paul secor

It can't cost that much to put out a bootleg - even if it is 6 CDs.

Another year has gone by, so - HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Pete! :party:

I doubt that Columbia will repair the damage on the CD issue, but if you can't find a pre-CD LP, Pure Pleasure has reissued the album version. It's expensive, but some good things do cost.

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It all goes back to this, French RCA, 1961: Not sure how THAT got released, but it was the first - and last - vault-dipping into RCA's fairly expansive Rollins holdings (Coda once pulished a discography of all known unreleased sessions, and the list was pretty...mind-boggling). Sonny heard about this, immediately put the kibosh on further sales of this item (a few got imported into the US, but not many), went lawyerball on RCA and the final deal was that the vaults would forever more be sealed, this little bit of leakage excepted. I'm pretty sure that not everything that's still left in there is going to be worthy of release. But the stuff that came out here was such a joyful mindfuck at the time, that I've got to think that there's more of merit to be found, if/when Sonny reassessess his attitude. And funnily enough, watching the material on this set come out on the RCA box and the various individual releases of 60s Sonny that Bluebird did, people who hadn't known any better just assumed that it was all of a piece and so many of them were all holy shit, this is GREAT how did THIS get so overlooked, and the answer is, because it's never really been heard until now, that's why. Same thing happened with There Will Never Be Another You on Impulse. Sonny put a stopper on that one too. Not sure if an agreement was ever reached,

I imagine that RCA hasn't released anything because their deal with Sonny Rollins back in the early 60's was for six albums only, and Sonny would have to agree to a release. It's probably too much to hope for that JLH might work a deal with RCA (or whatever they are these days) and Mr. Rollins for a legitimate release of this material. It would no doubt cost a small fortune to do that.

Prevue was part of Classic.

I hope that you do get around to an update, though what's there is very worthwhile.

Good music? - no doubt. Legit? - doubtful - probably no way.

Xanadu generally had some very iffy pressings. I gave up on Xanadu at some point for that reason. EPM and Classic did some CD reissues, so I did pick up some of those - Bud, Jimmy Raney, Rowles/Cohn, Tal Farlow, etc. They probably won't get to them, but I'd like to hear some of the gold label reissues: Bill Harris Memorial, Pee Wee Russell: Somewhere Over the Rainbow - both of those might be reissues and could have been reissued elsewhere. Jimmy Raney/Sonny Clark, and the Bebop Revisited series. Some of Don Schlitten's taste didn't coincide with mine, but I'm hoping they'll dig into the catalog beyond some of the bigger names. Listing of Xanadu LPs (no idea how complete it is, but it brought back some memories): http://www.jazzlists.com/SJ_Label_Xanadu.htm

When I was building my Charles Ives website, I listened to practically nothing but Ives' music for a long, long time. I'd often listen to the same composition over and over and over again, typically to get a sense of the different interpretations by various performers. For some reason, when I was listening to Ives' Second String Quartet, I had extremely vivid dreams of (re)hearing the music. It didn't happen with any of the other compositions. But with this piece I felt -- in my dreams -- as if I could follow the music as closely, as precisely as if I were reciting a long, long poem. I'm sure that sensation was an illusion. But it felt nice. I guess I had "Ives on the brain." I've looked at that website a number of times. Had no idea you were the person behind it.

Interesting N.Y. Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/29/us/mystery-and-discovery-on-the-trail-of-amede-ardoin-creole-music-pioneer.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

A good friend of mine does a blues radio show and he's planning to feature Marcus Belgrave on some bluesy/r&b sides - w. Ray Charles, Percy Mayfield, & David "Fathead" Newman tomorrow night.

I love it when I have musical dreams like that. Doesn't happen often enough.

It's a guilty pleasure for me because I rarely eat barbeque.

I read the story as Bruce Lundvall eating and boozing on the company's tab. And who paid for that? You and I.

I almost always order pulled pork at a local restaurant where my wife and I have lunch occasionally.

How is the Blake book? I've been dying to read it, but it's incredibly expensive in the USA. I'm 60 pages in and very much enjoying it. There's a big section of plates in the middle that are linked into the text and help you understand his early work as an apprentice engraver (that might explain the expense). Very good on the origins of his worldview in the Dissenting tradition. I've never quite 'got' what Blake was railing against but it's starting to make sense now. I knew he was deeply suspicious of industrialisation and 'reason' but the text makes clear how this was rooted in a general mistrust of authority both civil and religious. Thanks for your initial thoughts, I keep looking for a cheap, used copy here. From what I can see online, used copies in the U.S. are far from cheap. Good luck with your search, Matthew.

Yes, I agree (with the looking hideous part). I definitely can't see anything "art" in them, to me most of the players above look like über kitsch. other than the Goldmund's, they all look pretty cool to me. i'd be curious to know how many units were sold of each of these models, and where. in Dubai? They don't have to sell many units at those prices.

Mingus' large group recordings - aggressive without being overbearing

Interesting. Perhaps this goes with the recording being available somewhat under the radar.

Looking at the cover, I can almost hear the music.

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OMG, memories... growing up, I knew a kid my age in Kilgore, Tx that had that record.....he got it from his older brother, who was a guitarist...this was before Albert started recording for Alligator and was still very much a "cult figure"... Does your copy have any scratches on it? My friend's copy was damn near all scratches, yet you could hear Albert and the bass player like they were right there in the speaker with you. The rest of things, not so much. But this kid lived with his granmother kinda out in the country, still in Kilgore but back off out of the way just a bit...his brother had given him a lot of records, shit I had never heard of before like Willis Jackson records with Pat Azarra, stuff like that, and they were all scratched all to hell and his record player had no pity on the records either, if you know what I mean. But dammit, they played, and few played louder or prouder through the scratches than this one...I still have memories of "Frosty" just SCREAMING right after dinner time (his grandmother cooked SERIOUS old-school meals, you didn't get bread unless you were having a sandwich, otherwise, you got cornbread), through the scratches and the screens and out onto the front porch into the almost night...probably not meaningful to anybody else, but damn, just seeing that cover took me all the way back to a whole 'nother time and place all of a sudden. You know, those types of records were not mastered like other records. Those types of records knew what they were in for even before they were born. My copy is near mint. I hadn't listened to it in a few years but, listening today, I know what you're saying. The record sounds ALIVE. Glad to bring back some good memories to you. Great story.