Brad

Screwed over by big corporations although the first time Stewart should have read the contract or had a lawyer do so, which he obviously didn’t have. However, it’s a great documentary, very well done.

I had trouble with the book too but I want to give it another try. I wouldn’t say it didn’t have enough substance.

Some of Babs’s material wouldn’t fly today but that is a-ok.

Just finished this incredible book about a French writer who tries to find out about a postcard that her mother receives that lists the names of her relatives who died in the Holocaust.

You know it’s already been issued, right?

I was planning on ordering this but I see that I have about half the albums on cd and since Bobby Hutcherson isn’t someone I play a lot, I’m going to pass, for now anyway.

It’s rather surprising for a major course of action to be approved by a bare majority. One of my responsibilities was to prepare and keep the corporate minutes for our company and its subsidiaries (around 150) and nothing was ever passed that was less than unanimous.

I have them both. Trident was the last one I purchased from them. I’ve found that you can find some titles cheaply or cheaper than original retail. Their customer service (which I think they outsource) is very good and responsive. I had issues with a couple of records. I sent them sound clips and they replaced them immediately.

They might. You never know. I purchased the cd and my only complaint is the packaging. It’s not very good.

The answers to your questions are yes. As a non member you used to be able to buy the titles when they came out. No more. Now, it’s first reserved for members.

I used to belong but quit about a year ago as there is nothing I wanted to purchase. I’ve been happy with what I purchased. The lawsuit sounds like the CEO breached his fiduciary duty to the company and spent money he wasn’t authorized to spend. He’s going to need a good attorney.

The LP set is RSD only so they’re not likely to get any in. However, RSD Market has several copies and I’m sure there are plenty on Discogs.

Zev knows how to find ‘em. Wonder what other goodies he’s sitting on.

I’d say that some of these posts are getting strange but then most of this thread is.

In what way?

Starting to read this now.

I finally got around to reading the book and thought it was great; the digressions enlivened the book. It’s not a straight biography and once you recognize a lot of his extemporaneous riffing or talking you settle into the rhythm of the book. The parts about the Savoy Ballroom, Buster Smith and Biddy Fleet (especially Fleet) were very informative. As I said I enjoyed it.

Some people on Hoffmann said they had received duplicate discs on the Tatum set.

Well, it is Jazz Record Center. That explains it.

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.