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  1. Yours for only $75,000! http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/johncoltrane
  2. From Mosaic: "Literally years in the making, this set introduces 23 previously unreleased gems approved by the artist himself. It was delayed by a fire on the Universal Studios lot in California which took much of the original Jamal trio LP masters with it and our search to reconstruct the music on the set from a variety on analog and digital sources sitting in vaults around the world. It's been a hell of a long time coming and we hope you enjoy The Complete Ahmad Jamal Trio Argo Sessions." This makes me sad. I'm glad Mosaic is putting this out though. The 1959 Newport Jazz Festival recording of this trio seems pretty awesome. It's almost tempted me into purchasing my first digital download ever! You can listen to a sample track from it here. Does anyone already have it? I just noticed is says "But Not for Me (Feat. Chet Baker).
  3. Now the Ellington CD $4.99 shipped from deepdiscount.com (tax for Illinois residents). I found some others from the Soundies label for cheap. Ray Noble - Complete Standard Transcriptions $3 Jimmy Dorsey - Complete Standard Transcriptions $3 Mel Torme - Complete World Transcriptions $4.17 Charlie Shavers - Shavers Shivers $3 Eddie Condon - Eddie Condon & Friends $3.99 Various Artists (Stuff Smith, Ben Webster, etc.) - Masters of Classic Jazz: Swing Greats $4.99 If you're really cheap you can go through Bing Cashback for an extra 4% off, woo! Glad I held out while all you other suckers paid $5.96...
  4. I agree that his arco sound isn't the most beautiful in the world, (his rhythm is always right on the money though) but you have to remember that he played gut strings. I think they were Golden Spiral brand (nylon wrapped gut) which I've heard were very difficult to bow! Most bass players today use metal strings which are far easier to bow (many jazz players use gut or synthetic gut strings still today). I always liked PC's arco solo on his tune, "Tale of the Fingers."
  5. Listen here http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13
  6. Is this actually a podcast? ie. Can you download it to iTunes? Or do you haves to stream it? And I hate to admit it, but I'm not sure what an RSS feed is.) You're right, you have to stream it. I used the wrong word.
  7. Jazz Loft Project radio series from WNYC http://beta.wnyc.org/shows/jazz-loft/
  8. I'm glad to see the radio series is being podcast. Listen here! http://beta.wnyc.org/shows/jazz-loft/
  9. I'm bumping this because they've redesigned their website. http://www.jazzloftproject.org In the upper left corner you can click on the "sounds" page and listen to some recordings made in the loft. Also, the radio series on WNYC is starting on Monday. I hope they make it available as a podcast as it broadcasts at different times during the day and it may be hard to catch it all. Radio series info. You can also sign up for their email newsletter http://www.jazzloftproject.org/index.php?s=newsletter or be a facebook fan here http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Jazz-Lof...ect/49444658282
  10. Here's all but the 4 bonus tracks from http://ubu-space.blogspot.com http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Lenox/lenhome.htm <----Mike Fitzgerald's site with info on The Lennox School I also remember there was a documentary made about the Lennox School that I never got to see. I don't think it's out on dvd. It should be, this is important stuff! http://www.musicinnfilm.com/film/index.html EDIT: I like this trailer better http://www.projectilearts.org/vlog/archive...2_musicinn.html THE THIRD ANNUAL BENEFIT CONCERT August 29, 1959 BERKSHIRE MUSIC BARN, LENOX, MASSACHUSETTS (USA) Max Roach, John Lewis Ensemble: Don Cherry-tpt; Ornette Coleman-asx; Kent McGarity-tbn, btpt; Steve Kuhn, Ron Brown-p; Larry Ridley-b; Barry Greenspan-d 1. THE SPHINX (Ornette Coleman) 2. INN TUNE (Margo Guryan) Kenny Dorham Ensemble: Peter Farmer, Kenny Dorham-tpt; Sture Swenson-bsx, tsx; Paul Dunyhower-tbn; David Lahm, Ran Blake-p; Walter Bernard-b; John Bergamo-d 3. D. C. SPECIAL (Kenny Dorham) Bill Evans, Jim Hall, Connie Kay Ensemble: Al Kiger-tpt; Ted Casher-tsx; Dick Wright-tbn; Gary McFarland-vbs; Attilla Zoller-g; Dizzy Sal-p; Doug McLaughlin-b; Bill Sharfman-d 4. MONK'S SPHERE (Gary McFarland) 5. JINGLES (Wes Montgomery, arr. Al Kiger) Jimmy Giuffre F. & M. Schaefer Scholarship Ensemble: Tony Greenwald-tpt; Jimmy Giuffre-ww; Ian Underwood-f; Lenny Popkin-asx; Herb Gardner-tbn; David Mackay-p; John Keyser-b; Paul Cohen-d 6. STRATUSPHUNK (George Russell) 7. RAY'S TIME (Jimmy Giuffre) Gunther Schuller Ensemble: Perry Robinson-cl; John Eckert-tpt; Don Stewart-tsx; David Baker-btbn; Gunther Schuller-fr hn; Sandy Schmidt, Nico Bunink-p; Mona Neves-b; Bob Fuhlrodt-d 8. LONE RANGER AND THE GREAT HORACE SILVER (David Baker) Herb Pomeroy Ensemble: Tony Greenwald, Al Kiger, 2 unknown-tpt; Ornette Coleman, Lenny Popkin-asx; Ian Underwood-f, asx; Ted Casher-tsx; Sture Swenson-bsx?; Herb Gardner, Paul Dunyhower?-tbn; David Baker-btbn; Gary McFarland-vibes; David Mackay-p; John Keyser-b; Paul Cohen-d; Herb Pomeroy-cond 9. TO THEE, O ASPHODEL (Bobby Freedman) 10. PAUL'S PAL (Sonny Rollins) 11. BLUE GRASS (Danny Kent)
  11. I like Joe Henderson/Christian McBride on Joe's album "Lush Life: The Music of Billy Strayhorn" (Verve). I really like that whole album but "Isfahan" is the only sax bass duet track. I second whoever recommended the Don Byas/Slam Stewart tracks. "Indiana" and "I Got Rhythm" are on this CD. I found it on vinyl at the record store a while ago but I see Amazon has the CD still, search under "Giants of the Tenor Sax." I believe "I Got Rhythm" is on the "Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz" also. I read the interview with Don Byas in Art Taylor's book "Notes and Tones" and Byas says Art Tatum was a big influence on his playing.
  12. Just came back on stage! edit: I guess they took the stream down on NPR you can still watch the second set here http://www.wbgo.org/blog/
  13. watching this now check it out here... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...oryId=111774598 Link to NPR/WBGO Vanguard concert series
  14. Oh fun! It looks like Amazon is going to put ads on Kindle ebooks. Woohoo! Where's my credit card? I don't care if it costs $299, I have to have one now. I usually take my copy of The Great Gatsby to the mall and read it while I'm shopping but this will be so much more convenient! I just hope they don't delete the illegal copies of 1984 I buy from them, along with my notes, before I can click on their ads to support this wonderful company!
  15. http://euclidrecords.blogspot.com/search/label/PICTURES
  16. Moose, here's my thinking. I am primarily interested in older books now in the public domain. My books seem to always cost $15 plus fairly high shipping. So I'm thinking that by downloading 15-20 free public domain books the reader will pay for itself, and I then get to read the classics for free. I don't know if I understand that logic. How will downloading books you can get for free pay for anything? I don't know your situation, but if you're reading the classics why not just check them out from the library? Looks like Borders had the Sony PRS-505 ebook reader for $200 last month.
  17. Exactly. In fact, I will never pay money for downloadable material EVER, not ebooks, not audio books, not mp3s. I do download these materials from the local library which I think is GREAT because it's convenient and most importantly FREE, but paying money for what I consider to be lesser products, (no liner notes, no physical copy to protect yourself if your hard drive crashes, and NO resale value), is something I will not be tricked into by big business, (Amazon, Apple, etc.), into doing. Think about it, if we do away with physical books and CD's their price will be completely controlled by these big companies. You will no longer be able to go on Amazon and get a cheap used copy of a book or CD released a few months ago from a third party seller. I don't see the demise of physical products ever happening, (I think I read Amazon makes most of it's money from sales by it's third party sellers), but who knows...There's my conspiracy theory for the day.
  18. This is very sad news indeed. I hope public outcry can turn this around. KBCS always calls their station "Community" radio but if they remove all these great programs it will really kill the diversity of this station. I used to listen to their Drive Time Jazz program everyday on the way to work and really enjoyed that everyday you would get a new volunteer host that was playing jazz that interested He or she and was not just playing tracks off a playlist. Now all that is going to be changed and instead of 5 volunteer jazz hosts each weekday morning there will be ONE paid host each week day morning. The elimination of the great unique programs of this station, such as Bebop Spoken Here and The Don & Bud Show, will be a huge loss for the area. The Don & Bud Show has been hosted for many years by Bud Young, (former owner of Bud's Jazz Records, the only jazz specific record store in Seattle until it's closing in 2008), and Don Lanphere (one of Seattle's legendary saxophone players who went to NY at 19 and recorded with Fats Navarro, he passed away in 2003). Now Bud always jokes that Don is "on assignment". Bebop Spoken Here, 20th Century Jazz: The First Half, and Vintage Jazz play specific eras of jazz music. Music that is that is heard very rarely on Seattle area stations and certainly is not devoted to, in three hour programs every weekday, anywhere else. If these changes happen I will no longer be listening to this station or supporting it in any way. KBCS is the only station in Seattle with this kind of diverse programming everyday of the week and this is greatly needed in this area. I can only hope congress passes the Low Power FM legislation and some new stations come along that are truly COMMUNITY stations.
  19. I looked this up in my search engine after reading this and found a website to express your disapproval of these changes. Here's a comment from mudcat.org. "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Major Programming Changes Slated for KBCS Community Radio BELLEVUE, Wash., (July 8, 2009) -- Starting in August, the first phase of planned changes at KBCS 91.3 FM will eliminate four hours of music programming each weekday. Further changes are planned for weekend and weeknight shows in coming months. The richness and diversity of programming will be drastically cut if these plans are carried out. You can help! By replying as soon as possible, your comments can help preserve music diversity at KBCS. Write to: savekbcs@gmail.com. Phase 1 - Weekday Program Changes scheduled to take effect in August 2009: * Drive Time Jazz (7 - 9 a.m.) will be replaced by public affairs. * Morning jazz programs (9 a.m. - noon) will be replaced by a single jazz program with a single paid host. Gone will be these shows: - The Bud & Don Show - Bebop Spoken Here - 20th Century Jazz - Vintage Jazz - The Caravan * Lunch With Folks (noon - 3 p.m.) will be replaced with a homogenized, generic "Americana" program with a couple of paid hosts, eliminating the diverse knowledge and expertise of the variety of daily programmers. * Daily Planet (3 - 5 p.m.) will be replaced by news. This first phase of programming changes will result in the elimination of over 20 volunteer hosts along with their formidable knowledge, expertise, and passion for the music of their respective genres, to be replaced by two to four paid DJs. Voice your comments now! Tell us what you think about these proposed changes. Write to: savekbcs@gmail.com * Would these changes make KBCS less valuable to you? * Are you a member/supporter/volunteer? * How would these changes affect your participation and support? Please pass the word to anyone who likes jazz, folk, world, or other eclectic music found on KBCS. Visit www.savekbcs.org for current details. Thanks! About SaveKBCS: SaveKBCS is a group of long-time volunteers and financial supporters of KBCS who want to save what we value most about our community radio station. SaveKBCS is not affiliated with KBCS 91.3 FM Radio. SaveKBCS is not affiliated with Bellevue College. Contact: savekbcs@gmail.com Website: www.savekbcs.org"
  20. From kbcs.fm... Dear supporter of KBCS, At KBCS, we’re continually working to better serve our listening community. This ongoing effort has helped us understand how our listeners use KBCS as well as other radio stations, and it’s helped us determine what we believe a thriving community-service and listener-focused station should look and sound like. KBCS is—and will remain—a station that prides itself on being a place for community volunteers to learn broadcasting and to be radio programmers. For more than two decades, there have been countless volunteers who have put immense amounts of energy, time, and passion into the radio shows they create at KBCS. And, as we move ahead, there will be countless others who will join current KBCS volunteer programmers and continue this important tradition. As KBCS staff, we have the deepest gratitude for the commitment and dedication of all station volunteers, past, present, and future. The reality KBCS faces is, quite frankly, one of declining audience and financial support. To us, this has been a clear indicator that we’re not serving our audience as well as we could. Most importantly, we also see this as an opportunity to do just that. Over the last three years, KBCS has undergone a rigorous process to better understand our audience and to formulate a cohesive strategic plan. This has involved hours of interviews, volunteer and community meetings, street corner surveys, as well as extensive consideration of when and how KBCS listeners currently listen to us. This work has led us to the new programming we’ll present next month, programming we believe will offer deeper service to our listeners. So, beginning August 24th, 2009, KBCS will: • Expand weekday public affairs programming from 5 to 9 a.m., offering Public Radio International’s The Takeaway from 5 to 8 a.m., followed by Pacifica Radio’s Democracy Now! from 8 to 9 a.m. Both shows will be hosted by local community members trained in the KBCS public affairs department. • Bring on longtime KBCS host John Gilbreath every weekday from 9 a.m. to noon. John’s show will be a daily musical journey touching on many genres, and focusing on his extensive knowledge of jazz, world, and Americana. • Feature current veteran KBCS folk hosts weekdays from 12 noon to 3 p.m., who will present programming spanning the breadth of the American music tradition, from the early days of country, folk, blues, and beyond, to today’s singer-songwriters and local artists crafting new music not heard anywhere else. • Expand weekday public affairs programming by offering a re-broadcast of Democracy Now! at 3 p.m., followed by The Michael Eric Dyson Show at 4 p.m. • Air locally produced programs Listen Up Northwest, Voices of Diversity, and One World Report weekdays at 5 p.m., as well as syndicated programs Counterspin, Grit Radio, and Sound of Young America • Round out evening weekday public affairs with Hard Knock Radio from 6 to 7 p.m., with 6 p.m. headlines from Free Speech Radio News. As in the morning, the entire afternoon lineup of public affairs programming will be hosted by local community members. As with any growth and change, we’ve had to make some tough choices. The programming plan discontinues Drive Time Jazz weekday mornings, Daily Planet weekday afternoons, The Bud & Don Show Monday mornings, BeBop Spoken Here Tuesday mornings, and 20th Century Jazz: The First Half and Vintage Jazz Wednesday and Thursday mornings. Some of this programming will, however, be offered weekly through our online streaming archive. These have been exceedingly difficult decisions to reach, decisions which we do not take lightly, and which were made only after extensive consideration of how we can best serve our audience. We acknowledge and pay tribute to these many talented and dedicated programmers who have added tremendously to the KBCS community for many years, and hope that they continue to be a part of KBCS and its future. We’re always astounded by the generosity and dedication of our programmers, volunteers, and all of the people who are working together to build KBCS as a community resource. We believe the changes outlined here will have a profoundly positive effect on KBCS, and will deepen our service to the community through the programming we offer. We look forward with great optimism to KBCS’s future, and we hope you’ll share it with us. With respect, Steve Ramsey, General Manager Peter Graff, Program Director Joaquin Uy, Public Affairs Director Sabrina Roach, Development and Outreach Director Uli Johnson, Membership and Web Director
  21. haha I think that's my favorite cover Seattle based origin records has done so far. I usually don't care much for their covers. This CD made me think of this one... http://www.amazon.com/Monk-Peter-Bernstein...o/dp/B001MW0J3I
  22. I haven't heard the CD yet but I went and saw them the other night in Seattle and they were KILLIN'! Carl Allen and Eric Reed aren't on the tour but their replacements, Ulysses Owens (only 26 years old) and Peter Martin, were great. I think they played the first 5 tracks off the new cd plus Tenderly and from what I heard I'd definitely pick this CD up.
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