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yeah, not a bargain bin album at all! But certainly fascinating and probably one of a few Garricks I'd really like to own on vinyl (have most on CD).
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The Surman and Woods are "around" on the 'net. They're very good. I think the Wallen Bink sets are very well-presented and the sound is excellent, but not all of the music really knocked me out. Still, it's good to have most of it in one place. Would be nice if the additional material from the initial CDs made it out again.
and speaking of Kleinschuster & Surman, there's also this stupendous NDR broadcast that came out some years ago:
https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/flashpoint-ndr-jazz-workshop-april-69-2
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right, those are strong too (they were not issued at the time).
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Re: Michael Foster, this one is just now released and is very, very good:
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Agree. All those 60s/70s Goykovich sessions are superb. RTB, Philips, Ensayo, MPS/Session, Vista...
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We had cat/house-sitters last week and the dude of the couple is very into music, nice person. I instructed him on the LP organization system and made sure he was good at taking care of records. So far only one random misfiling; there might be more, but I'm not too worried. Most notably he came away fascinated by Steve Lacy's "Stalks" LP.
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I think Bates bought the Jazz Line/Jazztime catalog in the 1960s. Some of these were reissued on Fontana/Polydor in the UK, Holland, and Germany in the late '60s. Pearson's great Angel Eyes had its first issue as a UK Polydor LP but was recorded for Jazz Line. The Willie Wilson initially came out as a Freddie Hubbard LP on Fontana, and was issued under Pearson's name in the US by Prestige.
I find this all quite fascinating. Muzak must have a pretty good licensing deal with DA Music (which holds all of the Bates productions).
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Might be facing spine-inward on the shelf. That's happened to me before, for whatever reason (refiling after a few beers?).
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On 5/3/2024 at 7:41 PM, trane123 said:
Mosaic had a major impact on my jazz education over the last 30 years. My first box was the Art Blakey/Jazz Messengers set. I remember when I placed the on-line order for my 100th set (this was sometime in the mid-2000s), I noted in the comment block that this was, indeed, my 100th set and thanked them for all the great work. The next day when I got home there was a FedEx overnight envelope sitting on my doorstep. Inside was a card from Michael thanking me for being such a loyal customer and including a $100 Mosaic gift card. RIP Michael and thanks for the lifetime of great work.
wow, that is really kind. Speaks volumes (pun not intended).
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The vocal tracks are quite a turnoff to me. But maybe I'll try again. I recall when it was a fairly cheap record in the used bins and I never bothered with it... now, of course, it's quite expensive and I wouldn't mind having a few copies to sell!
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Every one of the Fontana/Freedom/Polydor LPs that Alan Bates had his hand in is worth owning and listening to. Can't speak for the Steve Kuhn on Buddha, however -- different thing entirely.
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Children of the Sun's "Ofamfa" is a great, great album, perhaps my favorite of the Universal Justice/BAG releases.
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Absolutely true on the vulnerability aspect. As Burton told me, she was so fragile and the New York (free) jazz scene did not treat fragile people well.
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21 hours ago, JSngry said:
I mean, I'm not the biggest Gary Giddings fan, but he's been there and done plenty of work, so hey. I'm certainly not dispirited by his selection.
ditto.
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19 hours ago, JSngry said:
Is the Tchichai a highlight?
The Cadentia Nova Danica record is wonderful in my opinion. There isn't a whole lot out there like it.
My holy grail is the collaborative session of CND and Musica Elettronica Viva. Tchicai had clean master tapes and was getting them digitized when I interviewed him, but his untimely death put the kibosh on a release. Hopefully someday...
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Sad to report that vocalist and sometime pianist Patty Waters has died at 78. The family announced it on social media yesterday, though it looks like she passed in late June.
Her ESP records and vocal contributions to the Marzette Watts Savoy LP, as well as the You Thrill Me archival release, are all incredible. She was an influence on Diamanda Galas, Yoko Ono, Kim Gordon, and certainly others in the underground. I've spent less time with her comeback CDs; her voice seemed to struggle (and we know it's not a forgiving instrument) but she was still out there doing it, and that's something. Spoke to her a couple of times on the phone twenty or so years ago but she was reluctant to do an interview. I'm told that later on she became more comfortable with the idea, so I guess I was just too early. She was very sweet but at the time still kind of shell-shocked from an uneasy life in and outside of music – that's how it seemed, anyway.
RIP, Patty, and thank you.
There's nothing else out there like this:
and this is just beautiful (rec. 1969, not '66):
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oral history of Mr. Newhart himself, yeah, not the show -- sorry.
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He was great. RIP.
In library science grad school, one of my projects was to index and encode a video oral history of Newhart for a comedy oral history project. That was quite fascinating.
Even his timing in an oral history was funny!
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his situation seems to be a tough one. I hope he's able to handle it well. Getting older is not a picnic sometimes.
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Both of those Goykovich albums are killer. Swinging Macedonia is a hard hitting classic -- have that on a UK Lansdowne LP.
Is Muzak just a licensing label? Seems like they're getting material from ENJA, DA Music, and who knows where else.
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I have no problem with these choices at all.
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if one doesn't have these yet, one should pick them up.
I am "ride or die" for the Jym Young and the Tchicai is a longtime favorite as well.
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Very sad to read this news. She was amazing & I had a fun experience interviewing her by phone many years ago. Sweet person. RIP.
What vinyl are you spinning right now??
in The Vinyl Frontier
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