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Affirmative. Dan's solid "real jazz" January BFT's are the antidote to the weirdness extreme creativity Jim brings to November BFT's and the ever-controversial tangents I bring to December BFT's.

Well I am sure Felser will ask for December but there's no way to artfully combine name and month so ...

Last night, Shelley Carrol/Peter Rioux/Jonathan Fisher/Andrew Griffith at the Balcony Club.

This morning before going to work, I played the last SACD from the recent japanese set. I loved it in terms of performance ans sound quality. Hopefully I will compare soon with the 1995 US set and then let you know of any material differences.

I never heard of nor experienced a bad disc in the set.

I remember that now. I never got the US box set because, IIRC, one of the CDs was defective on all copies and rather than repress it, Sony just sent people CDrs which I thought was pathetic. I assume this will be a new pressing, but will wait a bit to see for sure. I have the highlights, and an earlier single CD called Cookin' at the Plugged Nickel. I also downloaded the entire set for free from my Public Library, a service called Freegal. I believe it is technically legal, it is a subscription system they pay into. The labels are OK with it, especially Sony, although I doubt the Artists would be if they knew. I got a lot of out of print recordings this way, and also bought quite a few after as physical CDs because I liked them so much.

These threads tend to get long relatively quickly, but it's unclear how long I have to edit the original post. Sometimes I can fill them in, sometimes I can't. So, if you claim, I'll confirm, but I'm going to hold off from making an actual "calendar" post until we have a few confirmations, at least. I know Dan wants January, so we'll start there -- January is Danuary. Please request your month in this thread (rather than staking an outright claim). I'll do my level best to make sure everybody gets one of their top two choices, but the early bird gets the worm.

Dexter Gordon “Complete Trio/Quartet Studio Recordings” Steeplechase box set, disc 4 500×500 24.6 KB Includes some beautiful sounding soprano sax playing by the Long Tall one.

No exact info on date of release or content, I will pm you for contact info.

Another warm, lovely morning. Starting off with Sun Ra and his Arkestra “Supersonic Jazz” (Expanded Edition) disc 2. Some of my favorite Ra, unreleased material.

Mike I am pretty sure I have at least two unpublished photos of Pony Poindexter, as a result of my Tete Montoliu reserch. However, I have to check image quality, as well as source and copyrights. Will check my files as soon as these crazy times allow... Besides, I have a few newspaper ads and concert posters listing Pony Poindexter. If these memorabilia items might be useful, I have them digitally stored and so they are easily available and with no copyright constraints. Any hint on date and location of those recordings to be issued on SteepleChase?

That's exciting news!

Definitely. Great stuff

October 6 Roberto Gatto - 1958 Saw Roberto Gatto (dr) in a trio with Rita Marcotulli (p) and Palle Danielsson (b) in Göttingen November 5, 2010

https://www.plosin.com/milesahead/PluggedNickel.aspx "At first the producers of the domestic project -- executive producer Michael Cuscuna, Bob Belden, and Steve Berkowitz and Kevin Gore from Columbia -- worked with masters provided by Sony Japan. The project was suspended, however, when archivists in Columbia's Manhattan storage facility came upon a cache of twenty-five 1/2" three-track "B reels," recorded on a second deck as backups for those times when the reels on the master deck were being changed. These new reels included more than twenty minutes of music that was missing from the supposedly complete Japanese set! All the tunes that were issued in edited form on the Sony Japan set could be restored to their full length. (For details on the restored passages, what was restored and where, see the notes to the December 22 and December 23 sessions elsewhere on this site.)"

What edits are you referring to?