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And the sound is great, considering the source material.

Just saw that Dusty Groove has the Bopland 3-CD set for $9.99: DG

The first Moffett Family album is a good'un.

Also found on Amazon, release date January 29: Ethel Waters 1929-1931 James P. Johnson 1938-1942 James P. Johnson 1921-1928 Ethel Waters 1921-1923 James P. Johnson 1943-1944 John Kirby 1939-1941 James P. Johnson 1944 vol. 2 Or better yet, use the Amazon click through function to aid Organissimo. Are any of these releases essential?

Just south of the bustle of Harlem’s famed 125th Street corridor, a mix of brownstones and churches in Harlem’s Mount Morris Park neighborhood prospers today as home to a large working-class black population. But walk down these streets with John T. Reddick, and he will show you the remnants, still-visible, of the vibrant Jewish life of the early 20th century, which forged a rich era of musical collaboration between blacks and Jews. There, etched high atop the facade of apartment buildings on 119th Street, are Stars of David, created when Jewish residents began moving uptown from the tenements of the Lower East Side. A few buildings down on 119th Street stands Emanuel A.M.E. Church, originally Temple Mount Zion, where future comedian Milton Berle was bar mitzvahed. On 120th Street, composer Richard Rodgers lived next to Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt, a popular composer, known as “The Jewish Caruso,” who led prayers at Congregation Ohab Zedek, then located at 116th Street. The cantor’s building bordered the house of lyricist Lorenz Hart, Rodgers’ songwriting partner, to the north. Hart, often annoyed by Rosenblatt’s constant singing from his backyard, would throw water out his window and onto the cantor’s head. ”People think it was Jewish and became black, but it was a shared community,” said Reddick, an African-American architect and historian who has lived in Harlem since 1980. These days, Reddick is reviving this forgotten history through an exhibition of sheet music and photos from the era. “Jews worked with black performers behind the scenes, and I want to get across the richness of the engagement and the proximity in which they lived,” he said. Read more: http://forward.com/a...-ol-days/?p=all

The original Polydor pressings (for example, the original release of Crystal Silence) were terrible, very noisy and crackly. Polydor then switched to a better manufacturer. My copy of Gary Burton's Passengers, from 1977, is noticeably better - it looks like they used CBS's pressing plant. The switch to WB happened around 1978, around the time of the release of "Pat Metheny Group." The WB pressings were noticeably better, and had rice paper inner sleeves. The switch to Polygram (note the corporate name change) occurred in the mid-'80's. My copy of Arvo Part's "Tabula Rasa," from 1984, is from WB; Gary Burton's Whiz Kids, 1987, is from Polygram.

Wait till audiophile DNA comes out!

Scientists have stored audio and text on fragments of DNA and then retrieved them with near-perfect fidelity—a technique that eventually may provide a way to handle the overwhelming data of the digital age. The scientists encoded in DNA—the recipe of life—an audio clip of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, a photograph, a copy of Francis Crick and James Watson's famous "double helix" scientific paper on DNA from 1953 and Shakespeare's 154 sonnets. They later were able to retrieve them with 99.99% accuracy. The experiment was reported Wednesday in the journal Nature. Full article here: WSJ

This one?

Charlie Christian - Genius of the Electric Guitar (4-CD CBS box). $15.13 + shipping from an Amazon reseller: Amazon.

These are the albums, new to me, that made an impact on me in the last year (in no particular order): Miles Davis - Live At The Olympia 1960, vols. 1 & 2 Charles Tolliver - Mosaic Select Merl Saunders & Jerry Garcia - Keystone Companions: The Complete 1973 Fantasy Recordings The Complete Wolverines: 1924-1928 Bob Dylan - Tempest Bill Dixon - Black Saint/Soul Note box Paul Motian - Black Saint/Soul Note box Keith Jarrett - Sleeper The Cookers - Believe The Phineas & Ferb Soundtracks The Band Perry Captain Beefheart - Bat Chain Puller The Black Keys - El Camino Classic Coleman Hawkins Sessions 1922-1947 Miles Davis - Complete Live Recordings 1948-1955 Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra - Basie Beginnings Sonny Rollins - Live In Europe 1959 - Complete Recordings Zac Brown Band - You Get What You Give

Link to Amazon Germany: http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B008YCMM2A/ref=s9_simh_gw_p15_d10_i1?pf_rd_m=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1DH7A4HVSZ6P3X2Y17MJ&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=463375173&pf_rd_i=301128

My guess is the Storyville's not a bootleg. It's very possible Verve licensed the sessions for a certain number of years.

That Cyrille, Lake and Workman gig also sounds interesting.

Does it say how to buy tickets?

It's the soundtrack to the film Jimi Hendrix: Wikipedia

But the column—which continues under her daughter, Jeanne Phillips—wasn't all pressing societal issues. In her advice to an old woman who complained that her husband did Spanish dances at parties and took out his dentures to use as castanets, Abby had little sympathy. "Let him have a good time," she counseled.

The Bach Guild's (Vanguard) Big Beethoven Box. 15 hours of music for 99 cents: http://www.amazon.com/Big-Beethoven-Box/dp/B00AOMZHSO/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

Just noticed this on Wolfgang's Vault. The pairing of Tal and Jim Hall sounds crazy. Makes me tempted to get a subscription: http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/jim-hall-and-tal-farlow/concerts/central-park-june-30-1973.html

Thanks for the link, and thanks for alerting us to this.

Please provide a link; thanks. I find the layout of their site baffling.

Have a good 7/4 time!

Previously discussed here:

Now that the release date's approaching (Jan 29), what's the best price available? Amazon's stabilized at $45.75.

I might go. Good Friday, btw.