You want to puke? For some unfathomable reason, she was chosen to 'play' Abbey Lincoln in a recreation of Max Roach's We Insist. Nasheet Waits was leading the band, maybe he just did not know. An insult to Abbey's memory and everything she and Max fought for. Several us boycotted the gig.

My friends at work kindly gave me a gift certificate for KC. I still have $65 left on it, no idea how I will use it, except the gift shop may have some CDs. I attended the April Jason Moran and friends concert. Great lineup on paper but somewhat underwhelming, I felt it did not quite gel. I saw a couple of things that I was surprised were able to go through: 1) Sun Ra Arkestra when Marshall Allen was receiving his Jazz Masters award in April. I have never sung along to 'Space Is The Place' with more glee. 2) Fay Victor's Herbie Nichols SUNG in May. Fantastic project, but definitely 'left of center'. My last visit there was a free event for the DC Jazz Festival. There was some unpleasantness on the shuttle bus on the way over which I cannot discuss here per forum rules.    

I bought this set on a whim fairly recently. Basically because it was cheap...ordinarily the instrumentation and mostly solo singing wouldn't appeal so much. But I think it's great and am happy I bought it (farewell Berkshire Record Outlet and thanks for the memories).

Wait...does this mean that they used one deck per track? Surely not? Or do they mean one reel per track? As far as Frank being in the room with me...not sure how I feel about that. Would he be in a good mood?

Some really fine playing by Vincent Herring on this one.