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great cover.

Damn. I didn't know it was so expensive; though I'm not a musician I'd like to read it at some point in life!

And on Lacy's birthday, no less.

all the Brackeens on Silkheart are unimpeachable.

Yeah, she was seemingly off and on in England throughout her career, at least early on. RIP, what a voice.

Sometimes I kept cover variations of certain ESP titles but I narrowed them down once I had to move across the country. I did keep the Actuel and America duplicate releases of Arthur Jones' Scorpio and Jacques Coursil's Black Suite; the Americas sound better but I like to keep the full Actuel catalog intact. Otherwise, occasionally I keep CD reissues if there's extra music or if I did work on them in some form.

Things are looking good in NY... for the time being, anyway.

That Impulse! triumvirate is great. I like Things Have Got To Change a lot, but Attica Blues is really special indeed, and Cry of My People ain't no slouch either.

problem with digitizing commercially produced materials is that the library doesn't have the rights. when I send digital copies of photographs to a user, whether academic or press or whatever, I always give them the photographer name and contact (or estate contact), with the understanding that the rights-holder will be contacted and, if necessary, compensated in the event of reuse. Books and records are obviously different and ownership can be tough to navigate -- author/creator, record company/publisher, or some middle-person? Really depends. A public library and a university library also have a very different public, as you might gather. I'm also firmly against the notion that we must "digitize everything" and make it all free because in many cases, there are those creators who need to be respected in their position, whether monetarily or otherwise (nor does every creator want all of their material available in the first place -- student works, informal creations, etc.). This is of course another long-tail discussion, but I think most institutions try to thread the needle of access and rights as best they can within the law (and what they have the resources to accomplish). And I'm hardly a lawyer or fair-use expert, just out here trying my best.

I don't see that as a problem -- like rare books, held in a library for viewing/examination rather than stored away in an individual person's home. The archive that I direct is available to anyone for research, though one does have to visit NYC in person for most of the materials. That said, I would not turn anyone away who made the trek.

my dad grew up in Wilton too -- was childhood friends with Darius and played piano with Dave. Would love to check this out. And yeah, certainly most universities parcel off vinyl that they get in donations with other materials. But hopefully SDSU will keep this as a learning collection, as Oberlin has done and as KU has done to a certain extent. Yeah, I was about to say something like this upthread but changed my mind. And I think (hope) it won't be billed as an archive, which it isn't (fwiw, I am an archivist). It will be expensive to catalog and SDSU will probably have to have a 3-year grant in place covering the cost of that (in addition to the storage room and access facilities). But it's entirely possible that they have planned for this and we'll see something interesting come of it. As many shortsighted gifts have resulted in albatrosses, many have also resulted in new directions and cornerstone resource collections.

If you'd been buying since the '50s, it might be. There are probably duplicates, mono/stereo, etc.. The Richard Wright collection at KU and the Jim Neumann collection at Oberlin also come to mind. Also, as a library professional I think one has to separate the value of a special collection from "how students listen to music (or if they do at all) today."

Man, for the longest time I thought the Inner City LPs duplicated what was on the Celebrity/Beacon albums (which I have). OOPS! Need to grab these.

hand-painted Live at Yale has me shook... amazing collection, glad it's going somewhere that it will be appreciated!

Good to know it's legit. Yeah, my impression is that he is involved as a more "Western classical" pianist these days but I could be mistaken.

only heard part of this record but love what I've heard. Still on the hunt for an original but the world will probably be over before I find one at a reasonable price.

Thanks for reminding me of that Larry Young record -- it's been ages since I've had it down off the shelf.

Yes, the Larry Young. Intercommunal Music is excellent in my opinion, but also very, very out. Would love to hear that bonus CD of Vitet-led music.

newer music: https://larshidde.bandcamp.com/album/ancestors-wailing

Really wish I'd made the pilgrimage, even over the phone, to interview him. I bet he had some stories!

Have been given reports from Nathaniel Mackey, Peter Kuhn, and other collaborators that the great trumpeter Eddie Gale died last night at the age of 78. Eddie Gale Stevens, Jr., known professionally as Eddie Gale, worked and recorded with Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, Prince Lasha, and his own groups, including the powerful late '60s combo Ghetto Music (which recorded two wonderful Blue Note albums). He was born (August 15, 1941) and raised in Brooklyn, and relocated to San Jose, CA in 1972. Active in churches and schools with a spiritual-educational and political-community bent, Gale's work has transcended both commercial and vanguard realms. He seemed like a very interesting person. RIP Eddie Gale, and thanks.

yeah, I have it as well as Jackie's Bag. Beautiful music.

Good ol' Ted Efantis... I remember the Jane Fielding thread quite fondly.