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This seems to be it. It’s a YouTube ‘short’ — so it has vertical formatting.

Lee Morgan in ‘69! Herbie Hancock in ‘68

Was only vaguely aware of the Pablo thing, and really only the cover art rings any sort of bell (and just the front cover). Not sure I’ve ever seen one out in the wild, so I never had any idea what label (shady, or legit) it might have been on. https://www.discogs.com/master/1234634-Horace-Silver-Paris-Blues

That’s my memory too, except I thought I’d heard he had Lion give him the tapes so Horace could toss (more likely destroy?) the tapes himself. Or maybe that was just speculation I’d read — but I’d definitely heard/read that more than once.

Just broke down and purchased a copy of this book on eBay last night, for only ~$20 with free shipping. Looking forward to it! Edit: I love how I can find a 17-year old topic here on a very specific subject, and revive it again so easily! Such a nice benefit of forum-based discussions. Plus also having a board that hasn’t had the need to close/archive old posts like other higher-traffic forums (probably justifiably) have a need to do.

Just a fraction of what all he and Monk plotted at their frequent ping-pong games.

Gosh that’s sorry to hear, and with my dad almost 97 now — I have to confess I don’t think of 84 as being “that old” — even if I do realize otherwise. RIP.

PM sent!!

Literally just saw American Fiction — finished moments ago, in fact. What a great movie!! Noticed Patrice Rushen did the score and much of the soundtrack.

I thought Oppenheimer was mostly pretty riveting (my wife did to) — and walking out, I left wanting to see it again in another week or two (but never did). And I’d gone into it half dreading a 3 hour film on the Manhattan Project (especially after work, since I work weekends now) — but the only time I glanced at my phone to check the time was shortly after the point in the film after the bombs had been dropped… and I was actually relieved(!) that there was almost a full hour of the film left! — and the last hour was as riveting as the first two, imho. I saw someone mention online that you see very little actually being done in the film… that it’s almost 90% dialog and very little ‘action’. But I thought the film demanded my attention and kept my interest pretty much throughout (or at least 80% of the time). Also, I haven’t seen much Robert Downey Jr. — mainly Chaplin over 30 years ago, and 2-3 other films he had smaller parts in (all back in the 90’s). But based on Oppenheimer — I will absolutely go see any ‘serious’ film he’s in from now on (especially anything that’s a period piece). I also hadn’t ever seen any Christopher Nolan films — other than his first Batman film (which was fine for what it was — maybe the only Batman film I’ve ever seen, come to think of it) — but I need to go back and see some Nolan stuff at some point too.

Track-listings would probably sell me on either or both of these — if anyone can dig that up. Thx!

No, actually it was at Record Exchange on Hampton (just south of 44). I hadn’t been there in 15+ years — maybe 20 years! But it was such a disorganized mess back then, I just stopped going all together. Its a LOT better organized now, but their jazz selection (at least CD’s) — while pretty darn large, actually — looked like it had been well-picked over years ago. I might even go back again in a year and go thru everything again, A to Z — but I also don’t think I’ll really discover any more than another small handful of half-interesting discs (and it looks like their jazz stock barely changes year over year). A friend who’s been there more over the years says their Rock CD’s change a lot more frequently — and those seem to be their bread and butter.

I’ve been on the lookout for John Dennis’ lone leader-date on CD for about 4 years… but I’m visiting my dad this week here in St. Louis, and yesterday I finally snagged a nearly mint used copy of New Piano Expressions on CD for just $8. Pretty sure all the copies I’d ever found/seen online were always for like $20 (give or take), plus shipping. About dropped my teeth when I saw it too — I’d never seen one out in the wild before, ever.

Me too (re: “Hello Dad, I’m in Jail”). Never exactly caught the Was Now Was bug, but for a couple months my senior year of college I had “Hell Dad” as the greeting on my answering machine (all 2 minutes of it).