Dmitry

Surely, DIck could've been solely a fan. I don't see any inscriptions that are too personal, like "Dick, thank you for the great plumbing job", "Dick, best wishes with your hernia operation", or "Dick, let's get together and blow". Was it a custom for musicians to carry their photographs to gigs? Red ink on the majority of the photos could mean that Dick carried a red marker or a red pen to get autographs. The seller says he doesn't know Dick's identity. In other words, he doesn't know Dick.

A sizeable collection of promotional photographs of jazz musicians and vocalists is being sold on eBay. All are signed to someone named DICK, but without the last name on all of the ones I cared to check. I am surmising that Dick didn't want his last name to be written on photos. Many are signed in red ink. The oldest photos date to the late 1940s, for instance Mel Torme on Musicraft. Some are from the 1960s, but the majority are from the 1970s, a few the late 1980s, and one or two from the 1990s. One of the latest is Lou Donaldson, dated 10-27-1997. These are the ones that sold. I bought one, with what I think is a rather tongue in cheek dedication. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=&_in_kw=1&_ex_kw=&_sacat=0&LH_Complete=1&_udlo=&_udhi=&_samilow=&_samihi=&_sadis=15&_stpos=02806-4833&_sargn=-1%26saslc%3D1&_salic=1&_fss=1&_fsradio=%26LH_SpecificSeller%3D1&_saslop=1&_sasl=ridellgrove13&_sop=12&_dmd=1&_ipg=200&_fosrp=1 Here are the current offerings. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw&_sacat=0&_udlo&_udhi&_samilow&_samihi&_sadis=15&_stpos=02806-4833&_fss=1&_fsradio=%26LH_SpecificSeller%3D1&_saslop=1&_sasl=ridellgrove13&_sop=12&_dmd=1&_ipg=200&_fosrp=1&rt=nc&_trksid=p2045573.m1684 Who was Dick? An agent, an entertainment lawyer? I contacted the seller via eBay, but he does not appear to want to disclose the identity of the old Dick.

This looks very interesting. I've never seen this title.

Gabriel Faure Songs Ninon Vallin, soprano Maurice Faure, piano Pathe-Marconi VOX, PTL 1730, 10", 1951

You don't have her record with Clifford Brown?!

If Sonny Rollins ever publishes an autobiography, I wonder how many pages the last 50 years of his life's work will occupy.

New England colleagues , do you want to meet at the Side Door on Friday or Saturday in late May? May 2022 May 6 Lew Tabackin Trio New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival New Orleans, LA May 27 - 28 Lew Tabackin Trio The Side Door 85 Lyme Street Old Lyme, CT June 2022 June 17 Lew Tabackin Trio Rochester International Jazz Festival Rochester, NY July 2022 July 31 Lew Tabackin Trio Newport Jazz Festival Newport, RI

I'd say I'm more sporadic, than regular. I perused the website when google-browsing a couple of weeks ago, when you mentioned him in your BFT. Page comes up on Google, along with Percy, a town in France. Is there a connection between his name and the town? I had a tough time reading the text on my phone; his white sports jacket is in the way. Just some feedback, no criticism. Keep doing the great work!

Dan, https://www.percyfrance.info/ is your website?

Kevin, what your was the NYC meeting? My memory is that it was in the Summer of 1999, BN's 60th anniversary. Who else from the BNBB was there? I think it was you, Rob aka jazzshrink, bertrand, and we also met Hardbop(?). The concert with Jackie Mclean, who else was in that band? I remember Billy Higgins . Was that at Columbia U.? My memory is unfortunately not as strong as it used to be. I believe Phil Schaap MC'ed that night.

I was pretty upset that his concerts at the Side Door scheduled for January 14 and 15, was postponed, with no apparent replacement date as of yet. I was sent a refund for our tickets. Hoping to see him this year! I like Lew's style. How many of you would look good in a turquoise dress shirt? He did!

The original cover is somewhat generic, too mid-1960s Prestige-like for me. The IC cover is a statement: just TABACKIN, and that's how we want you to have it. No inhibiting titles, sidemen, location, etc.; nothing distractive in the background, just the sharp, high /f-stop photo of the man and his axe. I like the turquoise-green dress shirt, which is matched by the same-colored title, and the record label logo. It gels. Also, note the clever fonts they used for the title lettering; and another subtle touch, the back cover vignette incorporates the IC logo into itself.

This is a fantastic album, and a case where the reissue cover is better than the original. Rather scarce Japanese original press, 1975. US pressing on the Inner City, 1977. Much better! I don't think this was ever put on CD, was it? Shame it isn't. That's prime Lew.

It would've been ironic had it been the Demasiado Caliente album.

Pat Martino - BAIYINA Is that so? I will look for it. I became an instant fan. What a tone on the instrument! Fluid sound!

I see...so you wouldn't cook the squirrel on your own. Neither would you catch one, and instead rely on the hand-outs from relatives and others.

You can buy a used refrigerator, and a used tv. You can't buy a used loaf of bread.

The shortages are back! Some shelves i our local supermarket are empty again. On our town's community's FB group, the one-percenter "major contributors" are screaming bloody murder.

I am certain that my first set was Lee Morgan, ca.1999-2000. I followed the herd on the Blue Note Board. Remember the stampede when a set was advertised as the Last Chance? People were moaning and groaning about paychecks, wives, rent and car payments, but the purchase HAD to be made. I ended up with several sets of music that I really didn't dig at the time, but bought because it was Last Chance'd. They stood on my shelf for years, until I sold them, and made my money back.

Miles Davis - Ascenseur Pour l'Échafaud aka Lift to the Gallows James Newton Howard, et al - Glengarry Glen Ross (one of personal favorites) MJQ - The Modern Jazz Quartet Plays One Never Knows (Original Film Score For “No Sun In Venice”) Jimmy Smith ‎– La Métamorphose Des Cloportes

Well said, and can’t be argued with from the veracity standpoint. They are real. This isn’t the first time this LT Series cover topic has been raised. I remember it being talked about on the Blue Note Bord twenty years back. I have to admit that I didn’t like them at first, but I changed my mind long enough ago, and now, whenever I see these Rainbow cover BNs , I try to buy them, if they are priced in the realm of reason. I dig the esthetic, I like the photographs, and the reasoning of the designer who selected them. The soon after King covers were not done with overt Reid Miles overtones; it’s like whoever the Japanese designers were , they didn’t bother trying too hard, and just enough to make them look Blue Note-ish. They were careful not to come out like frauds, I guess. Why the Japanese didn’t hire Miles to design the covers?! He was still an active professional in the 1980s. UA could’ve hired him to design the covers for the LT series to start with… I find the later BN cd covers by Patrick Roques to be ghastly attempts at emulating Reid Miles’s work. They are quite poor, , not all, but most of them. Just my opinion, of course. I’m wondering how much of an input did Lyon and Wolff have on the cover designs, Aside from Wolff providing session photographs, if those were to be used on the covers. Who came up with the album titles, by the way? Where are the original mock-ups, the “alternate takes”, studies? Trashed? If they do survive, it would be an amazing traveling exhibit, set to the music of the records they belonged to, perhaps coupled with live performances. Even if Miles said that he didn’t listen to the records when designing covers for them, they are inseparable. Like these LT covers are inseparable from their music to me.

Chris hasn’t checked in in about a year. Sent him a PM, haven’t heard back yet

I'm assuming these tracks are on the Chico Hamilton Mosaic?

Looking forward playing this program on my commute to work tomorrow. Just played the Chico Hamilton Special LP for the first time, and I'm hooked. Three plays in a row...I loved every second of the music on this record!