just wondering… Grauer died suddenly in December 1963 and Riverside went bankcrupt in the course of 1964… so apparently the whole trouble with the Computer, Keepnews… must have happened really quickly, i.e. rather in 6 months than in 12? thinking about your image of Keepnews as the man with the stop watch… where did the consistent high quality of Riverside albums have its origin? for instance Thelonious Monk’s series of albums for Riverside may be the most carefully produced series of albums of his career? (latter statement is of course disputable) was that Bill Grauer’s influence?
just looked through the Riverside discography of 1960/1961 again, not only your New Orleans and Chicago projects but also this Cannonball Adderley series with more or less unknown artists… maybe it just looks like „self-destructive documentation“ (nothing wrong with that! 
) to me because I grew up in a world where jazz was a very small and risky market…
thank you for clearing the thing about the companies accumulating albums for fear of losing the artists! i can understand all the unreleased Grant Green Blue Note albums much better now…
something completely different… is there any contemporary jazz or other contemporary music you are following/recommending/finding especially interesting…?
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