Good Ol' Shoe?

"We're loathe to put it out on the airwaves, because people could copy it. And yet, what a shame."


WTF?

An autographed portrait of jazz singer Billy Holiday is among jazz items on display during...

Fail.

/loves me some Lionel Hampton (pops)

"...copyright laws have stymied efforts to make the recordings available..."



Why does Stymie hates jazz?

how sad if we cant get our ears on this music because of stinking copyright laws.

Interesting. Just a couple of months ago 4 pallet loads of reel to reel tapes I recorded at two local Jazz Parties over the past 30 years were shipped to a different university in the Northeast. That was about 2 tons of recordings, 2 track, 15 ips. Supposedly they've got the intern labor available to listen and catalog all of the music on them, if they can get the music off before the tapes shed.

The Jazz Parties seldom had the popular well known names, but did have the people behind those. Milt Hinton, Gus Johnson, Clark Terry, Ralph Sutton, etc, etc, etc. I was very fortunate to have been there.

Ah, I just found the link to where the tapes went: Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies. I hope they find it useful in some way.

I was very sad to see the tapes go, but sadder to know they weren't being shared while in my care.

Kyosuke:

So cool.

Another example of the many ways in which US Copyright Law is total horseshiat.

Kyosuke:

Interesting. Just a couple of months ago 4 pallet loads of reel to reel tapes I recorded at two local Jazz Parties over the past 30 years were shipped to a different university in the Northeast. That was about 2 tons of recordings, 2 track, 15 ips. Supposedly they've got the intern labor available to listen and catalog all of the music on them, if they can get the music off before the tapes shed.

The Jazz Parties seldom had the popular well known names, but did have the people behind those. Milt Hinton, Gus Johnson, Clark Terry, Ralph Sutton, etc, etc, etc. I was very fortunate to have been there.

Ah, I just found the link to where the tapes went: Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies. I hope they find it useful in some way.

I was very sad to see the tapes go, but sadder to know they weren't being shared while in my care.


Damn, that is so remarkable. Great that you had sense to ship them off somewhere with the manpower, skills and technology to extract the content. Did you from time to time make your own tapes of favorites over the years? That would be a wonderful treasure.

A good friend of mine is curator of the Jazz Archive at Tulane. I tell people he has the best job in the universe.

DrBenway: Damn, that is so remarkable. Great that you had sense to ship them off somewhere with the manpower, skills and technology to extract the content. Did you from time to time make your own tapes of favorites over the years? That would be a wonderful treasure.

I guess it's been such a big part of my life that I'm too close to see how remarkable it is. Odd, isn't it. Actually, it wasn't my "great sense" so much that the local Jazz society wanted to do something with them and I couldn't store them any more. It took a while to find anyone who could take the tapes and would know what to do with them.

One thing that (I think) makes the Jazz Party tapes so special is the unique Jazz Party format of the concerts. Both Jazz Parties I was involved with (Midland Jazz Classic and Odessa Jazz Party) would bring in an assortment of musicians totaling anywhere from 20 to 35. From this selection each night would consist of 8 sets, with different combinations of musicians for each set. By the time the party was over, you'd have seen almost every possible combination of musicians on stage. So much 'once in a lifetime' magic was made during those parties.

There's a work-in-progress grid showing the many musicians involved in the parties over the years here.

Strangest part: I was never that much of a Jazz fan. I'm a musician, and I understand the language, but it took a while to grow on me.