Jazzy Sandbox

Go for it and report back!

i don't know, that sounds a little bit too ~adventurous~ for me...

The Hank Mobley set looks pretty great; I already have all that stuff, but as a first purchase for a new listener it's kinda ideal.

yeah i think i have most of that...was leaning towards the Three Sounds set, because I barely ever see CDs of a few of those records.

This might be sacrilegious to mention on a proper jazz thread, but I've been listening to Michael Franks first 4 records constantly. Really love the first self titled one from 73, but all of them have really great moments.

Who is "Popsicle Toes" holding up?

Mazurek was part of the Chicago scene in the early 2000s, not sure where he is now.

― Another Suburbanite, Friday, December 16, 2011 5:27 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink

Apparently he lives in Sao Paolo now, but he's put out material pretty consistently since the early 2000s, (almost?) entirely on Chicago labels and often with Chicago musicians.

― Hurting, Friday, December 16, 2011 7:09 PM (1 week ago)

the other dudes on that album listed are Chicago dudes.

I've always been sort of curious about the economics of being a jazz artist who records a lot, or especially who recorded a lot back in the day. They made these records that would sell, idk, a few thousand copies on the first run? 10K? 20K? And probably not a modern indie-label style royalty deal either. But they make dozens of them over a career just as a leader (even assuming they don't get royalties on sideman dates), and then they keep getting re-pressed, reissued, and there's always that small core group of jazz fans who keeps buying.

i wonder about that too, though i have no answers for you...like, does Hank Mobley's family get money when someone buys a copy of Soul Station on CD?

Afraid to ask about that one. I assume it doesn't add up to that much even for a Hank Mobley and that is why lots of jazz musicians these days get masters degrees so that they can teach.

yeah, i'm sure that even if they're getting some kind of royalty checks for reissues of old albums, it's not a ton of money. i assume some of those 50s records were just made for a flat fee. come in, record 5 songs, get $500 or something and sign away the rights to the recordings forever. which probably seemed like a good deal at the time, but 50 years and a dozen repackagings later, maybe not.

Other way to ramp it up would be some composer royalties if you got a song on a big soundtrack or some kind of crossover artist like Mrs. Elvis Costello covered you.

Today OTOH you have guys who probably get better deals but are not going to be seeing RVG editions of their records because the 'classic jazz' era is sort of over. Like I can't even imagine how small sales of something like a Criss Cross release must be, although perhaps I'm underestimating Europe.

Jimmy Heath was on (national network prime time) tv last night. I wondered, when was the last time that happened, if ever?

(He killed, btw)

what was he on? that jimmy heath album i posted about upthread is great btw. hard bop meets semi-big band kind of thing.

Did he talk about his book? Was is from Flushing Town Hall or somewhere else?

He was part of the group paying tribute to Sonny Rollins on the Kennedy Center Honors show. Also playing were Joe Lovano, Christian McBride, Ravi Coltrane, Jack DeJohnette, Benny Golson, Roy Hargrove, and a young unknown named Herbie Hancock. The played "Sonnymoon For Two," "St. Thomas," and I think one other tune. Everyone was great, but for me, Heath was the highlight.

cool stuff, will have to seek out clips of that show!
got the new miles 1967 "bootleg series" for xmas. amazing, essential recordings! i've heard a bunch of recordings from that tour, but it's worth it for the cleaned up sound. DVD is nice too, cool to see the band at work. major flaw, as some have noted, is that ron carter gets lost in the mix often, but them's the breaks for bassists. But it's too bad, judging from the DVD, Carter is working twice as hard as everyone else! Also, he is really tall.

in other important jazz news: http://www.firmoo.com/anthony-braxton-eyeglasses.html

That's awesome. As is the "translation".

I believe those glasses employ frameless-lens logics simultaneously with the implementation of tortoise-shell-temple sublogics.

i tried on a pari and this is all i saw
http://tricentricfoundation.org/images/homepage_banner.jpg?1283892916

a *pair* that is

Maybe check your prescription? I'm seeing this:

http://blog.wfmu.org/.a/6a00d83451c29169e20134803ca438970c-800wi

Thought it was some kind of tribute to the late great Jackie Pari*s

Tonight I have become a street team of one for this album: Count's Rock Band: Do Not Listen If You Hate Coltrane or Maggot Brain

Streaming right now: Sam Rivers Memorial Broadcast

Should have realized that would be going on. Thanks,

Can anyone tell me more about Christian Wallumrod? Really interesting style sort of on the border between jazz and modern chamber music.