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He posted here for a while as JWH. That label did some meaningful reissues as well.

Apparently Rusty Bryant stayed pretty active for all of his like, just off the jazz radar. It was a time when you could do that. Play regularly, just locally/regionally and live a comfortable(enough life. Different world then.

No, you're not the only person who likes that one. A lot of people I know also like it! It's a bit rambling, but just a little. I like her post-whatever stuff well enough. It's more overtly pop, but there's good players playing it, and that matters to me. The one that caught me by surprise was that standards album with the orchestra. She did REALLY did that one well, imo. No surprise, she conveyed a deep understanding of the lyrics.

Hejira is one of the great albums, period.

Yes, that's it. Shockingly authentic for a Verve record. Highly recommended!

That's a really good record. Do you have Potato and Toquito, also on Verve?

Skye records usually had ultra short playing time. Probably served the context of the music, but still....

Hey, it's a lot better than that! Very inventive music, actually. And she was able to tame Jaco, which was no small feat All told, it's my favorite period of hers. I just don't have a need to go back to it in a big ass set like this one.

Thanks! The Juilliard set (made by a post-Mann group);gets a strong review, as did the Amar quartet, which seems to emphasize slower than usual tempos that highlight color and texture. I like edge but I also like color. So I'm gonna marinate this for a while. Any further input from our community is certainly welcome!

Unconscious greatness.

Now I'm interested. But complete sets are not that many, and mostly by groups with whom I'm not really familiar. Which means nothing of course...so ...anybody?

So yeah, most people do cable, streaming, or both, and the trend continues.

Joni was certainly interesting, but like I said, been there, done that, don't need anything extra, you can call me Hank Snow.

Cord-cutting is tempting, but the numbers aren't adding up for us yet.

But even broadcast signal is digital now. You got subchannels and whatnot, and our cable company carries almost all of them. And almost all network shows can be streamed at any time. Time-shifting as the called it when it was done with a VCR. I think the reality is probably a lot more nuanced than this report says

Michael Brecker as Tom Scott as Wayne Shorter!

Not just Norah, but (kinda) Bobby McFerrin (Manhattan, not Blue Note proper) and US3 (definitely). Bruce Lundvall had a knack for getting hits to feed the coffers

Check this out,: Maybe it's all in my head, but I get a special thrill from hearing things like this, now-conventional pieces being played in their original non-traditional state. There's a certain ..rawness there that exists to me

Arista Novus: https://www.discogs.com/label/56111-Arista-Novus Steve Backer probably took the Novus name to RCA after Arista dropped it.

Columbia Pictures was never related to Columbia Records. Columbia Pictures had Colpix (Nina Simone, Woody Allen, Dick Gregory, so), which then became Colgems (The Monkees). After Clive Davis got fired from Columbia Records, he was hired on at Columbia Pictures (as a consultant) and then to Bell Records (as president). Columbia Picture had recently bought Bell. Davis was looking to get this beast all under his control, and the Bell name was changed to Arista. Barry Manilow began on Bell, but soon was on Arista. Same with Melissa Manchester. Alas, The Fifth Dimension did not make the transition. They had good hits on Bell, though! And yes, this was the same Bell that had The Box Tops. The label was around long before that, too!

At most of this time Arista was owned by Columbia Pictures (the original owners). They never owned RCA, although BMG later came to own both of them. And Sony came to own them! That's the only Freedom cover of Indent, which was originally on Cecil's own label. Unit Core. Can't tell of what that picture is, sorry. Clifford might know.

That's gotta be it. Another case in point: becoming

You gotta let go of the notion that there was a straight line between Freedom and Black Lion. It's not that simple or linear. What it is is convoluted. This Alan Bates guy seemed to have more than one ball in the air at any given time. And some of the Arista/Freedom covers were based on the Freedom covers, but some weren't. Again, it seems to be related to the recency of the recording. I would wonder if Bates worked with Arista to get the covers synced at some point. Arista had money, Real money. Clive Davis money LOL. The people who cared were bummed when the series was discontinued, but Arista and Arista Novus did right for a little bit after that. Michael was in all of this. God only knows what that dance looked like ..

That's the first cover, but it's a Freedom record released by Polydor. In the fine print down there, it only mentions Freedom. Nothing about Polydor. But that's a wild cover, only roughly in line with the series. My guess is that the covers of the newer recordings were more in line with what Arista did than the older ones (or vice-versa). You see what they did there? But at some point, everybody got on the same page: