B. Clugston

I was in a music store on the weekend and amongst their massive piles of discount items was a copy of The Jones Brothers' Keepin' Up With the Jonses! I really miss this series. It was part of the golden age of reissues.

This is one instance where I wish the Andorrans would act. Is the entire concert circulating somewhere? And thanks, jazzshrink, for posting the concert program. That CD that circulated was pretty scant on personnel details.

The last digipack reissue I picked up was John Coltrane's terrific Interstellar Space, with Rashied Ali. It came out in 2000. That was the golden age of jazz reissues. With the labels overrun by suits and mergers, the days of scrumptious reissues are over.

District attorneys should not be elected. Prosecuting and upholding the law should not be an electoral popularity contest.

I agree. I have more issue with the marketing of Burns, where his work is branded as Gospel by media. If you view Jazz as one man's take on the history of "popular" jazz, it's OK (though the final episode had quite a few errors and omissions); but when it becomes the Marsalis-approved "history of jazz," it's misleading.

From the Miles Beyond site: "The problem remains the Miles Davis Estate, and mainly Miles's nephew, Vince Wilburn. A few weeks before the original release date last September he wanted the credits of Adam Holzman and Bob Belden changed from 'produced by' to 'compiled by.' Understandably, this was not something these two, or Sony, were happy about. Moreover, the Cellar Door set had been more than five years in the making, and Belden's and Holzman's involvement must have been clear for ages, so the timing of the demand reeked of a hidden agenda...." That explains the sticker on the credits page. Lots more here: http://www.miles-beyond.com/news.htm

I was quite happy with the K2s and was going to buy Quiet Kenny in that format, but found for $5 at a belly up sale. Sounds great to me, but has anyone heard both K2 and RVG on this one?

I like 801 Live, a band fronted by Phil Mazanera, but fairly dominated by Eno. Includes a few Eno songs, such as "Baby's on Fire" and "Sombre Reptiles."

Both Standards 4-CD sets are still available. Two years ago, Leo said that 23 Standards was sold out. Then a bunch of them were found sitting in a warehouse.

I like walnuts. I use them in pesto and salads. Lately, I’ve been getting into pecans. For munching and nut butters, I prefer almonds.

Metallica will be about as hip as Styx by the time this kid can talk. Kind of like if my parents named me Bill Haley.

Keith Jarrett had one of his hissy fits in the liner notes of the 2-CD reissue regarding the initial CD release, which was on one CD, dropped a track IIRC and had a different running order.

I've had this box for a week and am still only half way through. Fantastic stuff. Great band and the addition of Nicole MItchell was an inspired one.

Andrew Hill's April 12 trio concert in Vancouver has been cancelled for health reasons.

Both are excellent. I also recommend Conversations with a Goose.

Paul is dead.

I often snipe myself. While rival snipers are too busy reacting to my old bid, I'll up the ante in the dying seconds. I rarely use eBay anymore. It's so 2002.

You've hit upon a classic big box store ploy. I've seen it with book stores as well: start up with a deep selection, including quirky titles the specialty stores stock. Watch the competition die. Stick with the popular titles and don't replace the interesting stock and instead sell candles and gift wrapping paper.

Nice to see there’s plenty of Kenny Dorham fans on the board. I had always overlooked Dorham, until I heard John Zorn of all people cover a couple of Dorham tunes and thought, wow, that’s some great writing. I’ve lately been buying up everything I can find of Dorham’s (Afro-Cuban, Trompeta Tocatta, Matador/Inta Somethin’, Quiet Kenny) and love everything I’ve heard. Afro-Cuban and Matador, in particular, are hugley under-rated. His writing is great—I can’t understand why his compositions, aside from “Blue Bossa,” aren’t more well-known—and his playing is fantastic. He plays with a lot more restraint than many of his hard boppin’ blow off the roof contemporaries, a strength underlined by his occasional nods towards classical territory. But in his later work, he would throw in a few smears and I wonder it that was part of why Lester Bowie so appreciated him. My favourite Dorham trumpet moment: “Autumn in New York” on Cafe Bohemia.

Great video. I'm really looking forward to this. It will be great to hear the music develop over several nights.

Sadly, another one of our music stores went belly up, but a 40% off liquidation sale helped cheer things up. Picked up: Uri Caine's Toys, Goldberg Variations and the Wagner disc Ike Quebec's Complete 45 sessions Solomon Ilori's Blue Note disc Raymond Scott 2 CD set of electronic music

Wow! I can never get enough of this band.

That is hilarious! What an incredible spoof.

Interpretations of Monk has some nice moments but never added up to the sum of its parts for me. The band as a whole doesn’t gel, but there are moments where some of the musicians with long-standing histories with each other really lock in (ie. Lacy and Waldron, Blackwell and Cherry). Rouse and Lacy are in fine form, however. That being said, the Mal Waldron disc is fantastic. The Barry Harris disc is also good, while Anthony Davis does a great homage and it’s great to hear Abrams in this context.

followed closely by the Matt Pierson collection on Warner Bros. Or the Schaap collection on Columbia: Classic albums with the wrong takes.