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Iron Man came out on Douglas, but posthumously, and after FM had folded. Alan Douglas was the producer and it looks like he ended up with the whole session(s).

Eustacia Aurell - Meet Me In Hi-Fi!!!

This one is da'bomb:

I'd think that the best way to promote shit is to simply get it right every time out. Or if something slips by, admit it and do what can be done to fix it. This guy just plows ahead with no acceptance of his failures whatsoever. I don't know the guy, but to me he projects an arrogance about his responsivity.

Now the real work begins.

What is Andy Williams doing conducting Beethoven? Does he do Moon River Sonata on here?

For a good while that was the only place you could find the Prestige Quintet "Round Midnight" if you wanted to compare it with the omnipresent Columbia version.

Jane Bunnett's music always speaks to me with an core integrity that I find extremely rare in musicians who do the "culture-hopping" thing.

The OJC CDs had this info. Not the LPs, though IIRC. Unless they had OBIs?

Thanks, looks like we can make it!

It's time for Creation.

Just looked into both of them and...I think we'll try to hit that one as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Care_Moore

Pre-OJC Prestige was always good (or bad, depending on how you looked at it) about putting new covers on some items in their catalog every few years, and with that came new, contemporaneous liner notes. That continued into the 24000 series The OJC juggernaut put a stop to that There's some interesting reading in there. A dedicated geek with proper resources could compile a nifty PDF for circulation to fellow geeks.

http://www.jazzlists.com/SJ_Label_Milestone_47000.htm

The bar is being lowered, meaning reduced benefit.

Giving the benefit of the doubt too often is just saying, hey, that's ok, it's not important. Well, it is important. And ok - how DO you not notice a totally different tenor player. An obvious difference in sound and tone. How do you get a drummer totally wrong when the source tape clearly gives the correct name. How do you not go forward with a major project without making sure that all the rights have been properly assigned/granted? These are not minor mistakes. A first-rate producer notices these things, researches them, and gets it right before taking the product to market. And I'm not somebody squawking from the bleachers. I'm a paying customer. I've got a right to bitch about stuff like this, if only because not once has this been a mea culpa issued. Not once. I believe the word that fits this guy is hubris?

What is most impressive to me is that the whole thing is free!

You know who I'm willing to cut quite a bit of slack? Those who bring a quality product at whatever is a fair price - without all the bullshit and blatant, oblivious fuckups.

Perfect!

That Prestige (Milestone was reserved for riverside material) twofer is still, to my knowledge, the most comprehensive packaging of that great night. Although it is missing Max's "Drum Conversation"....

If you go the LoneHill route, make sure to buy it second-hand. That way their bogus-ass ways don't get a profit!

That was a good band. I forget how many records they made for Mainstream...2 or 3.

King Pop-Pop - Poppin'!!!

The Monk Palo Alto record on impulse! that almost got cancelled because Zevvers didn't secure all the necessary rights before bloviating about his major new find. That was very careless and almost torpedoed what did indeed torn out to be a major release. Some of the best, maybe the best, later Monk on record. It was just a few years ago, surely you remember? It was getting hot up in here for a minute! The guy is aggressively positioning himself as the new king of reissues, presumably in the wake of Michael Cuscuna, but Cuscuna (who would occasionally screw up, sure) was publicly humble about his work and his importance and seldom made the type of basic fuckups that this Feldman guy has made. I mean, how do you NOT HEAR a tenor player who obviously NOT Sonny Stitt on a Sonny Stitt record? You have to either be deaf or just not give a damn.

I don't have that many of that era Mainstream, but the one I do have aren't the quietest pressings ever (or even close...)...but not as bad as you describe. Maybe your copy was well-played by a not-so-careful previous owner?