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I was trying to find a copy of Miles Davis Directions and a recent release on this Dutch label popped up. Is this licensed from SONY? I assume it is a CD-R unless proven otherwise.

Does it have the bonus track from Mysterious Traveler, Miroslav's tune?

Great to hear but why the 60 year wait? What else has surfaced?

Was the Berlin Jazz Festival in the habit of filming or was this a one-off, I wonder.

This is the kind of thing I would have bought on DVD in a nanosecond but those days are over. What other footage is there from the Berlin Jazz Festival? Booker Ervin? Miles? Don Cherry?

Alas, Haeschen is still credited to Lee and not Duke Pearson. I wish I had a contact at Blue Note. I used to give composer credit corrections to Bob Blumenthal when he was writing liners for the RVG series.

It sounds like 9/26 is an entire session I do not have, so the 2-CD set is worth acquiring since I only have the Hilversum session. That is exactly what I was trying to figure out, if there was any other material elsewhere. Curious as to why the 9/3 date was not included in the 2-CD set. So, to summarize, a hypothetical complete Ayler/Cherry box would include: New York Eye And Ear Control Vibrations/Ghosts Hilversum Sessions Jazzhus 9/3/64 Danish Radio 9/10/64 Jazzhus 9/26/64 There are probably more recordings that have not surfaced... Update: OK, looking at the Revenant Box, which gives 9/3 as the recording date for Jazzhus, the track list is the same as for the 9/26 session and the timings are all very close (Saints is listed as Tune Q). I am pretty sure these are the same session, in which case the CD I need is the 9-track single CD on Hatology. PS: They are also both sidemen on the 11/17/65 Sunny Murray session. Not a big fan of that one.

OK, so that Autumn 1964 on Ezzthetics has Hilversum, the tracks from 9/10 and tracks from 9/26 which I do not have. But it does not have the tracks from 9/3, or is 9/3 an incorrect date also? I will check song titles later, obviously there is overlap.

Trying to track down all their work together, it is so good. I have: New York Eye and Ear Control Vibrations/Ghosts Hilversum Sessions Jazzhus Montmartre 9/3/64 as part of the Revenant Box There are three radio tracks from 9/10/64 I have as a download. It seems they are combined on two different Hatology CDs, one paired with Hilversum, one paired with 9/3/64. I would consider getting the latter just to have the three tracks, if I can find a reasonably-priced copy. But before I do that, I am wondering if there is any other material out there from their European tour? This French book I have on Don Cherry refers to a date on Philology on 11/5, also from Jazzhus. Has that ever been on CD? I don't even see it in the discographies. Thanks!

Looking for this on CD but discogs is too much. Any leads would be appreciated! Thanks, Bertrand.

I always thought it was Wayne. Merritt is not far behind.

There is a discussion about this on a private mailing list I am on. The Dragon release was authorized by Sonny and everyone got paid. There is paperwork. Zevvers had it pulled from Spotify.

Wow! So frustrating. If I had just connected with Michael we could have figured it all out at the Library of Congress, but I was not digging through copyrights yet when Michael was working on this. What year was it? I am pretty sure I was still in grad school.

It is too bad I was not old enough to be in the loop back then. All of these tunes had lead sheets deposited for copyright. I had a bunch of copyright deposits pulled in the 90s for many composers and they are now collected in boxes, accessible to researchers in the Music Division at the Library of Congress. It is not advertised on their website, however. This is the same source used for many of the unrecorded pieces that the Herbie Nichols Project premiered. Now, the Nichols family found more music in a trunk, and Ben Allison just recorded 6 of them. Bertrand.

Those long jams like Spare Chaynge, Bear Melt and Thing are the Airplane at their best. Spencer Dryden is great too.

Whatever happened to Feldman's gig with Blue Note? What came out of that: 1) Lee Morgan Lighthouse 2) Blakey Just Coolin' 3) Blakey in Tokyo Anything else? I could use some more Lee Morgan since that seemed to be his focus per the above list. It would be great if he could rescue the Grant Green/John Patton and the Duke Pearson Big Band Left Bank tapes from wherever Sunnenblick at Uptown was hiding them, but I have pretty much given up.

Another big Airplane fan here, especially Jack Casady.

A private collector had out-takes from We Insist in 2007. Where are they now, 17 years later?

WPFW in DC has been giving heavy airplay to his majesty the detective's new 'product'. It is too much. The Lateef is tempting...

I believe Ben Young is working on a book also.

Me three.

I agree. Those should not be on the list.

Too early for Earl Anderza to be one of the uncredited reeds, I assume?

That is exactly the problem. CDrs often fail after a short amount of time. I know Ben but I did not want to ask him directly. My hunch was right that it is a touchy subject with artists... Bertrand. PS: Afterbeat was written for Archie Shepp during the time they hung together with Roswell Rudd. I bet he would get a kick out of hearing it. Can we make this happen?

Has anyone purchased the Allison/Cardenas/Nash CD Tell The Birds I Said Hello? Is it a real CD or a CD-R? I want to decide whether to get the CD or a download. Moments Inside was a CD-R. Thanks, Bertrand.