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  1. On 3/25/2022 at 0:16 PM, hbbfam said:

    Opinions of this one?

    Yes. Got my copy today. If you want this package done right! Contemporary Records always sounded good. Nice to have these discs in UNIFORMED format and then the original cover for Something Else, seals the deal. My opinion, because I like things done right, buy!

  2. 15 hours ago, bresna said:

    I just finished spinning a recently acquired SRX LP from Music Matters Jazz of Art Blakey's "Free For All". From my now limited hearing ability, this LP doesn't sound a whole lot better than my old 70's era Van Gelder pressing. If anything, it seems like Kevin Gray pushed the trumpet & trombone further forward in the mix during Shorter's fiery solo on the title track, one of my favorite Jazz tracks. While their fills are prominent on the older LP & every CD version of this date, they aren't usually louder than Shorter.

    I guess it's a good thing I got it in trade for other MMJ LPs, so the $$ were a wash. :)

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    15 hours ago, BillF said:

     

    :tup

    ON CD ( and I think  RVG got the remastering right) but this is some of the most INTENSNSE music released by BN. Period. 

  3. My biggest issue is get it right. There's nothing more annoying when a original album is re-released with some stupid new album-cd sleeve that makes no sense (32 Jazz) and they change the labels etc. I'm beyond how to file them; I'm embarrassed where to put them (if I even think about even buying it.)  I know, "its about the music" but I can't tell you how many times I have to find the "right" sleeve and make a glossy cover of it so it's right and slip it over the ugly sleeve (Clifford Brown/Tubby New York sessions Columbia sleeve (replaced) cd version gross!) those hared Arista album covers especially Marion Brown! (Fontana/Phillips/Polydor!/Epic)  (blahhh). OCD much? Guess So. 

  4. 4 hours ago, JSngry said:

    I wouldn't call his life wasted. He just didn't take care of himself. But he left a legacy. seems like he got done all he was going to get done.

    Kenny Kirkland, Hiram Bullock, those lives...I don't know if they had gotten done all they were going to get done or not, but they certainly got stopped while still in peak form. One wonders if they got done everything they had in them to get done. Maybe not. But obviously they got done all they were going to get done. That's a crucial distinction, imo. 

    PC, Hank, even Bird, they got it done in the time they gave themselves. I used to wonder, what if Bird had lived, what if Trane had lived, all that, and finally, yeah, what if, that's really a stupid question, because, simply put, they didn't. So it's a question with no answer. So...think about things that can be done here and now. And if that includes building on Bird, building on Trane, good, do that, think that, and good luck to you.

    And please do take care of yourself!

     

    I know what you mean, I didn't mean his life was a waste, what he left for us to enjoy is immeasurable, but the substance abuse cut it short was all I was saying. 

  5. 1 hour ago, sidewinder said:

    Fascinating !

    1 hour ago, Chuck Nessa said:

    Barnaby was owned by Andy Williams. Williams bought the Cadence label (Candid was a sub) to gain control of his own recordings. Williams was then under contract to Columbia and made a distribution deal with them.

    1 hour ago, sidewinder said:

    Fascinating !

    1 hour ago, sidewinder said:

    Fascinating !

    On 5/26/2022 at 10:37 AM, BillF said:

    :tup

     

    :tup

    Just curious, looking at the OBI strip on top, CBS has rights to distribute Candid records?  Seriously, I don't know. 

    Yeah, totally didn't see the connection. Thanks!

     And at Jazzcorner, I'm really losing it, where is the options button???

    5 minutes ago, Holy Ghost said:

    Just curious, looking at the OBI strip on top, CBS has rights to distribute Candid records?  Seriously, I don't know. 

    Yeah, totally didn't see the connection. Thanks!

     And at Jazzcorner, I'm really losing it, where is the options button???

    Nevermind...

    Anywho, about those awesome Prestige records posted above, good stuff.

  6. 20 hours ago, BillF said:

    :tup

     

    :tup

    Just curious, looking at the OBI strip on top, CBS has rights to distribute Candid records?  Seriously, I don't know. 

    21 hours ago, porcy62 said:

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    Ignore that post above, I don't know how to delete it, but this what I meant to quote. Just curious, looking at the OBI strip on top, CBS has rights to distribute Candid records?  Seriously, I don't know. 

  7. 5 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

    Oh that´s bad news. I saw some films with him when he was younger. He often played a bad guy.

    Wasnt´there a film where he was a police man who stalked a married woman ? 

    And there was another film where a young and married businessman is seduced by a blonde woman and her friend is a quite dubious character played by Liotta ? I don´t remember the titles of the films....

     

    Cannot forget when Hannibal scalped Ray's head and was having breakfast with him (if you will) lols. 

  8. 5 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

    Yes, but in 1983 when I saw Dexter the last time "performing" it was clear that the end was in sight. No one would have thought that he might get through the few tunes he played on the film. 

    Hank Mobley also had a drinking problem. During those last years, Max Roach once told that he wanted to invite Mobley for a drink and was a bit embarrased when Mobley insistit on a triple hard drink. I think the great Max Roach had some traumatic experiences seeing great fellow musicians killed by accidents (both Clifford Brown and Woody Shaw), or down and out like Bird, Bud, Mobley....

    Max Roach also was the last person to see Woody Shaw. He had invited him to listen to a  gig he had in NY  and sent a limo to Newark to drive Woody to the gig...

    Drink and drugs were a problem in this time period. Stan Getz immediately comes to mind, who had a major drinking problem, Art Pepper, junk.  Wasn't it in Miles' autobiography, where Miles said he had dinner with Paul Chambers around 1968-9, that he downed so many Zombies that he passed out right there at the table? He was dead shortly thereafter, and if I remember from Mile's account, he was not even 30? Could be wrong as I read this nearly 30 years ago and the book is packed away in storage. Tragedies abound. Sad. 

  9. On 5/19/2022 at 9:27 PM, JSngry said:

    https://jazztimes.com/archives/john-clayton-succeeds-bud-shank-at-centrum/

    John Clayton was hardly a kid then...or unqualified...

    https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/news/ex-centrum-jazz-port-townsend-artistic-director-shank-dies-at-82/

    Shank said he wasn’t upset that Centrum decided to make a change, but he’s angered by the way the change was handled.

    “It’s not what they did, but how,” Shank said during a telephone interview with the Peninsula Daily News from Tucson.

    “They sent me a letter saying my services were terminated. It’s not the best way to do things like that.”

    Now that's fair. Shank was 78 at the time. Replacement, sure, but with dignity, please. Like he said, not the best way to do something like that 

    Ran into John Clayton at Cleveland Int'l Airport like 15 years ago. Recognized him immediately as he was hauling his bass on a wheel-like thing. I told him I know who you are, John Clayton, right!?  And he laughed and said yup because nobody else in the airport knew who he was! Nice and congenial guy! 

  10. 36 minutes ago, bresna said:

    I read somewhere that he was homeless and living on the streets near the end, so "got through the 70's" maybe isn't quite true?

    Right, in Phila I think. Sad. 

  11. On 2/13/2022 at 10:14 AM, mjazzg said:

    That second side of Hutcherson's 'Components' and under his own name, 'Almoravid'.

    This. Blew me away to the point I listen to the second half more than the first. 

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