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Has this actually ever been mentioned by anyone at Mosaic?

I got 10/10!. Honest. But I was guessing for about 4 of them. And a couple weren't even educated guesses.

Not only did they record Ellington at 331/3 but they (perhaps by accident) recorded him in stereo. Steven Lasker discovered that they used 2 microphones from which they did separate pressings. He was able to sync them up and do a stereo release of Duke Ellington recorded in 1932. I'm not sure if they did all their 33 1/3 recordings with 2 mikes nor whether they had stereo in mind.

Thanks. I should have spent some time Googling but I thought someone might know it off the top of their head (as the saying goes). I remember that you could often get Lps broken up into Ep sets. I got Fats Domino that way.

This discussion convinced me to download the record (I think it may be the only officially released Mingus record I didn't have. After one listen I really like it-- mainly because it's a great Don Pullen record.

So for a while these 45 box sets were not available on 10 or 12 inch Lps? And were the first Lps all 10 inch? When did the 12 inch ones appear?

What full opera are we talking about here? If it's Einstein on the Beach it's available from Amazon and for some reason it's cheaper on Blu Ray than DVD. I just ordered it because everyone I know who saw it live was knocked out by it. BTW If you're interested in what he can do with music that's far from minimalism, listen to his score for the film The Secret Agent.

Just dug it up and looked at the notes. Six of the cuts are "previously unissued masters"-- which I guess means, alternate takes. However there's no suggestion that the originally released cuts were edited. The alternates are fairly close to the same length as the originals.

The "hype and publicity" doesn't seem to have been very effective-- at least in my case. I'd never heard of her before this thread started.

Thanks I have that one and also the "corrected" release that matches the Lp (It has the overdubbed cut), but didn't realize that it was unedited. I dthought it might become a rarity.

Actually it wasn't that easy to pick the good guys from the bad in Spanish Civil War either. The communists turned on the other leftists-- especially the Trotskyites.

Is that on a cd? IIRC there were two different cd releases of that material.

None of this is that new. I remember complaining 50 years ago that the most fascistic thing I'd heard on campus was the chant of "No free speech for fascists". And what's any of this have to do with Rear Window?

Allen Toussaint strikes again. Who was that masked man?!

Find it. If for nothing else: Body and Soul.

Happy International Woman's Day.

Right. And I have them. As I said "I don't remember a lot fo things these days".

I can think of a couple but not a lot. (But I can't remember a lot of things nowadays.) I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Glen Gould yet. He gave up live performances for the recording studio. Mingus didn't just record more than would fit on a record but on Tijuana Moods at least recorded the compositions in bits and pieces. And did he ever play them again?

Funny I was listening to the Blackhawk cds the other day and noticing how often Miles was muted. (Though I wasn't always sure, since even unmuted his sound was often "pinched"-- I don't mean that in any derogatory sense, I just can't come up with a better word right now.)

I believe that there only a couple of complete takes done for Tijuana Moods. Most cuts were put together via editing. Not sure how involved Mingus was.

Who?

What is this? Is it a cd? Where can I hear it?

Interesting. I definitely thought he meant he got no royalties from them (in the interview I read 50 years ago and will never be able to find) but he may have meant that he got more royalties from RCA. I vaguely remember him saying something about it being better to be with a big company but Columbia was a big company.

I remember an interview where he said RCA was the first label to actually pay him royalties when they finally released Tijuana Moods. At the time I presumed that he was taking a shot at Columbia and Atlantic.

For me the archetypical Mingus album was Mingus Ah Um but it was the first one I owned.