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  1. Best Current Miles Davis Box

    in Recommendations

    Posted

    I'm planning to pick up one of the (many) current Miles Davis boxes for a friend who has expressed an interest in having one. I'm tempted particularly by the 1965-68 Quintet box, but the 1963-64 Seven Steps, etc. looks good and the Blackhawk material...

    I don't think the Bitches Brew, Jack Johnson and Silent Way boxes are best suited to my friend's tastes - straight-ahead, small group.

    As for what she already has, it's no more than a smattering of any of this material, so duplication isn't really a concern. She does have a few of the Miles/Trane Columbia things.

    Any recommendations (or reminders about other great, current boxes) appreciated.

  5. XANADU Records

    in Discography

    Posted

    Was in the San Antonio (I-10/Huebner) location of Half-Price Books tonight and found a bunch of Xanadus priced at $4.98. Raney/Clark, Gordon/Mitchell/Cohn/Noto, Harris (solo). Many copies of each. Not sure if other H-PB locations have more, but I got the impression they must have had a bulk purchase.

  6. a tiny rant/question on selling Mosaics for profit

    in Mosaic and other box sets...

    Posted

    no such thing as a free market. If it was a free market the Mosaic would be available from lots of people at competetive prices. This is a limited edition, CLOSED market. If it was a free market you and I could just make copies at will and sell them, which we can't. This market has many restrictions, copyright being among them. And there's a difference between reasonable profit and greed - and this is greed -

    The free market works even if there is only one of an item. Price is used as a rationing mechanism. Call it greed it you wish. But I would ask, who was greedier, the seller or the buyer? (Can greed manifest itself in material goods as easily as money? Certainly!)

  8. Vegas, baby!

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    Record City is okay, but every location differs in specialty (genre/format). There's a big Tower that's better than average. There are also a couple of vinyl-specialty stores, if that's of interest.

    Big B's become a Big Bummer lately.

    The old 24-hour Wherehouse/Odyssey is gone.

  10. Spanish Blues Notes

    in Re-issues

    Posted

    Since they do not appear to be available on line would one of you guys in the City be willing to pick me up a copy of Curtis Fuller Vol. 3.?

    It would be very much appreciated. :g:g

    Shoot me a pm for details.

    Thanks

    Sorry, they don't seem to have this one.

  14. William Shatner

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    Anyone else heard this one?

    I first heard it on a listening station. Paid full-price for it. (something I seldom do) Still absorbing it, but finding it, uh...mildly disturbing, though not particularly deep.

    My first exposure to Shatner outside Priceline advertising.

  16. Does age matter for a jazz artist?

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    A lot of those Lions have lost their stature - hell, I'm struggling to come up with names - Bobby Watson, Blanchard, Vincent Herring

    :huh:

    These guys have been putting out some great music lately.....not sure what you mean.

    As I said, I couldn't come up with the names that truly have been lost to the winds of time.

    Still, the guys I mention - and others like them - no longer seem to dominate the covers of Jazz Times and Down Beat, as they once did.

  17. Does age matter for a jazz artist?

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    Hopefully, the phenomenon has faded (though certainly hasn't disappeared completely), but back in the 80s and 90s, it seemed as if the money - contracts, good gigs - were all going to the Young Lions. True veterans - James Moody, Jackie Mac and others - seemed to be standing on the sidelines as their (largely inferior) imitators raked it in.

    A lot of those Lions have lost their stature - hell, I'm struggling to come up with names - Bobby Watson, Blanchard, Vincent Herring, others who passed through the Blakey band...not the best examples...

  18. Matthew Shipp Article

    in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...

    Posted

    Yeah, I too have noticed that young(er), non-musician audiences show a real affection for the freer stuff. The old stuff they respect (sometimes), but the freer (and the funkier) stuff they seem to feel (why shouldn't they?). And I don't mean the "smooth" stuff, either. That's a whole 'nother crowd there.

    Now here's the funny/sad part - the types of creative jazz that appeals most to a younger audience aren't even considered "real" and/or "serious" jazz by a significant portion of the "jazz power structure", the people who book the clubs, festivals, etc. They're so busy looking for third-tier talent In The Tradition to replace the second-tier talent that's beginning to die off (after having a period in the spotlight replacing the top-shelf talent who died off several decades ago) that the notion that preserving something and keeping it alive ain't always the same thing. Ask any taxidermist.

    Amen. I call this the Yoshi's (Oakland, CA club) phenomenon. Their core patrons are of a uniform demographic (age, race, income, wealth) and they want what they want...nothing ear-opening.

    Jazz cruise, anyone?

  19. Spanish Blues Notes

    in Re-issues

    Posted

    I agree with everything said. I reluctantly purchased one of the Leo Parkers, knowing that I'd probably never have another opportunity. (By the way, I purchased mine in a basement record store in Downtown Madrid about two years ago.) Today's discussion of the situation regarding sale in the US was news to me, not that I didn't suspect...

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