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Groove Holmes had no problem having women on his covers.

Interesting arrangement, but man, that reverb! What the heck was the recording engineer thinking with adding that much echo? It makes it sound like they're playing in a huge cave. It has an almost "lounge music" sound.

I was barely 20 when Stitt stopped playing live and much more likely to be found at a rock concert than a Jazz club.

That's a point to ponder.

I've been wondering whether the thesis is a bit inaccurate here and Patton would have been offended by any woman on his album cover regardless of color... That would be more consistent with what I know about islam

Okay, thanks. That's sad. That does not look like a white woman to me. As I say looks eerily like my African American young neighbor in Philadelphia '57 to '66.

November 15 Susie Ibarra - 1970

The passage is in this thesis here, just search for "white woman" https://andybleaden.blogspot.com/2007/07/thesis-on-john-patton-by-javier.html?m=1 It says clearly that Patton was offended by the cover of That Certain Feeling...(It's even implied that the cover made him so bitter he left the music scene for a while)

Album sleeve is amazing! Now:

Curious about how many members heard Stitt in a club back in the day.

One of my all-time favorite Christmas albums. Dorothy Ashby is such a badass.

Spun this one today. I like Stitt with Patterson best, but this record is no slouch. The title track is a good groove.

Have been listening to What Is To Be Done with Larry Ochs, Gerald Cleaver, and Mr Wilco this week. Clean Feed, 2019. Really good, ferocious without being offputting. I recommend!

John Board!!!!

Judging from the labels on the verso, I see only a few that are super expensive, and all of those have been reissued (Ra, Pullen-Graves, Black Unity Trio, and Cairo Free Jazz Ensemble). Cautiously hoping that it won’t be all flexing…

I re-read Moby Dick a few years ago. Wow. Quite a novel. Just started

Some recent reads: Now back to Moby Dick which I gave up for awhile.

I have a few of their releases. They are indeed very good. Their IG account is indeed peculiar.

I have all the ones I want to have on cd. It’s been a few years since I purchased a TP.

My favorite from the above is At the DJ Lounge. Not only a Sonny favorite but a jazz favorite.

Haven’t listened to this one in a while. Remixes of Monday’s material can be a mixed bag. I like these tonight. Monday Michiru “Alter Ego–Nexus Remixed”

The only way to give these albums proper “period” artwork is to build a time machine, go back, and have them issued in the 1960s. Failing that… we get what we get! FWIW, the Japan-only designs that King used on some titles are pretty appealing. Not all LT’s had concurrent Japanese versions, however. And some of those Kings did not appear in the US until much later.