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Were any of these recorded by chance? And was Dezron Douglas playing bass with the McCraven/Younger band?

So much tied into streaming via data that it's a goldmine on top of the subscription revenue.

Brutally said, but unfortunately accurate in a way. Smaller boutique labels are making money on jazz reissues, most of them via LP but still, there's a market because CDs are selling. Mosaic could get in but I guess they're not interested which I find a bit weird. Not sure why a Universal-owned line like them couldn't revisit some of the Selects for reissue (the good ones would fly off the shelf), then use that revenue to buoy some other projects. Oh well.

Lacy Blinks & Shots. PM coming

Nice - didn't know about the two-fer. I like the Evidence CDs I have 👍

Randy - which version of Angels & Demons at Play do you have? Doesn't look like any official CDs of this have been released...?

🙌 great album

Thanks Randy. Enjoy Big Ears 👍 Wilburn Green's bass on Track 15 definitely impressed. I haven't listened to that Sun Ra album yet, so will have to line it up.

Great album from the 90s. Don't listen to it often enough. Followed up with: Certainly a different vibe than the Cyrille but fits with the morning so far.

This is part of why I think they should redesign and update their marketing efforts. Most other high profile reissue programs are on social media, creating new fans or at least enticing folks who don't listen to jazz even most of the time. LT's material is good enough to cross over into non-jazz centric circles I would think.

Freddie Waits & Sam Jones hold it down on this record (via the Mosaic Bee Hive set). The Egyptian Two is a highlight.

That Fred Jackson Blue Note album Hootin' N Tootin' is a personal favorite, esp the CD/SACD that combines it with 7 unreleased bonus tracks. He's a great player and hearing Earl Van Dyke in this setting is nice.

Hope an admin can help get it back.

Crazy you're able to delete an entire thread outside of being an admin

Yeah, seems right up Real Gone Music or Jazz Dispensary's alley.

Trying from your phone or laptop? For whatever reason I can't get an image address to work via phone while laptop works just fine. No idea why that is.

Ugh. Terrible ruling from the judge.

Keeping the Kamasi Washington listening going with Harmony of Difference, Space Travelers Lullaby and Heaven & Earth. All better than The Epic. He seems to adopt more of Pharoah Sanders' tone as these albums progress.

I think the way I phrased "band kids" was a bit off target. But I was mainly aiming at the use of "teenagers" who are mostly in high school and not college. I was getting at well funded music and arts programs across public schools in that era within the US. Middle and high schoolers exposed to that by either playing in bands, attending recitals, shows etc may have sparked interest or played a role in that revival. Those kids would then carry that interest forward as they aged for at least a few years. Fashion I know next to nothing about but non-baseball hats were definitely more popular back then and more accepted across a wide demographic in comparison to now. But this is all off the cuff guessing really. The real answer could be vastly different.

I'd guess that interest was regional and driven by band kids and whatever those communities they lived in promoted as cultural events.

Leftovers. Exactly.

Tried Washington's The Epic. Didn't hit for me this time around. A bit tepid. Noticed the Arkestra had a release last year, so tried it: Living Sky from 2022. Better, but not liking it as much as Swirling from a few years ago.

When requested they send you a csv file. You can then transfer that to your spreadsheet software of choice (I use Excel) and then edit away. That sounds like a combo of BRIAN and a discogs csv honestly. But I'm not sure minimal amount of effort on the user is guaranteed. I only use discogs for cataloging my collection. I've had to enter some editions of CDs, edit some releases etc. As you noted, it's tedious but I'm not sure one can escape tedium when faced with a project like this.