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Thanks for the review. He's coming here in the fall. I'm disinclined to spend $100 to see him. I caught him at Newport a decade ago, and that was enough. I've just never been able to gravitate toward him in performance... Glad you enjoyed it though.

I know it's been said many times before, but it's still mind-blowing to me that Evans would be gone just a few weeks after these recordings were made at the Keystone Korner. He doesn't sound like a man who's approaching death. But he was.

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Sounds good.

Always. You know me. 😉 And I meant that in a good way--I was a big fan of MST3000.

Scott Hamilton plays in top form here. No hint of Coltrane or Rollins in his tenor work. No long lines of 8th notes played rapidly. Just a lovely sound with beautiful music from the heart.

I'd happily take a studio album of the band I saw or even a live one, with judicious edits

Planet Jazz - In Orbit (Sharp Nine). This was the debut recording for Planet Jazz. The also cut a live date for the SmallsLIVE label that I never did pick up. This incarnation of Planet Jazz is Joe Magnarelli (tp), Grant Stewart (ts), Peter Berstein (g), Spike Wilner (p), Neal Miner (b) and Joe Strasser (d).

I would prefer a group like this: Herbie Hancock Terence Blanchard Kenny Garrett Christian McBride Peter Erskine But clearly Herbie can play whatever he wants with whomever he wants. I do wish he would put out a record.

July 29, 2025, Jazz is Dead: Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, Antone's, Austin August 2, 2025: Victor Campbell, Delfeayo Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra, Joe Lastie and New Orleans Sounds' Tribute to Louis Armstrong Hot Fives, Jesse McBride, Wendell Brunious, Satchmo Summerfest, Old Mint, New Orleans August 3, 2025: Doreen's Jazz, Kyle Roussel's Church of New Orleans, Jamil Sharif and Lawrence Sieberth, Keiko Komaki, Satchmo Summerfest, Old Mint, New Orleans Clarence Johnson III, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth August 22-23, 2025: Jamille Brazilian Quartet, Windmills, The Colony August __, 2025: Pt Kushal Das (Sitar) & Sandip Ghosh (Tabla), ICMC, Plano August 30, 2025: Doreen Ketchens, Pete Escovedo, Riverfront Jazz Festival, Fair Park, Dallas August 31, 2025: The Texas Tenors (Shelley Carrol, Jason Davis, Quamon Fowler), Riverfront Jazz Festival, Fair Park, Dallas September 6, 2025: Xuefei Yang, Unity of Dallas September 11, 2025: Miguel Zenon Quartet, Parker Jazz Club, Austin September 12-13: Miquel Zenon Quartet, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, Houston September 11-14, 2025: Ben Lamar Gay, Damon Locks, Ibelisse Guardia Feragutti and Frank Rosaly, Sonic Transmissions Festival, Austin September 13, 2025: Pt Sandeep Chatterjee (Santoor) & Shubhojyoti Guha (Tabla), ICMC, Plano September 23, 2025: Mdou Moctar, White Oak Music Hall, Houston September 24, 2025: Mdou Moctar, Radio/East, Austin October 5, 2025: Kushal Das (sitar), Abhijit Banerjee (tabla), Unity Church of the Hills, Austin October 9, 2025: Paul Cornish Trio, JazzTX, San Antonio October 10-12, 2025: Crescent City Blues Festival, New Orleans October 17, 2025: Walter Smith III Quartet, Wortham Theater, Houston November 12, 2025: Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Meyerson, Dallas November 14, 2025: Nicholas Payton Quartet, Wortham Theater, Houston November 15, 2025: Wynton Marsalis, Hogg Auditorium, Austin February 22, 2026: Branford Marsalis Quaret, Wortham Theater, Houston March 7, 2026: Pat Metheny Side-Eye, Wortham Theater, Houston March 21, 2026: Fort Worth African American Roots Music Festival, Southside Preservation Hall, Fort Worth March 26-29, 2026: Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, Tennessee April 2, 2026: Kaia Kater, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, Arkansas April 10, 2026: Coltrane at 100 (Joe Lovano, Melissa Aldana, Ndudzo Makhathini, Matt Garrison, Jefftain Watts), Cullen Theater, Houston April 23-26, 2026: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival April 30-May 3, 2026: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival April 23-26, 2026: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival April 30-May 3, 2026: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival May 9, 2026: Hiromi's Sonic Wonder, Cullen Theater, Houston

Please be gentle....

Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra - Allégresse (Enja). This is my favorite recording by this phenomenal band, who I still try to see whenever they come to Boston. The opening track, "Hang Gliding" is just perfect in the way it evokes the feeling of flying through the sky.

👍 with Don Thompson and Terry Clarke - such a great trio. Now:

Coincidentally, this box is next up in my queue. I should put your comments in a text-to-speach app and play them as I listen, a la "Mystery Science Theater 3000":

I saw this band on Saturday in a concert hall, they played for 2.5 hours, no interval. Music surprised me in that it was pretty uncompromising and highly amplified, the loudest Jazz gig in a long time. The set featured tunes from across his career but focussed on Warners and after. An all electric band sounding at times like electric Miles, Blanchard was fierce and at other times a bit like Mwandishi or Headhunters. There was a fair bit of grandstanding and showing off of the considerable chops in the band. Hancock is a phenomenon, physically has so much energy for 85 and his playing throughout was outstanding with no apparent diminution of his powers. He played scintillating solos on both grand and synth. The band really locked in tight and although to my ears Petinaud erred on the rock side a little too often he was at others the star. A fabulous duet with HH during 'Actual Proof'. Herbie treated us to a rather bizarre vocoder speech/sermon about AI and robots which I initially thought was going to be an intro to 'Rockit', it wasn't it was just his thoughts, went on too long and burst the momentum a bit. I left feeling very pleased to have seen him again after at least 35 years but thinking the show could've easily been half an hour shorter and a lot more impactful if some of the solo features had been curtailed. It certainly had hints of what might be called Stadium Jazz. But Herbie is Herbie and he has absolutely earned the right to present his music in whichever way he chooses. The love for him in the auditorium was apparent from the off

If you want to read Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit, I suggest that you also read (or first read) Robert C. Solomon's In the Spirit of Hegel. https://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Hegel-Robert-C-Solomon/dp/0195036506

Looks like the review didn't post. I will have to try and remember what I wrote now. I'll post again in the Severance thread

a colleague of mine can claim that three of his four grandparents took at least one course from Heidegger himself in Freiburg around 1930... I sympathize very much with his grandma who replaced the course with a course about (iirc) French cathedrals after a few weeks because the latter course was more fun... my late dad had a lifelong struggle with the obscure language that's still commonly used in the humanities in Germany... I have many childhood memories of him complaining about the way people said things in faculty meetings etc... and, somehow, that preference for a simple and clear style in scientific writing has stayed with me... to the point where my tolerance for convoluted sentences and fancy words is pretty low... certainly far too low to appreciate Heidegger... In the 1830s, Heinrich Heine wrote a nice history of German philosophy up to Kant and Hegel... iirc, his diagnosis is something along the lines of: Kant would have wanted to express himself clearly but lacked the ability... and then generations of followers copied his obscure writing style as if it was part of the message... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zur_Geschichte_der_Religion_und_Philosophie_in_Deutschland

Good plan.

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True enough, but Miles of course had his electric band (Scofield on guitar), and Herbie was in VSOP mode.

Became aware of him through various stories from the U.S. of the 50s - and also from some posts here that mentioned him. Like others, I had figured he was long gone. Much to my amazement, I found the below 10" LP at one of the periodic 1-EUR-per-record clearout sale days at a local record shop a couple of years ago (apparently an item left behind by an American during a visit or stay here): Some its contents have not worn that well to today's ears (even if you take the "a piece of its time" aspect into account) - but it now has its place in the "assorted oddities and odds'n'ends" corner of my vinyl collection.