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Good to see someone else on the board who likes country! I'm seeing Montgomery Gentry in (I think) July.

IIRC, the answer can be found in the Cuscuna forward to the book "The Jazz Photography of Alfred Wolff." I never owned the book, but read the forward many times in book stores. Cuscuna talks about how the Mosaic Monk box was released, and got good press, and one day he received a letter from Mexico, in a handwriting he recognized, asking "Who are you and how did you get the rights to my BN material?" A correspondence ensued, and sometime later, Alfred entrusted Michael with a big trunk containing all of Francis's negatives. If anyone owns the book, it would be great if you could corroborate this.

Mundell Lowe - Satan in High Heels The Blasters - Going Home Art Blakey - Jazz In Paris: 1958 Paris Olympia Martin Taylor - Double Standards Hank Jones - Ain't Misbehavin' John Jenkins, Cliff Jordan and Bobby Timmons Sam Rivers - Waves The Gene Harris Trio Plus One Bob Brookmeyer - Stay Out of the Sun Tommy Flanagan - Flanagan's Shenanigans Willie The Lion Smith - Music On My Mind

I never saw a label with buildings in the background. IIRC, the different colored labels denoted the original source of the music. Purple was Steeplechase. A greenish-brown was Enja (I'm color blind, so not the best judge of colors), and green was East Wind.

That shirt on the cover of the Savoy album exactly matches the Columbia photo. Great! Now let's discuss his having trouble keeping his head up...

The flannel pants Hank is wearing could be '50's, but the shirt seems very '60's.

I've been puzzling over the cover to the Columbia album "The Jazz Messengers." This album was recorded in 1956. It appears to have been released in that year, judging by the Columbia logos in the upper-right corner. On the cover is a photo of Hank Mobley. Is that the original photo used on the cover? Because I note that it's the same photo used on the Blue Note album Hank Mobley - Far Away Lands. Far Away Lands was recorded in 1967. I understand that it wasn't released until around 1980. The photos on the Blakey album are credited to Don Hunstein. Does anyone have the Mobley album to see if Hunstein is credited there? I'd think that BN would use a Frank Wolff photo. Can anyone confirm that The Jazz Messengers cover is as was originally released? If so, anyone know the provenance of the Mobley photo? I am intrigued.

This is actually pretty good: http://www.wikihow.com/Start-a-Jazz-Collection

Peter Max cover, so it's really more like the '60's. Still pretty ugly. They're also touring.

I don't have much to add, but I do have some observations: 1) What some label as expressions of hate, others see as personality. You'll never parse them apart. The way that usually plays out is that different personalities gravitate to different message boards, because they click better there. Like it or not, the posts on this bulletin board usually reflect like-minded people. We love the personality. Except when it's gone too far; then there's a general sense of "oops, we've gone too far this time," kind of like 6 year olds without adult supervision. But most of the time, this serves us just fine. 2) The difference with the Getz thread is the human decency dimension: Bev Getz saying how it hurt her to read the stories posted about her father. Jim did the decent thing and deleted the thread. Good for him. Not a huge loss, and it serves everyone all around. 3) We're here to talk about music. Gossip is often mean-spirited and incorrect. 4) Jim gets a lot out of this bulletin board. I would never have heard of the band Organissimo otherwise. People in show business can often feel uncomfortable by the need for publicity, but being unknown is far worse.

Wow! Very talented and vivacious.

More good news: they just got the Time series! Among which...

Free Jazz Research (Ed Blackwell, Pharaoh Sanders, more): http://www.mindspring.com/~scala/ Lotsa stuff here: http://www.rainerjazz.com/discogr.htm ECM artists: http://mysite.verizon.net/vze8f4kf/music.htm Many other leads here: http://members.tripod.com/go54321/jazz.html

Any idea what this is/will be? Polycarbonate?

Good point. And to the extent that a musician is an interesting thinker, the listener might actually be able to hear that better if the musician is playing a recognizable tune. In that way, the listener would have some "signposts" to better understand what the musician is doing.

We should start a thread listing all discographical resources. jazzdisco.org is a great place to start, though they seem to concentrate on bebop & afterwards: http://www.jazzdisco.org/ Here's a great Duke Ellington discography: http://www.depanorama.net/ Sidney Bechet: http://www.sidneybechet.org/sbr.html Monk: http://www.howardm.net/tsmonk/tsmonk2.php

Here's the goduko image. Which is closer to the original?

Jeff, I highly recommend you pick up The Complete Blue Note Recordings. It's available on Amazon as a BN-authorized CD-R.

Jim Hall & Bill Frisell - Hemispheres David Fathead Newman - The Blessing Jimmy Raney - Wisteria Bud Powell - Bud In Paris (Xanadu) Sarah Vaughan - Duke Ellington Songbook vol 1 Big Joe Turner - Have No Fear Air - Air Mail The Bad Plus - For All I Care Benny Golson Quartet (LRC) Milford Graves - Percussion Ensemble

Swede, where did you get that Lou album cover from? It's really clear and bright.

It's corrected now. Thanks, Jim. It bothered me in some subterranean, but profound, way.

As a sucker for liner notes, discographical info and artwork, I absolutely agree with you, ubu! I think they're "nice to haves," but honestly, I rarely dig out my CD covers and read them. Even when I bought Blue Note LPs, I found I usually just skimmed the liner notes. I do like discographical info, but can often find it on the Net (jazzdisco.org and the like). Similar for artwork.

Technology entrepreneur Pierre Schwob thinks Bach and Beethoven haven't been given their due in the digital age. Classical Archives, a new digital store focused exclusively on classical music, is Mr. Schwob's answer to mass-market digital retailers with "a complete lack of understanding of how classical music should be offered," down to the way they often categorize recordings. "It's basically a lack of respect when you say Bach is an 'artist,' not a composer," Mr. Schwob says. For example, when online shoppers type "Beethoven" into iTunes, the top results they get back include a rock medley by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, an uncredited recording of "Für Elise" and individual movements culled from greatest hits collections. It's not that the music seller is skimping on the composer -- customers can find complete works by browsing deeper in the iTunes classical section -- it's just that his oeuvre doesn't fit neatly on the virtual shelves with that of Miley Cyrus and the Black Eyed Peas. More here: WSJ

This just dropped: Jim Hall & Bill Frisell

I'm thinking of downloading the complete Bessie Smith. I think it's 7 CDs, so that would be $42 on Amazon. Pretty good deal, I'm-a thinkin'.