John L

RIP

I thought that the statement was fine. It was not an attempt to justify what he has done, or even explain it (despite the Vietnam reference). As for the positive remarks about Bill's contributions to the community, I see no reason to doubt them. Reality is often complicated, and a pure division of people into good and evil is not always possible.

I can't wait to hear the Mitchell! Thanks, Chuck!

Heh heh. One of the funniest parts of the (If I remember correctly) Gary Giddens book on Louis Armstrong was a quote of (I believe) Tony Bennett, who had attended a dinner with the Queen of England together with Louis Armstrong. He said that Armstrong pulled out his Swiss Kriss and when the Queen asked what it was, he said something like, "That stuff is good for you, Queenie! Get it all out!"

I just checked. I do have a Rotterdam 1967, recorded 2 days after Antwerp. You can find it on blogs and torrents I'm sure. But looking at my shelf it turns out it was a Holland date from the 1960 tour you gave me a burn of. Found it! (Rotterdam, 1967). Good concert, excellent sound.

Interesting.

Antwerp was released quite a while ago as "His Greatest Concert Ever" on Jazzman. I think that was the first 2nd quartet boot that I ever saw on CD. Paris 11/06 was also issued as No Blues on JMY. I don't think that I have ever seen the Copenhagen concert on a boot, however. I have both of those, plus the two videos. Is there a Rotterdam too, or is that 1969 (you may have given me a copy)? What I really love about that tour is how different the concerts are. For instance, Paris is exploratory but Antwerp is much more intense. I think Karlsruhe is a better performance than Stockholm. By the way, there was a Japanese Sony release of one of the 1969 Juan Les Pins concerts and they were supposed to release another, but I never saw it. Anybody know about this? I have a Rotterdam concert from 11/09/69, although not on CD. Was there a Rotterdam concert recorded in 67 as well?

Overhyped? The point is that, with a storm like this, there are always better scenarios and worse scenarios. We need to hope for the former, but prepare for the latter. It is therefore entirely appropriate for the media to focus on the latter.

"it is in Bird's music in which we hear the birth of what we now mean by "jazz." " I suppose this should be "modern jazz."

I am still hoping that it will. Since the cover supposedly reproduces the front and back of the Arista LP exactly, the Hard Blues is probably not listed on it. Amazon might have taken the track listing from the back cover.

I thought that this thread was going to be about the great Four Tops album.

Antwerp was released quite a while ago as "His Greatest Concert Ever" on Jazzman. I think that was the first 2nd quartet boot that I ever saw on CD. Paris 11/06 was also issued as No Blues on JMY. I don't think that I have ever seen the Copenhagen concert on a boot, however.

Does anybody understand the questions? What we don't know is so vast that we don't even know how to pose the really big questions.

Allen - Some of the individual Charly releases could have been taken from masters, or most likely from very clean Chess copies, but not many of the tracks on their complete box sets. They evidently didn't have access to the vaults for unreleased tracks and had to use secondary sources. Have you heard the complete Charly Muddy Waters box, for example? I am not an audiophile, but I found much of that box almost unlistenable. It was a godsend when Chess and Hip-O subsequently released almost all of this music in much better sound.

Well, I'm not too confident about the sound quality on this set. It will probably be mastered by Erick Labson, who mastered Hip-O's other Chess sets (Muddy Waters, Little Walter), and I'm not fond of his work: it's often too harsh and loud to my ears. OK. Listened to the Labson mastered Hip-O Muddy and Walter sets, along with a couple of Labson mastered MCA sets. Compared with the Charly Muddy and Walter boxes, the Labson sets are more harsh and loud, though perhaps they have a bit more clarity. I guess you make your choice of what you want to hear. For now, at least, I'm glad I held on to my Charly boxes. They may not be the best - not sure what else is out there - any suggestions, Hans? - but they're certainly listenable. This kind of listening makes me crazy. We can debate about the "harshness" issue in the Erick Labson masterings. In my mind, however, the difference in sound between these official issues and the Charly boxes is like night and day. Labson has access to the Chess masters. Charly used secondary sources, which included bootleg LPs of scratchy 78s and 45s. It is true that the Howlin' Wolf Charly box was quite a bit better in that regard than the Muddy Waters box (I guess that since Charly was operating on the assumption of legality, they didn't venture to steal the excellent remasterings that appeared earlier on the Muddy Waters Chess LP box.) But this should be a LOT better.

Excellent news! It will be fantastic to get all of this music in what should be great sound.

Lil Green was a class act, a very fine blues singer!

16 years? It's amazing how time flies. Jerry Garcia was certainly one of a kind. Fortunately, he also might have been the most recorded artist in history. So there are almost endless opportunities to continue to connect with him musically. That is something that I love to do on a regular basis.

I agree. Given the fact that we have no real information of what his involvement might have been in these crimes, we shouldn't jump to any hasty conclusions. As someone posted earlier, he remains innocent before being proven guilty.

Well, maybe Schaap did do a lot for Marsh and did appreciate his artistry. I just wasn't able to get that impression from the tape, which seemed as I described it. I don't see my post as a misrepresentation of the tape, although the tape itself might not be a good representation of Schaap's true feelings about Marsh.

Yesterday, I heard for the first time a Phil Schaap radio broadcast of the Warne Marsh quartet at the West End Cafe (on Dime) from 1981. It was a bit strange. I found Schaap's comments to be a bit demeaning of Marsh, as if Marsh's greatest significance in jazz is that he is helping to keep the memory of Charlie Parker alive through his work with Supersax. Marsh seemed to be obliging by featuring more songs associated with Bird in his show than usual, and Phil kept talking about ... Bird.

Happy birthday to both L. Armstrongs!

I am still trying to understand what is going to be on this set. Will there be two full discs of live music, or just what was released on the CD reissue of Stepping Stones with the addition of the single omitted track?

Don't you guys have your collections in iTunes yet? If you don't find it by artist, you can look by album title, then track titles. You can find anything in seconds.

Very sad. But she has nobody to blame but herself.