I hate download only releases. His 'live at the Bimhuis' album with his quintet is aces though.

I am not a fan of mp3 sound quality, myself. I agree about the Bimhuis. It made my 2005 list.

Avast, Ye Boys and Girls! Batton down the Hatches!





The Reissue of the Year!




This is one of the Most Essential Free Jazz recordings ever recorded.

This has been Satchmo out of print. It was reissued on CD once before in Japan and that went out of print in half a NY Minute....so no telling how long it will be around this time.



http://www.boweavilrecordings.com/Weavil_24.html






Repeat after Satchmo:



I MUST GET IT!
I MUST GET IT!
I MUST GET IT!
I MUST GET IT!
I MUST GET IT!

I MUST GET IT!

I MUST GET IT, BABY!









YOU BETTER CHECK YOURSELF!!








YO!

This is from the June 18th performance that I dropped knowledge about back in March of 2006.

David S. Ware - Renunciation: The Last U.S. Show at Vision Festival 2006

THE VAULT IS OPEN FOR THE MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL


By Dan Ouellette

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Festivals are ripe venues for live recordings. Cases in point: Norman Granz's full slate of albums recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1977 and 1979 for his Pablo label, and Verve's series of Charlie Haden concerts at the 1989 Montreal Jazz Festival.

But in a recording industry first, the Monterey Jazz Festival in California -- the setting of such classics as John Handy's "Live at Monterey" (1965) and Charles Lloyd's "Forest Flower" (1966) -- has fashioned itself a label as well as a marquee event. For starters, the festival is excavating its 1,600-hour tape archives housed at Stanford University's Braun Music Center to release historic live concerts. To complement the old, Monterey Jazz Festival Records (MJFR) will also record new festival-spawned projects.

Under the ever-expanding Concord Music Group umbrella, MJFR will roll out its debut five-CD batch July 31: Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars (recorded in '58), Miles Davis Quintet ('63), Thelonious Monk Quartet ('64), Shirley Horn Trio and George Washington Jr. (both in '94). More archival CDs will street in late summer in time to help Monterey, the world's oldest, continuously running jazz festival, celebrate its silver anniversary (September 21-23).

"We'll have a captive crowd, in the best sense of the word, for selling these CDs," Monterey GM Tim Jackson says, adding that the festival has an annual attendance of 45,000. "Three years ago we started thinking about how to celebrate the 50th as well as leverage the festival's assets and brand, not just for a one-time event, but for something that could be ongoing."

The archives that document most of the artists who played the main stage were largely inaccessible except to researchers. Plus, the tapes were deteriorating, a problem rectified recently by a digitizing project partially funded by the Grammy Foundation. "Once we realized what we had," Jackson says, "we wanted to get it out to the public."

Monterey never intended to jump-start a label on its own. "We know how to produce a jazz festival, but not sell records," Jackson says. Concord was approached because it's based on the West Coast and "because they're a very progressive label," he adds.

Jackson broached the topic with Concord president/CEO Glen Barros while they served on the Jazz Alliance International board. "Concord's philosophy is to give consumers infinite choices," Barros says. "If we do our job right, we'll make Monterey, which has a hip factor, known around the globe. This imprint gives us a new opportunity to make jazz work in this changing industry."

Jason Olaine, director of A&R at Verve from 1999 to 2004, is GM of MJFR. He calls the shots on the historic releases as well as special projects to be recorded at the festival each year. "We don't want to get stuck in a '50-'60s time warp," he says. "We want to show that jazz is also a music of the present."

For this year's fest, Olaine assembled a supergroup of Dave Holland, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Chris Potter and Eric Harland, whose performances will be issued by MJFR. Another unique ensemble -- including Benny Green, Terence Blanchard, James Moody and Nnenna Freelon -- will also be documented for a MJFR CD to be sold on its 50-date national tour of 1,000- to 2,000-seat venues from January to March 2008.

"At 50, we figure it's good to pause and reflect back," Jackson says, noting that the imprint breaks the mold with its variegated potential revenue streams. "But we also want to creatively contribute to the jazz future."












YO!

Just released:


Roscoe Mitchell - Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3


Roscoe Mitchell - soprano saxophone
Evan Parker - tenor and soprano saxophones
Anders Svanoe - alto and baritone saxophones
Corey Wilkes - trumpet, flugelhorn
John Rangecroft - clarinet
Neil Metcalfe - flute
Nils Bultmann - viola
Philipp Wachsmann - violin
Marcio Mattos - cello
Craig Taborn - piano
Jaribu Shahid - bass
Barry Guy - bass
Tanni Tabbal - drums, percussion
Paul Lytton - drums, percussion

3-20-2007 batch of Blue Note RVG


Andrew Hill - Compulsion
Thad Jones - Detroit-New York Junction
Dexter Gordon - Clubhouse
Donald Byrd - The Cat Walk
Jackie McLean - New and Old Gospel *
Art Taylor - A.T.'s Delight




June 5th 2007 batch of Blue Note Connoisseurs



Andrew Hill - Change **
Jimmy Smith - Straight Life
Kenny Cox - Introducing Kenny Cox
Frank Foster - Manhattan Fever
Stanley Turrentine - Blues for Del
Stanley Clarke - Heads Up




* (this is the only time Jackie and Ornette recorded and Ornette stuck to the trumpet, which didn't make many at the time including Miles too happy.)


** Was originally released under the title of Involution. Sam Rivers is a member of the group.

A Hell Yeah from the vaults release.




Art Pepper - Unreleased Art, Vol. 1 :The Complete Abashiri Concert - November 22, 1981


http://cdbaby.com/cd/artpepper

I love this quote on the site by Art Pepper's widow....

"What I'm doing here, is:



3. I'm introducing Art to people who thought they knew what jazz was (Kenny G) and didn't like it. If you like Kenny G, just go away. There's nothing for you here."

I've never met a fan of Kenny G. They must exist, though.