Teasing the Korean

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Stravinsky's Ebony Concerto on Everest, though it is only one side of the album.

Just curious, for backup purposes, are these discs hard to extract? I know that it is very difficult if not impossible to extract hidden tracks that appear as negative numbers before track 1.

If this had been done with a Wurly instead of a Rhodes, it would have been an instant purchase for me.

That's what the article says.

Thanks for the read. You open by saying that change is inevitable, and that Blue Note is nothing more than a brand now, both of which I agree with. Your central question then seems to be: "My concern is less savvy new fans, unlike veterans like myself will be lead to thinking it’s emblematic of what mssrs. Lion and Wolff brought us." I would think that someone who buys a Roseanne Cash album on Blue Note will either (a) not be familiar with Blue Note; (b) not particularly care that it is on Blue Note; or (c) understand that Blue Note, as you wrote, is nothing nothing more than a corporate imprint. Some people in the middle may legitimately wonder if Cash is trying to do a pseudo-jazz album. In the era of YouTube and audio samples, they can answer that question within minutes if not seconds. Maybe the best thing would have been to put the brand to bed decades ago, and use it only for reissues, but even then, there would be disagreement about the cutoff date, based on all the Mizell-era albums I used to find in the dollar bin. My biggest issue with Blue Note is their compilation albums. These will often include recordings that were on Blue Note, Capitol, Liberty, World Pacific, Roulette, and probably others that I am forgetting, and may throw in a couple of more recent tracks that stick out like a sore thumb. Talk about weakening the brand.

One of my first was a Savoy 70s various artist twofer called The Bebop Boys. This is notable for not containing any alternate takes. All killer, no filler. Another early one was the Charlie Parker Complete Savoy Sessions box. I had to make a cassette of the master takes to make this one listenable. I would have preferred an album presentation for the first couple of discs, with the alternates included on the others, but considering that I paid ten bucks for it, beggars can't be choosers.

Here you go. Nephew Randy is in the foreground, and John Williams looks on appreciatively.

"Then I'll Be Tired of You" was written by Schwartz and Yip Harburg. But "Wee Small Hours?"

Beautiful.

Well, at least the Lionel Newman party photograph survives.

Great story!

Also: Dancing in the Dark You and the Night and the Music Something to Remember You By I Guess I'll Have to Change my Plan And: The sublime "I See Your Face Before Me."

TTK is a proponent of the metric system, which was thriving during the Carter administration, and which died a quick death under Reagan. (Hope this isn't violating the politics rules!)

Schwartz and Dietz don't get enough love. I was just listening to Johnny Mathis singing "Bye Myself," and I thought to myself, "I wonder who wrote that?" Turns out it is by none other than our friends Arthur and Howard.

So I guess these survived the Universal fire, because the Mosaic set predates it?

Well, I am in general more interested in the group sound than in the individual players. If a conga player can keep a good groove, then she's golden.

Thank you! No. A number of Jamal's individual Argo LPs are available from Verve also. I have purchased very few of those EuroMusiPorn box sets over the years, maybe only three that I can think of. One had excellent sound, the other two not so much. So it is a crap shoot.

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Yup. https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/album/the-complete-ahmad-jamal-trio-argo-sessions-1956-62-ahmad-jamal/it5yczp1e3yeb

Well, it says Verve, including the Mosaic box. I assume those are safe?

Is "No Tears" on there? That is the money cut.

Several of these titles, as well as the Mosaic box, are inexpensively available as lossless downloads from Qobuz. That may be a better route.

Just spun Wild and Warm for the first time in a while. This, IMO, is the money cut.

If it is indeed a digital clone, I don't really care. Then again, I have so many of his LPs as it is, digital is probably not high on my priority list.