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Prestige was easy to get where I lived as well, and this was assisted by their putting new cover arts and creating a new "historical series" or what have you every few years. Stuff always looked fresh even when it wasn't.

Or a good - nay, EXCELLENT - reason to never do THAT again...

Yep. They kept repackaging/selling the Mulligan stuff, and hell, World Pacific used Shankar to launch an entire "Indian Music" catalog (much of it leased from EMI, IIRC). It was fad/cult/whatever audience, but there were a LOT of Ravi Shankar records on World Pacific before Monterrey. I think Richard Bock did ok, to be honest. The Liberty buyout helped him along, but he was doing ok to begin with, that would be my guess.

"pretty frequent" = where there was a gig that was worth their while. Freddie would make any lkind of record if the money was right, and good for him for so doing. Cat works his ass off, cat deserves to get paid before he dies (and even after). Tony's own band? Not really, that band was a vehicle for his own composing, as were all of his solo project post-VSOP. Tony was a very good writer whose voice too often got lost in the VSOP Hype-Shuffle. And although it was (usually) acoustic, that's where the similarity stopped. I liked VSOP's records, they were very high quality and enjoyable diversions. But ultimately, as diversions is where they land.

At the time, it was fun in an "oh wow, they can still do that when they want to" kind of way. Now, it still is fun in that way, only so much time has passed that it's not really relevant to anybody's reality that they could, it's like DUH, OF COURSE they could. shouldn't have been any question, but, you know, maybe there was. At the time, any time Wayne played more than three notes together, it was perceived as a "revelation" or something. But hell, people like that, they don't lose anything. They might get old, they might die, they might go elsewhere, but you don't LOSE skills like that, you just don't. But hey, it was a gig, people were thrilled by it and were willing to pay money to hear it, so why not. But note - not one of them went back into that type of thing as a full-time career path. Not one of them.

It's not any one player, but most of the Marvin Gaye records thru What's Going On thru In Our Lifetime had memorable/meaningful saxophonistical contributions throughout.

My favorite VSOP record was the last one, which was (is?) kind of obscure. The Frisky Factor is pretty high here!

Annette took Paul, Yoko took John, The Beatles are never getting back together, so let's just get over it already, ok?

Still hangin' with Hale, I need at least another set of his work, maybe more. And check out the pianists, Zita Carno & Natalie Hinderas, people who know how this music go.

No love for Larry?

Alex is a good guy and a fine player. Hoping for a good turnout and a safe crowd!

I'm thinking that both Les McCaan & The Jazz Crusaders were doing well enough prior to the Liberty takeover. Not Mega-Hits, but solid sellers. Of course, they did better afterwards, but the were doing ok before.

Good mix, not at all "predictable"!

"VSOP" was originally a concert, and it had three bands,

It's ok to know stuff, even if it involves reading

Boykin's experience with Blue Note and publishing echoes Steve Swallow's...only Swallow played ball. Parlan, otoh, lost his contract and got his record put in the can...at least per Boykins here.

Wow, I hope they're not fucking up... There is a difference between a third dose and a booster shot. A third dose is given to severely immunocompromised people as soon as 28 days after the second dose because eligible individuals did not have a strong enough response to the first two doses of an mRNA vaccine because of their conditions. Booster shots, which are currently only approved for Pfizer recipients, are additional doses given after the protection from original shots decreases over time; currently, the Pfizer booster is given to eligible people six months after their second dose. https://www.weny.com/story/44839566/chemung-county-to-offer-third-doses-of-pfizer-moderna-to-severely-immunocompromised-people-at-upcoming-vaccination-clinics

Well, that sucks. RIP Turbanator. I'll move my hand, not that I need to.

Indeed. I do hope this is just a rumor.

You got a Moderna booster already?

A quiet secret about Keepnews/Riverside (or maybe it was Bill Grauer's doing?) was their early-ish line (such as it was) of "polite" (relatively speaking) piano albums of standards. They even got Randy Weston to do one!

Hey team, here's the post-listening listening companions! https://sunramusic.bandcamp.com/album/kosmos-in-blue-a-john-gilmore-anthology-vol-1 https://sunramusic.bandcamp.com/album/blues-at-midnight-a-john-gilmore-anthology-vol-2 And if you're thinking, oh, this is just all Saturn stuff I've already got, well...no, it's not.

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