RDK

Sorry for the delay - just got back from a two week vacation. I had listened to everything before I left, but the discussion thread hadn't opened yet. I need to relisten and refresh, but I liked what I heard and recognized a few tracks.

This might sound silly, but I'd prefer not. I certainly know what you mean, but I'd hate to see dead artists ghettoized in such a way. Their music lives on beyond them, after all, and there's no reason to seperate them in such a way, even in tribute/RIP threads.

Nevermind...

Big fan of both Kitchen Nightmares and Hell's Kitchen - or as my six-year olds innocently call it: "Health Kitchen." We don't let the girls watch the BBC version of KN for obvious reasons, but I'm sure they'll dig the American version when it airs. Who's Nigella?

Some guy's Blue Note record collection. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYaywPu4k64 The comments following it are hilarious... "are these all of your records? i have about that many (probably more), but not all one label. very impressive, How many do you have total?" "at least we know hes not a raicst!!! thats good man"

As they say, you can sleep in your car but you can't drive your house...

Damn, what horrible timing! I'm heading to Utah on saturday for a week...

Very sorry to hear that, Mark.

I agree that this is a stupid and regretable development, but I tend to blame the public as much (if not more) than the touring group itself. Face it, most people don't like jazz and even less like the "jazz scene" at clubs, bars, halls, etc. I'd much rather spend $25-30 to see an organ trio at the Jazz Bakery than $50-100 to see just about anyone at Disney Hall or UCLA's Royce, but those venues sell out a thousand seats rapidly while the clubs will be lucky to get 50 or 60 on any given night. I don't quite understand Wynton's tremendous appeal myself - I suspect it's largely because he's considered rather "safe" by the monied PBS crowd - but I have a hard time blaming him for that. Face it, we're fans of a niche musical genre - and the more "mainstream" jazz fan out there (and in this case I use the term "jazz" loosely) prefers Kenny G to Lee Konitz. You said it yourself: the Marsalises seem to appeal to the classical "fine arts" crowd that attends the Harriman series. But I wonder how many of them would attend a show at the Folly no matter what the cost? I have a hard time seeing how this is taking money away from other (better?) acts simply because the audiences that attend these concerts already seem so exclusive of one another.

Hey Jim - can you tell what bitrate the original mp3 is at? My bet it's VBR (variable). I noticed a similar problem a few years back with some VBR files playing back (or burning) at the wrong speeds depending on the decoder used. Try a different burning software - you can even try burning with iTiunes or WMP. I love Roxio CD Creator, but version 5 is getting a bit long in the tooth these days and may not support VBR.

Yeah, exactly. That's one of the reasons I can't blame Wynton all that much. He may have run with it once he got it, but he didn't poison the king to steal the crown. The crown was handed to him through some combination of record company strategizing, a certain portion of the jazz public's need (at the time) for a "savior," and i think general apathy on the part of the rest of us who never needed a spokesman in the first place.

It would be worth it for a hot minute, just to see and hear those first few press conferences and public service announcements. I hear you. After I wrote that I thought about it for a second and said "yeah."

On the bright side, if he lives in New York City, he probably has an effective tax rate of around 50%. That's essentially what our total tax rate is up here in Canada. But now I know how Wynton affords all those nice suits. Come to think of it, he probably doesn't have to buy them himself. It's probably part of his 'benefit' package with J@LC. I was watching a Phil Woods DVD last night in which Phil talks about "the people who have died for this music..." Wynton sure isn't one of them. Nice work if you can get it, though. I would suspect (hope?) that Phil was referring to musicians who died from drug abuse as much as old age and tough circumstances. As much as i don't personally care for Marsallis' playing, I don't begrudge him getting what he can and of at least portraying an image of being "clean." Would we really want someone like Art Pepper as jazz's spokesperson?

You might try a blog search for such stuff as well.

Who cares, really? Things come and things go... True, but can we at least wait until I'm done with it?

It's the mountain air and the lax property laws...

Yeah, H'wood's gotta make money, which is why a Monk biopic is a serious longshot. Much as i love him, Monk's story is pretty uneventful by biopic standards. It has nothing to do with "sensationalism" in this case, but more the fact that nobody outside the classic jazz community knows who he is and he didn't do anything worthy of dramatizing his life story. Not gonna happen...

Best I could come up with...

The concern is definitely justified, but I think in this case (and not to get too semantical about it) it depends on what you consider "deleted." The way I understood it was that, at least for the OJC Limiteds, Fantasy only pressed one batch of discs that they warehoused for years (15-20 in some cases) and sold very slowly. Since they never intended to press any more (and wouldn't sell enough to do so anyway), they essentially went oop/deleted from the start, with only the existing inventory remaining. And honestly, before the blowout sale of '06 and all the fear of these discs being unavailable in the future, they'd no doubt still be available now since almost nobody was buying them. Interesting strategy to maybe debate in another thread, but is it better for Fantasy/Concord to keep things in print indefinitely and thereby sell their wares very slowly because everyone takes their availability for granted or is Blue Note's strategy better by deleting even popular titles on a regular basis only to build up demand and rerelease them again in another (remastered, for example) format?

Well, Keith Jarrett appears to be winning. Hardly fair though... Reminds me of that that Chick Corea composition, " Now He Sings, Now We Sob."

ditto

Prior to buying about 70-80 over the last year or so since the Concord sale, I did download about 500 titles from emusic. Just got another dozen last week from Newbury.

Woops. Don't know what happened, but they've been corrected.

Appears legit from the Sony Music Store... http://www.sonymusicstore.com/store/c/Bob-...CD/LT_sku=26824 http://www.sonymusicstore.com/store/c/Bob-...CD/LT_sku=50785 http://www.sonymusicstore.com/store/c/Bob-...CD/LT_sku=25199 http://www.sonymusicstore.com/store/c/Bob-...CD/LT_sku=86047

This will all be a moot point anyway after robots learn how to play baseball...