Daniel A

The Bill English and Dave Burns Vanguard titles are available on streaming platforms (including YouTube) as part of the Vanguard "Digital Vault" series.

Perhaps because there had already been two Blakey albums called "A Night at Birdland".

Didn't that '58 Sessions' CD have a take of Stella by Starlight that never has appeared anywhere else? It appears to have been a mistake; the originally released version was a composite take, but on the CD a single - partially different - take was used.

Dick Hyman?

Dead Tone Poets Society? Subscription is not available to non-US residents, it seems. But my Connoisseur CD of 'Davis Cup' is sufficient for me.

FWIW, I can see discs 1 through 5, 35 tracks, playing time 5 hours 46 minutes. Looking more closely, it appears that this is the full contents of the 6 CD set. However, they have assigned every concert to one "Disc" in the Spotify album, even when they are distributed across more than one disc in the physical set.

I managed to come across the longer clip I failed to find back in 2018. English spoken interview starts at 1:08.

Swedish pianist Staffan Abeleen (1940-2008) made some fine recordings. Not widely known outside Sweden, I guess. (Here's also a rare sighting of the ill-fated but gifted tenorist Björn Netz)

The first one is blurred?

Very nice article, thanks for posting! A bit amusing that the illustration shows a consumer-level Sony reel-to-reel deck (if it's not a super clever reference to Sony, the rightsholder).

Thanks, Rooster! Your post came in between and I didn't see it first. ...and thanks to that I found the full hour:

Thanks!!

Any idea where this clip is from and whether the full performance is available somewhere? The description says 1966. Due to the somewhat uneven video, it's difficult to tell whether the video actually matches the audio, but sometimes it looks like it at least.

CD 1： 1. Black Vibrations (C. Houston) 12:27 2. Earl's World (C. Tolliver) 11:08 3. Impact (C. Tolliver) 6:38 4. Compassion (C. Tolliver) 12:47 CD 2： 1. Truth (C. Tolliver) 9:17 2. Repetition (N. Hefti) 13:09 3. Stretch (C. Tolliver) 16:38

So-called "streaming farms" have been a reality for years, and can be used for boosting royalties for both real and "fake" artists. Depending on the relationship between the offender and the streaming platform, this will either be a violation of the terms, or simply fraud. I am more interested in the "AI" aspect, which does not seem to be explored that much in the coverage of the current case. There are several examples of groups/artists which are presented on platforms as real artists (e.g. a "verified" artist on Spotify), but which are quite evidently computer-generated music. Not sure that I want to give them more exposure, but try searching for a band which is called [the Capital of Sweden (replace with actual name)] Jazz Quartet. They have hundreds of albums out, almost each and every of them on a different label (presumably to add confusion). The earliest albums seemed to be recorded by actual (though mediocre) musicians, but for years their output has been fully computerized.