Dmitry

How dies one reserve the records? Go through the local record store?

This thread induced me to order the Getz bio from our library. I’m sure many of you have read it.

Wife and I just joined a book club. It's a noble exercise - a monthly meeting at the member's home, potluck, drinks, followed by the discussion. This is what was chosen by the next month's host - Kristin Hannah - The Four Winds While in possession of the library-borrowed tome of significant Amazon repute, I observed and documented an Interesting parasympathetic phenomenon. After reading the first 25 pages, this is exactly how my lower intestinal tract heralded the cessation - by emitting four giant, Texas-sized winds. Obviously I had to comply. My wife is promising to soldier through the remainder of this masterpiece of socrealism.. I'll tag along for company [read - alcohol], and hopefully will keep my mouth shut. But the winds...they may still make their way.

I just reserved it from our State's public library system. Looking forward to reading..

Nice voice!

We knew he was a monster, but the article also implies that she is a half-wit.

I saw her perform in New York in 1998, and underwhelming is how I would describe it. I was under the impression that she left her guitarist husband for Getz, but it makes little difference to me. For someone to be fluent in multiple languages, and not knowing the meaning of the word "contract"...

May 2022

1961 original ca.1980 ALL PLATINUM job and, an unexpectedly cool Compania Fonigrafica Espnola Spain reissue from 1983. I like this one! They play on the subway line numbering system in NYC, and perhaps unwittingly, Take the A-train.

The cover that really says it all...holy crap. Otoh, maybe there IS another dimension to it. Was Kellaway from Houston? BTW, if you look at the Applause "discography", most Blue Notes they reissued were from the post-Alfred Lion period. Not all, but most.

A couple of days ago picked this up at the record fair. I don't have the Turrentine Mosaic, so I wasn't aware of this date, and wanted to skip it at first, but then I looked at the line-up, looked at the titles, and I had to have it. What a wonderful set of music! I wonder why it was never released as a CD by Blue Note...this is some great hard bop. In 1969 to hear a set like this on record...how "not in the party line" was that? Duke Pearson did very well! This set could've been Alfred Lion-produced in 1962. I wonder if there were any other compositions recorded for this session...

Interesting story with the Applause. I just went on Discogs, and picked up the address for the label - 258 South Beverly Dr. Beverly Hills, CA 90212 I proceeded to do the rudimentary internet search, combining the label name and the address. This is what appeared - https://www.cabusinessdb.com/company/1069802/ I clicked on the agent's name, ARTHUR MOGULL, and it appears that good Arthur incorporated four companies, all with music-related names, three on the same date in 1982, and one, Applause, almost a year earlier, to the day, in 1981. Multiple obituaries from 2004 list him as a major player in the music industry. He was a president of the United Artists for some years in the 1970s, and even co-owned the United Artists for a year, before selling it to the EMI. Somehow in his contract with the EMI, his lawyers must've squeezed in some kind of limited licensing deal for reissuing some Blue Note titles, among others, but without any mention of the label, or anything else, and with these shitty covers. Some of these covers looks like they were samizdat-printed by a couple of Soviet beatniks in a cellar, somewhere far behind the Iron Curtain, while others were probably done by Artie's grandkids for arcade money. I might be very wrong, and his family will sue, because he was a prince among men, but it's just possible that he was some kind of lawyered-up motherfucker. I can't imagine an honest person supervising an operation like Applause. https://www.nysun.com/obituaries/artie-mogull-77-a-r-man-signed-legendary-acts/5751/ I don't remember ever seeing the APPLAUSE cds, but they surely released them. https://www.discogs.com/label/335904-Applause-Records-Inc

Yeas, that what I meant! Applause, not Pausa.

Ken, you must be thinking of Pausa.

Saw this one too. Engineered stereo...run!

It has been two years since I've hit a record fair, so last Saturday I went to a smaller local gathering in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Flicking though the record covers, I was reminiscing on the crappy Argo/Cadet reissues we touched upon here - , when I saw this beauty. The crimson-red letters J and S in Jazztet , and in John Lewis's name did not come out. A DIVISION OF ALL PLATINUM RECORD GROUP, dating this ca.1976-1980, or thereabout. All Platinum bought Chess from the GENERAL RECORDED TAPE, who bought it from the Chess brothers in 1969. So there goes THE AZZTET AND OHNLEWI. OHN LEWI sound very Old Testament, THE AZZTET...burlesque. Here's the original cover, btw.

Later Argo/Cadet pressings often had B/W replicas of the original covers, undoubtedly to save on costs. I've seen a few of those, this and another Moody, Golson, etc. You also have to pay attention to the "re-channeled for stereo" death stamp. Because, unlike some other labels promising the stereo nirvana, and not delivering, the Chess brothers really rechanneled.

The covers usually only feature his name. Unless he used a third party designer, it must've been him who did most of the work. In my opinion the 1960s Prestige LPs are still quite affordable because the quality of vinyl was quite spotty, unlike Blue Note's Plastylite. In other words, some of them sound rather poor, probably due to the cost cutting at whatever pressing plant Bob Weinstock contracted. In the 1970s, after he sold the company, the quality jumped immediately. I'm referring to the green LP labels..

I first encountered Phil Schaap in the late August of 1999, at the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival, held in Tompkins Square Park. He MC'ed, and was brimming with everything Parker. It was impossible to stop him from talking, until he, himself, would choose to stop. This was the year of Blue Note's 60th anniversary, and there was a raffle held, with the main prize being the blue-colored, Mosaic-sized CD boxed set. No, I didn't win. Me and my then girlfriend spent a whole day in the park, listening to Steve Lacy, Roy Haynes, Jackie McLean, Andy Bey, Gary Bartz...and Phil Schaap. I had a camera with me. I still vividly remember that Phil Schaap was wearing Chuck Conroy high tops. To me it seemed odd. I know it's not odd at all, but that's how I saw it, almost 23 years ago I might have the poster from the festival in a box in the closet, along with other jazz-related ephemera.

Had the first one mounted and framed. I decided to have the inside dimensions of the frame at 12.375" square, the dimensions of the average LP jacket.

I have seen a couple of various Mosaics in stores over years, but only a couple! Bull Moose Music in Portsmouth had a couple of sets, Johnny Hodges, and one or two others. I bought a Commodore set in local record store. The halcyon purchase was at the Tower Annex on Lafayette in NYC, about 20 years ago: sealed Ellington Reprise Mosaic, for $30. How it ended up there...a mystery.

Well, I still don't know who Albert Luci [or Lucci] was, and which country he called home, but now I know he was a tap dancer, who performed in the USSR in the 1930s, and sired three children with a Russian woman. They soons split up, and she married a Russian man, who, I'm assuming, raised the children. One of his sons became an type-cast minor actor and a mime in the USSR. For a while he performed under his biological father's name. It appears that he died from the "Russian disease" in the early 1990s. What became of the real Albert Luci...? Did he go back wherever he came from? Did he die in the USSR...the jazz eccentric. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2,_%D0%AD%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B4_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87

IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING documentary is being released this Spring. I'd be eager to watch it in a movie theater, as opposed to home.