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$#@! Another fine man to be missed.

Both the performance and the sound quality far exceeded my expectations. I think this is a fantastic live recording. “Giant Steps” is great, but “Satellite” is this good (including McCoy) —I wonder why it never made it into their live repertoire. I definitely want to hear the rest of the recordings.

This now 20 year old release was supposed to be the first volume in a Lacy Archives series that never materialized: https://www.discogs.com/release/2345655-Steve-Lacy-Quintet-Esteem-Live-In-Paris-1975

Wow, great sound. Miles Davis 'Round About Midnight, Sony 2 SACD set in 7" packaging 2026 release, disc 1

Love this set. I find it interesting that Pepper here sounds much closer to ‘late Pepper’ than I was expecting. I can’t think of much live Art from this earlier phase of his extraordinary career.

From a recent batch of LPs at a very nice price … John Tchicai——Timo’s message—-( Black Saint) this was more in the tradition than I was expecting with some inside/outside playing that I love.

Have any recordings been issued from Lacy's tape archive? I have not seen or heard of any. If so, one wonders why not? Presumably, his estate and the archive are with Irene Aebi.

Buy any recording of La Venexiana with confidence.

Interesting to hear Trane playing Giant Steps on a live recording. In comparison the well known studio version now sounds to me like he was on speed or something.

Sad news .....

I didn't know he was sick. I've seen several Facebook posts from his numerous students. He was a well-respected teacher, with stints at University of Colorado, DePaul University, Youngstown State University, Northern Illinois University, the University of Missouri at Kansas City and Florida State University.

Damn I read this as Mitch Miller and expected an ode to singalongs.

Starting off a cool morning with disc 2 of Yusef Lateef “Alight Upon The Lake: Live at the Jazz Showcase” Resonance Records 3 cd set This is so far my favorite of the new Resonance releases. Kenny Barron really delivers on this one.

Evolution Ensemble Unity – Concrete Voices

Mtume - In Search of the Rainbow Seekers

Philip Catherine & Martin Wind - New Folks (ACT)

Very sorry to hear of this. I thought of him from time to time. RIP Free For All!

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I'm sure this is excellent and it is a must-buy, but the squeaky cog in me wonders why Feldman doesn't try to secure unheard music from Lacy's vast (and afaik, unplaced) tape archive for proper release.

Heard from some mutual friends/collaborators that the Minneapolis-based guitarist, improviser, songwriter, and left-field artist Michael Yonkers has died. I don't have a birthdate handy but he was born in 1947, making him 78-79. He performed and recorded with Michael & The Mumbles and the Michael Yonkers Band (garage rock, psych-rock), as a solo singer-songwriter/performer with 'experimental leanings,' and improvised music with Milo Fine/Blue Freedom's New Art Transformation. Many of his records and CDs were self-released starting in the early 1970s. I believe that his health kept him from public performance in recent years. Fascinating character; glad to have seen him perform solo a few times, though that was many years ago. RIP.

I love that they are releasing these. More more more!!!

Awful. RIP. I think he was mostly active before I became a member here. His profile shows he did check in this month.