as to how to make everyone happy, but I doubt anyone will listen to me. Of course some funding is needed, but that should not be a deal breaker. Upping this. We are talking about 200-300 tapes here. Maybe 20 will come out. What happens to the others?

Baird is at the Smithsonian, Natural History Museum. Do you remember the location?

My kind of work ethic!

I think all three of those are in the scrapbooks, I will try to get personnel later. Was this at Baird Auditorium?

The booklet is the booklet in the Etta Jones Soulful Sunday CD. Feldman lays out a mission statement of sorts. it does not include the statement I want to see. It does claim I work at the Library of Congress. Fake news.

Unfortunately, they did not keep Yearbooks so making a complete list is hard to do. I do have some scrapbooks with some concert dates, but not a week-to-week listing like Baltimore. I would love to find out more, they are even more elusive than the Baltimore cats. What shows do you remember? The only Lee Morgan Left Bank CD is from DC, not Baltimore. The only DC gig released. The Baltimore Morgan tapes are AWOL. They claim Dorn kept the tapes. Highly unlikely.

This is a listing of performances. What was recorded and what survives are two different topics. Did you get the Etta Jones CD? Hank is heard noodling in the background while Vernon Welsh does the intro.

I posted a complete listing for 1964-1989 in the discography forum. Thanks to Mike Fitzgerald for compiling it. It is still a draft. The booklet says Resonance is digitizing the tapes, so that's good news.

I posted it elsewhere but it is worth posting twice. Mike Fitzgerald just went live with this. Please note this is still a draft: https://jazzmf.com/left-bank-jazz-society/

It did not go like I wanted, because I was told a minute before that it was verboten to talk about the tapes. I am not sure what the details are on that exactly, I am supposed to hear back. Not holding my breath. The few remaining members are still obsessed with having full control even after all these years. They do not get that they already relinquished control with their last two deals. Sending original tapes to Uptown and not keeping copies sure was a dumb-ass move. And somehow, the Lee Morgan tapes got lost to or from Dorn. Oops. There is book potential, but a long article first would be good. As you can tell, the members have no inclination to get into any specific details, and are even cold to those who try. We will have to look elsewhere. But the research continues and ultimately, who played when is what matters. Hot off the press, Mike Fitzgerald just went public with this: https://jazzmf.com/left-bank-jazz-society/ Please note that it is still a rough draft. Tons of questions will emanate from this. One that won't because instrumentation is not listed: Did Ray Draper really play Flugelhorn with Blakey in 1979? Waiting to hear back from Valery Ponomarev. Happy reading.

Where are the tapes now? Does he have a list?

That would be great. I hope to guide the discussion in some unexpected directions. It's free, but you do need to register.

https://www.baltimorejazz.com/baltimore-jazz-conference-2020/?fbclid=IwAR3q4KZOkvV_KlIDH6US7Ah_ginP5moUBpJ2GWFD-r1pO2jljGWakb0I8Sg Register for FREE at the link above for the zoom meeting. I will be on the Left Bank Jazz Panel at 2:30PM.

How do I contact Sunnyside? Facebook did not work.

Which Fecebook Page? I found several. Is her name Patrice Wolfe?

Isn't there a Coltrane Rules, Volume Two that is MP3 only? When did the Roy Brooks come out?

Preordered.

YouTube is the best - I put it on the big screen TV and it stays there forever. Building quite a Library...

Jack Walrath recently confirmed on Facebook that the titles for Cell Block F and Rockefeller were flipped, i.e., the first song on Changes One in Cell Block F. Both tunes are on the Bremen set. Will this be corrected?