T.D.

I always found the cover weird, but iirc the liner notes clearly explain that it's a Bunsen burner photographed through a 25-pound block of ice, "at the moment that the flame of a Bunsen burner on the far side burned through it, with the patterns and color being created by the flame" [I looked it up]. Brought back memories of school chemistry labs. You guys wondered about the cover but didn't check the liner notes? I'm an Ernie Henry fan, but like the OP go back and forth on the album...sometimes I enjoy it, other times it feels monotonous and wears on me (perhaps due to absence of piano).

[Italics added] True, but on the other hand, how widely has the release info. been disseminated? How big is Nimbus West's e-mail list? I suspect not very. I've no idea whether they've purchased advertising (is that done any more? 🤔). I only heard of the release through this board, so I'm not surprised the forum accounts for many of the sales.

Whoa, nasty stuff. Hoping the good guys prevail. Nimbus West might be in a transitional state these days...perhaps they're beefing up the website and operations. If you go to the Nimbus West bandcamp page https://nimbuswest.bandcamp.com/ it links to a nonexistent (domain expired?) site "nimbuswest.com" rather than nimbuswestrecords.com as given above in this thread.

I trust Matt will respond. Not knowing where the company is located (turned out to be USA), I e-mailed him last night (US time) and he replied almost instantly.

You mean currently? News has been scarce the past few years. Fairly recent (2021) interview at https://thequietus.com/articles/29717-carla-bley-interview

I guess that means "Carpe Diem". Interesting, because I've bought a whole lot of Nimbus West CDs from Dusty Groove's site @$9.99 apiece. But with a pressing of 250, I pre-ordered now rather than rolling the dice on that possibility.

[Emphasis added] I agree. What really turned me on to bebop was discovering Tadd Dameron's compositions, and I still think that's a good entry point. I'm paywalled from the NYT, and that's just as well, since the articles would only piss me off. I think those features are some odd combination of trolling and the author[s] striving to project as hipper than thou.

Thanks. I'm in. The 1979 Live at I.U.C.C. set released on Soul Jazz Records (UK) was really good.

I've also read that anecdote, though I can't recall where.

Preorder on this, hoping it'll soon be shipped.

IIRC, for a couple of years after the Concord liquidation, the US vendor Newbury Comics had many sales and was the "go to" destination for OJC CDs...I wonder if Newbury Comics is still around; haven't noticed them for many years.

Incredible resemblance between Clark Terry and Bud Powell! I had no idea, thanks for pointing that out. I think the "Mumbles" thing, which was even a single, first appeared on the 1964 album (don't know which was released first, single or album). I always had the impression it became a schtick that he would often perform. I'm pretty sure I saw it long ago on TV...

Funny thing about this reissue: they made Kenny the headliner (dropped "Continuum" and listed personnel in alphabetical order?) but neglected to spell his surname correctly. 🤣 [Error in jazz album cover / notes? How unusual...]

Looking at discogs, it seems to be a reissue of a 1982 Tadd Dameron tribute Mad About Tadd by a group called Continuum (including Kenny Barron). I've considered buying the 2003 CD release of that name, but never did. Claims to have been recorded at Van Gelder Studio and mixed at Fantasy Studios. Allmusic says it was released on an obscure independent label. The original LP releases were on the Quicksilver and Palo Alto labels, both based in California, but I know nothing of those labels. Mystery to me. Might be an interesting story behind it (Van Gelder Studio?). I think it's probably legit, but am not certain.

It was so good they used it twice.

The topic goes back to an earlier thread, in which several posters asserted that the Eagles started out by carrying on with the "California sound" but gradually went downhill. I'm inclined to agree with that, but my only exposure is the singles. On the other hand, I heard Tom Waits doing "Ol' 55" on the radio the other day, and my knee-jerk reaction was that I preferred the Eagles' rendition (granted I've heard that one a hundred times more often than Waits's). 😄

I vaguely recall two or three Don Henley quasi-hit singles that I heard on the radio and thought sucked less than the Eagles. Had to check allmusic... "Dirty Laundry" and "Boys of Summer" are in that category. However, the tunes are pretty Eagles-like iirc. But I never owned any recordings by either.

PM on Marion Brown/Dave Burrell – Live at the Black Musicians’ Conference 1981 (No Business) Howard Riley – Live in the USA (No Business)

I googled plastic cd sleeves with flap (no surrounding quotation marks; that seems to give fewer results) and got many hits, including Amazon, Bags Unlimited, Sleeve City, ... Maybe this link will work? https://www.google.com/search?q=plastic+cd+sleeves+with+flap&oq=plastic+cd+sleeves+with+flap

That's the same release I got. Agreed, fine record. The Message from the Tribe disc (2nd version - the first version has completely different tracks than later editions) is also outstanding. There have been a lot of great Japanese reissues of late...I'm going to have to stop looking at Dusty Groove's site in order to keep the budget within reason.🙄

Not sure exactly what type of sleeves you have in mind. The above, which looks similar to inner sleeves used by Ogun and some Japanese reissue labels, are all over the place. The pic comes from Sleevecity site, but they've gotta be on Amazon, eBay and other sites as well.

O. P.

There are some decent record stores scattered around the Mid-Hudson Valley, NY. Big recent growth has been in vinyl, afaict. For instance, I've found reasonably priced OJC CDs every time I've looked in Kingston, NY the past few years. Never left the shop empty-handed, visit about 3 times per year.