Dmitry

And to think that I wanted to hire you as my latex salesman...

What's a "Lam" jacket?

In the recent weeks I counted at least 5 or 6 Italian vintage Blue Note dealers selling NM-/VG+ original pressings and 1st re-pressings. Anyone care to offer a theory on their sudden genesis? Blue Note cloning?

Banzai !!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...p;rd=1&rd=1 I was going to bid on this, but it's already at $200 plus. I love this album!

I have the MoFi SACD. No extra tracks, but I'm in orbit nevertheless. Wow, Billy Strayhorn just zoomed by. I think he waved!

Well, I finally finished the Cook book. In short - I wasn't thrilled. I think Cook is an ok writer, and the book itself, somewhat pompously titled, "'Blue Note Records: The Biography'", is rather pedestrian. It certainly isn't a bad book, just a forgettable one. Most of the interesting parts in it were culled from the Mosaic booklets and from Cuscuna's interview by Lon. If I were just starting out as a jazz listener, I am sure I would've had a different opinion of it, but for someone who knows the music and the label it is almost a waste of time. Shame that the most famous jazz label and the people that ran it still aren't getting their due. Can't EMI spare some money and hire someone like Ashley Kahn to do a nice fact-filled and researched volume on the label?!

He perished in the Grimpen Mire, although I have my reasons to doubt that.

Labels with the 61st St. address do not exist (except for BN singles, I think). The confusion may be caused by Neil Umphred in one of the earlier editions of the Goldmine Jazz Record Guide. By mistake he mentioned the existence of the 61st St. label in that guide. Do you know when BN used this address on the covers? I guess it had to be after the West 63rd St. address

Freddie Hubbard - Night of the Hookers

Actually I was thinking of sending a self-addressed stamped envelope for a catologue of currently available titles, but got a little confused with addresses.

This one is a bit of an oddity for me. I have only seen this address, 43 West 61st St. on back of Lp covers, not on the labels themselves. When was this address used by Blue Note? Peter Cook's Blue Note book doesn't cover that [no surprise there].

Jazz is Devil's music. Are you sure this is the path you want to take?

Tonight - Horace Silver - 6 Pieces of Silver; New York, USA mono sounds pretty decent. I forgot what a soulful ballad pianist Silver was. Tina Brooks - Lp #4 of the Mosaic set, which is "The Waiting Game" album first released in Japan in the 1980s. With Johnny Coles, Kenny Drew, Wilbur Ware and Philly Joe Jones. I wish that band just kept on going. They were as good as anybody else playing hard bop at the time!

and all of that!

Legendary Dallas-born Big Texas Tenor, David "Fathead" Newman, took hometown gigs at Ruby's Vegas and Silver Spur dives, when on leave from Ray Charles. "The thing I remember most about Jack Ruby," chuckles Newman, "were the stag parties in his clubs. Whenever the striptease dancers came out, he'd want the musicians to turn our backs, 'cause these were white ladies. He'd say, 'Now, you guys turn your backs so you can't see this.' But the strippers would insist that the drummer watch them so he could catch their bumps and grinds. So, Jack says, 'Well, the drummer can look, but the rest of you guys, you turn your backs on the bandstand.'"... From Jack Ruby: Dallas' Original J.R. by Josh Alan Friedman

Jazz trivia indeed, mon ami! You did pretty good; deducing the other name might give you a problem, since you're foreign to our vernacular. I'll give it another hour before opening my cards.

First you must deduct the names of the people encoded below - it should be self-explanatory. Perhaps I made it too easy. Lone Star State like Pavarotti "-Hello, ....! -Hello, Jerry!" "...-Knife" on BN "..., My Dear" on Riverside .... Morgan .... Pekar .... Loomis, aka The Prankster Once you've done it, I will give you a direct connection between them.

I'd dig these covers on ECM albums, but they just don't do it for me as far as feeling the music that's on the Lps they house. My personal opinion, of course. Not to diss the photos themselvs, of course. Come to think of it, we don't know if they were taken specifically for the purpose of these covers, of were pulled by an art director from portfolios in a photo agency or a gallery someplace. At least I don't know. As art work goes some of these covers would look quite in place in a classy lounge in Chelsea. Apple Martini, anyone?

I see what you're saying, but I got to disagree, big guy. King's art directors were no Reid Miles, but I think they tried to do their best to keep the "feel" - Help me out here... what is that Sonny Clark cover "keeping the feel" of? By all means, let me help - I'll take this erzatz fake Blue Note off your hands.

Be where?

Just checked the Venus Records website [a bitch to navigate if you don't speak Japanese] and found out that cd has 5 extra tracks. This record better sound spectacular!!

I was at the Jazz Record Center today and picked up my first Venus Lp - Eddie Higgins - My Foolish Heart Pricey bigger at $35, but I decided to splurge after reading the accolades here. Can't wait to give it as spin when I get home. Question - do the corresponding Venus cds have tracks that are not on LPs?