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4 Dexter Gordon Blue Notes for $8.01 + shipping from an Amazon Reseller: Amazon

Here's some more evidence that ECM may have extensive unissued sessions in their vaults: From the Amazon blurb: "Eberhard Weber played hundreds of concerts in his time as a member of the Jan Garbarek Group, and each of them included an extended feature for the bassist alone, often effectively a spontaneous composition rather than a bass solo in strict jazz sense. For Resume Weber has returned to recordings of these solo sequences and reworked them into an album with its own sense of flow. The unique sound of Eberhards customized electric bass is heard here mostly in the context of his own keyboard settings and treatments, but also augmented by the saxophones and overtone flute of Jan Garbarek (on three tracks) and by the percussion of Michael DiPasqua. Based on live recordings made between 1990 and 2007 at locations from Karlsruhe to Santiago, the album was mixed in the South of France by Weber, Manfred Eicher, Michael di Pasqua and Gerard de Haro in 2011."

On most of these, the prices now on Amazon are crazy. Perhaps they didn't actually come out?

Is it mentioned in Ashley Kahn's book?

I ordered from Amazon UK.

...and then there's that live Jarrett, Sleeper, from his European group that they put out last year. I tend to think they have a vault full of live material, at least. Well that one, you could argue, wasn't in ECM's vault but perhaps was brought to their attention by the Japanese radio station that recorded it. But, you're right, it could have been in ECM's vault.

Have you considered that there might not be any in the can to release? Each label recorded differently, and has a different mindset as to releasing every last note. Who's to say which is the "correct" way to do things? Blue Note had many albums left over because of varying sets of circumstances which may not be in place for a label like ECM. It's not as black and white as you may think. In any case, it's difficult to argue with ECM's methodology and track record --- they've been going strong for longer than Blue Note ever did. Still doesn't mean there aren't sessions in the can there. You (and I, and we) simply don't know.

I too wonder whether ECM has unissued sessions in their vaults. Some recent releases (Terje Rypdal and Garbarek/Gismonti/Haden, for example) contain previously-unreleased live sessions from the '70's and '80's.

I've just started reading this book, and it seems very useful: Amazon

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