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I think we can sit and speculate, but unless we have figures from Mosaic we can't KNOW what sells hot and what sells NOT. Even getting a set in the mail with a number doesn't necessarily tell you much. Some sets vanish fast. . . because of leasing issues. Hardly any seem to really be big sellers in the way that the majors can have big sellers at the retail level. . . . In the case of the Four Freshmen and the Bobby Hackett that get made fun of on this board. . . I wouldn't go so far as to say that they don't sell well; I don't have any figures, and the bulk of their fanbase is NOT on this board (likely not even on the internet!)

I did not know that one day (today) I would say "I hate this place!" because it is making me know of wonderful stuff that I DID NOT KNOW of.

1951: Especially for You; Nobody Knows. Frankie Passions (?) on vocals This session, and some other great vocal sessions not by Monk, is available on the Spotlite cd "Cool Wailin'!"

Cool pic!

I like the Storyvilles with Konitz a lot, and play those often. Don't have many others than those you've mentioned, and I probably NEED to get more. . . . A very unique player whose sound and conception grow on one with exposure. . . though it may take LOTS of exposure for some. (Medium was needed for me).

This fructrose stuff IS evil. They put it in a lot of the Chai concentrates I would love to use. . . except that stuff is in there. ARGH!

Man I love Bean. . . He's like a flippin' typhoon sometimes, and he's like a salty summer breeze sometime, and he's always a force who calls you to attention. One that I keep coming back to time and again is "Night Hawk." Hawk and Lockjaw and Flannagan. . . wow. . . it's got it all. Then of course there's my favorite Sonny Rollins session. . . Sonny and Hawk doing a nice boxing ring dance. I LOVE what Hawk does on this one so much!

I spoke wrongly: it appears that "Jacky Terrason" is still in print.

Smile is quite nice. I like his first one on US Blue Note (just called "Jacky Terrason"?) a lot. And one that I think may be called "Rhapsody" that had a Weather Report feel to it. Those are out of print though. I haven't yet heard "Rendezvous" or "Paris". . . but I will. I really like his role in Jimmy Scott's "Heaven" release as well. And he plays quite well on Barney Wilen's "Paris Mood."

I have the first one, when I see it at the right time I'll buy the second. I have the dvd as well. I too think she has a nice voice, and she appears to be a genuinely nice woman. She has a quiet charisma that really does seem effective. . . witness Lundvall and 25 million copies sold! I like her piano playing too, simple and direct, nice sound. Plus. . . the Handsome Band is GOOD. Tight, nice soloing, just right for the material and Norah.

Okay, they should have said Hackensack, not Englewood Cliffs (for the time period). And we've been told Norah's sales were not "subsidizing" Blue Note. Sure seems that Lundvall made an intuitive leap and made a very lucky call by signing Norah from one office visit! Props to him for that, no matter how you might feel about Norah's music or being with Blue Note. . . . He earned his pay!

http://www.iht.com/articles/511578.html Good times roll at Blue Note Mike Zwerin IHT Wednesday, March 24, 2004 It might be said that Blue Note records is subsidized by an annuity from Norah Jones - a good singer, too often badmouthed - whose two albums together have surprisingly sold, so far, close to 25 million copies worldwide. . Piracy, file-sharing, the maturation of the CD market and seismic structural changes in the record business notwithstanding, times appear to be good at Blue Note. Bruce Lundvall, 68, president and chief executive of EMI Jazz Classics - a group that also includes Angel, Virgin Classics, Roulette, Pacific Jazz and Manhattan - has been in the record business more than 40 years, 18 of them at the head of Blue Note. He was more than willing to tell the Norah Jones story - not, one suspects, for the first time: . "She is signed to us for only one reason. I returned a phone call. The record business is famous for not returning calls. Maybe I don't get to it the same day, but I always return phone calls." . This particular message was from a woman in the royalty department in the midtown office of the parent company, EMI. She said: "There's this jazz singer I'd like you to listen to." . He said: "O.K. Send me something." . She said: "No, I'd like to bring her down in person." . Waiting in his lower Fifth Avenue office, a reluctant Lundvall was saying to himself: "Here comes another one." He was getting calls from "a lot of blond, buxom women who play the piano and sing badly trying to sound like Diana Krall. But in comes this petite girl with glasses, thin, very young, dressed down." . He asked her to tell him about herself and she said she'd dropped out of North Texas State College, where she had been a voice major, and was doing Sunday brunches and local things around New York. The demo she had with her included the old Tommy Wolf/Fran Landesman hipster ode "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most." . Lundvall said: "She really nailed 'Spring.' I was...Wait a minute! That's a hard song to sing, the chord changes are tough, it's one of my favorite songs and I've never heard it sung better." . He asked her who was playing piano and she said "me." Wondering what the odds were against a 20-year-old woman learning that song in the first place, he reflected for only a few beats before saying: "Look, you're on Blue Note. You are going to have to get an attorney, but I'm making a commitment now." . Lundvall had somewhat similarly signed the singer Bobby McFerrin. Jones's unexpected success made it possible for him to sign Wynton Marsalis recently, as well. Lundvall is one of the few executives remaining with the necessary combination of ears, culture and clout to pull it off. Verve is pulling back from the jazz market and Warner Brothers has discontinued the Atlantic label. . Years ago, when Charlie Haden called to recommend the young Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Lundvall flew to Havana to hear him. With the U.S. embargo it was not legal for the New York office of Blue Note to have a contract with Rubalcaba, and so he was signed to Blue Note Japan. . This sort of enlightened entrepreneurship is one reason the company remains profitable and keeps winning polls as the jazz label of the year. There are about 20 new releases a year, plus 100 or so reissues, and the roster includes Cassandra Wilson, Terrence Blanchard, Dianne Reeves, Joe Lovano, Pat Martino, Jacky Terrasson and Greg Osby. . Lundvall said that he is "trying hard to continue in the old Blue Note tradition." The company was founded in 1939 in New York by Alfred Lion, who was from Berlin. He was joined in New York by his childhood friend, a fellow Berliner and jazz fan named Francis Wolff. . The partners were quick to recognize that LPs were the perfect carrier for jazz. For the first time, soloists had enough space to develop their ideas. (CDs allow for too much space, but that is another problem.) They set out to make as many jazz LPs as they could and cast them with always credible, often legendary, musicians who were hot at the moment and who liked to play together. . It was a major part of the tonal fabric of the time and included Lee Morgan, Sonny Rollins, Brother Jack McDuff, Hank Mobley, Milt Jackson, Jimmy Smith, Bud Powell and Sam Rivers. Some bands, hired on their way out of the clubs at the end of the evening, would record far into the morning in Rudy Van Gelder's studio across the river in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. (Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers grew out of a Blue Note session organized around Horace Silver.) . "The wonderful thing about jazz is that it's forever," Lundvall said. "When you make a jazz record with a credible artist, it will sell not much, perhaps, but something in every part of the world. If you make the right choices, then 5, 10, 20 years from now you can reissue them." . He continued, "We are creating future catalogs with our new releases. Our catalog is our most valuable asset. It's like an annuity." . To celebrate Blue Note's 65th birthday, Blue Note France is producing a festival from April 4 to May 1 in various venues around Paris. It will feature Reeves, Wilson, Marsalis, and, among others, Erik Truffaz, Jason Moran, Patricia Barber, Stefano Di Battista, Medeski Martin and Wood and Bugz in the Attic. For more information, visit www.bluenotefrance.com. . International Herald Tribune PARIS It might be said that Blue Note records is subsidized by an annuity from Norah Jones - a good singer, too often badmouthed - whose two albums together have surprisingly sold, so far, close to 25 million copies worldwide. . Piracy, file-sharing, the maturation of the CD market and seismic structural changes in the record business notwithstanding, times appear to be good at Blue Note. Bruce Lundvall, 68, president and chief executive of EMI Jazz Classics - a group that also includes Angel, Virgin Classics, Roulette, Pacific Jazz and Manhattan - has been in the record business more than 40 years, 18 of them at the head of Blue Note. He was more than willing to tell the Norah Jones story - not, one suspects, for the first time: . "She is signed to us for only one reason. I returned a phone call. The record business is famous for not returning calls. Maybe I don't get to it the same day, but I always return phone calls." . This particular message was from a woman in the royalty department in the midtown office of the parent company, EMI. She said: "There's this jazz singer I'd like you to listen to." . He said: "O.K. Send me something." . She said: "No, I'd like to bring her down in person." . Waiting in his lower Fifth Avenue office, a reluctant Lundvall was saying to himself: "Here comes another one." He was getting calls from "a lot of blond, buxom women who play the piano and sing badly trying to sound like Diana Krall. But in comes this petite girl with glasses, thin, very young, dressed down." . He asked her to tell him about herself and she said she'd dropped out of North Texas State College, where she had been a voice major, and was doing Sunday brunches and local things around New York. The demo she had with her included the old Tommy Wolf/Fran Landesman hipster ode "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most." . Lundvall said: "She really nailed 'Spring.' I was...Wait a minute! That's a hard song to sing, the chord changes are tough, it's one of my favorite songs and I've never heard it sung better." . He asked her who was playing piano and she said "me." Wondering what the odds were against a 20-year-old woman learning that song in the first place, he reflected for only a few beats before saying: "Look, you're on Blue Note. You are going to have to get an attorney, but I'm making a commitment now." . Lundvall had somewhat similarly signed the singer Bobby McFerrin. Jones's unexpected success made it possible for him to sign Wynton Marsalis recently, as well. Lundvall is one of the few executives remaining with the necessary combination of ears, culture and clout to pull it off. Verve is pulling back from the jazz market and Warner Brothers has discontinued the Atlantic label. . Years ago, when Charlie Haden called to recommend the young Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Lundvall flew to Havana to hear him. With the U.S. embargo it was not legal for the New York office of Blue Note to have a contract with Rubalcaba, and so he was signed to Blue Note Japan. . This sort of enlightened entrepreneurship is one reason the company remains profitable and keeps winning polls as the jazz label of the year. There are about 20 new releases a year, plus 100 or so reissues, and the roster includes Cassandra Wilson, Terrence Blanchard, Dianne Reeves, Joe Lovano, Pat Martino, Jacky Terrasson and Greg Osby. . Lundvall said that he is "trying hard to continue in the old Blue Note tradition." The company was founded in 1939 in New York by Alfred Lion, who was from Berlin. He was joined in New York by his childhood friend, a fellow Berliner and jazz fan named Francis Wolff. . The partners were quick to recognize that LPs were the perfect carrier for jazz. For the first time, soloists had enough space to develop their ideas. (CDs allow for too much space, but that is another problem.) They set out to make as many jazz LPs as they could and cast them with always credible, often legendary, musicians who were hot at the moment and who liked to play together. . It was a major part of the tonal fabric of the time and included Lee Morgan, Sonny Rollins, Brother Jack McDuff, Hank Mobley, Milt Jackson, Jimmy Smith, Bud Powell and Sam Rivers. Some bands, hired on their way out of the clubs at the end of the evening, would record far into the morning in Rudy Van Gelder's studio across the river in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. (Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers grew out of a Blue Note session organized around Horace Silver.) . "The wonderful thing about jazz is that it's forever," Lundvall said. "When you make a jazz record with a credible artist, it will sell not much, perhaps, but something in every part of the world. If you make the right choices, then 5, 10, 20 years from now you can reissue them." . He continued, "We are creating future catalogs with our new releases. Our catalog is our most valuable asset. It's like an annuity." . To celebrate Blue Note's 65th birthday, Blue Note France is producing a festival from April 4 to May 1 in various venues around Paris. It will feature Reeves, Wilson, Marsalis, and, among others, Erik Truffaz, Jason Moran, Patricia Barber, Stefano Di Battista, Medeski Martin and Wood and Bugz in the Attic. For more information, visit www.bluenotefrance.com. .

Thanks ziz!

Some amazing stuff on these. As you mention, Bean and Pres. . . wow. (And that Willie the Lion Smith Quartet listed in the amg credits. .. man those four guys can play the piano!)

Thanks, I figured that the wood sides and back would be a mellower sound (dobro style, right?) Gonna be a while before I'm out there looking at guitars; have a new piano to obsess over.

I imagine it is a lot of fun! I guess my biggest question about these. . . can you play sweet and mellow on them, or is all steelly projecting soundwise?

Anyone into resonator guitars of any type? I've always wanted to try one out but never have. . . and wouldn't have the time anyway, but that hasn't stopped me in so many other endeavors!

I'm sorry. . . I've seen a few episodes of "The Sopranos" and did not enjoy them. Same with 24 which I CAN watch and DON'T. Six Feet Under and The Wire I might enjoy; don't know.

Hey my favorite are westerns that try not to be westerns, like that Science Fiction one on Fox in the 2002 season I think, Starfox I think it was called.

Hmnmmm. . . I think I'm the one holding out in our household. If I had cable or satelite, Helen might never get to work on time!

Johnathon Winters is scheduled to do a return appearance on "Life with Bonnie" this Friday (3/26) at 9:00 EST. The last time he was on that show it was well worth seeing!

Ah, no wonder I never heard of it! I'm one of those few persons without cable.

This is news to me Larry! Is it on one of the networks, or is it cable offered?

If you don't get any trade offers, I think you can find used copies at either half.com or amazon.com fairly priced.

AMEN!