Dmitry

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!

Guys, I just bought this Lp yesterday. It's Webster Young – Plays The Miles Davis Songbook (Volume Two). Dated 1981, on VGM label, which looks like a semi-bootleg operation Record is still sealed, and it was $5, so I took it. Will play today. There was also a Volume One there, but I left it.

I don't know what BTS stands for, but I have a lot of cds, and never bought into the download culture. I don't own any downloaded music, but I do listen to Pandora. Some of their algorithms are spot on, some aren't. When I hear something interesting there, I may spring for a cd or lp. The excitement of going to the Tower Records, browsing the thousands of titles will never be replaced with sitting at a computer screen one on one with Napster or the like. Maybe the resurgence of physical formats, like the LP and the CD, will usher in the resurgence of the record store. Not the used kind, but where unopened, sealed disks are sold, and new releases slated for this and that day are to be found on that damn day. I still remember the early morning line outside Tower Records when the new U2 album was to come out. ...Keeping my fingers crossed.

John, are you speaking from the Christian’s perspective, or are referring to his music’s esthetic?

Lol. Christian Slater will be devastated when Jack Nicholson goes.

I've tried it every which way, and concluded that some type of wet vacuum is essential. Otherwise whatever dirt is in the grooves, will stay there; some will lift off and wash off when rinsed, and some will remain where it was due to liquid tension and other causes. Also, the bristles on any brush in the world are much wider than the grooves of a 33 or 45 rpm records. We may use the brush to force the liquid into the grooves, but without the vacuum, the cleaning will not be nearly as effective as it would've been, had you used the vacuum.

I got all of ya’ll beat. Ray Anthony turned 100 today! Happy anniversary!!! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Anthony

I belong to a FB group focused on materials from old Russian-language newspapers. This just came up, presumably from 1937. Movie theater "HAMMER" From May 1 Performances of a jazz artist ECCENTRIC ALBERT LUCCI (AFRICA) with participation of jazz under direction of V.Koloskov I don't know who Koloskov and his "jazz" were, but who is Albert Lucci, or Luzzi?

Loricraft is one of the best, is quiet, reliable, very effective. There are others, much less expensive, probably quite decent, but I swear by my Loricraft.. If you can't swing it at the moment. look into the record vacuum attachments for a wet/dry utility vacuum cleaner. This Vinyl Vac 33 seems like a decent budget solution. If you find an old turntable, you can dedicate it to just using for cleaning records with that. https://www.amazon.com/Vinyl-Vac-33-Cleaning-Attaches/dp/B014X2SXY0

How many albums do you have? If you buy used records, I'd absolutely spring for a record cleaning machine. The difference pre and post-cleaning will be drastic. Loricraft is made in England, and is an excellent choice. I've had mine for 20 years now...reliable with a capital R.

Thank you! Never heard of them.

Who owns Concord/Craft?

Isn't it serene?!

You could say it was a double Bill that night.

Here's the application for four free Covid tests, from the USPS. https://special.usps.com/testkits

John Shelton was a good guy!

Mosaic still has a limited few silver gelatin prints left. If you are interested, contact them direct.

Michael, accept my condolences!