JSngry

That restaurant needs no help. I continue to enjoy their output on a regular basis and now laugh about the loop. As for you current quandary, the only way to solve it is to do what we did back in the day - make a mixtape of just the takes you want to hear. Fire up the old cassette machine, it's dubbin' time! And it keeps that vinyl fresh! Hey, fight analog with analog. Live by the LP, die by the LP. On a serious note - those LPs were not made for casual listeners. They were mad at a time when presenting "documents" of older music was the object of the game. So, they are what they are. For me, if it's Bird, ok. Other, lesser people...maybe not so much, although the other side of the coin is when on a CD you get the original album played though, and it's a satisfactory ending and THEN you get alternates, it's kinda like watching those "behind the episode" HBO things. I mean, yeah, ok, sure, thanks for not really helping. But what I do like is those DVDs where you can select to hear somebody's commentary as the show plays. That's something I don't know that anybody's tried for archival releases with multi-take material, have an interesting commentary provide a narrative between cuts narrating the session as it goes along. Unfortunately, most people who would be best qualified to do this are now dead. But Ira Gitler is still alive, right? And he was present at at least some of the Monk Prestige dates,maybe all? Just have him walk us through the session as it went down, like liner notes only in your ear with the music.

How much of it would there be? There's six 10" LPs with eight songs each and some singles...probably 2-3 CDs worth of material? I'd love to have a set, but Mosaic wouldn't do it, they're officially Go Big Or Go Home now. If Concord does indeed own the rights, it would be something for them to do. But who does own the rights? Have they fallen into orphanage?

A truly casual listener is aware only that there's something musical going on in the background. They won't be bothered past that. All they are listening for (not to) is a music-ish event that is filling out the silence and/or covering up the ambient sounds of the area. There's an India restaurant that I've eaten at for years that has a loop of music that only lasts about 15 minutes or so. Do you know how long it took me to pay enough attention to know that it was a loop? About 10 years. I was "listening" to i but not paying attention to it, focusing instead on conversation and the deliscous food. That's casual listening!

You're not listening casually enough!

Really, it's a quandry - playing the old(er) vocabularies leads nowhere of real interest to me, and too much of today's "free" stuff sounds to me like more of the same as well. Cleaner playing, but still... I'd like to hear a tenor player who can rattle the roof with their sound like Ayler, be as harmonically nimble as Warne Marsh, phrase as slippery as Lockjaw, and...you get the picture. Somebody who puts it all together. They gotta be out there somewhere, but if they are, I'm either waiting to hear them or else, quite plausibly, have heard them and am not remembering them right now. But, you know, this is 2018. Life has changed in some pretty basic ways, even if the eternal truths remain so, they get manifested differently today. If I want to hear rote recitation of days past...hey, I was raised Lutheran, so, been there, done that.

I feel foolish for saying so, but I like Donny McCaslin in small doses. He's only 52. And I'd like to see James Carter (only 49!) make up his mind. Really, in the immortal words of Tom Waits(?), everybody I like is either dead or not feeling well.

Garzone is 68! Lovano is 65!

Funny, I found both Starsailor and Blue Afternoon in the same cutout bin about 2 weeks apart. I was charged up by the former and was hoping for more from the latter. I found it to be a bit of a snoozer, to be honest. Maybe if I had heard them the other way around...but I didn't. Look At The Fool, the song, really sounds to me like a Marvin Gaye/Leon Ware song from a musical Bizarroworld. I love. The rest of the album, not so much. Now, Marvin would have put dense, massive contrapuntal backgrounds of his own voice in there rather than a studio chorus, and had a tenor player instead of a rock guitar, but there's enough common genetic material there to find a sustainable (enough) commonality.

I'm one of those who dig Starsailor. The WB albums are frustrating, a few great songs/performances, so why couldn't they all be?

and by the time it's over, you'll have a million dollars!

I thought that was just a lost Domino's driver...better go get my filet knife. then.

Found on a blog, totally new to me. Liking it so far.

Provided to YouTube by NAXOS of America it says.

Ok, this: That's it for Mercer Records LPs. There are still orphaned singles though, right? And waht are the last legit reissues of this stuff? Here we go with Vogue again...straight-up Mercer LP 1000.

Unrelated to Bill Evans, probably, but one of the reasons I'm ok with not playing now is that i was having nightmares about showing up to some lameass restaurantjazz gig and this even-older-then-me skinny guy with a beard and glasses bigger that a tv set limps up on stage and say hey man, let's play NAAAAAAAARDIs. Hey, that is so NOT something to live for...

So...Mercer and Vogue had some kind of thing going, through Prestige? And Prestige had a thing going with both Metronome & Vogue?

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22marches+to+his+own+drummer%22+origin&client=firefox-b-1&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjQoeH4opXeAhULi6wKHW5NCGgQ_AUIDygC&biw=1680&bih=896

About the title, there is this: https://flashbackdallas.com/2014/04/03/nardis-of-dallas/ Miles was into clothes, don't know if he was into women's fashion or not, but a name like "Nardis" doesn't just pop up randomly?