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Zoot Sims & Bucky Pizzarelli - Elegiac (Storyville)

Not counting any of the 26(?) boxes of CD’s and books (prob gonna wait until April to dig into any of that)… …we’re about 60% unpacked now. All the kitchen and bathroom stuff, and 2/3rds of the clothes — but none of the office stuff and other whatnot. There’s SO much more room in the combined LR/DR/K space than we had in DC — it almost feels more like a loft. The top 18” of the walls of the BR are totally open to the LR too, and music and TV sound carry into the BR — even the BR clock radios carry all the way into the kitchen when I’m cooking breakfast. Everything just feels more open. Windows sorta face east too, so we get great morning sunlight — but NONE of the blinding afternoon sun. (Apt in DC faced north, so we never got any direct sun.)

Prompted by @jazzbo's Gonzalez post above:

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I enjoyed this so much yesterday that I'm spinning it again today:

The Philips LPs are great and most have been reissued on CD. Possibly a better use of one's funds.

I have to wait til next month for my copy, but I'm looking forward to it.

Maybe. I like a lot of them. . . all are pretty much top notch.

This may be his best album.

the Dutch and their first names are funny anyway... I recently almost bought this duo album of Hazevoet (English: Harefoot) with Hendrikus Johannes 'Han' Bennink might still get it for Easter if it's still available

Excellent!

Unknown Artist – Persuasive Jazz Album One Streaming this. I had never heard of it before. According to the internet it is possible a tax write off label that produced very generic jazz covers on a no royalties basis. There are 25 records of this stuff.

Great stuff!

I don't think many would have noticed that. (I for one wouldn't ...) Particularly since there are certain non-Anglo names that are spelled incorrectly all the time. But your attention to detail is to your credit.

Jerry Gonzalez “Ya Yo Me Cure” American Clave/Muzak cd japan A demo quality presentation of percussion, intriguing arrangements and performances.

I love that one! Last night:

Available for preorder: 4000 yen per disc ($25.38) at cdjapan, $30.99 apiece at "The Bastards". If I needed more reason to pass...

I can't edit my initial post. Just to highlight that the correct spelling of Kees' first name is 'Cornelis' and not 'Cornelius'. My mistake!

Another warm morning! Slept well and decided to start the day off with a cd I found yesterday mixed in with my wife’s cds: “Americans in Holland–The Great Thirties, Vol. 1” on Timeless cd. A great collection of obscure live tracks from jazz greats Louis Armstrong and His Hot Harlem Band, The Boswell Sisters, Coleman Hawkins, and Benny Carter. Sound on many of these is not that great at all but. . . how could I resist playing “I’ll be Glad When You’re Ded You Rascal You”?

I somehow skipped this one when it came out in February. In my list for next-future order from Storyville.

This confirms what I figured. Hazevoet's work certainly is second to none, and this becomes evident to the reader. Yet it seems to me that somehow the reader does not gain much additional information if he is just reminded over and over again in the footnotes that the dates and places mentioned were researched and documented by Hazevoet. Since his work IS such a cornerstone among the available sources it should be evident that this is where the information comes from. I frequently referred to the footnotes just so see what additional info there might be. And most of the time all I saw was "oh this is where he got it from". Fine, but shouldn't the reader have assumed anyway that a diligent author uses reliable sources? Discographical details in particular, once researched in a definite way and documented accordingly (which clearly is the case here), IMO should be taken as hard facts where there is no need to prove to the reader in each case where the author looked them up. This, too, would have helped to unclutter the footnotes. As for overdoing things with the footnotes, about the time I finished this book and got ready for another purchase (the "This Is An Orchestra" biography of Stan Kenton), I came across an online review (by a professional reviewer) of this book, and the reviewer complained about the huge number of footnotes caused by the author quoting so many musicians verbatim. Well, the Kenton bio has some 540 footnotes for 308 pages. Now what would this reviewer have said about the quantity of footnotes in the Byas bio? (And no, the huge flow of footnotes in the "Saxophone Colossus" biography of Sonny Rollins does not deter me. This is an altogether different concept IMO. ) BTW, I did notice you were credited. Well deserved! And I agree that overall the Byas biography is important. To make it clear - I did not at all regret buying it. And some vinyl purchases of latter-day Byas recordings that, by coincidence, I made in recent months appear in a slightly more nuanced light now that background info on the sessions has been provided in this book.

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