HA!!
You've got to be the "guru," CM!
After all, you're the musician.
Right?
"Blue Note is tiny when compared to the conglomerates owned by Warner, Vivendi...you know, BMG and the like."
True.
But I'd like to think we're well beyond being fooled by the old "big is better" shtick, too.
"But to be fair. In the jazz world, it's THE label."
Yup.
Its always come down to, "best is better"; &, in that respect BL has taken the prize for years.
"Consider she outsold Miles by tenfold and you get my drift."
An amazing fact, if true; considering, the lousy state of music sales, of any kind.
Just understand my POV whenever reading a *stats* like that these days, too. (~if only based on my above POV.)
I've long ago become somewhat less enthusiastic [read: impressed} than you (appear to be) after hearing atrocities such as "Dumber & Dumbest" or Goldmember" have set box office records; or, the top of the charts are currently occupied by single-digit IQ misfits who "made it" by producing nothing but some real shit, OK?
Compelled me to look real hard at just "who" wields the purchasing power, today; given, the overall state of the music & cinema industries as well as what's considered "art" in other venues.
Even you are aware of the deterioration; which, if one bases an opin solely on "sales" makes you & I the odd man out, right?
If what we see today is considered nothing more than a *barometer* of the human condition in western culture today?
It doesn't bode well -- for any of us -- & quickly renders stats (such as [that]) quite hollow.
"Geez, I envy your record collection!"
Years in the making, my friend; &, remains a work in progress.
(That collection's the main reason I began considering the purchase of a radio station, y'know; but that's another *story* for another time.)
"Play her album on Sunday morning when you're making coffee. You'll see what I mean."
I shall but, wouldn't that mean I'd have to purchase it, first?
So you'll buy it off of me if I don't care for it, is that right? {g}
(...would nj's "come away with me" fit the *bill*?)
>...an extremely attractive, petite, young & talented brunette musician with beautiful dark eyes (to kill for)
"Tell me about it."
No-no, ya got it bassackwards.
You tell me.
...I'm all ears. {g}