Dmitry

Just got one on eBay! It's the early 2000s Disconforme CD. I hope it's sourced from the master tape and not a lp dub.

Sorry, not trying to be a gotcha dick; I thought you were asking about instrumental music in general. Focusing on jazz, I would definitely add Leo Records. Their female instrumentalist releases are numerous. In fact, the label's first release was a record by Amina Claudine Myers. One of their other early releases was by Marilyn Crispell.

There are hundreds of labels releasing women instrumentalists recordings, and have been for many decades, ever since the invention of phonograph recordings as a commercial medium. They focus on classical music.

Is this a real, taken on the scene photo or a collage? I think all the cuts are from the golden era BN RVG studio sessions. The white car is a Detroit product, I'd say ca.1975 , the "No Parking Any Time" sign looks like the type used in NYC. Can't make out if the license plate says the Empire State.

Some gigs I remember better than others, but one in the East Village in the winter or fall ca.2002 stands out. The venue was a condemned building on, I think, East 2nd Street and Second Avenue. I think the band was maybe Belogenis, either Wollesen or Hamid Drake, and a saxophonist who appeared to be too damn successful and aloof to be an avant-garde musician; he looked like a Wall Street trader or a big firm lawyer. The lighting was jury-rigged and naturally sporadic, the eight or ten of us in the audience were sitting on what the contemporary art curators call found objects, and a sofa that an otherwise non-discriminate human would not choose to be on or near. It was raining outside and inside. Shortly after the commencement some NYPD cops showed up and told everyone to get the hell out of there. I suspect they were called by the neighbors about the noise homeless people were making again. Everyone complied. It was an interesting old building, like a gymnasium, with a rotunda roof.

I had messaged Chris and got no reply. We used to converse via PM system here. I even did a quick internet search of obituaries; luckily, without success. If someone is still in touch with him, please post an update.

Herbie Hancock Remembers Clare Fischer https://jazztimes.com/features/tributes-and-obituaries/herbie-hancock-remembers-clare-fischer/

The OP Deram LPs safely bring over $300 on eBay. Re:stereo vs mono of it. The 2000s LP reissue was mono. I don't know if the reissue label had access to the master tapes, or just ripped it. The hype sticker on the reissue jacket proudly states that it was digitally remastered.

This is still unavailable as new. There is one used 3fer 2CD set (Deep Dark Blue Centre / Portraits / The Alternate Mosaics) on Discogs, from a USA-based seller, for $160.

How can one be something of a racist? He's either a racist or not... Miles was a racist, Mosaic covered Miles. I like their focus on the genius.

Freddie Hubbard - THE BLACK ANGEL An interesting album, especially if taken in the context of Miles's work in 1969-70. Unlike Miles, Hubbard does not abandon the hard bop all-together, but introduces it into the changing musical landscape. Insightful, perspicacious and succinct liner notes from Ed Williams of WLIB radio. In fact, some of the best liner notes I've ever read. Who was this man?

This is beginning to sound like some kind of woke trial of Mosaic. I can't think of another reissue label giving the works of female jazz artists the exhaustive treatment they've received from Mosaic. I confess to being a sexist, because I prefer female vocalists to their male counterparts. I will pick Anita O'Day over the Four Freshmen any time. Furthermore, I have beef with Mosaic for not being attracted to the Clare Fischer set I proposed. Yep, that's it. We are closet deSantistas. Face of the bAss nailed it.

And the prize for the worst pronunciation of a name by a huge swathe of American populace goes to... Iraq. It's not EYEraq. It's EEraq. I mean, if you invade a country, plunge it into decades of civil strife and trigger the deaths of hundreds of thousands of her citizens, then at least learn how to pronounce the name. Close second is EYEran.

What you wrote in cyrillic is ... Dushko Goykovich. 😀

Pronouncing slavic names comes natural to me. I don't think I've ever written one until this morning. Just popped in my head Gojko Mitić, which, anglicized is probably Goyko Mitich, a Yugoslav movie actor who was in a ton of the Eastern Block Westerns as an American Indian chief Winnetou. Watched those many-many times when I was growing up.

In Russian jazz is DZHAZ. Duško Gojković is the better transliteration of his Serbian name, but in America it would not be acceptable.

That's what I thought. Thanks for elaborating. How would we call such a genre succinctly? If I may - chronologically it's second half of the 1960s-very early 1970s, employs big or otherwise known jazz musicians, most often in orchestral settings, and the album must include at least one Beatles, Stones or other major rock tune, along with pop tunes of the day. This Sebesky album, unusually, also has Mozart's 21st piano concerto. Also, wasn't sure why the album is titled The Distant Galaxy..

One word — MONO. For instance, redo the BN sets released by Mosaic in stereo, which were originally recorded in mono and stereo simultaneously. There’s a lot of interest in that today.

Some people really NEED facial plastic surgery. Survivors of car accidents, burn victims, birth defects, tumors, etc. This is, however, grotesque. What's the end goal here? If it's looking good, then it didn't quite succeed...

I'm assuming someone will still masturbate to these images, just as they did thirty five years ago, when she orgasmed in that When Harry Met Sally scene. Just won't be me... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12046713/Meg-Ryan-61-looks-unrecognisable-public-outing-six-months.html I mean, what would drive you to have a procedure that'll leave you looking like Mickey Rourke?

I think we all want them to succeed, hence the intellectual nose-picking from yours truly. To make a premiership parallel, I confess to being a Leicester City fan...

Speaking as a listener, not a student of music, I don't see how it's a masterpiece. It is a well-orchestrated and performed album of covers, what would be called a novelty. Can you explain why you afforded it a masterpiece designation?

I think you and JAW are possibly substituting the effect for the cause. A mere fifteen-twenty years ago they were the Rolls-Royce of the limited edition jazz music boxed sets. Why are they a scaled-down firm NOW, when they were so much bigger THEN? I imagine this could be because - a. the principals are slowing down because of age, and don't want or can't handle the rigours of larger production. b. the business isn't nearly as profitable as it was, which means loss of financial muscle to sponsor upcoming projects. c. other. Would love them to continue for years. There is still a lot to do!

Fad it is, Larry, I agree with you. But as fads go, it has been rather long-lasting, going onto its second decade now. Someone will correct me, but I do remember Mosaic still manufacturing vinyl and corresponding CD sets into the late 1990s-early 2000s, when few labels were pressing boxed sets on vinyl. I forget which set was the last one to be made in both vinyl and cd formats, was it the Parlan set? When they released Miles at the Plugged Nickel on vinyl in 1994, it was a brilliant idea. I'm almost certain they did very well with their subsequent LP sets. It's still not too late for them to get back into the vinyl. I know Bresna talks with the people who run the label; perhaps ask them about that?

Mosaic made a fatal mistake of getting out of vinyl when everyone else were getting into it. And I don't mean the "original get-out", but the "second get-out". I think they would've done very well, had they kept at it. Just look at what some of their oop vinyl sets are going for on eBay. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=mosaic+records&_sacat=176985&LH_TitleDesc=0&LH_PrefLoc=2&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&_sop=16