Dmitry

After a move to Maine in 1996, there was a period of what Lowe describes as an “involuntary musical retirement.” He did pick up the guitar again (important to America: The Rough Cut) along with writing a series of books on music history, including American Pop from Minstrel to Mojo... I hope it's a Stratocaster.

What would be a clever bit of the dry English humor is if the center label of this LP were indeed deep dark blue color.

Sequential thinking isn't your strongest characteristic, but I'll try one more time. We are talking about a label that reissued performances from many decades past. I like Anita O'Day, and sold the Four Freshmen set. If Anita O'Day were backed by a band of binary fission-replicating Martians, and they swung, I'd buy that set in a heartbeat.

The Jazz Times they are a-changin'.

So you did the DDBC LP transfer for the 2cd set...that's wonderful! You must've had a very clean Stereo pressing. How did you transfer it, care to share with us?

I'm sure the writer meant Yiddish, not Hebrew. Yiddish was vernacular, Hebrew was reserved for the Scriptures and Shabbat prayers. I had just re-read SEIZE THE DAY, which I first took in college, thirty-odd years ago. Tommy Wilhelm is a loser, and not a loveable, funny loser, but a dishevelled, self-pitying, angry kind. The catharsis of the ending, what do you think Bellow had there? Does Tommy find God, or does he realize that the solution is to kill himself?

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.