John L

What is unbelievable is that they keep consistently finding new unreleased studio recordings more than 40 years since the search began.

I used to suffer from the exact same one-track gap as you do. I first obtained the track on the JSP two-disc set "The Big Band Recordings." This was from back in the day when JSP was a legit company and employed R.T. Davies to do the remastering. I am sure that Amazon must have the track now on some collection as a 99 cent download.

Van is someone who has grown on me over the years as well. Thanks for the top on the new album. I will check it out as well.

RIP

That is correct. Those two albums contain 10 of the 12 songs recorded in France in 1961, including all four tracks listed above by mjzee. They do not contain Crepuscule with Nellie and Body and Soul. I believe that those two songs were first released as bonus tracks on the Milestone Blues Five Spot 2-fer, and were then included on the Monk in France CD.

One of my big regrets is having never seen Albert Ayler live.

I agree. Ayler's output on the latter Impulse! albums may have been uneven, but the high points were remarkable. Drudgery is certainly one of them. Sun Watcher is another. Ayler could sound great in a roots R&B/blues context. I wouldn't be without any of the Impulse! albums, despite the low points on some of them. I wish that there were more Ayler gospel albums, or at least one where he really lets go over some gospel songs, maybe together with singers. Among Ayler's various bands, the only one that can sometimes wear thin on me pretty fast is the string band with Samson. But I see that there are big fans of that band here as well.

Then there is the other Bird & Pres JATP masterpiece - Embraceable You from 1949.

In case it hasn't been noticed, the Don Byas thread in the Mosaic forum has had all of the posts deleted on it twice in the last few days, the last time being yesterday night (or this morning in Europe).

Here we go again... I wanted to respond to a comment that Chuck made in the second set of comments that has now been mysteriously deleted. I appreciate the idea expressed by Chuck that some labels that exploit EU copyright laws are worse than others, in particular those labels that are ready to steal immediatley newly remastered or released material on labels that have made a significant investment in these releases. It might still be useful to agree on an explicit black list of such labels in order to know better what the limits of discussion are on Organissimo. We have been trashing the "Andorran labels," and perhaps rightly so. But there would appear to be non-Andorran labels that are guilty of the same thing, for example JSP.

If I illegally download Louis Armstrong group recordings from the 1920s* do I then have "hot" Hot Fives and Sevens? * copyright expiration questions aside ** "hot" colloquial English for "stolen" Legality is another question. Many of us, myself included, get the vast majority of our MP3s through legal purchases. It is also quite possible to steal CDs or LPs. If both of us order an album from Amazon, you the CD and me the MP3s, does that mean that you own the music and I don't?

Literal format? That might make sense if music was a literal art. While avoiding a digression into the metaphysics of what it might mean to "own music," I have always understood what we usually talk about under that banner to be having immediate access to the sound itself. In that case, the tin disc, vinyl disc, magnetic tape, or whatever is just the medium for providing that access, just like a computer full of MP3s. Right?

:excited: :excited: I just read the piece at Jazz Archeology. It claims that we not only have another take of Lady Be Good, but two other new takes from Pres' first recorded session: alternates of Boogie Woogie and Evening!!!!!

Good news, indeed! I look forward to hearing it.

Peter Green has been trying to get it together for decades now. He still plays and records sometimes, but it is not the same. That said, I haven't heard anything really recent about him.

Yes! The Stones moved into their absolute peak years when they added Mick Taylor.

I'm very sorry to hear this. I knew that he was sick, but somehow did not expect it at this time. Thank you for the music, Mr. Ware. RIP

Nice choice. If I had to choose only one, it would probably be this one:

The biggest headache on the CDDB is classical music, especially opera. The information given is usually either worthless or in the wrong place.

I'm not sure what CDDB is but, when I imported the CD into iTunes, all the tracks came up as per the sleeve of the CD. It wasn't wrong from the point of view of what was on the CD sleeve; it was the sleeve note that was different to what was on the disc. Another of the five from my recent batch that I've imported so far had the correct titles on the sleeve, but what came up in iTunes was different. I know you have lots of African recordings and I'm sure you appreciareate that accuracy is the least of the concerns of the record companies in the African recording industry (well, the African indies, anyway, which represents almost all of what I buy - as in jazz, I buy hardly anything on major labels). I'm just about to import two CDs by UCAS Band de Sedhiou - 'Takussaanou Ndakarou' vols 1 & 2 and find that there's nothing at all coming up on iTunes; just track number and timing - but it said it was accessing Gracenote database. Obviously this isn't CDDB. How do I get iTunes to access CDDB (and maybe give me a better chance of getting correct information)? What software do you use to check for duplicates, title inconsistencies, orphaned or missing tracks? Can it check for artist inconsistencies? Does it recognise an inconsistency between 'latin' and 'Latin' (because iPods think they're different genres)? MG PS I see from Wiki that Gracenote is the new name of CDDB, so I'm not going to get any better info out of it. MG - Gracenote and CDDB are the same thing. They have always been. I think that Gracenote may be the company that runs CDDB. The database is very useful, but is indeed incomplete and contains errors of various sort. The errors can be corrected mannually in iTunes (Use the "Get Info" function to edit single or multiple tracks)). In cases where you don't know the correct information, you will have to search for it.

So what did you do with all of your downloaded Grateful Dead shows? Do you have them only on CDRs? My iTunes is now at 1 TB & 77 GB. If only they made iPods with a little more capacity than 154 GB!

I guess that numbers depends on whether or not you want to count Cherokee as Koko. There doesn't seem to be much reason not to, given that Koko only came about from a decision by Savoy Records to eliminate the Cherokee theme so as not to pay royalties. Of course, the Koko head is still a compositional addition.

RIP

I love opera. I even went through a phase when it was the primary music that I was listening to and attending.

They still play a lot of smooth jazz in West Africa, believe it or not. But not all smooth jazz is alike. African smooth jazz is played seriously and has a lot of spirit. I guess that some people would say that it is therefore not smooth jazz. ))