Dmitry

I don't like that they slapped price stickers right on the cover photos. They may be difficult, perhaps impossible, to remove without leaving a mark on high-gloss surfaces. That'll really drop the price of a set. Had I been selling these, I would've put the boxes in clear plastic bags and price stickers on the bags.

Interesting you mention that composition. It's the one track I didn't care for on the OJC This is Lucy Reed CD. Her singing is very distinct. Does anyone have her last record, Basic Reeding, recorded in 1989-1990, and released in 1992, a few years before she died? https://www.discogs.com/release/15201375-Lucy-Reed-Basic-Reeding

Did they send original stampers to the UK to be pressed into records?

What do the center labels look like? Infrequently I encounter British versions of the American releases, but I pass on them.

Hilarious, isn't it?!

I bought this photo. Received it today.

7. Something from a European Conservatory? This is not your Klezmer wedding tune. 8. I didn't enjoy the guitarist's comping, but then he soloed, and it came together nicely. I should know these musicians. Metheny in disguise? An American group? 9. ? I should know the tenor. 10. ? Again, I should know the pianist. African-American?

It's very difficult to be original when the music has been institutionalized, and the musicians are trained from the early age, go through music schools, get tested and graded. But she's doing OK. I'm surprised she is not more famous than she is.

Well, that's weird. I just stumbled upon a CD ONLY record store very close to my place of work. No records, no cassette tapes, just CDs, [and blu-rays/dvds]. The proprietor is stockpiling CDs, thousands of them, aggressively buying them by the thousands, according to the clerk I spoke with. Most of the disks are priced at $2, so I had to pace myself. Still managed to buy 7 or 8 titles.

She's performing in Boston this Saturday. I have heard OF her, but not her, so I played a few of her songs on youtube, and was surprised to find a singer in the Jeanne Lee vernacular. In other words, she has studied Lee's phrasing, tone, the whole thing. Her piano players do the Ran Blake thing. For people who'd never heard Jeanne Lee, she will definitely sound like an amazing original. I wonder if she's been asked about emulating Jeanne Lee, and what her responses were to that. I think she has talent, but the Jeanne Lee thing is almost too much for me.

1. Someone influenced by Ken Peplowski? 2. A musical joke. European? 3. Nice, if a bit too academic for me, no surprises. 4. South American group? Brazil? 5. One of the big contemporary tenors. Just guessing - Lovano? 6. I think Ornette Coleman influenced the rhythm section bigly. I like this cut the best so far. Will get to the rest later.

I know what cedar is. That's why I think it's a stupid cover, and a lazy design. Do you think a sheet of plywood is sufficient to reflect on what's inside this record sleeve? I'd imagine working with something like these -

While listening, I remarked to myself that it sounded similar to RVG. Maybe it was the material itself that led me to believe that, because it's very BN-like, with similar dynamics and drive, as if it were produced by Alfred Lyon. The album is on the shorter side, even by the Prestige standards, clocking at under 35 minutes. I wouldn't be surprised if more tracks were recorded, but not released. You sir, are correct! What a stupid cover, in my opinion.

Cedar Walton - SPECTRUM, Prestige PRST-7591, 1968. A very enjoyable Blue Note-influenced hard bop. I believe this is his first album under his name. I wonder why Walton never received Blue Note bona fides for the leader session. It's just that it may have been too late for him, because Lyon and Wolff were selling the company. I like the cover; the hand of Reid Miles was leading Don Schlitten's.

Kevin, the rooms are phenomenal. I really wasn't expecting that. It's a centuries-year old structure that they transformed into a 4-star establishment. I think there might be just 6 or 8 rooms all-together. The band members stayed in the inn, so we get to hang out with them for breakfast the next morning. Museums there...the first one that comes to mind is the Florence Griswold Museum, one of the best collections of American impressionist and post-impressionist artists in the world. If you are driving back through Providence, the RISD Museum is a hidden gem.

The Side Door is one of my favorites also. The whole concept of the jazz inn appeals to me. We did this in November 2018 with my wife, and another couple, for my friend's birthday: had dinner at their excellent restaurant, went to the show [Javon Jackson quartet], and stayed overnight. We might do this for the Tabackin show.

Too bad the images didn't survive. I was happy when I sold these tapes to someone who probably is listening to them still. Some of them I played on my tape deck. The dynamics on these prerecorded tapes was, shall we say, poor. As most of us who came up in the 1970s-1980s,. I had cassette tapes, which were very scarce in the USSR [as most tangible things were]. You just couldn't buy them in stores. A blank 90min. TDK or similar cassette tape went for an equivalent of $7-$10 on the black market. Anyway, to me, the logical progression of the cassette tape was the mini-disk. I still have the disks, portable Sharp MD recorder, and the Sony MD deck for editing. Haven't touched them in almost 20 years. I taped a few shows in NYC in the very early 2000s, at places like the Knitting Factory, the Jazz Gallery, Tonic. I should listen to them this weekend, see what I've got.

All the jazz stations you can name in the past 25 years that have gone down the drain, have not gone down because they were not making money. They were all making money, but somebody came along with the idea," We can make MORE money, if we follow the current thing, the pop thing of the day."

Again, great sleuthing! Dick Buckley could very well be the recipient. His obituary states A funeral will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. Tuesday at Drechsler, Brown & Williams Funeral Home, 203 S. Marion St., Oak Park. As mentioned previously, the eBay seller is also located in Oak Park. In my last correspondence with him, the seller wrote that he bought the photo album from the family [ostnsibly in an estate sale], but doesn't know the name. Photographs are attached to album pages, and were at one time bound together, before the current seller took it apart to sell all the photos individually. Dick Buckley's record collection was auctioned off by the family shortly after his death in 2010. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703373404576148241934663356 Here's the 2011 Leslie Hindman Auction catalog. https://issuu.com/lesliehindman/docs/sale156_dickbuckleyjazz/5 I don't see a mention of the photo album, but there were several boxed lots containing books. Maybe it was in one of those boxes. 8,000 LPs, 200 CDs...the man liked his records.

Wasn't the tone Poet series supposed to be "un-limited"? Look at these prices. Are these titles out of print? https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=tone+poet&_sacat=0&LH_Sold=1&LH_Complete=1&_sop=16

I've been using CATraxx for about 20 years. It's an amazing program by a Norwegian programmer Fredrik Nordbakke. He is no longer active, but it may still be available. https://www.fnprg.com/ I tried toying with the Collectorz, but wasn't impressed. The only upside to it, is that it's available as a phone app.

Well, this makes me feel OK, I guess. I don't even know some of the names in this BFT, let alone their music.

Dick Gibson's jazz parties were discussed here some years back. I'll watch the film this week. Good work! How did you come to this?

Ella Fitzgerald and Roy Eldridge at the Hamburg airport, February 15, 1954. (AP Photo / Brueggeman)