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Out to Lunch was done while Dolphy was under contract to FM Records, so I've always thought it was intended to be a one-off.

yeah, I would assume the reason for The Wire not getting reissued is that Denon doesn't have any interest. Dusted that LP off recently and it's a great date, but the audience might be smaller than, say, for an obscure but funky Jiro Inagaki album (and don't get me wrong, I like those too).

still itching to hear more of this: https://www.discogs.com/release/25433386-Steve-Lacy-Stations

I can't even recall; it was years ago, but I don't believe it was the Douglas/FM recordings and rehearsals. FWIW I guess Concord aka Alchemy Copyrights owns the catalog, but I guess there are questions of payment going back many years. Will that get sorted? Think Zev can do it?

yeah, he wanted me to do some Dolphy research for him at one point and it wasn't clear to me that he had the rights to the music or even the information... he came off very high and mighty as well as being easily distractible. I was not impressed.

all of this. Tell the Ghost/McPhee hello for me!

Never heard that one but I bet it is good. Fabulous LP. Have the older Think! reissue. The original is nigh impossible... though onetime poster homefromtheforest has one.

I am with Sangrey on this. And I'd completely forgotten Zev's involvement with the Palo Alto release (though I would have turned down the bass EQ -- jeez). He also bought and is hoarding the Kharma/Danola tapes, which should either be reissued or licensed to someone with the ability and interest in rereleasing that material (including some stuff that has never come out).

Once this happened to me I just kept going. Waldron is similar. Aebi is an acquired taste but a number of the songs I cannot think of without hearing her voice in my head, and that's a good thing.

This.

The Huss Charles issue definitely made him out to be not much of a detective! 🙄

A friend's band is playing it, so at least I know that much!

Minus one or two titles, I have all the Muse LPs I want. But, if they sound decent and are well-manufactured (compared to the Scorpio? grey market reissues from years ago), then they'll definitely fill a niche.

I remember that article -- hilarious!

Wasn't the first Richard Davis LP as a leader (not the co-led date with Elvin) on MPS?

Damn, well done!

Fabulous, deep remembrances from Chinen and Souter.

I quite like the Richard Davis LPs on Muse, even As One (with Jill McManus, whose Symbols of Hopi album is also excellent).

$30 is the average price, or close to it, for new records today. It is definitely not great when you consider most people's salaries haven't been adjusted similarly... Sadly, CD reissues just aren't selling like they used to. I still enjoy them (and sometimes buy them in protest when I don't want to mess with a potentially undercooked and overpriced new LP), but the writing seems like it's very nearly on the wall.

Ah, that's too bad. I had read that she was in hospice care. Was glad to see her at the show Cliff Peterson mentioned. A true original!

Yeah, I think people are getting hung up on perceived similarities between "used goods" and the secondary art market, in which the object such as a painting is unique. Used goods can be rare or valuable for a variety of reasons but are not the same as, say, a Frank Stella work for which his estate could/should receive a percentage on an auction sale.

This is an older article but serves as a good primer: https://hyperallergic.com/153681/an-illustrated-guide-to-artist-resale-royalties-aka-droit-de-suite/ and more here: https://www.copyrightlaws.com/droit-de-suite/ I can't imagine the US in its current state of affairs adopting the concept nationally but it's promising that it is applied in the EU on some level, as well as in California (though I'm not sure if the CA law is still in effect).

yeah, they did have one on the books.

not a specific lawsuit, but adoption of it in the US is constantly being argued between artists, galleries, and auction houses. It has gained some ground overseas.