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Shipment notification received this morning the 24th.

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July 24 Charles McPherson - 1939

What do people think about Clean Feed Records? I discovered that they frequently have sales of catalog albums for €4.90/ea and have been buying a lot of them up. They have a fair amount of albums with artists I'm familiar with like Kris Davis, Tony Malaby, Peter Evans, Evan Parker, Eric Revis and others. But there are also a lot of Europeans who I don't know. Any recommendations, suggestions?

That's a good one. Happy to have that in Mosaic's "The Complete Clifford Jordan Strata-East Sessions" box.

I never expected that either. Glad that Org member David Weiss was on board as one of the producers of that set.

Would really LIKE to hear this album, but until now it's only been available on vinyl. Today he announced that there will be a 2CD set and a digital version coming out later this year, and his site was open for pre-orders. So I went to order the CD set and it was already SOLD OUT - for a Pre-Order! What's up with that? Did they only have like 100 available or something? Makes no sense.

Saw a nice interview with Ravi Coltrane at SFJAZZ tonight. I've seen him interviewed before. He's always interesting and very articulate. Same goes for tonight.

Still, wow! What an experience!

Right!?!?!? Never seen Herbie live, he can play Yankee Doodle Dandee out his asshole (quoting Nat'l Lampoon's Vacation) for all I care. I've seen the Wayne Shorter Quartet (front row seats!) and Ron Carter, both about 25 years ago, and they could've played a similar set list, and I wouldn't (don't) regret a second of it. So whatever Herbie plays, I am going to enjoy. Here's the band: Herbie Hancock, keyboard Terence Blanchard, trumpet James Genus, bass Lionel Loueke, guitar & vocals Jaylen Petinaud, drums

Yeah, that's a good book. I very much appreciated the musical analyses, but also the non-musical parts. Unless you're one of those types that freezes up at the mere sight of a staff, it's still kind of a go=to book in my mind.

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Cigar Page has a new Oliva/Rocky Patel sampler. Usual deal. 10 cigars for $20, with free shipping. Add a lighter for $5. By the way, these five-dollar Liberator lighters have the look and feel of something that won't last too long; but so far, so good. https://www.cigarpage.com/premium-dime-pack-10-cigar-combo-lp-bradsmerch0722.html

Jeanna Gray - It Feels Good (But In A Good Way)!!!

I have the Dolohy book by Simosko & Tepperman from the 70's, but it's also mostly analysis of his recordings. But that was of great benefit to me at that point in my journey, and it has an excellent annotated disvography.

Thanks to Mike's thread and Cal Tjader's centennial...

R.I.P. Like @felser, I'm partial to Galper's excellent 1970s band with the Michael Brecker and Randy Brecker.

Mike, it is my recollection that the term "album" was originally used to refer to a package of 78s. It resembled a photograph album. The front and back covers were thick cardboard, and inside were sleeves, each containing one 78. This was similar to the Miles metal spine box sets released in the '90s.

This is so cool!!! Speaking of Ozzy as a tv personality, I did enjoy watching the "The Osbournes Want to Believe" on The Travel Channel hosted by his son Jack.

Now: Pierre Dørge & New Jungle Orchestra - Music from the Danish Jungle (Dacapo DK, 1996) I only got this recently, and I'm really enjoying it. The music is full of vitality. Is there any higher praise?!?

Just wanted to add my appreciation for Galper's recordings from this century and his archival recordings, both batches issued by Origin Records: https://originarts.com/artists/artist.php?Artist_ID=107

On Verve, which is kind of surprising.

The most difficult part of Tjader's discography is the first, his early sideman dates (most importantly with Dave Brubeck and George Shearing) and his first tenure with Galaxy and Fantasy labels. The problem lies in the rapid changes of disc formats between the 1940's and 1960's. First there were only 78 rpm 10" shellac dics with close to 3 minutes maximum playing time (the 12" discs were reserved for classical music), but the desire for discs with longer playing time led to the invention of the LP played at 33 rpm, which was a 10" disc at first, too. The term "album" was initially used for a compilation of several discs, the LP replicated that playing time. 3 to 4 sides of shellac discs were on one side of a 10" LP. Recordings of longer tracks were now possible. There were re-issues of older material as well as new recordings conceived with the longer playing time in mind. But the advent of the 12" LP necessitated reissues and caused new compilations, adding previously unreleased material or omitting tracks when there was too much - independent jazz labels had there problems during those years - take a look at Blue Note, Prestige or Riverside and how they handled repackaging the music originally released on 10" Lp to 12" LP. Fantasy had a little less problems: The main business of Max and Sol Weiss was a manufacturing plant for custom made plastic parts, part of which soon was a vinyl record pressing plant, the Circle Record Co. So when they finaliy realized their idea of their own record labels, which they named Galaxy and Fantasy (they were fans of Science Fiction and Fantasy magazines) they had all formats at their discposal. All the issues of Cal Tjader's music are a perfect illustration of how to handle this - or how you shouldn't but nevertheless did. For details, please have a look at my discography: https://jazzdiscography.com/Artists/cal-tjader/cal-tjader-discography-part1.php It started with the Dave Brubeck Trio's four sides for Coronet, which the Circle Company had manufactured. Brubeck had baught them back and approached the Weiss brothers, who agreed to reissue them but wanted new recordings first, which led to the release of singles, at first 10" 78 rpm shellac discs, then 7" 45 rpm vinyl, and later 10" LPs. They kept the new sessions intact but added two Coronet tracks. So if you talk about "original LPs" of the Brubeck Trio, mention the ten inchers first: Fantasy LP 3-1, 3-2 and 3-4 - Distinctive Rhythm Instrumentals (1951-52) Tjader was the Jack of all trades here, playing drumset, bongos, or vibes, which he had just bought - he was entirely self taught on that instrument! His mother's piano lessons were a good base, of course. The discs pictured above had three tracks on each side, but then were reissued as a double 10" with four track per side. Furthermore, Frantasy reissued the same takes on single releases as the Coronet 78's but used two alternates for the 10" LPs - a fact the label never noticed, or so it seems. Next step were 12" LPs and CDs with all 24 tracks as released on the 10" LPs, but missing the two original takes and some radio material a board member recently discovered. Pleas consult my disco - it is complicated. These are the later issues: The Fantasy CD reissues this, as well as several European public domain issues: The latter displays later Fantasy LP issues. None of these includes the two origianlly issued takes of Laura and Tea For Two from the Coronet 78's.

Now spinning: Milton Nascimento - Encontros e Despedidas (Polydor, 1985) The album title translates to English as Meetings and Farewells.