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  2. Stan Lee R.I.P.

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    59 minutes ago, gmonahan said:

    I was also a "Silver Age" reader and collector, deep into Marvel from the mid to late 60s. Still have 'em. I have to disagree a bit with Stefan Wood. While Kirby was absolutely brilliant, he felt (rightly) abused and under-recognized at Marvel, and tended to understate Stan's role. It was a partnership, and Stan deserves a lot of credit. RIP.

     

     

    gregmo

    Kirby's opinion was shared by others.  Remember, Lee's plot contributions were generalized concepts that the artists brought to full fruition and detail .  In many cases they introduced characters that either fell flat on their faces or became classic characters on their own.  Kirby's beef was that he was not getting credit (and money) for these ideas that he brought in.  Timely was not doing well in the late 50s until Kirby and Ditko came in and started doing creature feature type stories.  Stan was always a businessman, not a creative genius.

  5. Stan Lee R.I.P.

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    RIP Stan.  He was not an innovator; he was a good promoter and showman.  The real work was done by several artists who worked for him, especially Kirby and Ditko.  I will give him credit for taking the long form comic strip narrative and applying it to comic books, spreading a storyline out over many issues and even different titles.  It got people to buy books that they wouldn't have, except for the fact it had x character appearing in it.  Guys like Roy Thomas, Gerry Conway, Jim Shooter and others probably did more to build Marvel into prominence than anything that Stan ever did.  But he was a good front for the company, and popular.

  11. The Lost Tapes: Charles Mingus Live In Detroit

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    2 hours ago, Mark Stryker said:

     

    Yes, Strata was the progenitor of Strata-East. No, it's not the same people, though Stanley Cowell was an original member of Strata's board of directors and technically in charge of Strata's publishing arm, (This part of the Strata initiative never  got off the ground.) Cox and Moore started Strata in Detroit in 1969. Strata-East founders Charles Tolliver and Stanley Cowell had played at the Strata Concert Gallery and Cowell had known Cox and Moore going back to 1964, when Cowell was a grad student at the Univ. of Michigan and part of the Detroit scene. Tolliver and Cowell took inspiration from what the guys were doing in Detroit and for a time they were discussing the idea of functioning as an east coast subsidiary -- hence the name Strata-East. (There were brewing plans for a Strata-West too.) In the end, Tolliver and Cowell were wary of Strata's complex corporate model -- the Detroit guys literally sold stock to raise capital and set-up a grandly ambitious corporate structure that included recording, performance, publishing and management divisions. So Strata-East came into being as a separate entity with a different business model in which artists financed their own recordings and "the company" packaged and distributed the product. But Strata-East kept the the Strata name as an homage to their roots and similar self-determination philosophy.

     

    I learned something new.  Outstanding!  I look forward to reading your book, Mark!

  15. Joshua Redman - Still Dreaming

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    4 hours ago, Д.Д. said:

    Flurin, knowing a bit about your tastes, I don't think you will like it. It's too similar to Old and New Dreams - to a point of intentional copy (drums sound is very Blackwell, and Redman plays a lot of his father's licks), but the writing is definitely not on the same level. Well played, of course, but very safe. Sounds quite contrived and forced to me.   

    Damn i strongly disagree with this sentiment.

  17. Joshua Redman - Still Dreaming

    in New Releases

    Posted · Edited by Stefan Wood

    1 hour ago, mjazzg said:

    That gives me some hope.  I had avoided it until now as Old and New Dreams are a favourite and couldn't see how Redman Jr. was going to pull this off. He's most definitely not his father

    You will be shocked at how well he invokes his father's playing.  And the spirit of Ornette Coleman as well.

  23. Coltrane: Both Directions At Once (lost album)

    in New Releases

    Posted · Edited by Stefan Wood

    1 hour ago, Simon Weil said:

    150+ posts. That's a lot for just "good listening". There's a "buzz" to this thread - and I'm sure elsewhere. To be sure it's been created - but we are part of its creation. Hence: "Wound up".

    How long have you been here?  Back in the blue note bulletin board days we would froth at the mouth over the latest Connoisseur, OJC, etc. reissues.  Pages would be wasted discussing them.  The well has run dry, except for live dates, and anything that isn't the 100th reiteration of an album does gets people's attention.  There hasn't been much to talk about that hasn't been discussed before.  This is something different.

  24. Coltrane: Both Directions At Once (lost album)

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    On 7/2/2018 at 6:26 AM, Simon Weil said:

    Going back in time 50 years to get this wound up about a Great artist whose best work this ain't just reflects our low opinion of ourselves now.

    Who's getting wound up?  It's a marketing push, for sure, of an artist long dead, pilfering through what scraps of unissued material remains.  That it still makes for good listening, even for a rehearsal session, says a lot about the high standards of performing everyone involved did.  It's just different now.  Jazz is different now. 

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