Brad

Except for Top Chef, the network is awful but considering they keep making these strange programs like Housewives of this or that, someone must be watching.

I sent an email to the Times questioning whether their account of how MC acquired the Wolff archive was correct and, surprisingly (because I didn’t expect them to respond), I received the following response from Giovanni Russonello: ”I went back and double-checked with Cuscuna's inner circle, and it appears that the photo archive was not in fact given to Michael Cuscuna by Ruth Lion. Instead, it was sold to Cuscuna by Ruth Lion after Alfred died. But the actual act of recovering Wolff's photographic negatives from the dustbin (or, at least, the attic) occurred in the mid-1970s, after Cuscuna started rooting through the Blue Note tape archives out in LA. The photo negatives were not with the tapes; they were in Alfred Lion's possession, as Wolff had left them to Lion in his will before dying in 1971. When Cuscuna started putting out old Blue Note material in Mosaic boxes, he asked Alfred to go into the collection of photo negatives and see what he could find from X or Y recording sessions. This is what started the process of going back through all those photo negatives and discovering just how much never-before-seen beauty they contained. Eventually, Alfred got tired of digging for pictures every time Cuscuna had a request, so he invited Cuscuna to take possession of and manage the collection, in exchange for a portion of the profits on whatever he might license out to people. Cuscuna himself didn't come to own the collection outright until after Alfred died, at which point Ruth did sell the collection to him (and Charlie Lourie), with the caveat that she would retain a portion of any profits that came their way until her death. Hope this helps to clarify things, and explains why we feel comfortable leaving the article as is. While the tapes and the negatives were in separate collections (the former having been sold by Alfred Lion to Liberty Records, and ultimately subsumed into EMI; the latter having been left for years in Alfred Lion's attic until Cuscuna came knocking, according to what I'm told), it still seems factual to say: "Mr. Cuscuna’s archival dives at Blue Note also turned up tens of thousands of photographs taken in the studio by Francis Wolff, one of the label’s founders. Mr. Cuscuna organized and administered the photo archive as well."

Maybe they’re worried about copyright infringement issues.

It sure took them long enough.

According to Discogs, it was [f]ounded in 2012 as a partnership between American producer Zev Feldman and Spanish producer Jordi Soley.” That’s the only info I’ve been been able to find.

I saw it yesterday. I thought it was terrific. Enjoyed every minute of it.

Michael Cuscuna at Bonnie Raitt’s Give it Up.

Another good site for finding RSD stuff, which @jazzbo mentioned in another thread, is https://rsdmrkt.com

That’s a very helpful site. I’ll have to bookmark it for future use.

I don’t know if you bought it but this retailer has it for $26. https://parkavecds.com/UPC/784300321613 The people over at SH are pretty helpful because they post retailers who have items.

Amazon has the Cole cd listed but as unavailable. Perhaps that’s a space saver. Stores can start selling their unsold stock on Sunday. I’m sure there will be many listings on Discogs tomorrow for RSD material.

He’s irreplaceable. His contribution is immeasurable. RIP.

The Manne is from Reel to Real so I’d say no but RTR is part of Cellar Live and their store is on Bandcamp so I suppose it’s a possibility. The others are from Elemental Music and I don’t know if they do downloads. However, they partnered with Zev Feldman on these and Resonance has done downloads. So, I wouldn’t say no but I wouldn’t say yes either.

This is probably the only RSD vinyl I’m purchasing. I want to have this one in vinyl; also makes the notes easier to read. I will probably order the other RSD releases that I wish to purchase in cd. If it’s sold out, then I will just get the cd.

The funny thing about this thread is that almost all of the people who posted on it no longer are active or don’t post here anymore.

Amazing book. This is a reimagining of the Huckleberry Finn story as told by Jim the slave, but with significant differences. It’s a terrifically good book. To those who are not all that familiar with how enslaved people were treated this will be an eye opener.

We Were the Lucky Ones, based on a novel about a Jewish Polish family during the Holocaust. It’s ok, not great; a little too clean and some things aren’t credible but, hey, it’s tv.

By coincidence I listened to him yesterday on the J.J. Johnson Mosaic. RIP.

Beautiful music. Thanks for doing it. I’m sure you saw that Acoustic Sounds is reissuing several Pablo records (at $40 per) and this is the first one.