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Hard to imagine it today, but ECM was really an "outsider" label in its earliest days. The availability that NMDS provided them was so crucial to their eventual success.

Ordered their recent release of previously unrecorded Eddie Sauter arrangements for the Red Norvo/Mildred Bailey band. Looking forward to it!

https://youtu.be/ucn183JSNIc?si=ZNoRCIZQ5suggNIk

There was a long history with Bley/Mantler and Eicher. Their New Music Distribution Service provided ECM with their first real American outlet, and Eicher never forgot the favor. NMDS was a wonderful thing for so much music and musicians. Check it out: https://insheepsclothinghifi.com/carla-bley-new-music-distribution-service/

That's an interesting record

4 albums by that trio, this one-off chamber album, and some big-band albums. They all show her continued growth,as a composer. And if, like maybe a lot of people (myself included), you sorta stopped paying attention after a certain point, there are plenty of delightful examples that you were wrong for that. Very wrong. Love it when that happens!

Vanished indeed.

That's a really good record.

Percy plays great there!

My high school library had some spoken word things and I had a turntable that could handle them. Pretty lo-fi.

Yeah, this was my version:

I have read the memoir....40 or so years ago. Yikes!

Not exactly a common date... The OG: 16 2/3 RPM!!!! So what was Hawes doing in the East?

What about that Curtis Fuller Prestige record with Hawes?