Daniel A

More like mid 80s maybe? Incidentally, I remember being told by older - and supposedly wiser - jazz fans already in the 90s that 1987 was the worst year for jazz, ever (in terms of what was being produced). I still do not have enough data to be able to confirm, but what turned up in the second-hand bins from that year always seemed to be unappealing.

I believe Jacknife (on vinyl) was my first McLean album. Fantastic playing, also from Jackie himself. I really like the style, half-way in between the more progressive albums that were released in the mid 60s and some of the more conservative hard-boppish sessions which also were not released until the 70s. The tune "Blue Fable" is to me such a great example of that.

BTW, I was a bit slow, but I eventually uploaded most of these BFT:s (I think there might be one left). It turned out that disk 2 of BFT #4 was incomplete, but Jim has managed to fix that. I did a quick check among the threads and it appeared that the "answer" threads were still there.

That is also what I tried to cover in the first half of my post. Sorry if it was unclear. If the stream is identical, the sound is identical. If there is error correction involved, there is a potential for differences.

This thread is derailing, but it should be noted that there might be a theoretical difference between playing a CD in real time on a CD player, which employs some kind of error correction, and ripping a CD, which might yield "better" or "worse" results depending on the software, and - obviously - the CD-ROM drive. Given that the extracted file is bit identical to the digital output from the CD transport and it is fed through the same D/A converter etc, there cannot be any difference in sound, as it is the same series of 0:s and 1:s that has been converted.

But does the chosen take have to be the final one? Could they have made 15 takes of 'Buddy Boy' and then one take of '2 J'?

I consider this to be more post bebop than Jim Hall:

IIRC, he applied for the job, but the cab company owner would not take it seriously. But I get your point.

Possibly, he was replaced because of his terminal illness; he died from cancer in 1985, aged 64. I read somewhere that he then still lived with his mother, who outlived him by 19 years!

At the moment, the oldest one available on Thom's site seems to be my BFT#142. I have the following as MP3:s and can upload them at any point: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 34, 50. I should have my own first BFT#12 somewhere as well (but apparently on the hard drive).

They are listed in the Discography section on the release page. The new title is "Photon in a Paper World", a composition which appeared on a Stanley Cowell album from that time. Somehow, I was not surprised that there weren't any alternates from the Total Eclipse session, which would have been the most exciting to me. There's a certain atmosphere to that session which I'm always attracted by.

I sympathize fully with the observation that Discogs is not always a friendly or even "reasonable" place. And I would expect that the owners would like to make a profit, and that any usefulness for music lovers and collectors will sort of come as a side effect of that. But at the same time I would like to acknowledge the fact that the place would be less useful to me without all of those people obsessively adding every tiny matrix number variation or misplaced comma on a label. I expect some of them to be perhaps less interested in the music, but more in the "archeological" aspects of record collecting or in the database perspective of Discogs. I want to listen to music as well, and would not have (or want to spend) time to make 100.000 edits or thousands of additions. For this reason, the types of Discogs users mentioned above will have a greater impact on much of the discussion around and actual addition of content than the casual - or even many a dedicated - music fan. However, without them, some of the facts and details which are interesting and of value to me would be missing from Discogs.

Thanks, interesting! But I cannot find any examples of this recording anywhere else. On Discogs, there are a couple of Coronet releases with calalog numbers starting with "CX" in the 50-60 range, some of which have a French connection: https://www.discogs.com/master/919517-François-Chantal-Accordeon-De-Paris However, not this one.

Thanks, Niko! Anyway, that he recorded "for" Coronet seems a bit of a stretch.

The Wikipedia article on George Duvivier refers to a recording I have not found any reference to elsewhere. "Although he spent most of his career as a sideman, he recorded as a leader in 1956 with Martial Solal for Coronet." Coronet seems also as a somewhat unlikely label for such an album, but before making an edit of the article, I'd like to ask the members here whether they recognize this supposed album.

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Thanks, Lon. I have all of the material except the Mode for Joe alternate take and am trying to decide which way to go. The Japanese single CD would be "easier" for me in some respects.

Does anyone here (Lon? 🙂) have an opinion on the sound of the Mode for Joe session on the Mosaic set compared to the UCCQ-5120 release (from the then praised 75 year celebration series where the alternate take of the title track appeared for the first time)?

I have all my files on two HDD:s in a Synology NAS which are mirrored, so that a failure in one drive would not cause immediate loss of data. The NAS is in turn mirrored to a cloud storage. I have not had any files become corrupted yet.

Here's an interesting article which mentions a link between 43 North Broadway LLC, Real Gone and Zev Feldman: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/it-was-the-first-entirely-black-run-jazz-company-in-decades-but-was-black-jazz-records-actually-owned-by-a-white-guy/2020/08/26/a8c764be-e211-11ea-8181-606e603bb1c4_story.html

Only six months ago, the "43 North Holdings company" claimed on their website that they had acquired the rights to the Vault label (as well as the old Blue Note bootlegs on Applause Records!). But that website is now down, as is the Good Times website posted above in this very thread. 🤨 FWIW, the Jack Wilson and Larry Bunker albums (as well as other Vault titles) still appear on Spotify as "(c)Vault Records (TM) a division of 43 North Broadway LLC".

Because you couldn't offer "proof"?

What became of this project? I was a bit astonished and saddened the other day when I found a clip from Duke Pearson's funeral on YouTube. Edit: 60 USD raised... 🙁

There is a deep connection between Riedel's music and almost every Swede that grew up from the late 1960s almost up to this day. Renowned jazz pianist Jan Johansson (with whom Georg Riedel recorded the best selling Swedish jazz album of all time, "Jazz På Svenska", 'Jazz in Swedish', based on traditional Swedish folk songs) first got the assignment to write the music for the first Pippi Longstocking movies. But Johansson was killed in a car accident on his way to a gig in 1968, and Riedel took over the assignment. That was the start of a collaboration between him and Sweden's most productive (and famous) writer of child litterature, Astrid Lindgren, which lasted for the rest of her life. The many songs he wrote for countless movies, TV series and theatre productions are imprinted in the minds of almost every Swede between age 20 and 65, and has had an impact far beyond his excellent jazz playing and composing. He also scored several movies and TV series which got quite an exposure; Sweden had only two public TV channels well into the 80s and no commercial TV or radio was allowed. He has been a presence on the music scene ever since making a name as a jazz basist in the mid-1950s up to this day and he is totally irreplaceable.

Not the same, but similar. In 'Billion Dollar Brain', one of the somewhat forgotten sequels to the semi-classic "anti-Bond" spy thriller The Ipcress File, there is a whole scene cut where a Beatles record is being played at high volume. It was edited out already on DVD releases 20 years ago. Apparently, it was considered too expensive to obtain the rights to use the song. I might have an old VHS copy which includes the cut scene somewhere.