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Lasha and Shaw (LaShaw?) played a lot together in that time. Prince had hoped to issue some of the material but sadly that didn't come to pass.

Love the samples I heard, just can't afford the cd at the moment. Kick-ass record.

Clearly you dug Slumdog Millionaire.

I think chewy is asking about why certain titles are rarer than others. Some were done in much smaller runs and only once. You can find a fair amount of W. 63rd copies of Cool Struttin' that were actually pressed later in the 1960s after Liberty bought the label, using (I assume) leftovers of the old label and jacket design. Other titles were less in demand at the time and were not repressed - thus you might have 500 copies of a Hank Mobley or 1000 of the Tina Brooks. I think I've seen a non-DG of the Brooks so it probably had a second pressing. Certainly, if a title is selling poorly it is either cut out or returned to the manufacturer and "destroyed." Supposedly the latter reason is why a lot of major-label psych records are so hard to find. The same might go for certain jazz titles. Hopefully Chuck weighs in here with some manufacturing tidbits that will fill in all these holes.

This sounds like me a few months after a purge...

Welcome, Karl! How is the digitization of your tape collection going? I remember you were seeking an intern for the digitization of the archives at the Creative Music Studio some time ago. Warm regards from the heart of Texas!

Polvo - Celebrate the New Dark Age - (Merge 12") Never had the 45s box (impossible to get where I was) and this is way nicer-looking than the CD packaging!

How is this? I've never got around to listening to it. Strong, better than I remembered. It's not as chockablock as the Black Saint, which is my favorite of their records. I would like to get the duo LP with David Ware but it rarely comes up.

Welcome. I got a "new" copy of that LP and the pressing noise was louder than the music. Too bad.

Bill Dixon once said this to me about "imitators" of Charlie Parker and their addiction to heroin: "did they think that Charlie Parker wanted to live like Charlie Parker?"

Beaver Harris 360 Degree Music Experience - From Rag Time to No Time - (360 Records) Haven't spun this one in almost a decade!

Grachan Moncur III - Some Other Stuff - (BN NY stereo)

Derek Bailey & Steve Lacy - Company 4 - (Incus)

Thanks to Chuck for clearing that up. Bernard had said something to the effect that the recordings were in "bad sound" and that he had Richard Alderson clean up what he could in order to issue on ESP, as Blue Note wasn't moving on it. But clearly it's not that simple. I didn't realize that test pressings of the BNs were even made.

Hmm. Not sure, as I have Dancing in Your Head on vinyl.

Now I'm pretty sure that I haven't - in recent memory at least - run across that particular Stan T. title.

From what I understand - and somebody may know more about this - the recordings were badly marred by distortion and the only salvageable (then) material was issued via ESP. I don't know the state of the tapes now or whether any more salvageable music has been found from that concert. Ornette has never been one for going back into his archives. Who knows whether that will change.

Paul Rutherford - Neuph - (Sweet Folk & Country)

It's a good'n. Not quite 'there' in terms of where they were trying to go, but a cool notch in the McGregor discographical axis. Putting that alongside the Gwigwi is kind of a shock.

Happy Belated, my friend.

I know somebody 'round here has a spare of the ICP date...

That was the band Buell had told me about. I think Gayle sat in from time to time. Wish that had been recorded!

I've thought about picking up that Jessica reissue from time to time, but never pulled the trigger. OG LPs of that are 'spensive!

In Buffalo, right? Buell told me that was some serious shit... I guess Andrew White had something to do with bringing Charles Gayle into the music at the time.

I need to get the Cuneiform disc with Ray Russell. I imagine it's pretty wild. The Rendell/Carr material is, of course, my preferred outlet for Carr's work.