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Box Sets on Enlightenment Records
JSngry replied to Teasing the Korean's topic in Mosaic and other box sets...
If these are typical of the genre, they will be sourced from whatever the most then-recently available product at hand was, and perhaps even degraded in the process. Trace that here: http://www.randyweston.info/randy-weston-discography.html -
Probably not library music, but as an adjunct to publishing sales linked to his educational-market materials. Niehaus was very well known for his "Jazz Conception: series. The sax program at NT knew about them and directed them to students, unofficially of course, because the program was all about classical, but nobody pretended that most of the players weren't at least 50% focused on jazz. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1&biw=1680&bih=895&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=wXORWqijL4L0zgLsmYdg&q=lennie+niehaus+jazz+conception&oq=lennie+niehaus+jazz+conception&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0i24k1l2.61563.63749.0.66034.10.1.0.9.9.0.152.152.0j1.1.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.10.244....0.fYf6zwCy1is This octet record material seems to be ca.1968 http://www.worldcat.org/title/mulliganesque/oclc/14437383 so was probably written for that market, the education market. Standards would still be high, and music not necessarily easy. And the publishers of the music could also sell the record so people who bought the scores could have a guide to performing them. Here's another marketplace for the scores, and many other scores as well. http://www.fullermusic.co.uk/spweb/publications.php?categoryid=153
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Jazz albums w/ backup chorus or small vocal choir...
JSngry replied to Rooster_Ties's topic in Miscellaneous Music
That's all, to the best of my knowledge. -
Now that you mention it, Randy Weston.
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Box Sets on Enlightenment Records
JSngry replied to Teasing the Korean's topic in Mosaic and other box sets...
Totally EuroMusiPorn PD sets. Vol 1 has been out on OJCs or other Fantasy-based realities, Vol 2 hits on MGM/Metrojazz, UA, Roulette, Colpix, Jubilee, most but by no means all is on the Mosaic Select (another one for that list), and the Destry...thing is still apparently disowned by Weston to this day, although he does list in on his web site. It's not as bad as all that, but if that's the only reason why you'd get this thing...that's your business, ok? Seriously, I could kind of see somebody shoplifting that Vol. 2 out of either spite or the need for a quick fix, but Vol 1, no excuses other than sheer ignorance, slothfulness, or the unshakable vision of a personal future totally devoid of success, hope, or happiness. That shit's been out long enough that it can be had one way or the other, Also true of Vol. 2, but a little less so. -
You're like the Jerry Lewis of the north?
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Thanks, that most enjoyable! I love those ongoing Prestige reissues with then-current liner notes replacing the originals. That's where the OJC things really fall flat, imo. There's, if not a motherlode, then at least a mother-in-law load of provocative(enough) reading there that is just going to waste these days. I'd love a collection of all them, originals + god knows how many iterations over the years. Not gonna happen, but still, fun in a box, some assembly required, batteries at your own risk, etc. But geez, Joe Goldberg wrote some fine notes there. So did Larry Kart. 8 years later (and think about all that happened in those 8 years, not jsut to Rollins, but to everybody). For that matter, Ira Gitler's originals were not bad by any means, but if you want historical perspective (and not everybody does, to be sure, the...read 'em all. Otherwise, it's like, oh, my favorite Sonny records are Worktime, Way Out west, Alfie, and +3, and god, those are not at all the same records telling the same story, Again, not that it has to or should matter, but...history exists, whether we know about it or not. There's always that.
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Jazz albums w/ backup chorus or small vocal choir...
JSngry replied to Rooster_Ties's topic in Miscellaneous Music
Sorry, not a Boss Brass fan at all, but can't totally hate on McConnell, if only because of this gem: -
I vote for grandkids, that's a no-brainer, and congratulations, and you will definitely eat more than just well, no doubt! As for pods, this is all I know, even to this day:
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Wow, that's a variant I've never seen. Who wrote the liner notes? My copy (bought in 1974) looks like this and has liner notes by Oranissmo's Qon Larry Kart, and they are typically memorable.
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Jazz albums w/ backup chorus or small vocal choir...
JSngry replied to Rooster_Ties's topic in Miscellaneous Music
You like Rob McConnell a lot more than I do, most people probably do, but SU w/Robert Farnon is more than sublime, more than superb, it's...unequivocal in its greatness. I mean, JEEEESUS!!!!!! -
How Sonny Defeated the Dragon
JSngry replied to Hardbopjazz's topic in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...
Sonny is a hero. Not perfect, mind you, but a true hero never is. -
I love it how Herbie's got all the tech on his side and Wayne has all the books on his. That's heavy, intentionally or not.
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They thought they had cracked the formula, but the folly in that is thinking that the formula was all there was. That's a fool's errand, always. You wanna get here, that takes some kind of depth. Formula is just the starting point. Kudos to Goffin-King for growing up along the way. And since it's Friday, bonus cut! .
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Invitation, warning, or threat?
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Hey, that's MY list. Get off it now. Right now.
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That first monster hit was their initial effort for Verve, and I'm sure that everybody involved thought that They Had Bottled Phil Spector So Here Comes The Money, but OOPS!
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Possible exception for Righteous Brothers when they first came to the label.
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Getz was not afraid to make overtly commercial records, either. That was a part of who he was, so no harm, etc. I have two of his later such record, the Bacharach album and Didn't We. Neither are really interesting to me for "pure musical value", but neither of them suck either. And I'm sure that they sold well enough and/or got enough airplay, relative to the times, which were brutal for jazz in general. I know there are those who poo-poo "popular appeal" and I totally get that, but otoh, if it were truly that easy, anybody/everybody could do it, and obviously...
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Some y'all might know this one, but it's news to me!
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So...on behalf of those of us who tried to make the show but had their legs cramp up after walking as far as Oklahoma did not get to find out firsthand...do they actually serve Coca-Cola in this joint, and if so, is it bottled, canned, or fountain? Because if it's not fountain, don't blame me for not taking a bus out of Little Rock (had I been able to walk that far, which I was not). For real, though, when Kool was sponsoring stuff, they'd have happy people on hand to give away packs of those puppies, at first, just like "sample" packs, then, as the walls began to close in, full-size 20 packs (and boxes, if you got there early enough!). Not the same thing I know, but quite seriously - do they serve the good stuff there, the real fountain Coke from the syrup?
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Dude, you gotta realize that at the time, Blue Note was all but dead, and Applause was like making you parade naked in front of your conquerors and then they mock your impotence, like ha ha ha, look at the two-legged blind gerbils, they has ALL those riches and look, where is their god now? "Applause", that was a sneer, not an enthusiatory.
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perhaps that's the holdup.
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