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From: marc@fc.hp.com (Marc_Sabatella)
Subject: Re: Stork Music
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 20:08:14 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
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Dick Bowman (bowman@apl.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: 
: Does anybody have personal experience of low-volume CD run quality and
: costings? Because if there was a way to persuade Stork to get (some of) this
: stuff onto another medium I'd like to give it a shot.

There are plenty of places advertised in Electronic Musician and other
magazines that will do a run of 500 CD's with one page B/W inserts for $3-$3.50
each.  I know of people who have used such services, and in my limited
experience, the quality is as about as good as the master you send them.  I
guess it's relatively hard to screw up a CD pressing from a digital master.
These days, most home studios can make DAT masters (which are what the mail
order CD pressing houses prefer) pretty easily and cheaply.

I have no idea how you could convince Stork to do this.  Surely the thought
must have occurred to them before; they must have some reason for not doing it,
although the process really is cheap enough these days that I kind of doubt
there are any good financial reasons.

Marc
From: gwl@specialist.genrad.com (Glenn W. Lea)
Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote
Subject: Re: Robert Cray's Strong Persuader 're-issued'??
Date: 11 Jan 1993 08:34:15 -0500
Organization: GenRad, Inc.
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In article <C0MJHw.5ID@newsflash.concordia.ca>, hum@cs.concordia.ca (HUM william) writes:

What exactly does this
> mean?  Do they make CD's in fixed batches and when they sell out
then
> I noticed in the Recent and Upcoming Releases List that Robert Cray's
> Strong Persuader was 're-released' on Jan. 8.  What exactly does this
> mean?  Do they make CD's in fixed batches and when they sell out then
> they re-issue them?  Or has the CD been re-mastered or something?  If
> in fact it has been re-mastered then I'll probably pick up another
> copy since it's one of my favorites.

No offense intended, but why?  Is there something wrong with the one
you have?  Probably not, if it's one of your favorites.  Don't be
suckered by the industry into buying something you already have and
enjoy on the (probably) false promise of "new and improved".  

Instead, try something new and different.

Maybe, in this case, there will be lots of new tracks and alternate
takes, but somehow, I doubt it.

Glenn
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From: canete@stingray.micro.umn.edu (Jose Jacala Canete)
Subject: on Hilton Ruiz
Summary: great show, great music
Keywords: piano jazz, Birdland
Organization: University of Minnesota CIS
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 00:24:44 GMT

Caught this pianist named Hilton Ruiz at Birdland near 100th St. in
Manhattan a week or two ago.  The quintet he was performing with that
night was unbelievably cool and sassy, and I loved their show so much
I forgot that I was earlier feeling dejected for missing Chick Corea's
show at the Blue Note!  It was infinitely cheaper too and we were
seated right there on the stage (not on the stage, dodo, right in
front) and I was feeling all that music in my nerves.  70 bucks for 3
people, cocktails, and a whole caboodle of finger food was certainly a
bargain, compared to Blue Note's 40 bucks entrance fee per person, not
includng drinks and food.  Check it out when you're in NY!!!

Oh yeah, BTW, Hilton IS a recording artist -- I just saw his CDs in
Tower Records on Broadway-Greenwich Village!  And he's real mild-
mannered too, very self-effacing and approachable.

Jojo Canete
jcanete@physics.spa.umn.edu

"I ain't takin' no 'mo of dis crap!!!" -- Christos Velissaris




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From: hjwulfso@unix.amherst.edu (Harris Wulfson)
Subject: Re: Dizzy's Passing
Organization: Amherst College
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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 08:13:59 GMT

Michael R. Volow (mvolo@ecsvax.uncecs.edu) wrote:

} Interested, Miles thinking that Diz and Satchmos' clowning were kissing
} up to the white press. In Diz autobiography, "To Be or Not to Bop",

Yeah, but "Satchmo" is the name used by white folks, and to me it plays
up the "jovial pandering to whites" side oide of Louis Armstrong. A more
fitting nickname was "Pops." It is also interesting that Wynton Marsalis
speaks very fondly of Pops, but not of Miles.  I guess marsalis considers
connection with the audience important  in an artist, and doesn't see
Armstrong as the caricature that white people saw in "Satchmo."

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From: wjh@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (william.j.hery)
Subject: Re: looking for a cd
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 01:28:11 GMT

mingus@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Damballah Wedo) writes:
>"Infant Eyes" was written by Wayne Shorter. It is a haunting, beautful
>ballad. I don't know any other versions besides his original.

Well Marcel, I guess you haven't gotten your whole collection into recdb
yet :-): you have another version of it by Stan Getz on MONTREUX SUMMIT (a
mostly forgettable compilation album from the 1977 Montreaux Jazz Fest).

A highly recommended version, also by Getz, is on LIVE AT MONTMARTEE vol 2
(Steeplechase). This version is with a fine quartet featuring Joanne Brackeen,
NHOP (another one for the Pedersen list), and Billy Hart. There is also a
fine version of (appropriately enough) Shorter's LESTER LEFT TOWN.

Bill Hery
AT&T Bell Labs
201-386-2362
hery@att.COM
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From: wung@eecom.gatech.edu (Peter Wung)
Subject: Re: Dixie Dregs on Tonight Show
Reply-To: wung@eecom.gatech.edu
Organization: School of EE, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 20:49:37 GMT

In article 1568@blue.cis.pitt.edu, milst1@cislabs.pitt.edu (Martin I Lewison) writes:
>|
>|Since I don't have a TV, I had to go to a friend's house to check out
>|the Dregs on Leno last night.  The did their recent live album version of
>|"Take it Off the Top", which disappointed me, as I would have preferred a
>|whole Dregs tune instead of a medley.
>|
>|And, as Jay Leno pointed out, the Dregs album "Bring Em Back Alive" has been
>|nominated for a Grammy in the "Best Rock Instrumental" category.  Way to go!
>|
>|-Martin
>|


Cool, I thought I was the only one who satyed up to watch the show for the Dregs!
It kind of ticked me off that Steve and the boys didn't even get to talk and they
only played one tune.  Oh well.
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From: sbyrd@athena.mit.edu (Samuel D Byrd)
Subject: coltrane suggestions
Keywords: coltrane
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 21:55:25 GMT

In article <1hujflINNls3@nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at> lell@dec2.wu-wien.ac.at
(Christoph Lell) writes:
>I'd recommend GRP/Impulse "Live in Japan" a 4 CD collection. :-)
>In all seriousness though, this is great stuff, but has anybody listened
>to more than one disc in a row?

Absolutely.  This is, IMHO, THE greatest Coltrane available.  He's at the peak of
his powers, and his playing is transcendent, life-affirming and inspiring.  When
I have the time, I can easily listen to 2 or 3 discs in a row.  I've only
listened to all 4 discs in a row once--I usually don't have _that_ much listening
time!

I find that this music works in a number of ways, all equally rewarding in their
own way (does that make sense?):  sitting down and concentrating on nothing else
(ideally, the best way--and yes, easily done for ultralong periods of time--it's
that great);  while reading;  while sleeping (drifting in and out of Trane and
Pharoah is a close approximation of The Heaven of Dreams);  while washing the
damn dishes;  on the Walkman while commuting, while shopping, while walking
outside, etc.

Hope this isn't too much of an over-serious overreaction to a light-hearted
comment.  Obviously, I love this music--and to say that I think it's the best
Trane is saying a lot, especially when you think of Interstellar Space, A Love
Supreme, Meditations, Sun Ship, the Village Vanguard November 1961 sessions, 
and Ascension.  You can see where my prejudices lie, but hey!  I love the older
 stuff, too--especially the Prestige sessions with Miles, Giant Steps, and
his ballad playing on his own Prestige albums.  But to me "Live in Japan"
captures him at the pinnacle of his playing--and in so many ways, Rashied Ali
and Alice Coltrane's playing are so suited to where he was at at the time that
it's hard to think of too many similar instances where Elvin _and_ McCoy were
as attuned to what he was doing and where he was going.  To me, Elvin obviously
connected with his playing in such a matter that had there been no Elvin, there
would have been no Rashied Ali--in other words the context of dueting that Elvin
and Coltrane explore in "Chasin' the Trane," "Impressions," "Sun Ship," etc.
established the framework that Coltrane would later pursue with Rashied Ali,
especially in "Interstellar Space"--but I'm hard-pressed to think of similar
situations with McCoy.  When McCoy starts soloing he tends to go his own way--not
to say that this is bad or wrong, but I think Alice and Rashied, on "Live in
Japan," are more willing to go where Coltrane leads them, and that makes the
music as a whole work better and sound less-disjointed and more of a piece.
Speaking of which I think I've had mine, so I'll shut up.

------Sam Byrd      sbyrd@athena.mit.edu
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From: mciver@alpo.cs.colorado.edu (William McIver Jr.)
Subject: Re: Another master is gone....
Organization: Universtiy of Coloardo, Boulder
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 22:08:48 GMT

In article <1ifmakINNoat@hpfcbig.sde.hp.com> marc@hpmonk.fc.hp.com writes:


>But here's hoping someone besides
>me calls up "Con Alma", "Things To Come", "Salt Peanuts", and other less played
>yet equally "Dizzy" compositions.
>

"Behind the Moon Beam"!


WJM


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From: vinoski@apollo.hp.com (Stephen Vinoski)
Subject: BLUES: William Clarke & Mark Hummel
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:44:02 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA


A couple of questions about blues harmonica players:

1) Did William Clarke ever release any more albums after his "Blowin'
   Like Hell" release on Alligator a few years ago?  He is such a
   great harp player.  Did he put out anything prior to that release?

2) Does anybody know about a new CD by Mark Hummel, a California-based
   harp player?  My brother just saw him and his band down in Memphis
   and they were hawking their new CD, but he didn't find out the name
   of it or what label it's on.  I have a tape that Hummel made a few
   years ago which features Sue Foley on guitar and Charles Brown on
   piano, and there are some great tunes on there.  In particular, "Up
   and Jumpin' Thang" is a blues harmonica clinic, featuring Hummel on
   both chromatic and diatonic, switching effortlessly and fluidly.

If anyone has any information about these blues harmonica gods, I
would appreciate it.

thanks,
-steve

Steve Vinoski  (508)436-5904   vinoski@apollo.hp.com
Distributed Object Computing Program
Hewlett-Packard, Chelmsford, MA 01824       These are my opinions.
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From: marc@pinet.aip.org (Marc Wiener)
Subject: Re: Don Cherry suggestions?
Organization: American Institute of Physics
Distribution: can
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 14:41:47 GMT

In article <C0G1Hu.7y7@ccu.umanitoba.ca> mcgonig@eeserv.ee.umanitoba.ca (Gordon McGonigal) writes:
>And don't forget about his wonderful videos: Rock 'em Sock 'em I & II!!
>
>(This better not get out of Canada, or there will be folks that won't
>understand what I'm talking about!)

It did get out of Canada, but there are still some of us Ranger fans :-( who
know who your talking about

marc
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From: larry@st-andy.uucp (Larry Martell)
Subject: Emily Remler
Organization: RMJ Securities Corp.
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:51:53 GMT

How did Emily Remler die? I thought she died of cancer, but someone told
me she died of a heroin OD.

TIA
-- 
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212-668-9478		        but nobody wants to look at the other guys"
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From: vek@spacsun.rice.edu (Vincent E. Kargatis)
Subject: Re: Curlew, Dr.Nerve, Bird, Jarrett
Organization: Rice University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:19:43 GMT

cs163wel@sdcc8.ucsd.edu (Paolo Valladolid) writes:
> Info requested on Curlew and Dr. Nerve.  Also, what recordings by

Well, nobody else has jumped on this, so...

Curlew is a great "downtown NY" (avant)jazz quintet:
	George Cartwright (alto sax)
	Tom Cora (cello)
	Davey Williams (guitar)
	Ann Rupel (bass)
	Pippin Barnett (drums)

Started off in the mid-80s with Wayne Horvitz and Nicky Kopelitis (instead
of Williams and Rupel, I think). I believe their first album was an LP on
Moers called NORTH AMERICA, which I've never heard. Otherwise, there's:

LIVE IN BERLIN (1986) and BEE (1990), both on Cuneiform. And I just saw an
ad for their newest on Cuneiform, performing with Amy Denio. Haven't gotten
that yet - anybody?  Also have two cuts on KNITTING FACTORY vol. 1, doing
"St. Croix" and "The Hard Wood" (studio tracks of which are found on BEE).


Don't know all that much about Dr. Nerve. Led by guitarist/composer Nick
Didkovsky, their music's a lot more composed/arranged than Curlew's. There
are two CDs available, both on Cuneiform. A reissue of their first two
albums from '84 and '87 (OUT TO BOMB FRESH KINGS/ARMED OBSERVATIONS or
some combination of those words :) and BETA 14 OK (c. 1990).

Both bands are way cool stuff. Recommended.
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From: mctkew@dct.ac.uk
Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote
Subject: Harmolodics ???
Date: 8 Jan 93 10:40:37 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

I would like to know more about Ornette's harmolodics - since this seems to be
the music I am listening to most at the moment .. - ornette, jamaaladeen,
shannon jackson etc. In the depths of my memory I can remember someone telling
me that a scale which has a step pattern which is not based on octave division
is harmolodic (this scale would have a repeating pattern but would have
different notes for each octave !!!) - is this harmolody ???


Also....

yes another innovator has passed, but alot of people are being a bit morbid
about it - saying that there is nobody good left !!! - what a lot of rubbish
!!! - Jazz is about moving forward constantly (a bit like Trotsky's permanent
revolution) - people who think its dead should listen to ....

John Zorn
the AACM group of musicians etc...

to find the forward momentum... stop looking backwards....

Ken WhelaN
MCTKEW@UK.AC.DCT

"Jazz is not a fashion accessory"
From: doucet@ripolin.laas.fr (Jean-Etienne Doucet)
Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote
Subject: Re: Dizzy Gillespie
Date: 8 Jan 93 10:17:01 GMT
Reply-To: doucet@ripolin.laas.fr
Organization: LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse (France)


In article 1ii99eINNa0j@pith.uoregon.edu, tenny@euclid.uucp (Nathan Tenny) writes:
>
>As regards essential recordings, I'm awfully fond of the Massey Hall concert
>(Mingus, Diz, Max Roach, Bud Powell, and Bird [credited as Charlie Chan]);
>half the material is Dizzy's, and while the recording is a little spotty,
>it's a hell of a collective performance.

	I completely second this.
>
>Is this out on CD, though?  I have an old tape which is starting to show its
>age.

	Yes, I know at least 3 CD editions of the Toronto concert.
	One is a 2CD box with one CD for the Powell/Mingus Roach trio only.
>
>	NT

	Another Dizzy worthy record is from a Parisian concert in 88 or 89:
	Dizzy and Max Roach in duo. I saw this on TV.
	I've seen the CD some time ago (so it exists): the question is
	does it _still_ exist ?
	Forgot the name, sorry...
	
	Ciao.
	
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	| you can hear its heart beat.                      |
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From: sik@grosz.esd.sgi.com (Seth Katz)
Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote
Subject: Re: Don Cherry suggestions?
Date: 5 Jan 93 22:50:07 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA


In article <RSHAPIRO.93Jan5142145@kariba.bbn.com>, rshapiro@bbn.com writes:
> Organization: BBN, Cambridge MA
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> In-reply-to: ujwb@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu's message of Tue, 5 Jan 1993 14:18:20 GMT
> 
> In article <C0Dx2K.46B@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> ujwb@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Jeff Beer) writes:
> 
>    Where Is Brooklyn, Complete Communion, the Symphony Of The Improvisors,
>    and some extra tracks are supposed to be comming out on a Mosaic Box.
>    These are all good.
> 
> This Mosaic rumor has been circulating for awhile. I *hope* it's true,
> but I've yet to hear anything definitive. Jeff, do you have any
> further news?

A while back we discussed this and I called Mosaic.  
They told me they are doing it.  Is that definitive?

A bootleg to look out for is Sonny Rollins live in Paris 1963
with Cherry, Grimes, and Higgins.  Good sound, fine performance.
It's on Magnetic (MRCD 101).
Not perhaps the best, most typical Cherry, but nice, and with an
interesting group!

I like the ECM Cherry/Blackwell for the sound quality, but MU is 
more interesting, and now available complete on one CD.
No lousy Charly pressing...

Bill Hsu played an interesting Cherry item for me the 
other night, with Penderecki (yes, that one) and an 
"orchestra" that includes Brotzmann, Breuker, Hampel, Bennink,
and others.  Some very odd music!  Not necessarily the best
intro to Cherry, though.
=-s
From: mchenry@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote
Subject: Re: The Tonight Show
Date: 7 Jan 93 11:56:57 -0500
Distribution: world
Organization: Georgetown University

In article <1993Jan7.152334.27772@ee.gatech.edu>, wung@eecom.gatech.edu (Peter Wung) writes:
> 
> Don't know how many of you caught the Tonight Show last night.  Branford 
> and the band played some Dizzy tunes to mourn his death, and then they 
> had.... Kenny G come out and play his trash.  The incongruency of scene
> just bums me out.  A genius dies and they get Mr. Sominex to play.
> 
> ---
> ********************************************************************
> *Peter Wung			Email:wung@ee.gatech.edu	   * 

Actually Branford's band didn't do much Diz at all. Mike Stern was sitting 
in and what they mainly did, as far as I could tell, were cuts off the CD 
he is plugging, Standards (and Other Tunes), which is not bad. In other 
words they paid some lip service to Diz (HAH!) and then moved on. Not 
having heard Kenny G for a few years, I listened closely to see if he has 
grown over time. The answer is: NOT one lick! He had a technically 
competent performance of the worst pablum one can imagine. I don't know how 
Branford and his band could stand to be on the same stage with him. I once 
wrote a letter to Downbeat in which I compared Kenny G's facility with 
holding long notes on his soprano saxophone to an enormous capacity to give 
the American public a blow job. Suck it, "G"!

I saw Diz in the late 70s at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago. I was sitting in 
the front row and his horn was about five feet from me. There was smoke 
coming out of it even though he was not smoking anything. Goodbye Dizzy - I 
will miss every aspect of the courageous genius that you... are!

Bill McHenry                   |Those who do not hear the past works
mchenry@guvax (bitnet)         |are condemned to recompose them....
mchenry@guvax.georgetown.edu   |                 -me
From: havey+@CMU.EDU (Robert J. Havey)
Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote
Subject: looking for a cd
Date: 11 Jan 93 06:05:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.sfINehe00WB70MfYsI
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA



"long is your living" by judy nymac (sp?).  ~2 weeks ago heard the track
"infant eyes" on APR (jazz after hours) and saturday night heard a version
of bill evans' "waltz for debby" also on APR.  i haven't been able to find
this album anywhere (everyone looks at me strange).

does anyone have a clue who she is, where i could find the disk, or a pointer
to who might know?  i've tried local stores and tower records in nyc.

thanks,
  /       /
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havey+@cmu.edu
From: hellers@cs.wisc.edu (Joe Hellerstein)
Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote
Subject: Charlie Haden's promo shots (was Re: hep cats and their music, etc.)
Date: 5 Jan 93 19:59:44 GMT
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>In article <RSHAPIRO.92Dec31100340@kariba.bbn.com> rshapiro@bbn.com (Richard Shapiro) writes:
>
>   In article <1992Dec31.071015.11021@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> mingus@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Damballah Wedo) writes:
>
>>      Check out the cover of THIS IS OUR MUSIC.
>
>   I've always thought the cover photo of this particular record depicted
>   four of the hippest looking individuals imaginable.
>
>>      Ask yourself is that young man struggling to
>>      keep his head upright is what you imagine a hep cat ought to look
>>      like
>
>
>   Like I say, this photo looks quintessential jazz-hip to me. It never
>   occured to me (consciously at least) that any of the four were at high
>   at the time; but it doesn't change my opinion of the image. Whether
>   Haden was "struggling to keep his head upright" or posed that way by a
>   savvy Atlantic photographer, it's a great photo which perfectly
>   captures the essence of early 60s cool.
>

I think Charlie Haden just takes a lot of pictures with his head
bowed, and often his hands clasped in front of him.  Always struck me
as a (slightly stagey) expression of humility, and respect for the
music.  I've noticed this on a number of his recent albums, and he
claims to be a clean machine now, so I don't think it's drug related.
The Jane Ira Bloom "Mighty Lights" CD comes to mind, since I just
looked at it the other night.  I seem to remember his head being down
on the "Ballad of the Fallen" CD, too.

Joe Hellerstein
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