It's Tuesday!

[wesbed]

I know there are some new RVGs being released this summer. I know Mosaic has announced some up-and-coming releases in future months.

But, hey, it's Tuesday! Today.

I go to my local Border's store every Tuesday and/or Wednesday evening to see what I can find. To learn what was just released/available that I didn't know about. To try to eye any new packaging that doesn't appear to be something I noticed the previous week.

If I were to make my way down to my local Border's, Tower, Barnes & Noble, Virgin, local jazz shop, or pick-your-choice store, what should I be looking for? What issues/re-issues should be in the bins THIS Tuesday. Yeah, I realize that Border's might not have the new stuff on the shelves till Wednesday. Still, I can go look, wish, and dream... can't I?

What should I dream about? What might I find on store shelves? What will 'you' be looking for at the music stores today? What have 'you' seen?

Post 'em here (so I'll know what to spend my money on).

Edited April 27, 2004 by wesbed

[Ragu]

FYI-Borders is running a sale this month: Jazz CDs and DVDs Buy3 Get the 4th Free and there also doing a 20% off one item coupons to their newsletter subscribers and in some newspapers.

[EKE BBB]

Lots of releases today, April 27, according to jazzmatazz:

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27 April 2004

Paul Wertico - StereoNucleosis (A440) Apr 27

Various Artists - Live at Caesar's Palace (Concord) Apr 27

— unreleased recordings from Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, Keely Smith and others

Jazzooo - Two Days in November (DR) Apr 

— trio of Doug Robinson, Duncan Moore and Ken Dow

John Abercrombie Quartet - Class Trip (ECM 1846) Apr 27

— with Mark Feldman, violin; Marc Johnson, bass and Joey Baron, drums

Marilyn Crispell Trio - Storyteller (ECM 1847) Apr 27

— with Mark Helias and Paul Motian

Steve Kuhn with Strings - Promises Kept (ECM 1815) Apr 27

— with a string ensemble; arrangements by Carlos Franzetti & Steve Kuhn

Paul Bley - Nothing to Declare (Enja) Apr 27 — solo piano

Francois Carrier - Traveling Light(s) (Enja) Apr 27

— Paul Bley, Gary Peacock, Michel Lambert

Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners - SACD hybrid (Fantasy/Riverside) Apr 27

— from 1956

Oscar Peterson/Stephane Grappelli/Joe Pass - Skol - SACD hybrid (Fantasy/Pablo) Apr 27

— with Niels-Henning Orsted Pederson & Mickey Roker; from 1979

Jamaladeen Tacuma - Music World (Gramavision) Apr 27

— Kazumi Watanabe; Jean Claude Asselin; Abdur Rahim; Odean Pope; Leon Thomas; from 1986

Jamaladeen Tacuma - Renaissance Man (Gramavision) Apr 27

— Ornette Coleman; David Murray; Bill Bruford; Daniel Ponce; Vernon Reid; from 1984

Jamaladeen Tacuma - Show Stopper (Gramavision) Apr 27

— 1983

Benny Golson - Free (GRP/Argo) Apr 27

— 20-bit remastered; from 1962

Marion Meadows - Player's Club (Heads Up) Apr 27 

Pieces of a Dream - No Assembly Required (Heads Up) Apr 27 

Vincent Herring - Mr. Wizzard (High Note) Apr 27

— Vincent Herring (alto saxophone); Jeremy Pelt (trumpet); Danny Grissett (piano); Richie Goods (bass); EJ Strickland (drums)

Susie Arioli - That's For Me (Justin Time) Apr 27

Art Ensemble of Chicago - Reunion (Il Manifesto 122)

— live In Rome, January 2003, for the group's 35th Anniversary

— Roscoe Mitchell, Malachi Favors, Don Moye, Joseph Jarman

Albert Ayler - Complete Live at Slug's Saloon Recordings (Lonehill) Apr 27 — 5/1/1966; 66-minutes

Sonny Criss - Lost Recordings (Lonehill) Apr 27 — with five bonus tracks

Eric Dolphy - Complete Memorial Album Sessions (Lonehill) Apr 27 — 78 minutes

Bob Dorough & Sam Most Quartet - Complete Recordings (Lonehill) Apr 27

— with Bill Crow & Joe Morello; two-fer; 69 minutes with four bonus tracks

Duke Ellington - 1967 European Tour: Complete Teatro Sistina Concert - 2 CDs (Lonehill) Apr 27

— 2/22/1967; 135 minutes; 26 tracks

Booker Little - New York Session (Lonehill) Apr 27

— two sessions: one with Booker Ervin & one with an octet of Memphis musicians; includes one bonus track

Gerry Mulligan & Art Farmer - Complete Live in Rome Concert (Lonehill) Apr 27

— 6/19/59; 71 minutes

Billy Cobham - Live: Palais Des Festivals Hall Cannes 1989 (Music Video Distributors) Apr 27

Chuck Mangione - Live: Palais Des Festivals Hall Cannes 1989 (Music Video Distributors) Apr 27

Ben Sidran - Live: Palais Des Festivals Hall Cannes 1989 (Music Video Distributors) Apr 27

Terry Blaine - With Thee I Swing (Nagel-Heyer) Apr 27

Wayne Escoffery - Intuition (Nagel-Heyer) Apr 27

Donald Harrison - Heroes (Nagel-Heyer) Apr 27

Michel Portal/Stephen Kent/Mino Cinelu - Burundi (Pao) Apr 27

 

Bud Powell - Bebop (Pablo) Apr 27

— recorded in New York City, Paris, and Edenville, France, between 1948 and 1964

— originally released on the Mythic Sound label

— with Nelson Boyd, Kenny Clarke, Buddy DeFranco, Jacques Gervais, Johnny Griffin, Benny Harris, Guy Hayat, Budd Johnson, J.J. Johnson, Lee Konitz, Pierre Michelot, Cecil Payne, Max Roach, and Chuck Wayne

Zoot Sims with the Joe Castro Trio - Live at Falcon Lair (Pablo) Apr 27 — from 1956

Frank Kimbrough - Lullabluebye (Palmetto) Apr 27 

— trio recording with Ben Allison and Matt Wilson

Nina Simone - Sings the Blues (RCA) Apr 27 — from 1967

Nina Simone - Silk & Soul (RCA) Apr 27 — from 1967

Nina Simone - Nuff Said! (RCA) Apr 27 — from 1968

Nina Simone - Black Gold (RCA) Apr 27 — from 1969

Nina Simone - To Love Somebody (RCA) Apr 27 — from 1969

Nina Simone - Nina Simone & Piano! (RCA) Apr 27 — from 1970

Nina Simone - Here Comes the Sun (RCA) Apr 27 — from 1971

Nina Simone - Emergency Ward (RCA) Apr 27 — from 1973

Nina Simone - It Is Finished (RCA) Apr 27 — from 1974

— remastered editions

Classical Jazz Quartet - Complete Recordings - 2 CDs (Retro) Apr 27

— includes ten previously unreleased tracks

Ray Reed - Once Upon A Reed (Sea Breeze) Apr 27  — Ray Reed (alto saxophone); Carl Saunders (trumpet); Tom Garvin (piano); Tom Warrington (bass); Joe La Barbera (drums)

Mary Lou Williams - Black Christ Of The Andes (Smithsonian Folkways) Apr 27

— includes four previously unreleased tracks; from 1964

Janis Siegel - Sketches of Broadway (Telarc) Apr 27 )

— program of jazz standards that originated on Broadway musical theater productions; with bassist John Patitucci, drummer Antonio Sanchez, guitarist Romero Lubambo, vibraphonist Stefon Harris and keyboardist Gil Goldstein

John Pizzarelli - Bossa Nova (Telarc) Apr 27 )

— features several Brazilian musicians, including Paulo Braga, Daniel Jobim (Jobim’s grandson) and Cesar Camargo Mariano; with string and flute arrangements by Don Sebesky

Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez - Italuba (Timba Records) Apr 27

Susie Ibarra - Lakbay (Tzadik) Apr 27

— with Ibarra on drums, ethnic percussion & compositions, Jennifer Choi on violin and Craig Taborn on piano with guests Wadada Leo Smith on trumpet and Roberto Rodriguez on percussion

Yamamoto Seiichi - Baptism (Tzadik) Apr 27

John Zorn - Locus Solus: 50th Birthday Celebration, Vol. 3 (Tzadik) Apr 27

— with Arto Lindsay and Anton Fier

Various Artists - Irving Stone Memorial Concert - 2 CDs (Tzadik) Apr 27

— highlights from the touching twelve hour musical tribute to long-time music fan Irving Stone

— Tim Berne, Lesli Dalaba, Wayne Horvitz, Mark Feldman & Sylvie Courvoisier, Satoko Fujii, Charles Gayle, Annie Gosfield, Shelley Hirsch, Okkyung Lee, Mephista, Oscar Noriega, William Parker Big Band, Chris Speed, David Sewelson, John Zorn, Stephanie Stone and many others

A Bookshelf on Top of the Sky - 12 Stories about John Zorn - DVD (Tzadik) Apr 27

— Claudia Heurermann directs this 82 minute documentary that examines the work of experimental composer John Zorn, including live footage of Zorn's projects Masada, Naked City, and Cobra as well as improvisations, classical works, and rare interviews. Features appearances by fellow musicians Mark Feldman, Bill Frisell, Fred Frith, Anthony Coleman, Susie Ibarra, and many more.

Cal Tjader - Solar Heat/Sounds Out Burt Bacharach (Vampi Soul) Apr 27

— two-fer from 1968

Diana Krall - The Girl in the Other Room - CD (Verve) Apr 27

Diana Krall - The Girl in the Other Room - SACD (Verve) Apr 27

Goran Ivanovic & Fareed Haque - Seven Boats, Music For Two Guitars () Apr 27

Billy Cobham - Magic (/Columbia) Apr 27

— remastered with two bonus tracks; 1977 release

Tony Williams - Believe It (/Columbia) Apr 27

— first time on CD for this 1975 release; with two bonus tracks

— with Allan Holsworth, Tony Newton and Alan Pasqua

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Non-jazz items of interest

Albert King - I'll Play the Blues for You - SACD hybrid (Fantasy/Stax) Apr 27 — from 1972

Big Star - #1 Record / Radio City - SACD hybrid (Fantasy/Stax) Apr 27 — from the early-70's

OST - Amadeus - 2 SACD hybrid discs (Fantasy/Stax) Apr 27

— with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Field, conducted by Neville Marriner

Jane Oliver - Safe Return - DVD (Image Entertainment) Apr 27 — 86 minutes

Jane Oliver - Safe Return - CD (PS Classics) Apr 27

Surely you´ll find any of this at your store....

[Guest Chaney]

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Various Artists - Live at Caesar's Palace (Concord) Apr 27

— unreleased recordings from Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, Keely Smith and others

I can't seem the verify the existence of this one.

Anyone have any information?

[Eric]

  wesbed said:

I go to my local Border's store every Tuesday and/or Wednesday evening to see what I can find. To learn what was just released/available that I didn't know about. To try to eye any new packaging that doesn't appear to be something I noticed the previous week.

If I were to make my way down to my local Border's, Tower, Barnes & Noble, Virgin, local jazz shop, or pick-your-choice store, what should I be looking for?

Well, I do know that regardless of whatever is posted at Jazzmatazz, very little of this will be at my Borders. If I am lucky, it is sitting on some cart and will be stocked by the weekend.

At one time I would actually browse said carts, looking for new issues. I would typically be quized by an employee, usually with a snotty overtone. (Sadly) I have found Amazon and CD Universe to have much better attitudes and prices

[Rooster_Ties]

Free For All and I drove around town to like 5 different places last October, looking for Andrew Hill's "Passing Ships" on the Tuesday it was released. Never did find the damn thing, and it took me until Thursday to find one place in town that actually had it in stock.

Streetside used to get a moderately decent number of new releases in on Tuesdays, but ever since that outfit in New Jersey bought them up, their "non-pop/non-rock/non-hip-hop" new releases are slim to none most Tuesdays (so I don't even bother going in there but once every month or two). And I don't think they even get any new Classical releases any more either, the bastards.

Took me two or three weeks to find some place in town that had a particlar new Naxos release last fall too (I wasn't going to pay $3 in shipping for a $6 or $7 CD, buying it on-line).

What the hell's going on when most new Naxos titles are suddenly special-order items??? I remember when every Naxos title came in on the Tuesday they were released - usually two or three copies each, per store. And, nearly every new CPO release too.

OK - back to jazz. It took Streetside months to get in the last round of Rare Groove BN titles, and they've only gotten about half of the RVG's released in the last year. (On release day, they would get like only three of the six new RVG's that were due out that day -- and never get the other three.) WTF???

And I don't think Streetside ever got any of the Conns from last October either, not any of them.

Gotta get everything on-line, anymore.

Edited April 27, 2004 by Rooster_Ties

[Rooster_Ties]

Streetside's classical stock has been cut to the bone. I think they're down 75% in classical inventory at the Westport location, and I'm sure the Overland Park location is down 50% too (not that they were all that big to begin with).

And the jazz room at Streetside in Westport is down 50% in inventory too, and they aren't getting shit in terms of new releases much -- barely 20% or 30% of what they used to get.

I guess Borders and B&N are the only decent source of classical CD's in KC, and frankly -- I would say both are only half-way decent (at best).

Basically, there's no place left in town that's worth brousing any more, for jazz or classical CD's (new or used). Maybe Music Exchange, for used titles (95% of their CD's are used), but that's really about it. And their inventory doesn't change frequently enough to make anything more than monthly visits necessary.

I know, I'm off-topic talking about used CD's, but the difference between what St. Louis has in Euclic Records and Vintage Vinyl (and their relatively INCREDIBLE used CD offerings ), and what KC has (which isn't shit any more ), is like night and day.

How can St. Louis have TWO stores wish such GREAT 'used' CD sections?? - where in Kansas City I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel just to even find one or two discs per store that I'm even half-way interested in??? 'Tis a puzzle.

[GA Russell]

I received in the mail yesterday two from Concord which go on sale today. Both are compilations.

One is called Cha Cha Soul, which I haven't listened to yet. All songs are latin.

The other is called Mood Indigo, and is one of the Jazz Moods series. All the songs are either bluesy or melancholy. Half are vocals. A good safe gift to give to an adult whose musical tastes you aren't quite sure of.

[Eric]

Rooster, you have nailed the KC scene. And I don't get the KC/St. Louis disparity either. Unless it is true that we really are just a cow town

My favorite place for jazz is Receycled Sounds in Westport, but it is almost all lps. They do get some really cool stuff in there - it seems that people who unload/trim their collections prefer to go there over Music Exchange.

I used to go to Pennylane and Music Exchange all the time. Now I rarely do. It is kind of sad, but it just became a waste of time. BTW, the Streetside in OP is now closed.

I really think the internet has contributed much to the demise of the local record stores, at least in KC. And generally speaking, a relatively conservative listening crowd. It is all rahter sad ... although I am hopeful that some well-heeled capitalist will one day remedy the situation, a la Euclid or Dusty Groove in Chicago.

Unil then, "buy it used" at Amazon, half.com (and sometimes GEMM or ebay) meet my needs pretty nicely.

Eric

[WD45]

I am all about that Mary Lou Williams disc.

[Aggie87]

I can see it now, smack dab in the heart of KC: "Rooster Ties Fabulous Used Vinyl and CD Emporium"

Note - pretend this isn't a picture of couw in his listening room with his puny television set, but some of the inventory in Rooster's store

[Edward]

  Chaney said:

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Various Artists - Live at Caesar's Palace (Concord) Apr 27

— unreleased recordings from Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, Keely Smith and others

I can't seem the verify the existence of this one.

Anyone have any information?

This CD is listed as a 2001 release from Neon Tonic Records on the Tower website. I know that this has actually been released (I was able to get my hands on a promotional copy), but I am positive that it was withdrawn due to legal problems stemming from inclusion of the Sinatra track. My copy has the Concord stamp and indicates that it was marketed and distributed by Concord Records, Inc.

The Sinatra track is "All Of Me", and dates from 1978. The Ellington tracks are "Take The 'A' Train" and "Creole Love Call", both dating from around 1970. The Keely Smith tracks are "Misty" and "Be My Love", and date from 1968. There are also tracks by Sammy Davis, Jr. (2), Andy Williams (2), Lena Horne (2), and Ann-Margret (1).

[couw]

  Aggie87 said:

Note - pretend this isn't a picture of couw in his listening room with his puny television set, but some of the inventory in Rooster's store

HEY!

[wesbed]

  Ragu said:

FYI-Borders is running a sale this month: Jazz CDs and DVDs Buy3 Get the 4th Free

I wonder if this is true for any jazz CDs? You get the lowest-priced CD for free? If my local Border's store had let me know this, they'd have been able to sell more CDs, for sure.

[sjarrell]

  wesbed said:

  Ragu said:

FYI-Borders is running a sale this month: Jazz CDs and DVDs Buy3 Get the 4th Free

I wonder if this is true for any jazz CDs? You get the lowest-priced CD for free? If my local Border's store had let me know this, they'd have been able to sell more CDs, for sure.

Getting further off topic, I know... but has everyone's local Borders' jazz stock gotten anemic, or is it just mine? There's 3 here and they used to have the deepest jazz selection in town. Now every shelf is half empty. Sad.

[wesbed]

  sjarrell said:

Getting further off topic, I know... but has everyone's local Borders' jazz stock gotten anemic, or is it just mine? There's 3 here and they used to have the deepest jazz selection in town. Now every shelf is half empty. Sad.

My local Border's (both of them) have a much narrower jazz CD selection than what they used to have.

[7/4]

All the Boarders around here suck, and I'm 30 miles SW of NYC.

[Rooster_Ties]

  Eric said:

BTW, the Streetside in OP is now closed.

Shit, that's right. Totally forgot about that one.

[Guest Chaney]

  Edward said:

  Chaney said:

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Various Artists - Live at Caesar's Palace (Concord) Apr 27

— unreleased recordings from Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, Keely Smith and others

I can't seem the verify the existence of this one.

Anyone have any information?

This CD is listed as a 2001 release from Neon Tonic Records on the Tower website.

...

Thanks for the info, Ed.

NOW I remember the news of a couple of years ago of the discovery of tapes made by an employee of Caesar's Palace and the wrangling over ownership of same. the Neon Tonic label was then formed by Norman Lear's Act III Communications for the production of these gems.

Gee! What a surprise that the Sinatra Clan would make the most noise!

[Soulstation1]

mrs. costello's new cd is out today

[wesbed]

Feck.

It still says 'Krall' on the cover.

[mgraham333]

  sjarrell said:

Getting further off topic, I know... but has everyone's local Borders' jazz stock gotten anemic, or is it just mine?  There's 3 here and they used to have the deepest jazz selection in town.  Now every shelf is half empty.  Sad.

The two in Tulsa, OK are getting that way. There seems to be less stock than before. Maybe because I've bought so much.....

  ragu said:

FYI-Borders is running a sale this month: Jazz CDs and DVDs Buy3 Get the 4th Free and there also doing a 20% off one item coupons to their newsletter subscribers and in some newspapers.

Has anyone found a coupon to post yet?

Edited April 27, 2004 by mgraham333

[Soulstation1]

"my band" is a funny ass song

My salsa, salsa, salsa, salsa, my salsa

Makes all the pretty girls wanna dance

And take off their underpants

Edited April 27, 2004 by Soulstation1

[BruceH]

  sjarrell said:

  wesbed said:

  Ragu said:

FYI-Borders is running a sale this month: Jazz CDs and DVDs Buy3 Get the 4th Free

I wonder if this is true for any jazz CDs? You get the lowest-priced CD for free? If my local Border's store had let me know this, they'd have been able to sell more CDs, for sure.

Getting further off topic, I know... but has everyone's local Borders' jazz stock gotten anemic, or is it just mine? There's 3 here and they used to have the deepest jazz selection in town. Now every shelf is half empty. Sad.

None of the Border's I've been to has ever had a decent jazz section. Some worse than others, but all of them pretty lame.

[sjarrell]

  mgraham333 said:

Has anyone found a coupon to post yet?

Yep: coupon