From: ujwb@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Jeff Beer)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.allmusic
Subject: Re: The Prisoner (Herbie Hancock)
Date: 26 Jan 1993 12:52:41 -0600
Organization: Educational Computing Network
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In article <ALLMUSIC%93012600212923@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU> TBUCK@KNOX.BITNET writes:
>was on Bluenote. Anybody know if this is out on CD yet, and how is it? Any
>tunes on there that he also did with Miles?

Hmm. don't ever recalling The Prisoner.

>Secondly, a more general topic. I have yet to purchase or hear a Bluenote CD
>that I wasn't completely satisfied with, and I'm starting to think that (at
>least for what they pick to rerelease on CD) Bluenote is the "perfect" record
>label - well, obviously this is only as far as jazz, and I suppose I should
>also say that I'm limiting myself to Bluenote stuff recorded before say, 1970.
>I'm sure there are some real klunkers in the last couple of decades of stuff,
>and especially the 80's and 90's.

In the 70s, the recorded Black Bird, by Donald Byrd, the hard bop
trumpet player.  Very commercial and watered down funk.  Lamer than
disco.

>In fact, I suppose I should write to Bluenote and see if I can get one of their
>catalogs, if they even have one. Do the "majors" even have any catalogs?

I thought I saw one at the Jazz Record Mart but this would have been at
least 4 years ago.

>feels this way about Enigma. (At least I think it was Enigma.) Does anybody
>(hey Beer!) feel the same way about Bluenote in the 50's and 60's?

You can't argue with Bluenote.  There were other jazz labels that had
good rosters back then.  There are still lots of small labels with a
limited amount of specialized recordings available.  Bluenote is good
for the straight ahead, but for the avant garde there used to be Arista
(surpise!) but there still is Hat Art, Silkheart, FMP, and Incus.  And
others too.

>Maybe the question might best be put this way: If you were stranded alone on
>an island, and you could have the complete catalog of only one record company,
>which one would it be and why?  :-)
>                                                      Tom "Buck-Naked" Buck

That always is variable,  since I only have a few of the FMP, maybe that
would be a good one for getting a lot of new stuff.

>P.S. to Jeff Beer: What are your top ten "Desert Island" CD's. Even include
>vinyl if you like. And no, you can't include The Complete Plugged Nickel or
>Miles Plays Classic Ballads, or Miles and Coltrane - Stockholm 1960, so pick
>something else if you wanna have any Miles with you. :-)

What, no Plugged Nickel?  forget it.

1.	Bird / Prestige 2 LP set (includ Bird @ St. Nicks, 1 other)
2.	Coltrane / Interstellar Space  (Impulse)
3.	Ronald Shannon Jackson / Street Priest (Moers)
4.	(: deleted due to rules of the game :)
5.	Duke Ellington / The Great Ellington Units (Bluebird)
6.	Ornette In All Languages (Caravan Of Dreams)
7.	Duke Ellington/Louis Armstrong Complete Reunion (Mobile Sound)
8.	Cecil Taylor Feel Trio, with Oxley & Parker. (FMP)
9.  	Mingus Presents Mingus (Debut)
10.	Dave Holland / Conference of the Birds  (ECM)

For classical, here are some of my favorites:

1.	Bach: Picollo Cello / Bylsma  (DHM)	
2.	Stavinksy: Le Sacre / Boulez-Cleveland (Columbia)
3.	Messian: Chromotr. L'Ascension	
4.	Ives: Concord /Kirkpatrick/ (Columbia)
5.	Xenakis by IEC (Erato)
7.	Schnittke:  Gogel Suite & Labrynthe / (BIS)
8.	Berg: LuLu Suite/ Boulez (Columbia)
9.	Stavinsky: Agon	 
10.	Beethoven:Grosse Fugue/ Guarneri


what, I only get 10?  put them in a pile and draw them at random.

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