JSngry

I'm not going to buy a Hank Mobley set so they'll do a Lee Morgan set so they'll do a Horace Silver set etc. At what point does redundancy become redundant? I think I will get this set, though, because I really don't have it all on CD, and I want to. But really, from any angle, theirs or mine, this is a lazy man's set. Bill Barron would take some real work, just as Tina Brooks did, just as Herbie Nichols did, just as so many others did, even the Coleman Hawkins set did. You put the focus on somebody with a voice/unique body of work, you gather the material, and then comes the hard part - making the case to the marketplace that this particular body of work, this person and their music matters in a way and on a scale that it has not yet mattered. And then the marketplace convenes and enough people, hopefully, take note, have a listen, consider the evidence and the proposition of matters-ness, and then come away feeling enriched/enlightened about having engaged in something about which they otherwise knew little (or less). That's why we love(d) Mosaic, not because they repackage shit we already know. Well, ok, that too, but that's not a particularly noble form of love, right?

I don't think the issue is "the" cloud, I'm not sure that there's any such thing. Cloud computing/storage is a technique more than it is an entity. No problem there. The problem is whose "cloud" will it be, theirs or ours. And I'm perfectly willing to engage in a consensual cloud-based joining of individual libraries to be made available for streaming to its collective contributors. But how legal is that going to be? Let's find out, I say. Because at this point of things, you know, fuck Sony. Them and that other record company. Fuck 'em both.

Bud Freeman, Jess Stacy, George Wettling on Commodore. oh shit, since we're no longer look for "obscure"...

not a trio

One of the very best, imo:

"Will" would be unfounded paranoia. "Might" is simply an objective look at the current controls that are not in place. "Might" is correct, at this time. I'll take "might" over "can't" any day - and then proceed accordingly within the bounds of basic human decency and executable personal choice. Oh, btw - the "end of CD" and being your own archivist does not mean making more CDs. Fuck that, there's not enough room in this house. But externals are cheap, small, and reliable enough.Even personally owned server networks are a viable proposition for like-minded individuals. Speaking of which, I need to somehow get the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble record on Red ripped from K-Mart cassette to digital files while/if I still can. If I lose that one, it's my own fault. Just saying, the poles are this - either you have a collection of your own or you consume somebody else's. The model of the previous century seemed to count on at least some overlap of those two.The model for this current century seems to be aligning with the latter, at the expense of the former. Good luck on that one!

I only have a cheap, hissy cassette dub of an LP. I hope it still plays, I'm afraid to find out! I'm surprised it's not available for streaming, Everything is, or soon will be!

If I want to, I can probably get it from the same places they do. So perhaps they now become of less interest since their well is drying up. Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream. or One of these days (and it won't be long) You're gonna look for Valdo and he'll be gone.

Cloud storage is a great backup. But Plan B is by definition not Plan A.

And don't trust the cloud, or more to the point, don't trust it like it's going to be there forever. Maybe yes, maybe no. Is the cloud yours? When it comes to being able to access your media on your terms, self-reliance is the long-term way to go. Of course, when there's no more electricity as we now know it, that'll be another thing. But hopefully nobody here lives to see that.

People - you need to be your own library, your own archive. Now more than ever, and it may well get worse.

Was the record player for sale as well?

one of the better ones, and one of the more obscure ones (I think?)

The group is no longer really "obscure", but these, their first three records, are. none have been on CD? All three are superb.

Surely this is not obscure?

Regarding Konitz, has Motion made it's way into the "standard library" yet? If not, the library's not yet complete.

He ain't meeting me at the station!

How different is this from most any Blaxploitation film of the time? Just sayin'...be glad we've come further than where we once were, but the wrinkle with any kind of "futurism" is that it only changes the things it recognizes as a problem in its current time.

Oh my! http://www.pickwickgroup.com/catalogue/details/716162

My mom got me that Liverpool Beats record from the A&P a few weeks after the Sullivan show. She tried to convince me it was The Beatles, and for all I know, she really thought it was. I figured out pretty quickly that it wasn't, but had a good time playing the record anyway.

There ya' go. You're paying for the name.