Dmitry

Listened to the program this morning. Pretty neat! Did I miss it, or you didn't mention the drug problems of the participants in the different incarnations of the play and soundtrack albums, aside from Dexter Gordon?

This is not Hipp's style, imo. I have 3 of her water-colors.

I'm not impressed by this painting, but anyway - is it Bill Dixon's?

I'm sending my BFT's to a friend who's in a cultural vacuum overseas. It sucks that there isn't like a BFT Answer reference thread. I wanted to put all the answers on a floppy. Maybe I should start one. I'm doing it anyway.

Is there a thread with the answers to all the BFTs, in concise form, just the discographical info?

Based on my prior experiences, it's a very good place to stock up on vinyl. No cds, no videos, just vinyl. Start is at 10 a.m. NJ Convention & Expo Center Edison, NJ www.njexpocenter.com 732.417.1400 I'll be driving from Brooklyn, so if anyone wants to tag along, please let me know.

Unfortunately the cd sounds much worse than the lp, imo. I'd get rid of that cd if not for the bonus track. It's a good one. A big shout-out for Albert Dailey's Textures Lps.

When do you think you'll archive this so we can listen to it? I for one am anxious to hear it.

I sure am glad I have the Rivers Mosaic Lp set. No Fuller though. At least I got the The Opener, Bone & Bari and Vol.3 in cds.

That makes sense. I've seen the Blue Mitchell Lp Mosaic maybe twice this year. Same goes for Rivers and Fuller. Too bad. I wish they'd just say 5,000 sets of which 500 are Lps and 4,500 cds.

Let's put it this way - she didn't buy it.

I guess the rule of thumb is sit tight, wait till the very end and if bidding is going crazy from the git go - bail. Proportion-wise I wonder how many cd set vs. lp sets were usually pressed/

Blue Mitchell Mosaic 178 cd set $80-100 [orig. cost $64] Blue Mitchell Mosaic 178 Lp set $227 [orig. cost $108, if I'm not mistaken] Sam Rivers Mosaic 167 Lp set $260 [orig. cost $90?] Sam Rivers Mosaic 167 cd set $75 [orig. cost $54?] Duke Ellington Complete Capitol Mosaic Lp set $227 [orig. cost $144?] Duke Ellington Complete Capitol Mosaic cd set $110 [orig. cost $80?] I can't compete for vinyl at these prices ....

Does anybody know if Kloss is still active? He just disappeared from the scene one day. Last album of his that I have is from the early 80s, I think. He can't be more than 50-55 y.o.

I was steamrolling into puberty when Self Control came out.

Michael, are you talking about the Midnight Session? My Mono Savoy has the same cover as the cd. Mighty uninteresting art, imo. But a decent session. I guess they had to turn it out pretty fast. When did Savoy buy the rights from Elektra?

The Elektra cover is more interesting than the Savoy, that's for sure. Thanks for posting it. You don't find it odd that they do only the tunes by Gigi Gryce, Ray Draper and Mal Waldron, none of whom were [ever?] members of the Jazz Messengers? At least Draper had a McLean connection..

Looks Like AMG told us both that it was on Elektra. I've never seen the Elektra Lps from before the late 70s, had no idea the label was that old[unless Elektra and Elektra were two different outfits]. My Goldmine Guide tells me that the Savoy reissue came out in 1960, 3 years after the original. I wonder what the Elektra cover looked like, cause the Savoy sure is ugly.

Recording dates are March 8,9 1957, but Tom Wilson's liner notes refer to the history of JM line-ups and mention Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard and Wayne Shorter, among others, so this Lp must've come out in 1963 or so?

Art Blakey - Midnight Session; a thick chunk of Savoy vinyl.

I was cyber-scammed once on eBay, and in a three card monte on Broadway when I was maybe 19. These I know of. Odds are I've been scammed dozens of times, like many of us.

if Joe wasn't a complete schmoo he knew that Liberty was a much bigger fish than BN. They had Julie London, Del Shannon, Eddie Cochran, Bobby Vee, The Alladin label, among much other stuff. In 1963 Si Woronker and Al Bennett sold the company to Avnet, an electronics corp for $12 million. Woronker retired, but Bennett stayed with Liberty. In 1965 Bennett bought Liberty back from Avnet for $8 million. In 1968 Transamerica Corp acquired Liberty for $38 million [wow, you go Bennett!]. In 1978 Liberty and United Artists masters were sold to a couple of private investors who somehow borrowed money from EMI, but defaulted the very next year and that's how Blue Note became a bastard child of EMI. ..recalling what I read about the history of Liberty on a discographical page.

I've come across these and have a couple of "mutants". My guess is that these are probably from the early Liberty era days. Your Lp should have a "rudy van gelder" stamped in the run-out groove.

So what's the bottom line here? Which sets are digitally mastered?

I saw Bid and Marlon Brando in a bus depot in New London, Conecticut 4 days ago doing Pink Floyd covers. Bird was playing guitar, Brando was on kazoo.