Kevin Bresnahan

I have a live date recorded in Cortland from around this time and it smokes. The drummer of the session has been telling me for years that he's going to release it officially but it's beginning to look like that isn't happening.

Yeah, but "more people", in this case, is likely going to be the flippers/hoarders. Many of these new Muse LPs will never be opened and will sell from collector to collector in that condition. I'm betting that a lot of these will not be bought for the music.

I stopped buying new expensive vinyl a few years ago. I just can't hear the benefit to them any more. It's gotten to the point where if I have it on CD, and I have a lot of CDs, I usually skip the vinyl version. And to be honest, I've had a lot of problems with these newer LPs. Warps, underfill, cuts too hot for my setup, warbling piano, etc.

I don't think I've heard any of Richard Davis' Muse LPs. I keep meaning to, but never go the extra step of acquiring any. Are they worth shelling out the money? I doubt I'd like "As One" very much.

Supposedly Carmell Jones was heckled before (during?) the show and his playing was adversely affected. Michael Cuscuna gave the masters to Horace so there is a chance that they're out there somewhere. If someone knows Horace's son Gregory, maybe he has them... although I did read somewhere that Gregory may have also passed.

It was a Schlitten.

Ricky Ford has 7 Muse LPs that have never been released on CD ever.

Hopefully they have access to the masters and find some bonus material for this.

Danielle Spencer, typically acknowledged as the first female back child actress, has died at the age of 60. Her breakout role was as Dee in the TV show 'What's Happening!!', which aired from 1976-79 on ABC. She left television to become a veterinarian. Her brother is Jazz trumpeter Jeremy Pelt.

Blue Note doesn't delay the CD. It's also available for pre-order... for $19.98 for a single CD! In this day and age, putting a $20 price tag on a CD is ridiculous. Next they'll complain that no one is buying CDs anymore.

I imagine that AOL's biggest problem with keeping dial-up services going is finding a supplier of the dial-up modem chipsets to replace that aging infrastructure. Companies that made those stopped making them a long time ago. Any stocks of them have to be depleted or deleted by now. On top of that, not many companies make a dial-up modem for today's modern PC architecture, likely due to the same problem. I can see it now... some doomsday Windows 95 user on a 30 year old PC is now upset that he can't log into his alt.talk. newsgroups.

I still think this is really messed up. I see that glasswares and ceramics are on the list of "artworks" that fall under this. So when someone drops this glassware/ceramic and it smashes to bits, is the owner now liable for lost resale value? If a buyer of artworks has a house fire and the works of art are destroyed, will his insurance have to send money to the artists to compensate them for lost resale revenue? If an art buyer purposefully destroys art, can they be sued for loss of income? The list of potential problems goes on & on. And why limit "art" to these things alone? That is the craziest thing here. I see the legal spin revolves around copies made in limited copies. There are a lot of cars that fall into that category. I imagine that someone that owns a super rare Ferrari or Lambo would be a bit upset if they had to pay an extra fee when buying that rare car on the secondary market.

I agree that that is not really a good image of Blakey. That said, check out Oris watch company's "Art Blakey Limited Edition" watch.

I don't think it's much of a stretch to say that Wright's architectural designs venture into the "art" category. If anyone could patent "a look", it's his estate. In my view, whatever court ruled that an artist is due money when their art is re-sold, really screwed up. If it becomes the norm, I could easily see it spreading to other media. And since corporations were ruled to be "people" here in the US, they will go after the money wherever they can. I could easily see a big company going after the used market if this becomes the way of our courts.

So does this mean that Frank Lloyd Wright's family can get royalties whenever one of his buildings is re-sold? That seems to be what's implied here.

I still don't understand how the courts are granting ownership to someone who doesn't own the item. If they can do this for valuable artwork, what's to stop them from doing it with something like real estate? People make millions & millions of dollars on real estate. Are builders going to start getting a cut?

Is that really a thing? How could anyone claim rights to something they don't own? Once I buy something, it's mine, not the previous owner's. If this is a thing, what's to stop record labels from getting money on used sales?

These Apple Music compilations are head-scratchers to me. I guess I don't see why they think a compilation will get more plays than the actual LPs that they pulled the music from (in this case, "Grant's First Stand" & "Stop & Listen")... unless it's a way to avoid paying mechanical royalties to the artists?

What happened was that he decided he wanted to make money. He made a lot of it playing clarinet and pumping out smooth jazz for GRP. Who can blame any of these smooth jazz guys for riding a gravy train? If he had stuck playing "Joe Henderson", I highly doubt he'd be as rich as he is today.

I'm not surprised that he's not touring. He's 81 and at this point has likely made a bunch of money during his "smooth jazz" days.

The crazy money for "Cool Struttin'" has been the result of some sort of fetish for that album in Japan. Is it the music or the cover? Who knows. As for Jackie's playing back then... it was an acquired taste. I can understand the allure as well as the disdain. I'm kinda in the middle myself.

I wish I got to see him more often. His shows were fun as hell. He always brought high energy to the stand. You never worried about being bored when he was at the piano. RIP Eddie and thanks for the music.

A contract signed for a recording being made for radio broadcast is just that... they had the legal right to broadcast it over the air. Those contractual rights don't mysteriously become "We can do whatever we want with this tape". If Stan Getz's estate i.e. Bev Getz, hasn't been compensated for a commercial release of this, then it likely isn't legit. No matter though - it's certainly not legal for sale here in the US at all, as Getz was under contract with Verve in 1966. Have we all forgotten the fiasco around the Monk "Palo Alto" release, where Impulse! tried releasing it without getting a release from his record label of the time? Same thing here. Michael Cuscuna & I talked about this label quite a bit and he acknowledged (as I do) that many are important musical artifacts that should be heard. But he was also very aware of how many of these labels like Lost Recordings release stuff like this without any compensation to the artists, which he felt was very wrong. @Chuck Nessa - Do you know if a contract to broadcast a performance extends to a commercial release of the recording?

My bank offers "rewards" on their credit card. My last two iPhones were bought using Apple gift cards that I "purchased" using these rewards. So basically, I've been getting a new iPhone every few years for free. If your credit card company has a rewards plan, check to see what gift cards they offer. Typically, you get "more bang for your buck" choosing gift cards over using them as a credit to your account.

I know Bev Getz was looking into this... I'm somewhat surprised it's still out there. PD cuts off at 1962 in the EU so 1966 is way outside of that so when the estate of a musician questions a release, that's usually all it takes to get it pulled.