cliffpeterson

Received my copy from Amazon.uk today. I am no audiophile-to me the sound is great. The packaging design and the presentation of the liner notes are disappointing. The "case" seems to be a cardboard-like material presented in a trifold design . The left fold has a pocket that contains a folded copy of the concert poster. As you do with this type of design you access that poster from the inside right edge of the pocket in the left fold. The cd is contained without any protective sleeve in the pocket in the center, which you can access from either side when both right and left folds are completely opened. The liner notes are contained in a pocket in the right fold and accessed from the left interior edge. The cd, the concert poster and the liner notes fit tightly in the respective pockets and you need to be careful digging them out to avoid tearing the cardboard packaging andor the liner notes andor damaging the disc. (I will keep the cd in a separate sleeve). Contained in a small booklet, the liner notes contain essays written by Robin Kelley (Monk's biographer) and Danny Sher (the promoter). The booklet has pages colored in beige, red and black. The lettering on the beige pages is black while the lettering is white on the red and black pages. I can read the words on the beige pages but have a hard time reading the words on the red and black pages. I think the font also contributes to this situation. I can barely discern Robert Kelley's signature (done in red, not white) at the end of his essay that appears on a black page and cannot read whatever credentials (also in red) are listed under his signature. No mention of Zev Feldman in the booklet or on the packaging (that I could see!!). At 17, Danny Sher must have been some business person. With ticket sales slow in advance of the concert, Sher sold ads in the concert program to businesses on his paper route and, as such, generated sufficient revenue to cover Monk's fee even if no paying customers showed up. Also, Sher's dealings with Monk's apparently unscrupulous promoter speak to Sher's maturity beyond his years.

https://www.stereophile.com/content/rudresh-mahanthappa-time-now

"I like the fact that it a CD is an object I can hold, collect, display, organize, look at. I like the artwork and often the liner notes and other info. I like that CD's are a commodity, I can resell them if I don't want to keep them, helping defray the cost of chance-taking and of upgrading/downgrading to a different set of the same music. I like that I can "own" a CD, a file doesn't feel the same. I also prefer physical books to ebooks/pdf's for some of the same reason, plus they are more enjoyable to read for me. I am totally willing to accept that mine are subjective preferences and that there are benefits to the downloads/ebooks." What Felser said above.

I buy cds from all time periods. I do not purchase downloads.

For whatever reason, Brignola's "Poinciana" (#151), also recorded for Reservoir, is not on this list.

Thread from 2011 about Brignola music on Reservoir: I have all of the Brignola discs and think all of them are at least good. "THINGS AIN'T WHAT THEY USED TO BE / LAST SET AT SWEET BASIL" was released after his death. Reputedly he did not want that music released but the label went ahead anyway. I echo the comment about about the Kuhn dates and feel the same way about the Hod O'brien recordings. John Fedcock's big band music is also worthy.

Just received an email indicating that Rogue Art is now distributing Silkheart. Also, announced is the reissue of the Joel Futterman Trio's "In-between Position(s)" with Jimmy Lyons and Robert Adkins, https://roguart.com/product/in-between-positions/158. Also a recent new release-Kidd Jordan/Joel Futterman/Alving Fielder "Spirits": https://roguart.com/product/spirits/147

https://www.syracuse.com/entertainment/2020/08/new-ny-state-rule-bans-ticketed-music-events-at-bars-this-is-devastating.html

'who is bob Meyer?": https://bobmeyermusic.com/bio T.D.-like you I am over 60 and risk adverse-I just felt comfortable with the venue.

Heard then last night at The Falcon in Marlboro, NY. Venue was great: generously spaced tables on tiered outside patios next to a waterfall. Everybody politely wearing masks other than when sitting at the tables. Lovano playing snippets from Parker tunes. It was just great to hear live music!!!!!!

Previously unissued Joe McPhee circa 1970, complete Milford Graves and Don Pullen Yale Concert 1966 and von Schlippenbach "Three Nails Left". http://www.corbettvsdempsey.com/cat/records/albums/

"The hardest one for me to find was Jimmy Smith's "Cool Blues". The important thing there was to get the early 2000s RVG reissue that pitch corrected the McMaster 1990ish reissue .

Art Farmer-Phil Woods "What Happens?" with Martial Solal, Henri Texier and Daniel Humair

I ordered about multiple cds from No Business around May 22nd. Just arrived a couple days ago-nearly seven weeks.

I know it has been discussed that the boxes are not necessarily shipped out in numerical order. That said, just got mine and it is #1672 on a projected edition of 2500.

https://www.timesunion.com/entertainment/article/McCann-keeps-jazz-flowing-on-WCDB-15196537.php?fbclid=IwAR3-4d_kxqWvoo1uAdhTqvY5KCIYiobov_EBcXQw4v-FquPCxzfO6M84hRQ

Received an email yesterday from Dark Tree Records. Courtesy of the Tapscott estate, it will be releasing on cd later this spring "Horace Tapscott with the Pan African Peoples Arkestra- 'Ancestral Echoes The Covina Sessions, 1976'". These are previously unreleased studio recordings. Liner notes by Steven Isoardi. There are four song titles: "Ancestral Echoes," "Sketches of Drunken Mary," "Jo Annette" and "Eternal Eygpt Suite." Dark Tree will also be releasing "Live at Lama" on vinyl and a new Isoardi book entitled "The Music Finds a Way-A PAPA/UGMAA Oral History of Growing Up in Postwar South Central Los Angeles." No information on the above as yet on Dark Tree's website or Facebook page.

James Falzone reports on his Facebook page that Bill Smith, the clarinetist that played with Dave Brubeck, died on March 4, 2020. If so, he was 93.

April 23, 2020 at 7:30 PM. General admission. https://www.troymusichall.org/events/533/amir-elsaffar-s-rivers-of-sound-orchestra/ The musicians are: Amir ElSaffar, trumpet/santur Carlo DeRosa, acoustic bass Aruan Ortiz, piano Dena ElSaffar, violin/jowza Fabrizio Cassol, alto saxophone George Ziadeh, oud/vocals Jason Adasiewicz, vibraphone JD Parran, bass saxophone/clarinet Miles Okazaki, guitar Mohammed Saleh, oboe/English horn Naseem AlAtrash, cello Nasheet Waits, drums Ole Mathisen, tenor saxophone/soprano saxophone Rajna Swaminathan, mridangam Tareq Abboushi, buzuq Tim Moore, percussion/dumbek/frame drum Zafer Tawil, percussion/oud

imagine Eric dolphy on one of these suckers!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmxnp_3KUt0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouJDvdg7EZI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANE849xdB6Q

I saw the same concert as relyles-great stuff

Like others when I visited NYC I would go to the Tower Records in the Village and particularly the Annex. Not far from there was Other Records (?), which is now closed. When we visited Tokyo about 7-8 years ago, my wife and daughter went to Disneyland-I went to the Tower Records store in Shibuya: https://blog.discogs.com/en/digging-in-tokyo-tower-records/. That was great.

recent Calgary article on Sheila courtesy of the Mosaic Sunday Gazette: https://calgaryherald.com/entertainment/music/at-91-charlie-parker-protege-sheila-jordan-still-dedicating-her-life-to-the-jazz-music-she-loves

"I'm not clear who wrote the piece"-Don Sickler perhaps because he posted the information and the last paragraph is attributed to him? https://jazzleadsheets.com/news/herbie-nichols-solo-piano-summit/