JSngry

Using lead sheets without receiving permission/clearance?

I went to an Aebersold clinic in 1979(?), and there was a lot of "for educational purposes only" items being sold on a cash-only basis. A lot. Having said that, I get that it takes cash for an operation such as that to stay afloat. Still, yeah, "a check and some updated agreement" would not have been out of place, I would think. Just the cost of doing business, and make no mistake, that was/is a business.

Unfortunately, when a business gets to this point, the only use for cash flow is to get money for depleted cash flow...I believe the formal financial term is "gasping for air"? And then, you sell the brand name. A few decades later "Mosaic", like,"Bell & Howell", becomes you go-to source for affordable As Seen On TV products for every taste and any budget.

I mean, I get it - Mosaic no longer wants or needs my business, and that's their prerogative. I guess they've identified a fresh new exciting market for readily available CDs repackaged into a fresh new exciting black box. Good for them, thanks for their service, and here's wishing them the best in their exciting fresh new Golden Age.

That works for stink, not stale. And speaking of stale, a Joe Henderson Mosiac set seem like and incredibly stale idea.

Stale does not become invalid, it just becomes stale. You want to remove staleness remove invalidity. In the meantime, got any Black & White 78s? I hear that a legendary jazz reissue company has run out of flea markets, or wherever else they've gotten things over the years. Apparently that's how they do things.

Or they could, you know, make an effort to actually do something worthy of our interest. Show some imagination, show some knowledge, get us something excitintg. The Black & Blue set actually interests me. But I guess they're still rounding up source material and soliciting 78s via chat board members. Pretty sure that's not a go-to way to do a set like that. Lack of resources is one thing, lack of imagination something else altogether.

Who's the target market for a Joe Henderson Blue Note Mosaic? Young people who are new(er) to the music and who don't really buy CDs? Is this going to be a vinyl set? Do they have a real plan here, or are they just sorta gasping at straws and living on fumes? No matter, not of interest to me, this proposed set. But I do love me some Joe Henderson and hope that they can sell it to people who actually will benefit from it.

No ideas on how to complete it, but what I have of the RCA stuff is pretty interesting in a "transitional" type of way that is maybe no adequately looked at in critical evaluations...the New Testament sound did not arise out of nowhere.

I've seen Collectables use exact Krazy Kat covers, but past that, no idea.

There is ( or was?) a market for those things amongst their target market. So, yeah, there was money being made.

Sounds pretty coke-y.

both "Azalea" and "Cosmet" are two of the better Rollins cuts from the Milestone years, yet neither made that Silver City set. go figure that. The one that makes me smile (for no good reason) is the opener, basic doo-wop chages overandoveranoverandover and if I listen to it from above, like all I want to hear is a tenor solo, then it bores the shit out of me. But if I listen to from below, like I am where I am and these tenor sounds just pop in and say hi and then leave again, overandoveranoverandover, it tickles the piss outta me, because, you know, life is like that for most people most of the time, they are going to be where they are doing what they're doing most the time. So when some noise comes in to effect a momentary change, lord, when it's a GREAT noise, be thankful for that. It ain't gonna last but for a second or two either way, but a BAD noise is just bad for everybody. Bad, like HARMFUL! Too much harm as it is.

Now that's a very stealth record! Sharing the back cover here, because when I went through a fitness (weights and running, got up to 9 miles a day!) bag in the late 70s, this picture was a bit of an inspiration, I wanted to be THIS person, in my own way. Fit, vital, and no neck strap!

That's one minute for every hour in the day!

Gumbo is far better eaten than heard.

It's the same outfit. Same label. Same company. If you want to do a deep search on the Collectables label, you will find a LOT of "obscure" music, including a Leo Parker record of his Gotham sides (including alternates!). Tiny Grimes records, Dolphin's Of Hollywood Doo-Wop records, Frank Motley (the RRK of trumpeters!), just ALL kinds of stuff, and I would be surprised if any of it was more thanany kind of "legit", ok? Maybe, but maybe not. So that's Collectables. The other half of the equation here is Aubrey Mayhew of Chatlie Parker Records. Read about him here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_Mayhew and then here: https://www.discogs.com/label/33298-Charlie-Parker-Records If you find them, you will see that the CPR records catalos had some appearance as Everest reissues, and then again as ALA (not Alamac!) reissues. Also, I have at least one "original" CPR issue that came out on Collectables, Yusef Lateef Lost In Sound. Surely there were others? Aubrey Mayhew was a wheeler-dealer, or so they say. And the Collectables label was probably know stranger to wheeling and dealing themselves. I would feel confident "assuming" that Mayhew had a tape, this Cecil Payne tape, and a labelname to go with it. So him and Collectables wheeled and dealed, and this, dear music lover, is the result.

Got a little more detail for Cory (seems like a really nice guy, btw)...and apparently Canadian copyright expires 50 years after the death of the author, no exceptions or renewals: https://www.copyrightlaws.com/duration-of-copyright-in-canada/ Now, that doesn't explain (to me) why a song like "Body & Soul" is still listed with an active publisher, but there's probably some back-end reason for that. Cory did say that he ran all the tunes through the "mechanical rights organization", so he's doing what appears to be due diligence. Still seems weird to me, but weird doesn't mean wrong.

I like the "focused bundle" approach, it's an appealing sales angle and priced to move. Of course, hindsight IS 20/20, but just saying...I don't think it's accidental that happy buyer and happy seller made a deal in, what, less than a day.

Wishing strength, positivity, and real healing to all affected, as well as clear-headed sobriety for those who aren't.

You know, I don't even bother to look. I know it's there, and am happy to let it be there until it goes away, if it ever does. Their thinned herd is my thinned herd. OTOH, popcorn rules.

They're really single-serving microwave popcorns.

killjoy

Maurice Robinson(?), alto? DC guy. Is that him doing what I though might have been Frank Morgan?

Have you tried microwaving them?