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Don Friedman Standards in Cagliari on Soul Note recorded live on October 15, 1999 at the Sardinian Jazz Festival. With Jeff Fuller on bass and Tony Bradascio on drums. You can find one tune, Shadows of your Smile on youtube. https://www.discogs.com/Don-Friedman-Trio-Standards-in-Cagliari/release/6448123

Whenever this topic comes up I am reminded of John Corbett's experience with the stuff Alton Abraham left in his house: https://soundamerican.org/issues/sun-ra/anything-can-happen-day-sun-ra-alton-abraham-and-taming-freak My memory is that the above constitutes a chapter in his book "Vinyl Freak: Love Letters to a Dying Medium."

I also keep the disks, the mosaic boxes and the cds in separate areas. I have told family members that when I die to put the Mosaic box sets back together. In addition, I kept the mailing boxes for the box sets.

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BTW-the sound is so good that I feel like I was there. I can hear all 4 musicians about equally and clearly. As for the music, it is great. I think that Kelley was not wrong when he writes (that I could read) that the group was on fire. About 40 minutes of music.

Received my copy from Amazon.uk today. I am no audiophile-to me the sound is great. The packaging design and the presentation of the liner notes are disappointing. The "case" seems to be a cardboard-like material presented in a trifold design . The left fold has a pocket that contains a folded copy of the concert poster. As you do with this type of design you access that poster from the inside right edge of the pocket in the left fold. The cd is contained without any protective sleeve in the pocket in the center, which you can access from either side when both right and left folds are completely opened. The liner notes are contained in a pocket in the right fold and accessed from the left interior edge. The cd, the concert poster and the liner notes fit tightly in the respective pockets and you need to be careful digging them out to avoid tearing the cardboard packaging andor the liner notes andor damaging the disc. (I will keep the cd in a separate sleeve). Contained in a small booklet, the liner notes contain essays written by Robin Kelley (Monk's biographer) and Danny Sher (the promoter). The booklet has pages colored in beige, red and black. The lettering on the beige pages is black while the lettering is white on the red and black pages. I can read the words on the beige pages but have a hard time reading the words on the red and black pages. I think the font also contributes to this situation. I can barely discern Robert Kelley's signature (done in red, not white) at the end of his essay that appears on a black page and cannot read whatever credentials (also in red) are listed under his signature. No mention of Zev Feldman in the booklet or on the packaging (that I could see!!). At 17, Danny Sher must have been some business person. With ticket sales slow in advance of the concert, Sher sold ads in the concert program to businesses on his paper route and, as such, generated sufficient revenue to cover Monk's fee even if no paying customers showed up. Also, Sher's dealings with Monk's apparently unscrupulous promoter speak to Sher's maturity beyond his years.

https://www.stereophile.com/content/rudresh-mahanthappa-time-now

"I like the fact that it a CD is an object I can hold, collect, display, organize, look at. I like the artwork and often the liner notes and other info. I like that CD's are a commodity, I can resell them if I don't want to keep them, helping defray the cost of chance-taking and of upgrading/downgrading to a different set of the same music. I like that I can "own" a CD, a file doesn't feel the same. I also prefer physical books to ebooks/pdf's for some of the same reason, plus they are more enjoyable to read for me. I am totally willing to accept that mine are subjective preferences and that there are benefits to the downloads/ebooks." What Felser said above.

I buy cds from all time periods. I do not purchase downloads.

For whatever reason, Brignola's "Poinciana" (#151), also recorded for Reservoir, is not on this list.

Thread from 2011 about Brignola music on Reservoir: I have all of the Brignola discs and think all of them are at least good. "THINGS AIN'T WHAT THEY USED TO BE / LAST SET AT SWEET BASIL" was released after his death. Reputedly he did not want that music released but the label went ahead anyway. I echo the comment about about the Kuhn dates and feel the same way about the Hod O'brien recordings. John Fedcock's big band music is also worthy.

Just received an email indicating that Rogue Art is now distributing Silkheart. Also, announced is the reissue of the Joel Futterman Trio's "In-between Position(s)" with Jimmy Lyons and Robert Adkins, https://roguart.com/product/in-between-positions/158. Also a recent new release-Kidd Jordan/Joel Futterman/Alving Fielder "Spirits": https://roguart.com/product/spirits/147

https://www.syracuse.com/entertainment/2020/08/new-ny-state-rule-bans-ticketed-music-events-at-bars-this-is-devastating.html

'who is bob Meyer?": https://bobmeyermusic.com/bio T.D.-like you I am over 60 and risk adverse-I just felt comfortable with the venue.