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Vinyl record sales surpass CDs for the first time since the 1980s https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/13/tech/vinyl-records-cd-sales-riaa/index.html#:~:text=Vinyl%20records%20accounted%20for%20%24232.1,Recording%20Industry%20Association%20of%20America. As CNN's Jazmin "Pulitzer" Goodwin succinctly explains for those now privy to the medium: Vinyl records, also known as "records pressed on wax," were commonplace before other formats, such as cassette tapes and CDs. I'm hoping that the 78 is due to resurge any day now, judging by the success of it's slower-spinning cousin. If the president-elect continues on with his pitch to play records for kids at night, and his wife cranks up the Victrola, tucking him in on a national tv at 9pm, the public will finally realize that that shellac is where it's at.

CD or LP. Thanks!

The recently deceased Stanley Crouch and the very much living Wynton Marsalis were champions of his. Mr.Crouch served as a president of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation. https://wyntonmarsalis.org/news/entry/wynton-and-stanley-crouch-speaking-about-louis-armstrong You couldn't be more ambiguous. Who were these 'scribes' ?

It's an uneven release. The playing is brilliant throughout. He sure knows how to pick the band members. The tracks that stand out are the two Yellow Nimbus cuts and Zyryab. I would get rid of the title track, the Desafinado, the Stravinsky Pas De Deux, the Prelude to My Spanish Heart, and it would be a solid, virtuoso Latin jazz band album. It's now in my to sell or trade stack.

It looks like Ron had soiled his pants...but playing it cool. Where was Village West located in the city?

I almost read the whole thing...a formidable piece of work! An old man with wrinkled female breasts is punching numbers on a Feliks M arithmometer, entering the product into a book, sometimes gasping at the paper. "There is a pattern here, damn 33 1/3 hipsters, we got you now. You, sire, are no Jazz Detective! A pathetic hack, that's who you are. Would it kill you to add an extra CD? No, it wouldn't, would it? " Seagulls are laughing at the dawn not far away from the shuttered window.

I agree 100%. Yes, Guy, it's a nice document of a European club date, one of a great many he had while living in Europe. From this recording I can speculate that he was a solo piano musician, and not natively a trio man. The Lotus Blossom is a small treasure, like mhatta pointed out. The recording quality is just ok, mono, probably from a single microphone reel tape deck; but that only adds to the ambience of it. Also, I finished reading Amy-Joe Albany's memoir. It's less of a jazz book, and more of high literature. Her father is a character in it, a major one, but he is not the protagonist. After reading the book, the film Low Down seems like a very abbreviated, censored for sexual content sketch. The book must be read; it's much better than the film, which I still think was a very good piece of cinematography. After reading it, I, all of a sudden, remembered similar emotional state of mind upon reading Fleur Jaeggy's I Beati Anni del Castigo. I highly recommend both books. They have a similar, righteous blues flow. I'm gifting the Albany book to my daughter for the holidays.

What was the Blue Note street team? I remember them pushing it at the end of days there.

The Magnificent Goldberg...has anyone heard from him lately? he hasn't visited the forum in 10 months. Also A Lark Ascending aka Bev Stapleton. Both are based in the UK.

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Me too, Ed. I still have some old BN CDs. I even saved a long cardboard box from the 1987 Manhattan Records release of Freddie Hubbard's BLUE SPIRITS, which I bought in a record store on the outskirts of Staten Island, if memory serves my well, long after they'd long discontinued marketing CDs in those longboxes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longbox

Joe Christmas was in the USN. I think shrugs was also. I've lost touch with Joe Christmas. Does anyone have his contact information? Other BNBB members have started here, and since gone elsewhere- names like AfricaBrass , Out2Lunch aka Tod Irzyk [a local Southern New England lad, who was a Blue Note vinyl collector. I wonder why he left here}, P.D. , Kulu Se Mama , Soul Stream , Claude ...

I've often wondered what Morton Gould looked like...but this exceeds any kind of expectations.

I was member no.66 on the BNBB. Some names that come to memory - Mnytime [died in a car accident...or did he?!}, Wingy, shrugs, Joe Christmas, Tod Irzyk.

I wish someone had invited him here. He was a cool, level-headed guy when he ran the BNBB. A group of us members of the BNBB met with him in a bar in NYC ca. summer of 1999. If memory serves me right, it was in the Time Cafe, above the Fez club (both are fifteen years gone now) on Lafayette and Great Jones. He paid for the drinks with his corporate Blue Note card, which was very generous. Kevin, aka Bresna has a better memory than me. He surely can add some more details. http://www.feznyc.com/index.php The BNBB purge was in the very early March of 2003. In my recollection, the precipitating factor was the noticeable negative feedback in some threads on Norah Jones, who was the financial manna from heaven for the label. I loved going to the BNBB, it was the Wild West of both the jazz fans and musicians shooting breeze and taking no prisoners.

I've accumulated a lot of cds I will want to sell, and will have a lot of vinyl as well. Once I go through it all, it'll be a couple of hundred units, possibly more. Is it worth it to sell on Discogs, or sell as a couple of big lots on eBay, and be done with it? I'm not pressed for time; however, seeing the boxes gone will be a very positive stimulus...to buy more "select and important titles". Do you guys sell on Discogs, and how has the experience have been?

If we could only mate her with him...we'd have an album cover that qualifies. As it stands, neither one does.

Not any more!

How old are YOU?

Phil Kelly is 83 years young today! https://www.ejazzlines.com/big-band-arrangements/by-arranger/phil-kelly-jazz-big-band-charts-arrangements/ https://originarts.com/artists/artist.php?Artist_ID=44

I don't know if this one is considered smooth jazz, but this record is my favorite "life is good" album of all time - Ramsey Lewis - Sun Goddess