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What's most memorable for me about this film is not the car chase , but Pablo Ferro's main title sequence and the Schifrin music that plays during it . Very hip .

Jim , I don't have any answers for you , but FWIW , the record is currently up on EBAY with a 99-cents opening bid . http://cgi.ebay.com/AUSTIN-CROMER-Sings-Fo...1QQcmdZViewItem One track from this LP turned up on a Chick Corea compilation CD but thats it . I would like to know more about Cormer . What did he do between singing with Gillespie and cutting this side , and what happened to him after this record ?

Fitting perhaps , but not likely in 1997 , since while Capitol/EMI own Liberty , they don't appear to have the rights to the Nocturne catalog despite the fact that Liberty reissued most of the Nocturne material 50 years ago . I don't think Fantasy's Nocturne CDs were leased sessions . Moreover , even if Liberty owned the rights to the Nocturne material Liberty reissued , the Gonsalves ( Nocturne # 8 ) was never reissued by Liberty . However , now that all this Gonsalves material is in the public domain in the E. U. , I expect we will see that pairing sooner or later .

All of the Steve White Nocturne material went unissued until Fantasy issued it in 1997 . The White half of OJC 1889 had been slated for Nocturne # 9 ( Nocturne # 10 also unissued , was a Lou Levy session ). The reason Fantasy didn't put the White material from OJC 1889 & 1891 on one CD is that that would have orphaned the Virgil Gonsalves material ( ~ 20 mins. of music ) . There was no duplication at the time , since Fresh Sound had yet to put out their box set . By the way , the Steve White session released as Liberty 6006 is not a reissue of the Nocturne material . It has never been on CD . Frankly , the Steve White dates are not essential listening , quirky vocals notwithstanding . Sonic considerations aside , the Fresh Sound box is all you really need -- no OJCs , no Mosaic Select .

How can one impute an intent to someone absent some consideration of opportunity . How does one know that someone who burns a CDR wouldn't have purchased a used copy at a store or online if given the opportunity ? As noted , commodity fetishism in the form of wanting to own a commercial copy is still with us , of course the question is for how much longer . Now excuse me while I go fondle my LPs ....

A more complete list ( beyond Blue Note ) of Massey compositions is available here . Massey's sons Taru and Zane have been podcasting his music during this past year . You can download those podcasts here . As for the Blues to Coltrane album , I heard it years ago when it first came out and was somewhat underwhelmed by it . When it becomes more readily available I will re-listen . As I remember it , Massey's trumpet playing was serviceable without being terribly distinctive . I feel about Massey the way I feel about Gerald Wilson : love the pen , indifferent towards the axe

Who IS that woman? MG Helen Gurley Brown . A woman who never needs a Halloween costume !

Can't recall having seen that railroad tracks cover

Emarcy's " In the Land of Hi-Fi " series included LPs by Sarah Vaughan , Dinah Washington , Patti Page , Errol Garner , Georgie Auld and Cannonball Adderley . The Adderley is the only one I believe that has not been on CD ; odd that the Page and Auld sides would be out , but not the Adderley . The Adderley is currently available however on vinyl : http://store.acousticsounds.com/browse_det...p;section=music

http://www.jazzdisco.org/bluenote/1961-dis/c/#610622

http://www.cis.rit.edu/~ejipci/buddy_rich.htm

I don't think Al Haig belongs in your list . If the rubric " West Coast Jazz " is geography-based then Haig is excluded , as most of his recording was done on the east coast . If it is style-based , then what are Land , Edwards and Criss doing in a list with Montrose , Perkins and Shank ?

All the Savoy reissues of the past 15 years are Japanese in some sense , since the label is owned by Japanese Columbia , however the label is now a U.S.-based division , so recent CDs are made there . The last few years they seem to have stuck to reissuing the " name " musicians , on CDs shorn of original cover art . Thus to answer your question , a lot of those old Denon-Savoys have not been re-pressed as U.S. editions . Those Denons had good sound , but contained discographical and typographical errors .

I thought it was the result of a long-term 'personal habit'. Damn shame, such a fine player. Those ' personal habits ' as they often do , led to liver cancer IIRC .

Along with wholesale redesigns , Liberty changed the tint on some of the covers too . I remember seeing a Liberty copy of Donald Byrd's Cat Walk with purple tinting instead of the original orange-red . Hancock's Empyrean Isles was another retinted Liberty , and there were others . I myself have never seen the redesigned covers for Mobley's Soul Station or Green's Grant's First Stand mentioned above , but I have come across this redesigned Grant Green cover : <====>

A lot of people love this one but its never clicked for me. I keep it because its Tina, but ... I think I agree with this ; the soulful Brooks is the reason I listen to it . It's only under McGhee's name because Redd couldn't lead it for contractual reasons . The playing time is pretty short . You can hear a couple of tracks from it on this archived Night Lights radio show .

Dozens of thumbnails of Mainstream covers are viewable HERE . The site has lots of Groove Merchant covers as well . And , to flesh out this thread , here are our earlier discussions : Earlier Discussion # 1 Earlier Discussion # 2

Kevin, the upgrade for the J.J. is definitely worth it, because Mark Wilder remixed it from the original 3-track tapes. Compared to the spanish RCA version, some artificial reverb on the brass section is absent, and the sound is fuller and less harsh. A much bigger difference than between a CD and a SACD Musically JJ! is the best of the RCAs , though The Total J.J. Johnson is not far behind . I have the Spanish RCA CD of JJ! and like Kevin , think it sounds fine . What might get me interested in the Mosiac Single edition , are the two previously unissued Tom McIntosh charts it contains . Are these on the same level as the Johnson and McFarland numbers ?

Just to bring everybody up to speed , here's a chestnut from the old Blue Note board ....

The ballad "Sweet Song" on Stanley Cowell's Travellin' Man ( aka Blues For the Vietcong ) features Jimmy Hopps pretty much soloing throughout it . Even allowing for the fact that Hopps is way upfront in the mix , this track doesn't work for me at all . The rest of the album does work for me though .

As one who enjoys the Basie Meets Bond record ( CD Universe link ) , I am looking forward to hearing this date . I remember reading a review of it in a 1966 Downbeat ; they gave it three stars I recall . Wish they had used the original cover art for the CD though : On the subject of Jimmy Bond , does anyone know anything about the date he lead in 1959 for Sesac ?

Always like to hear about more jazz on the radio , but it's a pity about your time-slot . Jazz for me has always been a night music ; I associate mornings with commerce , not art . Even among those who do listen to jazz in the early morning , I doubt many of them do so on SUNDAY mornings . Does your alloted time reflect your lack of seniority at KSJS , or are you really a jazz earlybird ? In any event , best of luck with your show ; let us know if it gets archived for download . Hope everyone who visits the KSJS website votes in the poll asking what type of music the station needs more of .

I believe this may be a per-disc record : ~ $ 230.00 per CD , or ~ $ 38.00 per booklet page Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis 2-CD set : http://cgi.ebay.com/Mosaic-Records-Comp-BN...1QQcmdZViewItem