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yes, later pressings have ticked up too. I've never fallen in love with Cool Struttin', as much as I love Sonny Clark, and I can't fathom why. The trusty stereo 70s pressing serves me just fine in this case.

What's interesting to me is the heavy uptick in prices for later Blue Notes... the 4100 and 4200 series titles have gotten really expensive. Out To Lunch was once a $300 LP (not cheap, but manageable), and now, $2500! Iconic music and cover art, sure, but... yikes.

Major loss. RIP!

According to a number of musician-collaborators, the tubaist Joe Daley died on Sunday at age 75. Glad to have seen him several times over the years… and I’m thankful for his contributions. RIP.

yes, glad it could get one more restaging before Bob and Phil were both still living & creating work. I'd imagine brownie was at some of Bob's performances in Paris in the early 70s.

have the LP, excellent indeed.

Sad to report that theater director and visual artist Robert Wilson passed this morning at 83. His long list of collaborators in the music world includes Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Don Cherry, Tom Waits, David Byrne, Lou Reed, Dickie Landry, Hal Willner, Helmut Lachenmann, Arvo Pärt, Michael Galasso, and so many others. NYT obit here: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/theater/robert-wilson-dead.html I was his archivist for about 11 years, and got to know him & his work quite well. He was something else! Surely some of our board members have seen his plays/operas in person.

Never had that album either. Was wracking my brain -- so familiar, but couldn't place it. Thanks!

Uuskyla is great!

Vernel Fournier (1928-2000)

She was something else. RIP.

Yep! That’s the ticket.

That’s too bad; I never saw him, but enjoyed his playing. 87 makes sense if he was working with Sam Rivers in the mid 60s.

I always assumed this photo was taken in Florida. Nice record, regardless.

Quah is great!

Oh right, the International Phonograph dude was posting as Horwich… been awhile, couldn’t remember whose handle was whose. That Daley would be a revelation, surely, if it ever gets released.

wish they'd put out the expanded Joe Daley Trio set that seemed likely at one point, but alas...

Eggsellent.

To be honest, I completely spaced that there was an Arista reissue, as I’ve only ever owned the Unit Core pressing. The artist on the original Indent cover was a student of Taylor’s at Antioch: https://www.royalfh.com/obituary/mr-doyle-roberson-7497857/print

yeah, that's all pretty accurate. The Hemphill LP cover looks like this: I assume Cuscuna licensed this, Dogon A.D., the Lakes, and the HAE LPs from their prospective owners. Both HAE records came out on Universal Justice originally, while Dogon was on Hemphill's Mbari imprint. I will admit it's all very murky.

For what it's worth, and back to the OP, there are a lot of non-Bates Polydor jazz records as well. yes.

Ah, okay, thanks. Most of the Bates productions I have are a bit earlier, and therefore I wasn't aware of the DA Music name beyond the CD reissues.

Bates kept the masters when his deal with Fontana/Philips & Polydor was finished and subsequently licensed material to Arista in the US, Nippon Phonogram and King Records in Japan, and other imprints. DA Music (Germany) bought much of his holdings in the 90s apparently as part of a debt liquidation situation. I am sure they weren’t as interested in higher budget artwork as they were in moving product, though from my recollection the CDs sounded pretty decent.

yes, the Cecil and Ayler stuff was on Debut (as well as Bley's "Touching") and then folded into Fontana under Bates' direction. Danish Debut was a fan club label that licensed some American Debut titles as well as releasing music by Danish musicians and visiting Americans... some of the Danish productions were licensed back to Fantasy in the '60s (Ayler, Taylor, Pettiford). Bates didn't seem to have much interest in picking up the titles by Danish artists, some of which have been reissued by various companies overt the years. Earlier thread is here:

That's too bad. I certainly remember his posting in this community, though IIRC it had been a while.