Terri Hinte has been fired by Concord Records.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I wasn't intending to level charges of racism against Jefferson or Concord. I'm sorry it was interpreted that way. I can't see how ANY jazz fan can be racist. I think he had a business idea that arose from his own tastes - just as Ahmet Ertegun and Alfred Lion in their respective periods did - that affected the people he recorded. African-American jazz fans were, as Akanalog suggested, focussing on disco jazz at the time Concord was started and it seems that Jefferson's business plan reacted to that and focussed on people whom he wouldn't expect to buy that type of material, which he didn't anyway want to record.

I don't blame him for any of that - I don't find that stuff of much interest, with some exceptions, of course. However, the takeover of Fantasy, many (if not most) of the important elements of which were focussed on a rather different demographic group, by an organisation with Concord's history and (post-Jefferson) revised business plan, doesn't seem to me best calculated to preserve those elements. I could be wrong; the first lot of RVGs included "Cookbook", "Honeydripper" and "Don't go to strangers". That may promise a little bit of something for music that was aimed at the African-American audience. We shall have to see. In the meantime, I'm going to carry on getting as much of the OJC stuff as I can before I can't.

MG

[montg]

This is a microcosm of what's happening to jazz artists more generally. The corporate mergers and the resultant push to grab every last cent is hurting a lot of talented people. It's been too long since we've had a new recording from Kenny Garrett, Nicholas Payton, Stefon Harris etc....

[JSngry]

Hey - it's their world. How's about we all just decide not to live in it any more than absolutely necessary?

[sheldonm]

I can't believe that this thread has detoured from......

...and I can't believe you're shocked a thread got derailed .....when don't they get derailed???

[Ken Dryden]

Stefon Harris has a new CD due out in August or September (I already have the advance copy).

Hope lots of artists have been in touch with Terri Hinte to represent them.

[Guest akanalog]

so it seems something i wrote was misconstrued and it got magnificent G into trouble.

he voiced some of what i was thinking-but i started it, not him.

my point wasn't that carl jefferson was racist.

i was just asking, because i wasn't there back then, why or how it came to be that this type of jazz (chuck flory, butch miles, warren vache, scott hamilton kind of stuff), when it came to younger guys (and most of the black guys on concord were of an earlier generation, right?) i was just wondering why it seemed to be mostly white guys who were interested in this traditionalist torch-bearing or whatever (this was a bit pre-marsalis, right?) jazz music at that moment in time.

[Chuck Nessa]

so it seems something i wrote was misconstrued and it got magnificent G into trouble.

he voiced some of what i was thinking-but i started it, not him.

my point wasn't that carl jefferson was racist.

i was just asking, because i wasn't there back then, why or how it came to be that this type of jazz (chuck flory, butch miles, warren vache, scott hamilton kind of stuff), when it came to younger guys (and most of the black guys on concord were of an earlier generation, right?) i was just wondering why it seemed to be mostly white guys who were interested in this traditionalist torch-bearing or whatever (this was a bit pre-marsalis, right?) jazz music at that moment in time.

I don't think you were off base as I understood you.

Carl Jefferson started the label recording LA area guys that played at "his" festival. This was really an expanded "garden party" sort of affair and it grew. He recorded the guys he knew from the "fests" and these were LA "studio type" jazzers. He later hired a rep on the east coast to sign and record "east coast guys" and the content got younger and darker.

[danasgoodstuff]

I had some minor dealings with Terri H. when I was writing about music 15 yr ago. She was a pleasure to deal with and treated me likeI was important even though I obviously wasn't.

Edited June 30, 2006 by danasgoodstuff

[king ubu]

Hey - it's their world. How's about we all just decide not to live in it any more than absolutely necessary?

[JSngry]

Hey - it's their world. How's about we all just decide not to live in it any more than absolutely necessary?

Are there no better headphones available in this man's country?

[RDK]

I assume that's the noise-cancelling model?

[Eric]

Interestingly, Terri Hinte shows up as the press contact on the new Sonny Rollins site.

http://www.sonnyrollins.com/contact.php

[Christiern]

She never stopped working--people of her experience and good rep are not idle for long.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

SEE, EVERYONE GETS SCREWED OVER. EVEN THIS CHICK WHO EVERYONE LIKED AND DID HER JOB WELL, THE STILL FIRED HER.

[Aggie87]

Nat Hentoff has a nice one page article about Terri in the Nov 06 Jazz Times (w/Ornette on the cover). She deserves the props.