Music Matters | jazzcollector.com https://jazzcollector.com For those who love jazz Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:25:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 175772384 Updates: More Monterose and More Blue Note https://jazzcollector.com/blue-note/updates-more-monterose-and-more-blue-note/ https://jazzcollector.com/blue-note/updates-more-monterose-and-more-blue-note/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:22:44 +0000 http://jazzcollector.com/?p=1781 Jazz Collector is certainly expanding my horizons. Today I spoke to a bass player in Rochester who was friends with J.R. Monterose and, in fact, [...]

The post Updates: More Monterose and More Blue Note first appeared on jazzcollector.com.]]> Jazz Collector is certainly expanding my horizons. Today I spoke to a bass player in Rochester who was friends with J.R. Monterose and, in fact, produced a CD that is probably J.R.’s last recording. He’s sending me a copy and I’ll let you know about it when it arrives. Quite possibly we could end up as a repository of the first and last known recordings of J.R. Monterose. Pretty cool. Also, I had a long conversation with Ron Rambach, who has a company called Music Matters, which reissuing of a good portion of the Blue Note catalogue as

45-RPM limited edition sets. If you check out their Web site, you’ll see some of the classic titles. I’ll be getting a couple to review for you and, when I do, I’ll share more information about what Ron and his colleagues are doing. Does jazz need saving? Not around here.

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