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I'm sorta/kinda convinced that this here is the Deep Secret DNA of almost every Steely Dan Song: Brubeck - at once less hip and less corny than is easily assumed. In the world of jazz, that takes a real man of his own kind. I've done a complete 360 (sic) about him.

If somebody does their own work, hey. But so much of this Euro-PD MusiPorn stuff is just straight rips of other people's work. Or worse. I don't care how good it sounds, if it's somebody else's work presented under the guise of NOT being somebody else's work, screw it. That's plain old okey-doke bullshit. You want to know why you can get 5000 LPs on 2 CDs for $0.74? Do the math. I have no temptation at all for this. But these kids today, th3ey don't realize what's being offered to them, and yeah, this shit is in Half-Prices and other Reputable Establishments, and you know how those things go...

Thanks for confirming. I'd be quite happy if more turned up, but that seems unlikely at this point.

It's got a Bihari Bothers pedigree! https://www.discogs.com/Little-Richard-Little-Richard-Sings-His-Greatest-Hits-Recorded-Live/release/2634144 Per the item pictured: https://www.discogs.com/Little-Richard-The-Incredible-Little-Richard-Sings-His-Greatest-Hits-Recorded-Live/release/2660363 Title on labels: The Incredible Little Richard (Sings His Greatest Hits Recorded Live) Printed and made in Italy. 70s budget reissue of Modern MST 100. Printed on back cover and on labels: 1) "An Original Kent/Modern Recording". In fact that is an original Modern recording. 2) "Mono recordings electronically reprocessed to give stereo effect". In fact there are stereo recordings, just as on original Modern release.

TWO albums with Oliver Nelson! Neither are in any way "deep", but it's interesting to see how there was a perceived commercial market for this type of thing, and how both principles engaged in the "commercial process" without in any way pandering, Nelson in particular, I can't believe so many people paid him to write all those jagged-ass horn voicing's, I guess they didn't realize what was was going on, or else maybe he hid it really well. Billy Taylor on these records is easy, facile, non-threatening, but still projecting a sense of social awareness...shallow, perhaps, but wide(r). Impossible to underestimate the accomplishment of being a successful businessman and artist/"artist", getting to have more than usual control over your own destiny and narrative. The business is not set up to encourage that, especially not in those days...I recall Taylor commenting once about he got shut out of a lot of things because he would not participate in the Birdland heroin pool, guys would get together, pool their funds, cop, and then...whatever. It was a real "in or out" world, and you know the people encouraging the in-ers were looking for every opportunity to hook that fish and all that came with it. Billy Taylor was his own fish and didn't bite any of those hooks. so....not a really "profound" player, perhaps, but for sure somebody fight the other good fights with certainty and determination. That Jazzmobile thing ran a lot deeper than the "general jazz public" maybe knew, deeper than I knew at the time for sure. Getting ALL kinds of players out into al kinds of communities. I used to be creeped out by Billy Taylor because of his TV Tube size glasses and projected all that onto him personally and musically, but....my bad for that.

Yeah, my attitude towards true bootlegged/pirate/etc stuff is that labels like Moon were once a necessary evil, and now they're not. Still, we "all" have a taste for forbidden musical fruits, so if you do get something from Solar or one of these other labels...that's an entry on the debit side of your conscience ledger. So do something to at least balance the sucker. It doesn't negate the fact of the debit, but it does allow for a net gain to the overall musical product cosmos. Better to give than to receive, if you want your sponge to keep working, squeeze it out, right? and also - whatever you buy, or even take, that is not "official", if you have enjoyed it past the level of a one-time oh-ok-that-happened level of engagement, the moral imperative to purchase the material when it is legitimately released is pretty damn strong, if you ask me. Now as far as those Euro-PD MusiPorn 25-on-3 Non-Stop Orgies, hey, y'all do what you want. But I ain't going there, that's where death to the genetic pool takes hold and I don't want that on my conscience ledger at all.

The question of "legit"...my understanding is that these tapes are owned by the various state(?) radio channels that recorded and aired the concerts. Releases were signed that gave these companies this right and it seems that the terms have not expired or otherwise changed. I really don't see how/why these things would be considered illegal in the U.S., because they're not a type of thing where "their PD laws are different from "ours", but perhaps they are anyway. either way, I feel totally comfortable buying these things, and I feel perfectly comfortable with estates directing their energies into securing stateside releases on established commercial labels.

Saw dan online here yesterday, glad that his corner of the world is getting at least a little back on track after Irma. Hello Dan Gould!

I do not remember. I saw it on a jazz video show (sic) that was on some Tampa TV station when I lived there (1990-91). I couldn't find it on YouTube. But it was definitely an "official video", staged and framed and label-produced.

It's probably at the library, since this isn't Sunday, when they are closed.

Here's a version that I found a few years ago. Who knew?

omg, marcus roberts had one that was the worst pos i've seen to this day. people standing still in white tails and shit, like dead people playing dead music. i could have gotten that without the video, but i guess they wanted to leave nothing to the imagination after all.

There are people around who have said that Lee was getting all attitudinal around Helen, just blatantly disrespecting her and flaunting his younger girlfriend, taunting her about that shit. People would say Lee, that's not right, this woman saved your ass and has been better to you than you been to yourself, but Lee was all fuck that old bitch. So it's not like Helen Morgan just wigged out all at once. These were passionate people in general and you know, affairs of the heart...what was it Al Green said...oh yeah, love can make you do wrong. Conventional wisdom says that you play with fire, you gonna get burned. I think that both Al Green and conventional wisdom tell the truth. http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/homicide-murder-manslaughter-32637-2.html Voluntary Manslaughter This is often called a "heat of passion" crime. Voluntary manslaughter occurs when a person: is strongly provoked (under circumstances that could similarly provoke a reasonable person) and kills in the heat of passion aroused by that provocation. For “heat of passion” to exist, the person must not have had sufficient time to “cool off” from the provocation. That the killing isn’t considered first or second degree murder is a concession to human weakness. Killers who act in the heat of passion may kill intentionally, but the emotional context is a mitigating factor that reduces their moral blameworthiness. The classic example of voluntary manslaughter involves a husband who comes home unexpectedly to find his wife committing adultery. If the sight of the affair provokes the husband into such a heat of passion that he kills the paramour right then and there, a judge or jury might very well consider the killing to be voluntary manslaughter. I'm LOL-ing at how the "classic example" is a man catching his wife. Pretty sure that there's more than enough of the other way around to go all the way around.

I think it's Sphitt Pheckler - Walls Come Down Or Else!!! That album was HUGE over there back then.

Never a "fan", but I have come to develop a great appreciation of his touch, technique, and overall ability. The man had some serious skills! Also, he did a quite extended interview with Cadence that ended up taking 4(!) parts. His history went deeper and further back than I had known, and he had some pretty serious stories to tell. Excellent reading.

Yeah, I'm all for people getting paid. And although I fully recognize the legality of those issues in terms of originally signed releases, I certainly get the notion that legal and "right" aren't always the same thing. So yeah, I get the estate wanting to get more fully paid, and I see no reason why they shouldn't be playing this card with this material. It's not something I feel a pressing need to pick up, but I have no doubt whatsoever that I'm not the target market, and really, Paris is historic in a deep sense. Not "historic", historic. It needs to be widely available in a way that anybody can get it without trying!

Truly memorable indeed! RIP.

Plush digs! Looks like it would be louder than fuck, though.

Losin has the Stockholm intro as being released on TAX CD 3716-2 http://www.plosin.com/milesahead/Sessions.aspx?s=600322&c=1 The Copenhagen intro otoh is showing as having never been issued, and is posted here as a quiet tribute to Garrett Morris: 1 Introduction (Norman Granz)1:07 "Thank you. And now, I'd like to present the next group, beginning with the pianist, Wynton Kelly... The bassist is Paul Chambers... The drummer is Jimmy Cobbs [sic]... On tenor saxophone, John Coltrane... On trumpet, Miles Davis..." http://www.plosin.com/milesahead/Sessions.aspx?s=600324&c=1

Is this everything from this date/sessions/project/whatever? Tenderly One For My Baby If You Could See Me Now Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Laura Mister, You've Gone And Got The Blues Ill Wind April In Paris Bobby Tucker, Barney Kessell, Red Callender (iirc), & Lee Young...a pretty remarkable set, actually, I want to make sure I'm not missing anything from it. Interestingly, perhaps, at one point packaged by MGM as a "programme", almost a "concept album". https://www.discogs.com/Billy-Eckstine-Tenderly/master/991828 Here's the one that has been messing me up for about a week now, convention at once fully embraced and totally defied + breath control out the ass. Breath control, phrasing, pitch, time, every damn thing, stick around for the last note, BILLY ECKSTINE!!!!

Remember, these were legit releases per the terms of releases and such signed at the time. I said Malaco had Paris, but looks like it was Laserlight. Malaco does have other RET things, though: https://www.malaco.com/product-category/jazz/

I’m in the library a lot. Not on Sunday, when it’s closed. a-HA!!!!