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Not to group Pepper, Getz, nor Baker, nor the West Coast wash all together, but you get a rare view inside "the life" and how you spend your down time.... To add, Miles and Trane had the same problem on the East Coast...

Woah. Gotta absorb what you have on your turntable...meanwhile:

I remember picking up that box (maybe 20 years ago?) when it was being remaindered, and his Milestone years were less respected. I think it was going for less than $20.

Only managed to make the final minutes of the first set Friday evening, but I stuck around for the second set, which was quite nice - 2 originals and 3 standards. This was Kirk McDonald, Nancy Walker, Neil Swainson and Terry Clarke at the Jazz Bistro. Sunday will probably see a bit of a pickup band at the Rex with Robert Lee and Allison Au. Then next Sat., I'm heading over to Hirut (a relatively new to me jazz club in the East End). It's going to be pianist Harold Danko, with saxophonist Pat LaBarbera, & bassist Neil Swainson. Really looking forward to this and need to make sure I get there a bit early, as one time I was turned away!

Just curious how you crossed paths with this album (I know nothing about it, and thinking you at least paid $25 and want to recoop your investment).

Yes, the timing basically matches the CD running time. This one is not for the faint of heart.

I think this seems to be an upload of the entire CD — at least what comes up searching on YouTube for… 高柳昌行 ・ 阿部薫 – 解体的交感

Recorded live At Kousei Nenkin Hall, Tokyo, June 28, 1970. First CD edition. This first pressing was a limited edition in mini-LP style sleeves. Subsequent pressings came in a regular jewelcase. Note that the entire CD and case writing is in Japanese, I had to use google translate to figure out what I had. And the music is even more lost on me, just totally not my thing, so I'd like to find a good home for this. https://www.discogs.com/release/1113938-高柳昌行-阿部薫-解体的交感 $25 shipped in USA or best offer or interesting trade. PM if interested.

That's a pretty good price for that set. People have been asking absurd prices for it for years. Like $999. $100 per disk? I don't think so. There don't seem to be many for sale. I have some files I found so I've heard it but have been looking around for a reasonably priced copy for years. My concept of a 'good price' for a Mosaic is somewhere close to the original price, which was maybe $15/disk years back and is now more like $18. And the market is such that I have often snagged used sets for something in that neighborhood or less. Recently I got the Buddy Rich set for $35 including shipping! That one's got to be a record low price for me. A 'reasonable price' for me on a set that is rarer or generally fetches higher prices would be about $20-$22 per disk. Some stay stubbornly high, like the Ferguson. I don't think I have ever seen one as low as the price you got.

The book was updated in 1994 and I remember Laurie Pepper being interviewed on NPR about it, possibly by Terry Gross. It sounded interesting but somehow I never got the book till now.

I read the piece on DeJohnette in the December Downbeat. He's just been elected to the Downbeat Hall of Fame (Readers). As I recall, it seems like an awful lot of musicians go in during the year of death. In fact, I am wondering if you have to be alive to elected--in many cases, alive for a portion of the year. But in this of Jack, there is no acknowledgment of his death in the article or anywhere in the issue. He had been interviewed, which contributes to most of the content. Anyway, it's a nice feature, and I don't think I'd heard before that he briefly played live with Coltrane.

It was Mtume who gave Herbie's band Swahili names. Not sure if Joe was there for that or not.

Love the picture. After BN viz WB it was Joe on Fat Albert, then Bennie Maupin afterwards, right? Maybe a rare live date? When did Joe adopt a Swahili name? Somwhere above this comes up, sorry for mashing numorous posts into one sloppy post.

Listening on bandcamp, it is great! Jazz Messengers has the CD but since it is coming from Spain, there will be crazy tariffs, correct?

A must read, JSngry asked me earlier if I read it. Sobering. Art just says, yeah, I was smacked up and did some f'ed up shit.

French label is going to release a Larry Coryell live gig from 1976. I'm not sure, what is it gonna be like, but the track list suggests we will have 3 acoustic tracks (I guess duets, as there is another guitar player in credits) and the rest is the final incarnation of Eleventh House. We've got only vague samples, one below on YouTube, and a peculiar one on Facebook, where someone is struggling with taking off the seal (also it looks like the vinyl jacket is pretty thin). No CD announced, sadly. Previously unreleased, this incandescent live performance by Larry Coryell, recorded on July 24, 1976, at the Riviera '76 on the Paul Ricard circuit at Le Castellet – a legendary Formula 1 Grand Prix venue – has resurfaced from the INA archives. Conceived by Michael Lang (co-founder of Woodstock), the festival aimed high. Coryell unleashed a dizzying fusion of Hendrix and Coltrane. Smoky amps, mystical tension, collective trance. Fully remastered, this rare document captures the raw power of a timeless moment. CRYSTAL CLEAR VINYL, LIMITED TO 3,000 COPIES WORLDWIDE. https://www.facebook.com/reel/824860567051044/

Arrive today. Less than a week via Media Mail!!! Definitely doing business here again.

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This again:

The photo of Slide Hampton & Jimmy Ford is worth the price of admission alone!

Thanks John. I feel I made out really well.

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Mags is going through a tough time right now with the death of his wife. The holidays can be the toughest time of the year.