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On deck: Lennie Tristano - Live at Birdland 1949 - (Jazz Records) Lennie Tristano - Live in Toronto 1952 - (Jazz Records) Lee Konitz - Subconscious-Lee - (Prestige blue label)

It's funny... I took a few spare copies of FMPs, Emanem LPs, and a couple of lesser AACM titles over to a local record store and put them out on consignment. The record show came and went and they just sat in the racks. Still there, and I'll probably have to give up and bring them back home to the doubles shelf. None of these were priced exorbitantly and though some were a little scuffed, I would have thought they would garner some interest. I mean, Austin's a "record town," right? Oh well...

I don't know if it really works that way anymore, especially as popsike is setting prices as well. The insanity that goes on is marked as "standard" so that now a fucking Bill Fay record is $2000, rather than $200.

I'm not going to spend a grand on a first pressing BN or Prestige but I enjoy vinyl enough to seek out at least a Japanese pressing of something like this. With un-reissued free jazz, etc., vinyl is the only game in town.

Good to know. Usually if I re-buy something I have on an earlier-issue CD, I go the LP route.

I will also keep an eye out in the shops.

Barry Altschul - Somewhere Else - (Moers) w/ Mark Helias and Ray Anderson

Gwigwi Mrwebi - Mbaqanga Songs - (Honest Jon's reissue)

It's not at all like the BN or Tempo dates... maybe a little out of the "Achmet" bag, but extended into freer territory.

Ah yes, that was originally on Metronome and fetches big $$ for the vinyl... Thanks to everyone for assistance - guess it's just an oddity in the BN catalog!

Looks good. Dutch jazz!!!

Good find ! I don't know about "find" because it wasn't cheap... but the Google search engine beats eBay quite frequently. I think it usually goes for the £70-80 pound mark so yes, not cheap. Oh hang on - the pound has just crashed. So it is cheap ! Got it for WAY less than that considering the usual dollar-pound ratio. So yes, maybe a good "find" after all!

Sonny Rollins - More from the Vanguard - (BN twofer) Got my ticket to see Newk next May in Austin!

I was listening to The Golden Eight, an early Clarke-Boland side recorded in Cologne, and was struck by the question: why is this on Blue Note? The liners detailed the circumstances of the recording, but not the facts behind Lion's choice to release it. Was it licensed from another label? Are other tracks from the session on other CBBB records from the era? Considering that the bulk of their output from the '60s seems to be on Vogue and MPS, this one-off for BN is kind of weird and I guess I'm just now starting to wonder as I get more into their output. Long live Karl Drewo!

Show me a coach that can fill the minds of quite a number of people with knowledge.

Don't have that one - but I'd like to. Entirely different session. Still hoping to hear tapes of the version with Keith Tippett!

Good find ! I don't know about "find" because it wasn't cheap... but the Google search engine beats eBay quite frequently.

John Stevens and Co. - Spontaneous Music Ensemble - (Polydor) Finally got this on vinyl.

He really fucked up that European jazz book and there isn't any excuse for that.

Not "jazz" but I just wanted to post one of these wretched later ESP covers:

Vince Bendetti?

Ornette, Dewey, Haden and Blackwell. You know what you're getting into... Edit to add: the Paris Concert on Trio kills it, but the Haden-Blackwell team, to me, notch this one above the BNs.

I'm waiting for you to post a clean spare of Freddie Redd - Under Paris Skies - (Futura).

lunchtime listening: Ornette - Friends and Neighbors Live at Prince Street - (Flying Dutchman orig)