Bright Moments

i spotted this but it is too rich for my blood! http://half.ebay.com/cat/buy/prod.cgi?cpid..._idEQ2&ad=15421

New York Trove of Jazz Photography Seeks Buyer Thu Mar 10,11:08 AM ET Entertainment - Reuters By Timothy Gardner NEW YORK (Reuters) - For sale: perhaps the world's finest and biggest pictorial history of jazz and American music. Must be kept together. Frank Driggs, a former jazz journalist and record producer, started buying jazz photos from collectors more than half a century ago. After word got out he was a top collector, musicians often gave him pictures. "For filmmakers who often visit hundreds of tiny archives to make a documentary you can't appreciate enough the value of a collection that contains so many photos," documentary filmmaker Ken Burns told Reuters. Driggs was the single biggest supplier of pictures for "Jazz," the 17-hour television series by Burns. Driggs' nearly 80,000 photos range from 1898 shots of ragtime's Scott Joplin and Tom Turpin to portraits of big bands at since-closed Harlem and East Village haunts of the 1950s. But everything has its price. Dan Morgenstern, director of New Jersey's Institute of Jazz Studies, has assessed the collection at $1.5 million. "I would give my eyeteeth if we could buy it, but we don't have those kind of resources, said Morgenstern. John Edward Hasse, curator of American music at the Smithsonian, said the Washington institution would welcome the collection with open arms, but Congress doesn't allocate acquisition funds to the museum. "Really it would be owned by all Americans, and we'd be best placed to preserve it," said Hasse. The taxpayer-funded Smithsonian has often displayed bits of Driggs' photo and music memorabilia collection. New York's Lincoln Center also loves the collection, but no offer is planned. "These are depressed times for institutions," said Phil Schaap, the curator of jazz at the center. Driggs, 75, keeps the collection behind iron-gated windows in his basement office of a Soho townhouse. They fill seven tall file cabinets. The lion's share are early jazz. He has received offers for parts of his collection but he refuses to break it up. While other picture agencies may have 10 to 15 Louis Armstrong photos, Driggs has more than 1,000. One, from 1918, shows Armstrong as a teenager with his mother and sister in New Orleans. Another shows Armstrong with his hero, King Oliver, after following him up to Chicago in the 1920s. The photos became more than a hobby for Driggs in 1977, when leasing them earned him $18,000, matching his salary as a record producer. Now they earn him up to $100,000 per year. But Driggs, the co-author of a book on Kansas City jazz to be published this spring, now wants to play his trumpet and write rather than taking constant calls to lease photos. "I'm not anxious to kill myself, so I don't advertise," he said. "People find me."

good one vint!

and FWIW had you offered to sell me your copy of brown sugar (a perfectly legitimate practice where no royalties are paid) i probably would have paid you a fair price. i have bought MANY cds from board members!!!! i will accept your apology for your unnecessary rudeness in hijacking my post and writhig such blather!

Wasn't "Down to Earth" reissued under the Spanish Blue Notes? Should be possible to get that one. "Brown Sugar" is trickier to find. I've got a copy, but I've been looking for "Mo' Greens."

For sale or to burn? Doesn't anyone come on this board looking to buy these things any more? so you are against trading? Trading CD-Rs? Of available music? No, I'm not into this practice. I have exchanged CD-Rs with people of LP burns and I'll probably continue to do this. Jim asked people to stop doing this. Just because this thread has it all with the "wink-wink-nudge-nudge you know what I mean" kinda stuff, we all know what's going on. the only mention of cdr's in this thread is by YOU!

and if you bothered to read my first post you would have seen me say: "import prices are outrageous"

last time i looked this sub forum was described as: Offering and Looking For... Trade, sell, swap, recordings with fellow members.

For sale or to burn? Doesn't anyone come on this board looking to buy these things any more? so you are against trading?

thanks guys, with your helpi should be a-ok! B-)

no lee morgan?

happy birthday!!!

send a little or send a lot. all that matters is that you are part of the effort! B-)

i know we have at least one member from south america...

why am i having flashbacks to that old thread about the guy with the lifesize dolls?

COOL! B-) is there a trick to saving a copy to my hard drive?

dan- you really don't have to write EVERY thought that pops into your head......

anyone who has seen abraham laborial perform live has seen a bass explode in florida!!! B-)

hey y'all, i am really serious about this. can anybody point out ANY difference in the new Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers RVG ant the previously issued non-RVG version (other than the liner notes addition?) help me out here!!!! for jsngry in the hopes that i will get a straight answer!!!!! Ooooh...sorry dude, I'm still doing LPs and older CDs on all of these. I'm not one to immediately upgrade unless I need to get something where I can hear more music than noise, or if they inclede some new takes or something. My own personal (and limited) experience with RVGs is that they are a mixed lot relative to the original albums, but almost always different in some way. As to comparing RVGs w/McMasters, I don't know if I've got the inventory to do that, escept for MOANIN', which I still usually listen to on LP. Old habits die hard... Sorry, wish I could help more. Really. hey jim, thanks for chiming in. you are still the oracle.

Need a new stereo, Evan! I've found every single RVG to be superior to the old masterings (whenever I've been able to compare them.) I try to upgrade everything. so paul, you think the new RVG dial s for sonny is better then the prior release (which was a CONN??!!! ). still sounds the same to me!

you can do so rooster, but this month the donations are going to eric kloss! B-)

thanks for the imput. i still can't tell any difference.

but WHAT is it that you hear?