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I don’t really know exactly, but Dusty Groove has a specific sub-section for it… https://www.dustygroove.com/category/now_sound This seems to get at it, I presume… https://www.spaceagepop.com/whatis.htm#now

I’ve told this story before, but I had a roommate back in college for one summer (and she really was just a roommate)… …and all the jazz I was listening to back then (whatever it was), she classified into three simple categories… 1) Pink Panther (as in the PP theme song, and incidental music) 2) Peanuts (as in the Charlie Brown TV specials music) 3) Batman (as in the old Batman 60’s TV theme song). Anything I would put on (any individual cut), I could ask her what kind was it — and she’d listen for a bit, and put it in one of those three categories. To her way of thinking, those were the 3 different kinds of jazz.

You better not be trying to suggest that’s suppose to garner our respect er nothin’.

Bump! — for no particular reason.

Alas, I never got this when I had the chance (though in my defense, it was always close to $25 with shipping, always from eBay sellers from god only knows where). Still wish I had, and would love to still find a copy.

How many different kinds/colors of kryptonite were there? I vaguely remember there were several.

So what’s next on the chopping block? (After rap and hip hop?)

There was an Albert Mangelsdorff 5CD box (Vol 1, of a 2 maybe 3 volume set of Mangelsdorff titles) that included Zo-Ko-Ma, that I tracked down a few years ago. It’s a nice date.

Red vinyl with black marbling? Foil stamped? “Direct to Board” Jacket style? “Widespine” Jacket type? Oh, and it’s numbered! Lineup is barely mentioned (only at the bottom of a description you have to expand to see). NO track-listing, NO track-times, NO recording date (beyond the year), NO recording location mentioned, NO indication whether it was recorded live or whether it’s a studio album. But yeah, here’s all the fuckin’ bells and whistles about the marbled red and black colored vinyl and “jacket style” AND “jacket type”. This shit annoys the fuck out of me. /rant

I bought a few booklets for the LP-only Miles sets they did (back in the day, when I'd gotten the metal-spine boxes with notes that were really hard to read). And -- back then -- I think(?) they charged me $15, iirc. Shipping would've pumped up my true cost, but I piggybacked on some other orders that included other large-format boxes (so no extra shipping at all, really). This was back in the day though, so no idea how that applies now. $20 wouldn't be entirely unreasonable now, but I wouldn't think they'd be higher than that -- but for long OOP sets, who knows?

Looking forward to listening to this. And everyone should click on “see more” to catch the full accompanying notes, which are fairly extensive (I’ve only just skimmed them, I have to admit). Some good stories in there!

I think the purpose of the “just sold out” is so if someone saw something earlier the same day (or maybe within the last 24 hours), they can then get positive confirmation that it really was there, and to more clearly explain why it’s not available (as opposed to it just suddenly not appearing at all).

Speaking of Lee-way — can someone remind me of the story behind how it’s the only Lee BN album recorded during the window when he otherwise was recording leader-dates for Vee-Jay and Jazzland (with non-BN dates both before and after). I used to know all these ins and outs of the label — but most of them I haven’t thought of much in the last 10 years, and have either forgotten, or only vaguely remember now — though I was more steeped in this stuff circa 1995-2010.

Thank goodness!

I registered about 30-40 min ago, but have not gotten any sort of confirmation email yet (and it did check my junk folder, nada). Did anyone else get a confirmation email? EDIT: I just got an email confirmation about 3-4 min ago, I’m now just seeing.

Me too!!

Don’t tell me they put the alternates right (immediately) after each one of the chosen “master” takes — ?? (Meaning do they stack up the multiple takes of the title track back to back?) And how’s the sound quality again? I’d love to have a cd reissue of this that’s a fair bit better than the Black Lion edition I’ve had for close to 20 years — but I’d rather not pay $25 for one, if the SQ upgrade is barely noticeable.

Ok, I’m about sold then on that basis alone. I’ll confess I’ve avoided all the Mulligan/Baker quartets because I’ve never warmed to Chet Baker over the years (though I’ll also confess I stopped trying 20 years ago). Which specific albums do I want then? Have they been collected up nicely into a comprehensive CD set, by any chance? — not likely, if multiple labels are involved. Is the Mulligan/Baker Mosaic Select what I need? - by any chance? (I’m clueless about the Mulligan catalog.) Next to zero interest in any PD releases of this material, unless someone really thinks that’s the way to go (hard to imagine I’d be swayed, but you can try).

The Concert Band Mosaic is (and still is) my first ever Mulligan purchase, only just about 3 years ago — and it’s really wonderful. For those interested, it seems to go for quite reasonable prices these days. Got mine for ~$65 incl. shipping (from eBay), but I’ve seen several others sell for about that same price, rarely more than $70. Bought it less for Mulligan’s playing specifically, as I did for the fantastic writing and arranging for the larger ensemble, which just sparkles.

Am seeing it on cd for well less than that here… https://www.roughtrade.com/us/charlie-parker/bird-in-la $25.99 as of my posting this link here.

Even if the packaging is bare bones (with virtually zero liner notes), I still think these — if they have to exist — are at least moderately preferable to the PD reissues by totally unrelated third parties. I’m not longing for reissues like this or anything, but I could see taking the plunge on an “early” artist I was curious about with one or two of these, just occasionally. But I’ve never bought the PD crap I’ve seen in stores (especially Half Price Books). Never say never I guess, but so far at least, I’ve always resisted the urge to buy the nonsense those PD purveyors purvey (or more accurately, what those PD purloiners purloin — to call it what it is). But I’d at least consider getting something similar from the actual label that had some rights to the material, or at least in theory they do.

Who?

Jeez, with 25% ($19.24) off, and free shipping -- that takes it down to $61.20 (including $3.46 in taxes) -- or $7.65 per CD. I was really trying to look for excuses NOT to get this set, but that's proving to be hard to resist. Who here's dealt with udiscovermusic.com before?? Someone please tell me they're a scam or some fly-by-night operation, so I have some excuse -- any excuse -- not to get this.

What I’m waiting to hear is the price point of the CD edition.

Well, maybe because vinyl costs 2x-3x more than CD’s do, sometimes even 3.5x more. Let’s talk units-sold, please, not just “revenue”. I’d argue that “content-providers via physical media” are servicing HALF the number of end customers, even if vinyl is a lot more profitable (or at least generates a lot more revenue, but I can’t speak to the relative cost of producing albums vs. CD’s). Hell, I don’t even mind barebones CD packaging (if that’s what it takes), which would keep the production costs down at least somewhat. Make LP’s the boutique format, and CD’s perhaps more akin to the status cassettes held in days past — but I do not like downloads because I don’t trust I’ll have ready access to the data 20-30 years from now. And I’m not about to pay $25-$35 per LP for what I consider to be a lesser format. It holds less data (45 or maybe 50 min vs. 79 min), and is much more prone to scratches, and then there’s the hassle of side breaks. There’s no way I’m paying triple $$ for an inferior format, and one that’s inferior in nearly every way (from my perspective). CD’s aren’t perfect, but they’re vastly superior to all the other widely available and accepted physical media formats we’ve had in the last 50 years.