Brad

Bringing this up again, for those who may have missed it, especially since the link in today's Jazz Gazzette from Mosaic didn't work (at least for me).

Bob, I think you can still find the Complete Mercury Recordings.

They are phenomenal. I belong to their book club. I’ve received very few books from them that weren’t interesting and many of the books I received I probably wouldn’t have otherwise. I first got started with them when I picked up Zweig’s Beware of Pity (a great book; his only full length novel) and I’ve been hooked ever since.

Better get your orders in. You have 3 days, 6 hours and 42 minutes left!

A mere bag of shells

In yesterday's New York Times New Archive of Concerts and Interviews from International Jazz Festival in Bern "The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem has received a vast new archive of concert footage and interviews covering 20 of jazz’s most underexplored years. The Jazz and Blues Art Box comprises 230 concerts and 96 interviews, all filmed at the International Jazz Festival Bern in Switzerland from 1983 to 2002. It contains performances by most of jazz’s biggest stars from the era, including Sonny Rollins, Sarah Vaughan, Wynton Marsalis and Dizzy Gillespie. Each of the concerts was originally broadcast on Swiss television, and is rendered here in full. The DVD collection, which comes in a nearly-four-foot-tall black cabinet, was donated by the jazz impresario George Wein, who served as an adviser on the art box project."

Terrific book. I’ve read all her stuff that is available in English from NYRB Classics and recommend them all.

There’s one on eBay at a reasonable price but it’s described as VG and missing one disc.

I saw this tonight. Incredibly well done but ultimately tragic in that you know what awaits at the end of the tunnel. In the end what you are left with is the music. After the death of an artist, no matter how that person passes, you are left with their art. It also reminds you of the folly of guns. Just too many damn guns in this country

I heard How Insensitive from Slick! today and it wasn't something that appealed to me. Too 70ish.

Disc 3.

I didn’t see your post until after I listened to the cd Will give it another listen though.

I picked up the Crankin’. I’m not a big fan of the electric piano, fusion, rock — whatever you want to call it — aspects of this session. It has a few good moments but overall, for me, a bit disappointing.

Crankin’ Curtis Fuller

Welcome back

Sound like a potential spinoff to unlock value.

I wonder how the Jazz in Paris CDs are.

Without knowing the terms of the license, it's hard to know. Sometimes, in any commercial relationship, you're allowed to use up the inventory but it's not a universal rule, based on my experience.

In the last two days, I've been on an E.M. Forster kick. Until this year I had never seen any of the Ivory-Merchant movies. They, to say the least, outstanding.

Thanks for the original information. Too bad he didn't progress farther musically. I found the Serge Gainsbourg videos interesting. I had vaguely heard of him but never heard of him. I will want to investigate him a little further.

Earlier this week Jazz Wax posted an article about Elek Bacsik, who was a Hungarian Gypsy jazz guitarist who is not well known today. He was the cousin of Django Reinhardt. See Elek Bacsik Elek Bacsik Videos Some of his stuff is pretty interesting, especially All Things You Are with Serge Gainsbourg.

Not to argue against myself but Mosaic would need the money in advance, long before the set ever came close to production.

A Note to the Classically Insecure On listening to classical music and "getting it." This article in the New York Times could also apply to any form of music, such as jazz