Niko

here's the old thread?

if i read this here right http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography_and_the_law#Copyright then francis wolff's cover photographs are still protected in the UK until 2041 (he died in 1971 + 70 years)... but maybe they got around that protection through the collage they made (iirc avid does not use the original covers of blue note albums); and reid miles died in 1993 so that would make it 2063...

i always forget these things and they don't really matter, but doesn't the original artwork have a longer protection? same for remastering and stuff unless they do their own vinyl rips?

and if you buy one you won't go to heaven no matter what the test in mikelz777's signature tells you. (plus if you buy it from the US, someone is guilty of something - and if you're aware of that then at least morally part of the guilt is yours - like if you order cocain from a place where it's not illegal) (plus if you buy something which looks so ugly - ...)

i don't get why there's still market for this type of cheap reissue (both legit and less legit) where you buy a huge pile of albums with little documentation in ugly packaging ... as far as i can see this type of release becomes more and more common - but in the age of downloads and free streaming sites to me this seems like the opposite of what i would have expected to happen - i can listen to, say, the hank mobley mosaic legally and for free anytime i want - why should i spent money on "3 classic albums" in that type of package.

just because it's on my mind right now and i can't find the interview, drummer Bill Heine is the "empty handed painter from the street" from the Bob Dylan song... doug ramsey also made a companion post http://www.artsjournal.com/rifftides/2011/10/ill-be-seeing-you.html in the comments, there's a link leading to red mitchell's vocalese version of I'll be Seeing You from the Atlantic album (singing along with the album)

the comments to the review are worth reading as well!

happy birthday chris!!

glad to see the label is reactivated (or, at least, i have the impression there are new releases i hadn't seen before) http://www.smallsrecords.com/wp/catalog/ just streaming the alex hoffman album and really like it

that is indeed a difficult question - if you want to come up with something truly remarkable and original in 1971, you've probably been working on it for a good portion of the sixties, too... that holds to a lesser degree for less original music... i am far from a brötzmann expert but his 60s output includes For Adolphe Sax (1967) Machine Gun (1968) Nipples (1969) More Nipples (1969) Fuck de Boere: Dedicated to Johnny Dyani (1970) would agree though that brötzmann's music had a decided "the sixties are over" appeal already on Machine Gun (roughly, taking the music of Albert Ayler and replacing the spiritual side with beer, tits and automatic weapons) here's another supporter of Soft Machine btw

happy birthday!!

Chris A will be 80 tomorrow so he might very well be the winner!

RIP one of his compositions was in a saxophone practice book i used to have, and of course i remember him from kevin ayers albums...

surprised to see that noone has voted for joe henderson (my #6 most influential after ayler)

in case anyone else keeps returning to jim's chick ramirez post, here's the band in question

fwiw there appears to be one more in the current batch: Howard Roberts - Antelope Freeway / Equinox Express Elevator

in michael fitzgerald's discography it says "Private tape still exists. Reportedly, Fruscella does not play on all selections. Specifics unknown."

i am really surprised to see brownie and you supporting this album which i really had trouble listening to for more than a few seconds in a row (largely due to the arrangements/compositions which come before and after the solos...); will have to give it another chance...

"Miles Ahead was the last Miles Columbia I bought, and I never listen to it (in fact, I think I may never have listened to it)." so you noticed only after buying? there are exceptions though (like those Dexter Gordon Savoy recordings where every single tune is called Dexter... ) but in principle i agree and in the back of my mind there's this particularly outrageous example which i just can't remember...

totally agree, strange of her not to even give him a clue, i wouldn't want to be mentioned in the credits of, say, "Vampires in the Midwest" either...

when i went to Krakow (recommended) i made a stop in Wroclaw which is nice, too, though not quite as spectacular; only changed trains in Poznan and it seemed considerably less charming than the other two

fwiw, Live At Berkeley Jazz Festival Vol.2 is on the Enja CD Inside Story

indeed though i don't think it has been circulating wildly, otherwise some people would have known

see my post above, i am fairly certain that someone somewhere on this board said that the album had been heard by a handful of people which at least opens the possibility that some copies were out... it's a bit short at least for a 12' album so maybe it was aborted or it was a late 10' album that fell through the cracks...

track titles and stuff look weird, there's a huge variation in running time between different takes, the titles reveal either a "blues project" or titles assigned by the engineer or such (the info in fitzgerald's discography with the matrix numbers looks as if it comes from session logs or so?)... and even with the longest versions of each tune it's barely 28 minutes (the cd is longer but there are 6 alternate takes) so apparently unfinished... or 10'?