liarhydrant

Thanks for putting that list up here; it's a start! There's a couple on there that I'll have to pounce on immediately. There's a quote from Bruce Lundvall in the recent jazzwise where he confirms the deletion of 100 albums (seemingly in addition to the ones we heard about at the end of last year) from the physical realm, saying they will all carry on in the age of digital downloads. I don't know whether these latest deletions are all Blue Notes, or just from across the EMI family.

Granted, maybe I meant the hope of a tangible copy complete with real packaging and liner notes. Bluenote will obviously have a stab at downloads. But for a luddite like me I fear the idea of scrolling through a Leonard Feather essay on an mp3 player-sized screen and having only a thumbnail version of Reid Miles' cover art to savour. PS: Natural Essence is quite a fun session. Washington writes heads with interesting little across-the-beat rhythmic wrinkles, some Silver touches to his ballad, and there's the obvious Sidewinder ringer in there too. The slightly limp, free excursion final track could have been left out though. 1968tastic!

Does anyone here know of a definitive list of the 100 or so Blue Note titles that have recently been deleted? I'm aware of a thread on here listing the ones that were cut at the end of last year, but according to a couple of tiny snippets in recent Jazzwise magazines, 100 more have been culled this year too. It's a travesty that milk monitors and bean-counters are now the final judges of what art stays and what art is canned for all eternity. I'm also interested if anyone has the heads-up on future RVGs and Connoiseurs (in case I blow handsome sums of money on Japanese imports when if I'd have waited 2 weeks they'd be available in my local HMV). Thanks in advance, now to check out my birthday present to myself, Tyrone Washington's Natural Essence. I hope it was worth the wait...