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Good stuff, did not realize you had been at WRTI ("The Freedom Sounds" !). Cut my jazz teeth on that station in the early 70's My wife and I used to listen to Harrison Ridley, Jr. on Sunday nights ("alrighty, yes indeedy") and enjoyed him so much. We also attended a dinner in honor of him as guests of Keith McKinley and Ruth Naomi Floyd. Kenny Barron Trio (Barron, Ben Riley, maybe Ray Drummond on bass?) played at the event. My all-time favorite on the network was Kim Berry. Was very sad when they collapsed the classical programming into the schedule, and actually have rarely listened to the station for many years now.

1 – Bam, sounds great to me. Thinking I have this. 1970’s vintage by experienced players? Bass seems to be the Stanley Clark-influenced “butterfly” style, though the solo seems to harken back to an earlier walking style, just very sped up. Love the tenor solo. I’m wanting to say Junior Cook? 2 – “Moose the Mooche”. Well done trio. 3 – Very pleasant, but fades into the background for me. 4 – “Take the A Train”. Too ornate to be Duke. Loses interest for me. 5 – Very tastefully done. Fades into the background for me. Joe Pass? 6 – Not nearly as “tasteful” but certainly more interesting IMO. Not sure who it is. 7 – “Someday My Prince Will Come”. Nice enough. I’m wanting to say someone like Ed Bickhart on this, definitely someone influenced by Jim Hall. 8 – Good cut. Like the bass player with the double stops in his solo! Trombonist’s album? Thanks for putting this together, short and sweet! Every cut is nice, and I love #1. Look forward especially to ID’s of it and #6!

I only have two filing genres ("Jazz" and "Everything Else"), but do split my CD's by someone like Lou Rawls across those. How many genres do you have his stuff in?

Mine's due from Amazon tomorrow.

I tend to concentrate on a specific time period for someone like Burrell. I tend to have a bias and generally don't go beyond the 70's for an artist unless something changed in what they were doing. I combine the Lion/Liberty/UA albums together, as there was continuity in the artists (for example, Horace Silver). The label changed, but it was still the uninterrupted history of the label. I consider the Manhattan era which "relaunched" in the 80's to be an entirely different label (just using the same name), and don't include them in the segregation of the label in my collection. So a 1960's Freddie Hubbard BN gets filed in BN for me, a 1980's Hubbard BN goes into my general Hubbard shelf along with his Atlantic's, CTI's, etc.

You would need a cross-index available. Your unbiased opinion

I file Blue Note, Strata-East, Nimbus West, and Black Jazz by label, secondary sort by artist, tertiary sort by recording or release date. Everything else is by artist, secondary sort by recording or release date. I also have oversized mini-lps (excluding Blue Note and the other named labels) in a separate section for shelving efficiency reasons.

If one of the members produced or arranged the session, or wrote a preponderance of the material I file it under them (Timeless All-Stars goes under Cedar Walton, many of the 50's Prestige sessions go under Teddy Charles or Mal Waldron).

The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady is my favorite Mingus album ever! Different strokes for different folks.

The Mad Bomber. I remember having football cards of him as a kid. Great name. Went 36-4-1 with the 1967-1969 (61-14-6 1967-1972) Oakland Raiders, threw 89 TD's (a TON for that era) those three years. Had great success with Fred Biletnikoff and the awesomely talented but extremely troubled Warren Wells, as well has Hewritt Dixon, Billy Cannon, Raymond Chester and others. Suddenly became ineffective in 1973 and lost his job to his backup, lefthanded Kenny "Snake" Stabler, who also did OK for himself. Trade where Raiders got Lamonica looked crazy at the time, as they gave up Tom Flores and all-pro receiver Art Powell for the unproven Lamonica, who backed up Jack Kemp with the Bills, but they obviously knew what they were doing! Powell was never again effective, catching only 21 passes the rest of his career and Flores only completed 30 passes the rest of his career.

Sidemen? - Lyons/Grimes/Cyrille with Taylor? Dotson/Jordan/Watkins/Howard Johnson/Richmond with Mingus?

I look forward to that!

Serious question: Who would be getting paid at this point? The descendants of Saul Zaentz? Did someone like Brew Moore get royalties on a record like that? Quick research says that if he did, it was 1-4% then, though contemporary standards are 10% on reissues. And of course, the musicians are long gone, so it would be their estates getting the (seemingly small) royalties? This has probably all been discused before, but I'm not privy to it.

Do we know who owns the rights? One of those esoteric companies should issue it!

Yep. Concord should let him run their reissues. He knows what he's doing:

For those not opposed to the Fresh Sound label, thi is an outstanding set. Contains McBrowne/Four Souls debut, na "Eastern Lights", and the Gloria Smythe album, so 3LPs on 2 CD's.:

Very late in the game for OJC's (2002), but it did finally make it. https://www.discogs.com/release/7767755-James-Clay-David-Fathead-Newman-The-Sound-Of-The-Wide-Open-Spaces

Also not a favorite of mine. Fills a slot on my shelves.

Actually ordered mine from importcds via ebay, which is sometimes cheaper than ordering direct from them if you spend $65 more.

They probably never had the masters to use for the CD due to the Atlantic vault fire. Maybe the new release will sound somewhat better, but no way I'm ponying up $25 to find out. Gotta love the hype in the Amazon description: " celebrating the most sensational jazz collaboration of the 1950's". Maybe they never heard 'Jazz at Massey Hall', or 'Tenor Madness' or 'Monk's Music' or the 1956 'Jazz Messengers' album on Columbia, or...

I'm a Soft Machine fan. Have this and have listened to the music, haven't watched the DVD yet. Interesting and nice to have, but far from essential IMO.

Thanks, I just sprang for the Nucleus and Barbara Thompson BBC sets, after many months of deliberation.