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Classic. I have the Japanese Odeon pressing with an alternate sleeve design. At one point I had the French Decca but it was a bit off condition-wise…

A classic! Glad he’s still with us performing and recording.

Such a great cover photo (and the album isn't too shabby either). I remember buying that on cassette, Sub Pop issue, in the fall of 1991, maybe days after I picked up Nevermind.

I would appreciate Elemental using period images of Pharoah, rather than shots from the 1960s...

yeah, remains to be seen what's available online. I could imagine the NYPL doing something like this: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/divisions/music-division as you can see, some collections are onsite only, while others have digital availability, f.e.: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/913c4000-8fa8-0133-bc73-00505686d14e?canvasIndex=15 and yes, I'm familiar with Aviary. I can't remember what the NYPL uses for its online document viewer but I believe that a lot of their software is proprietary/in-house. They have quite a budget for such things.

Well, depending on rights issues not everything can be shared online -- for example, when I worked for an artist's foundation in NYC, the photographers of the pieces (which were mostly performances) held reproduction rights, which is pretty common. Some of the photographers gave us carte blanche to do with images what we wanted, others were very careful about how their photos were distributed and worked with third parties to handle access and royalties. Depending on the contracts the Shorter family has with both photographers and the NYPL, the public availability online of certain things will vary. Regardless, I think it's a good thing the archives are at NYPL and will be curious to see what unfolds. As I mentioned to Hank, 138LF of original manuscripts and images will take time to catalog, and there'll be a lot of treasures to (hopefully) examine in the future.

Hill’s chords, rhythm, and sense of melody, much of which work in a churning cloudlike or allover sensation, direct while also indirect, are fascinating to me. I’ve never heard anyone else like him.

I hope this is true. It would change everything.

What an absolute mess. I mean, there are a lot of things in this world to be angry or depressed about (rightly), but this is just like... we can't even import cheap goods to make ourselves feel momentarily better. Isn't that what capitalism is all about? Really a-level bullshit.

yeah, DHL, FedEx, UPS will continue to deliver, but at a significant upcharge. Paying $30 to ship a $15 CD becomes completely unworkable after a few instances (I've definitely been there).

yes. My undies are in a bunch trying to figure out how to get LPs shipped here without it being a complete mess. The only real option I see is having stuff sent to Canada and then here, but there'll still be a duty and double shipping costs (potentially) so probably not worth it in the end.

Yes, I too love those Saravah LPs! Lapis is of course a favorite but they're all excellent.

The unissued Ed Blackwell on Sweet Earth needs to come out!

I'd love to hear the quintet session with Marion Brown if it survived.

yeah, I have those LPs -- very strong. Though at this point the reissue market is bloated, those albums are certainly deserving.

Will give it a listen, thanks for the suggestion. Think I only have him as a sideman here & there (but not on Dolphy's Here & There).

not familiar with the Green LP.

IIRC, the music of Cannonball featured a totally different band (no Dolphy) and the Dolphy tracks are, of course, from the FM sessions.

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Out to Lunch was done while Dolphy was under contract to FM Records, so I've always thought it was intended to be a one-off.

yeah, I would assume the reason for The Wire not getting reissued is that Denon doesn't have any interest. Dusted that LP off recently and it's a great date, but the audience might be smaller than, say, for an obscure but funky Jiro Inagaki album (and don't get me wrong, I like those too).

still itching to hear more of this: https://www.discogs.com/release/25433386-Steve-Lacy-Stations

I can't even recall; it was years ago, but I don't believe it was the Douglas/FM recordings and rehearsals. FWIW I guess Concord aka Alchemy Copyrights owns the catalog, but I guess there are questions of payment going back many years. Will that get sorted? Think Zev can do it?

yeah, he wanted me to do some Dolphy research for him at one point and it wasn't clear to me that he had the rights to the music or even the information... he came off very high and mighty as well as being easily distractible. I was not impressed.