John L

Sad indeed. RIP

Some good records were made, no doubt. With time, it will become clearer which ones will endure. The funny thing is, I think that a lot of us wanted to like some of these records a lot more than we were eventually able to. The lesson might be this - as much as we might miss the classic jazz of the past, turning back the clock is a risky proposition. You can't erase history. You can play the old stuff, but it is damn hard to compete with it on its own terms.

Very sad. I somehow didn't pay much attention to her for a while but then later became a big fan. She was an enormous talent. RIP

Yes, that one is extraordinary, particularly for Coltrane. I am also quite attached to Miles in Europe, My Funny Valentine / Four and More / The Sextet in Newport 1959 / Almost anything from the 1967 Europe tour / Juan-Les-Pins 1969. In a certain mood, I will also pull out something from the 1971 Europe tour with Bartz, Jarrett, Henderson & Ndugu. That band had a certain unique groove.

He was a fine contributor to this board. RIP

Wow. RIP

Thanks, Gheorghe. I would say that I will listen to it and see for myself. But I am in no rush at all. There is too much great Dexter Gordon on wax to want go through the pain of hearing something like that.

I saw Dex many times in the 70s but not in the 80s. He always maintained a very high degree of professionalism even if he might of had one too many a few times. I never saw him "completely drunk and unable to play." I have a number of concert recordings from the 80s that, while some of them suggest a bit of decline, are also professionally sound. So if there is a tape of Dex so drunk that he completely messes up, I have not heard it.

In fact, the sound is not bad.

Well, OK. But I thought that the question was musical rather than corresponding to how genres are divided in record stores. Who really gives a damn about the latter?

And don't forget T-Bone Walker!

I don't know if anyone has mentioned Charles Brown yet. Almost his whole discography could qualify. And what about BB King? He could swing as hard as anybody. Percy Mayfield is not discussed much in jazz circles but a lot of his music was quite jazzy, and a number of his songs have become jazz as well as blues standards. I think that Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson was mentioned before. Cleanhead falls smack in the middle of the continuum described above by Jim. And there is always Jay McShann as well.

I have what is supposedly a recording from Copenhagen from November 11, 1966, which would have been made on the same day as the interview listed in the Jazz Discography Project and one day after the Stockholm recording issued by Hat Art. I don't remember where I got it but it must be circulating: Copenhagen, November 11, 1966 Albert Ayler, Don Ayler, Michel Samson, Bill Folwell, Beaver Hariis Introduction, The Truth is Marching In, Holy Ghost, Our Prayer, Incomplete Track

There is also the jazz / blues of the classic blues singers (Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Ida Cox, Chppie Hill, Carla Smith etc.) and their bands recorded at a time when jazz and blues recordings were seamlessly one and the same. In the 40s, we had recordings made under the leadership of people like Sammy Price, Hot Lips Page, and Tiny Grimes that fit this description,

I don't think that they all could be DDD as the recording sessions go back to 1982. Back in the 90s, some of us at the Jazz Corner Discussion Board went in on a "Horace Tapscott Internet Box" with the primary goal of putting volumes 1-7 on CD.

I think the reason might be rather simple. Volumes 1-7 correspond to a time when Nimbus West was not marketing CDs. I believe that volume 8, as well as subsequent volumes, were issued on CD right away.

Rooster - Is Bettye performing in the DC area? I didn't see any listing. OK, I see that she is at The Hamilton tonight. I don't think I'll be able to go but it should be great. DC audiences get the best out of her - she is from DC and has a lot of relatives here.

The only thing in my collection that comes close would be a broadcast from the Half Note from July 1958 where Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh play Billie's Bounce. But there was no trumpet present,.

Damn! RIP.

It seems that the music is still there but only for streaming. There must be some good software for transforming streams into digital files.

Yea, those were two fine artists who already cannot be replaced in the Blues.

Wow. Impressive.

The higher number Bird's Eyes were only available by mail order. They were kind of a mess, repeating a lot of the music contained on the earlier volumes as well as music available on CD elsewhere. I don't have any of the numbers beyond 28. But looking at the listed music, there is probably only a handful of tracks on the higher number Bird's Eyes that I don't have.

The question is what program to use for the database. If you write your own computer programs, that might work. I don't. So we download special software. But a third party needs to ensure that it remains compatible with new computer operating systems. That is the problem. There are programs like Excel that you can be pretty sure will always allow you to upgrade your files to a new operating system. But Excel is cumbersome for a full music database.

I just visited the Collectorz online service. Wow, does it suck! It is just a list of of albums and songs by artist like iTunes. All of the useful information from my database - musicians on albums, listening notes, etc. - vanished when I supposedly transferred by database there. Now I am stuck in a dilemma and stand to lose what I have built.