Guy Berger

Some of the greatest recorded jazz has limited or zero improvisation, right?

@Kevin Bresnahan is right - I mentally mixed up Debut and Candid, probably influenced by Candid's lo-fi aesthetic. Sorry guys!

Wasn't Mingus unhappy with the financial arrangement? I seem to recall something like this cited in Priestley's biography, plus shortly thereafter he created Candid.

Mingus is one of those jazz artists who rock fans tend to connect with fairly easily. Intense rhythms, memorable tunes, bluesy, "attitude". I don't see a reason to go via a mediocre fusiony recording. BLUES & ROOTS or MINGUS AH UM should do the trick.

Leaving aside material that is genuinely rare or of historical value - why is saving the physical media necessary?

I assume digitization means shifting it to cloud storage? i.e. nearly all of the content will be preserved? If so, then this story kinda sucks because any endeavor of this kind will generate some losses of rare material (as would physically moving the CDs to a new building, FWIW), but nearly everything will be preserved. There's nothing special about the CDs themselves. The 78s, scores & manuscripts situation seems much more potentially alarming. Guy

Apparently not.

Based on what I've heard (which is only a subset of what's listed here), the star scores above are very accurate. Can't go wrong with the boldfaced items.

I'm curious - once an individual is deceased, what's the lifespan of an estate's ownership of his/her likeness?

Has this guy stopped playing?

weird that your list only includes singers.

I think the comparison with Murray is apt. Each recorded very heavily for a while and I think to some extent exhausted the listener base. In retrospect I'm glad that the work was documented.

I think it might be worth checking out some of the folk guitarists that influenced solo work by McLaughlin, Towner and others. People like Davy Graham, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn...

@mjzee this is an radio broadcast circulating online on various sites. l wouldn't be surprised if the mosaic clip actually comes directly or indirectly from Voldemort. The date is correct.

Thanks @Late. Great poem.

She wasn't performing with Miles, but maybe they were some sort of opening/headlining tandem?

I haven't done a thorough check, but I'd guess none of this is new - probably either already released and/or shared on the site which must not be named

I haven't really heard post-1960 CB, but the 1950s stuff is excellent. One of the best 2nd tier trumpeters of the period.

I like Kenton’s music but the Graettinger stuff is probably the only time it came close to living up to its own pretensions. Post-Graettinger, sometimes it’s hard not to laugh. Or groan.

I've heard some of the tracks on spotify. Nothing offensive but a pale echo of Chick's classic fusion work.

Wow!

Good news - apparently Pi has also recorded or will soon record Double Up Plus (dedicated to Ahmad Jamal, Barry Harris, Eddie Palmieri, Muhal Richard Abrams, Cecil Taylor and Joseph Kubera). Not sure about release date.

This arrived! Excellent paternity leave listening

I like Mark Turner's playing.

I suspect a lot of these companies' strength comes from overseas sales - growing prosperity in emerging markets means more money spent on beer.