Dmitry

I was at the Bull Moose store in Scarboro this summer, on our way to visit friends who have a house on the Long Lake near Harrison. This local chain never disappoints. The jazz cd selection is strong. In local news: one comic book/record store is open as before, another one was closed when I went, and another one on the same block, Armageddon Records was only open by appointment, which I obviously didn't have, so I peaked inside, there were two customers, and the man at the cash register wouldn't let me come in and check out their 2 feet-long jazz isle....another Covid freak.

I'm really hoping to pay you a visit this weekend. Are you open still?

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And wishing for 100!

Will refreshments be served?

Happy b-day 2020!

Mark Durelle Combs aka Jazzmoose passed away 3 years ago today. Daniel A hipped me to it. I didn't know he was gone. Will light a candle to his memory tonight.

MomsMobley / Clementine is/was an intellectual or an erudite. What's the difference, Clem/Moms? Drop me a line!

Again, I'm slightly late to voice my decisive missive. I read most of this thread, and if THIS is why some fine people have left the forum, this is some tripe stuff. Think how much has happened since then...Chris Albertson is dead, couw hasn't been seen in a dozen years, some others as well. Nero....I haven't run across any mention of it in a decade.

Many Blu-ray players don't have the RCA audio outs and no optical/coaxial digital outs any more...but you're looking specifically for HDMI, so that shouldn't be an issue. I have a $100 Sony that's been running for 7 or 8 years.

How much do you want to spend?

Are referring to the stop and frisk? Crime went down dramatically in all of NY neighborhoods, black, white, latino, etc., under Giuliani's mayorship. It was palpable on various levels.

Touché. A 12-lp set on BN...sounds what the Mosaic Records would be releasing. And maybe should have.

On what label? Not Blue Note, I'd wager.

I've never heard of this place. Notwithstanding...it's a shame. Things could've been handled VERY differently by the powers that be. And should've been handled differently.

I'm late to this party, or should we call it a wake? Koch isn't going anywhere, so I'll put in my two cents; I lived in NYC during the last year of Koch, through all of Dinkins, Giuliani, and the first term of Bloomberg. From a completely uneducated, self-reliant perspective, Koch was a character, he was perfectly comfortable in his position, but the city was dangerous and dirty. I remember being rather nervous to ride subways off peak hours, and I had to do it. It was filthy, crazy people were walking around the city; it stunk. Dinkins was a poor mayor. It's not his fault that the race riots lit up in Williamsburg, but his actions didn't help. He will be remembered as history's footnote. He just died, I think. Rudy's administration turned things around, in my version. Crime dropped, international tourism picked up, the city cleaned up. I do miss the peep shows in Time Square as much as the next guy, but that's the price to pay for not having been knifed on a subway. Bloomberg bought his mayorship three times. New York is not the city I used to love any more. The whole thing is just not what New York was to me, and to many others. It's hard to describe...just can't relate to it any more. This is a good film, The Bonfire of the Vanities. It illustrates some of New York during the Koch years. I should read the book.

Indeed. This documentary on the store was just released a couple of weeks ago. https://www.amazon.com/Other-Music-Tunde-Adebimpe/dp/B08DXNQNB1/ref=sr_1_1?crid=38N66SXGKJ65C&dchild=1&keywords=other+music+record+store+documentary&qid=1607831561&sprefix=other+music+%2Caps%2C171&sr=8-1 I haven't watched it, but will do so tomorrow. It was an interesting place, which I never grew to love, because my musical tastes were elsewhere. I did go there a couple of times over the years, and bought some cds and records by Kenny Millions, Burton Greene, Curtis Clark, Sonny Simmons, John Lindberg, Baikida Carroll; this is the type of jazz they carried. Still, it's disconcerting that even in New York a store that caters to esoteric, avantgarde, and various other non-mainstream music doesn't have the vitality to exist. This is supposed to be the capital of the world. Or maybe our world is so that its capital doesn't feel the need for this any longer. It was a great location for them, right across the street from the best, coolest record store in the city - Tower on East 4th street, between Broadway and Lafayette. Once TOWER folded in 2006, they were most probably affected by the major loss to foot traffic, some of which spilled into the Other Music. I'm sure it'll be discussed in the documentary. Next door to the Other Music was a small hi-fi shop, In Living Stereo, with interesting tube amplifiers and headphones in the window. The closure of Tower, literally feet away, must've been a shock, but not a death blow to them as well. I see that they've moved on to another location. Late 90s-mid-2000s was still a very interesting time to live in New York City, and Tower was a part of it. It satisfied an urge..one or two of them.

Today, wife and me watched All Things Must Pass , the Tower documentary. Thank you for the heads-up. My kids were so bored that they watched the whole thing with us. Russ Solomon made us a family for 90 minutes. I really liked it, but I do have a couple of questions regarding the making of the company into what it was at its peak. Solomon owned the one record store for 8 years, when he opened the second one, this one became the world-famous location on Sunset Blvd. I didn't understand, from relying on the information from the film alone, how he went from 2 stores to 200, and a billion in gross sales in its pinnacle. It's a big difference. The film-maker almost made it so a group of California stoners got this operation going to the top. Anyhow, watching it was absolutely time well spent, and made me remember things from my past in the Tower Records, which was 15-20 years back. I'll add more later.

The link is dead. Just bought the book on Amazon, for under $10. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1606997866/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I'm a sucker for looking at jazz photographs. Thank you for the alert!

Thanks! An eventful year....let's leave it at that.

The article is overtly apologetic towards the jazz musicians who ventured into the commercial genre, like hip hop and smooth jazz. The writer is disdainful towards the sex of the critics, calling attention to the fact that the critics were all male (as if it made a difference?). At least the phrase 'old white men' is absent, because some of the critics the author lambasts were black. The article seems to be geared mostly towards African-American players, and not the whole strata. It also omits vocalists. I know, this is not a Wikipedia-caliber article, but it could be one day, couldn't it?! Just my $.02 Personally, and in retrospect, very unfortunately, I was not into jazz at all, until the end of the decade, but I did see some gigs in NYC, one in particular that I remember, was T.S.Monk's group at New York University ca.1995. They performed at the student center. Tickets were $5 or so.

Happy 55th!!

Paul Bley with Gary Peacock, ECM 1003, 1970, German release, I’m assuming it’s an original pressing. An introspective, wild, and searching trio recording, not very good from the engineering aspect, to me it sounds recorded on a single stereo mic directly to a reel deck, in a rehearsal space somewhere in New York.

Paolo Rossi died today, only 64. The 1982 Mundial in Spain was the first one I've watched critically as a very young fan, with my grandfather. https://www.goal.com/en-us/news/italian-legend-paolo-rossi-dies-aged-64/xquud7u9e9981en3z9rctoue7