Strata-East: The Legacy begins

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, felser said:

OK, tuned in to webcast and here's what may be of additional interest:

1 - Tolliver says that he has the master tapes to all of the recordings.  Unclear if that means all that were released by S-E or just all that are part of the Mack Avenue campaign.

2 - This is the first re-issue from master tapes, all other reissues have been from digital sources.

3 - Vic Anesini and Chris Muth did the CD remastering.  I'm familiar with Anesini's outstanding work for Sony, so this is good news.

4 - The April releases are just the first batch of what is planned to be an ongoing rollout, so hope remains for your most desired titles!

5 - Confirmed that bonus cuts are available only via digital downloads.

There was no Q&A and chat was disabled, so I couldn't ask anything to get more info.

This is what stuff like Yellowjackets is paying for.

Good business is not just about taking!

[clifford_thornton]

Huh.

Alkebu-Lan tapes went back to Mtume (his estate has them), though perhaps Tolliver has copies.

I thought all the Dolphy Series material was with Clifford Jordan and his estate. 

Keno Duke is indeed a mystery! According to a comment on the LJC blog, Duke was a NYC cop who moonlighted playing jazz… the photos I’ve seen of him appear to show a man well into his 50s or older by the mid ‘70s, so my doubts are that he’s still with us.

Whatever the results of this Mack Avenue thing are, we can at least hope that these reissues are done properly… which was not always the case previously (bootlegs in the late 90s, needle-drops in the last decade).

[felser]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

This is what stuff like Yellowjackets is paying for.

Good business is not just about taking!

Yep, I adore Norah Jones because her 20 million album sales funded that massive Blue Note reissue campaign!

1 hour ago, clifford_thornton said:

Huh.

Alkebu-Lan tapes went back to Mtume (his estate has them), though perhaps Tolliver has copies.

I thought all the Dolphy Series material was with Clifford Jordan and his estate. 

 

Either Tolliver misspoke (he texted in during the webcast) or else he meant he holds the master tapes to what is being released by Mack Avenue in this series.  I suspect the latter.  Do you know anything about whether the Mtume estate has any plans to lease Alkebu-Lan to anyone?

[bertrand]

23 hours ago, felser said:

A couple things I noticed on the Mack Avenue website:

1 - The Pharoah Sanders album will be available on CD on April 25.

2 - The Tolliver Slugs looks to be one CD from the artwork, and the bonus cuts aren't mentioned.

3 - The huge digital sampler is free!  I ordered it, received confirmation, awaiting delivery.  The site also has the CD's available for preorder, $15.98 each.

Where did you get the Free sampler? I better grab one before they are out of stock.

[Chuck Nessa]

1 hour ago, clifford_thornton said:

I thought all the Dolphy Series material was with Clifford Jordan and his estate. 

 

Yes, circa 1980 Michael Cuscuna set up a meeting with for Clifford to pitch the sale of the Dolphy Series Masters to me. I could not afford the deal and still regret it. I was so bummed, I didn't buy the Mosaic box.

[felser]

1 hour ago, bertrand said:

Where did you get the Free sampler? I better grab one before they are out of stock.

https://mackavenue.com/collections/strata-east

They seem to have changed the content to the sampler link, where you cannot order it now the way I was able to do so yesterday (and I never received it after I did order it yesterday).  They seem to have turned it into streaming, and you choose a streaming library to pre-save it (amazon in my case). 

Edited 2 hours ago by felser

[BFrank]

The Chinen discussion was interesting today.

I was hoping they might discuss the Clifford Jordan Strata-East Mosaic box and how that came to be. It's discussed in the booklet, but would have been nice to hear more about it.

[mhatta]

3 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:

Keno Duke is indeed a mystery! According to a comment on the LJC blog, Duke was a NYC cop who moonlighted playing jazz… the photos I’ve seen of him appear to show a man well into his 50s or older by the mid ‘70s, so my doubts are that he’s still with us.

 

I am also interested in Keno Duke. I think he was not a superduper drummer, so it makes some sense that music was his sideline and his main job was being a cop (like bassist Gary Mapp), but I regard him highly for his Walter Bolden-quality song writing ability and running a nice jazz label: Trident. His photo is on the back of the jacket of 1975's Crest Of The Wave (Trident), but for me he doesn't look like in his fifties and looks about 3-40 years old -- he often worked with Frank Strozier, George Coleman and Harold Mabern, so I'd guess he's a bit like them, might be born in the late 1930s or so. He may be from Memphis, Tennessee, like them, or maybe even Chicago. The last release from Trident was in 1982(Benny Powell's LP, Duke not present), so he might be dead around that time.

Edited 51 minutes ago by mhatta