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This works.

Uh, yes.

Whatever the conventions were/are, it would appear that Sonny's contract with RCA had enough loopholes that they (at least the French arm) thought they could do something that Sonny thought they couldn't, and the lawyers worked it out to basically say "no more of this, RCA". I don't know if the original French item was withdrawn from circulation, but I'm pretty sure that there was no further production of it. That material didn't see light again until the CD era (not counting whatever action there wa in Japan, that's a whole 'nother market). Perhaps relevant, the contract that Sonny signed with RCA was by all accounts not a standard "jazz contract". Based on the size of the advance and the media hoopla, they had plans for him. So, god only knows what kinds of clauses and sub-clauses were in that thing.

Issuing was not the issue, payment was. The way I heard it was that French RCA just put this stuff on the market without any appropriate payment to anybody, nor with a plan to ever pay anybody. Sonny either sued and won, or else got a settlement. Either way, the deal was no more vault material from RCA. The Village Gate stuff was lifted/stolen from the RCA vaults and was not a legitimate issue. There's still stuff in there, though, at least there's stuff logged as still being there.

Or even as he continues to live? The whole Road Shows series was unthinkable not that long ago...my own hunch is that between the loss of his wife and his own creeping frailties, sonny might have begun the whole "documentation/legacy" thing. OTOH, I don't know that the whole RCA experience went down well with him...large advance, pressure to be a "star" and have a "hit" (some of it self-applied, apparently), not sure if that's a period he'd want to put sunshine on.

Have now completed the new seasons of Sherlock, House Of Cards, and Orange Is The New Black. Other than a .25 star deduction to Sherlock for veering just a little teence too far in actionmovieland, this is all ***** stuff in my book. Also thoroughly enjoying the new season of Master Of None, which is delightfully non-bingeable. Eat one or two, digest thoroughly, come back tomorrow or the day after. Good stuff, this type of satisfying and non-addictive entertainment.

They were released by French RCA w/o Sonny's permission. Some guy found the tapes and figured hey, why not, they're ours. The outcome of that was a lawsuit or some other binding agreement that the released items would be allowed to stay in proint, but nothing else from the RCA vaults would be released unless and until agreed to by Sonny. Somewhere in an old Coda magazine there is a discography of all known Sonny Rollins RCA sessions, released and unreleased. There is a buttload of the latter, iirc. The lineups are mouthwatering, and even knowing full damn well that most of it is likely...."frustrating"...I would still love to hear it.

https://www.discogs.com/Sonny-Rollins-The-Alternative-Rollins/release/4035668

https://www.axios.com/the-worlds-largest-instrument-exists-in-a-cave-2439864417.html?utm_medium=linkshare&utm_campaign=organic Technically, Luray Cavern's Great Stalacpipe Organ is not an organ at all, but a percussion instrument known as a lithophone. Instead of blowing air through pipes, it operates by rhythmically striking 37 different stalactites scattered across the three-and-a-half-acre cave.

Yes, this performance video is meant to be the culmination of a documentary series about the earliest recordings of various American "roots" musics, how these recordings came to be made, who made them (on both sides of the mike), and the impact they had. It's 4 parts in all, three parts doc (kind of Ken Burns-ish in approach, with Robert Redford narrating, and some "usual suspect" type talking heads) and this fourth part, the concert. Like John S., I enjoyed the doc parts (although without any illusions that they tell "the whole story"). I also have no interest in the concert show.

https://www.axios.com/einsteins-key-prediction-has-been-observed-for-the-first-time-2435286280.html Scientists have observed what Albert Einstein once said was impossible to see — distant starlight bending around a massive star outside our solar system. The discovery with the Hubble Space Telescope is the first direct detection of a key prediction of Einstein's general theory of relativity. Go deeper: When Einstein was developing the general theory of relativity 100 years ago, he predicted that gravity would act like a magnifying lens when a distant star passed by a closer object, brightening and bending the starlight. But "there is no hope of observing this phenomenon directly" because stars are so far apart, he wrote in Science in 1936. What's new: Scientists have been able to detect the bending of light around our own sun. (They first confirmed the effect, for instance, in a 1919 eclipse.) But, until now, they have not been able to observe the phenomenon known as gravitational microlensing directly. In the new study, astronomers were able to pinpoint a moment in time when a white dwarf star and a second star were being observed in such a fashion that lensing could be seen for the first time. They were able to then determine the mass of the white dwarf star – which had only been possible in theory until now. Why it matters: Because the majority of all stars are destined to become white dwarfs at some point, the ability to determine their mass (and, thus, their fate) gives scientists more information on the makeup of our galaxy and allows them to better understand the history and evolution of galaxies like our own. The details: Einstein predicted a ray of light passing near a massive star like a white dwarf to be deflected by twice the amount that would ordinarily be expected based on what we know of gravity. He also posited that, if we were able to observe distant starlight from two stars in the foreground and background, the gravitational microlensing would result in a perfect circle of light – known as an "Einstein ring." Scientists didn't observe a perfect circle in the new study, but in searching through 5,000 stars they found two that were out of alignment – essentially resulting in an asymmetrical Einstein ring. That, in turn, allowed them to measure the mass of the white dwarf star.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/09/science/obituary-neurologist-isabelle-rapin-autism.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fobituaries&action=click&contentCollection=obituaries&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0 Dr. Rapin’s focus on autism evolved from her studies of communications and metabolic disorders that cause mental disabilities and diminish children’s ability to navigate the world. For decades she treated deaf children, whose difficulties in communicating limited their path to excelling in school and forced some into institutions. “Communications disorders were the overarching theme of my mother’s career,” Dr. Oaklander said in an interview. In a short biography written for the Journal of Child Neurology in 2001, Dr. Rapin recalled a critical moment in her work on autism. “After evaluating hundreds of autistic children,” she wrote, “I became convinced that the report by one-third of parents of autistic preschoolers, of a very early language and behavioral regression, is real and deserving of biologic investigation.” Along the way, she helped debunk the myth that emotionally cold mothers were to blame for their children’s autism, and advocated early educational intervention for autistic children, with a focus on their abilities, not their disabilities. She also popularized the use of the term “autism spectrum disorder,” which refers to a wide range of symptoms and their severity. “She would never let us say that autism is a single disorder,” Dr. Mark Mehler, chairman of the department of neurology at Einstein, said in an interview. “She always said there were a thousand different causes.”

Drink that water!

Listening to this today. It's fun, and in many ways seems quaint by today's standards, not just some of the arrangements, but the whole broadcast presentation. One the whole, I like it much more than the studio equivalents of the same material. Have not looked at the details yet, who played lead trumpet on the first selections? Also, happy as hell to hear a bit of the Monitor Beacon at the end of one broadcast. I use that as the ringtone on my phone.

I wanna be like you when I grow up.

Yes.

There are people who will tell you that "the market" has more than rebounded from where it was pre-crash. Now, when you ask them most of that rebound ended up....

If you can separate Spector's outsized ego/aggression from his equally outsized insecurities (self-loathing?), you're doing better than me!

Bridge Over Troubled Walls?