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“Dick Cary & his Tuesday Night Friends playing Dick Cary Originals” Arbor Jazz cd I haven’t played this one in a long time and that’s a shame. I’ve always been a fan of whatever Mr. Cary played on either piano or horn, and this one where he has a lot of input is a joy to hear.

If you see this 2-disc set, snatch it up! Definitely not a HIP approach, but played with zest and clarity. This particular compact disc issue is exceedingly hard to find. I wish the Quatuor Zaïde compact disc wasn't so expensive (at least in the U.S.). I'd snatch that up too.

My first two Joe records — Mode for Joe and Power to the People (along with KOB and Nefertiti) — were THE very FIRST jazz albums I ever owned (circa 1990, summer before my junior year of college). Got ‘em all at the very same time. And I played all four constantly for 2 or 3 months straight, right after I got ‘em — and those particular two by Joe remain my favorites of his.

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Bump just to say: I love the version of "Close Your Eyes" on the 1959 At The Jazz Corner of The World. Morgan and Mobley are so tight on this record.

Great story, Peter! I wish that Joe had recorded even more for Blue Note, but—can't change history, and can't get greedy!😁 In 1990, I was in Los Angeles and visited The Record Collector. I asked the (knowledgeable though very cranky) owner "where the Joe Henderson section" was. He kind of smirked, and then led me to a section of the shop with a tall ladder. "Up there," he said. I climbed the ladder and found what I was looking for—a first pressing of Power To The People. I can't remember what I paid, though I do remember I only had two $20 bills on me. (So, under $40, I guess.) That summer, I only played that record, over and over. I still had a horrible job in food service, and that record kept me going.

This set seems almost a matter of inevitability. I'm a little surprised it hasn't happened yet. I wonder if the Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Sonny Clark, and Bobby Hutcherson Mosaic sets are selling well? The Kevin Gray remaster of Etcetera, reissued on compact disc in Japan, sounds really good—much better to my ears than the earlier Connoisseur release. The Soothsayer would likely benefit from a similar reissue. I bet members of this board—who likely have all, or nearly all, of Shorter's Blue Note recordings—would be tempted to purchase this set IF it contained the unissued Because session. (But didn't Wayne say that he never wanted that recording made available to the public? If so, a shame.) This set seems do-able too. I'd purchase it, even though I tend to listen to Lateef's pre-Impulse work more. That said, two of my favorite Lateef Impulse! records have never (I think) seen a digital reissue:

It is truly extraordinary. Been a while.

I'd be in on that!

Buddy DeFranco & Tommy Gumina Quintet (3 LPs on Mercury, 1962-64, and one on Decca, 1961). As Johnny Carson might say, "That's some wild, wild stuff."

Nice list love the Sven discs madly gonna check out a few of these I have not heard yet. About to order the AMM plus Sachiko M. I usually far prefer AMM with Keith Rowe. fwiw I just saw Bill Nace with Nava Dunkelman & William Winant last week. Genius. saw Sakina Abdou a couple of times in 2024. big Sandy Ewen fan, I’ll listen to that trio discs. I’ve been listening to her solo recordings from this years southern tour. seeing Ahmed again end of February in Brooklyn 2-3 nights.

I wish I had a copy of that LP. Great music!

2025 was a good year for live African music for me, thanks entirely to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival The festival featured: Afrobeat from Seun Kuti and Eygpt 80. Thrilling music from Senegal with the great Youssou N'Dour. Intense Afro-rock from Benin International Musical. North African/electronica fusion from Zar Electrik. Hopefully 2026 will be equally fruitful (though the cancellation of Orchestra Baobab from 2026 Big Ears Festival bodes ill). In the meantime, a short concert from Jupiter & Okwess..

Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis, Beethoven: Spring & Kreutzer Sonatas. Deutsche Grammophon 471-641-2 [Germany 2002]

Helen Merrill avec Peacock/Satoh/M. Hino -- Sposin' -- Storyville FR

Exactly!

yeah, stuff just gets broken or disappears with various updates to operating systems, storage, and platform architecture. A lot of my AAJ reviews, articles, and interviews are damaged or abbreviated because of this--to say nothing of the various sites I wrote for that have gone completely dark. The moral of that story is to back everything up and ensure you have access copies (my early 2000s self needed a talking to!).

Woody Shaw, Live in Breman 1983 (Elemental) James Moody, Sun Journey (Vanguard)

Yusef Lateef, Golden Flower: Live in Sweden (Elemental)

He didn't, as we all know, but I can certainly understand his wife (and his son) mostly remembering the ear-shattering noise of the free jazz he liked to put on. Welcome! BTW: I always save all these kinds of remembrances when I come across them, simply because the Internet has increasingly developed amnesia in recent years. Important things are often immediately buried a mile deep (thanks to Google) or simply disappear altogether after a short while. And we all know how terrible search results have become. Maybe some of you remember Hans Koert (Netherlands), who ran various websites, especially with in-depth information about Oscar Alemán. If you check his old https://keepswinging.blogspot.com/ website, you can see how quickly things can disappear from the Net. Jørgen Larsen, who continued running Koert's website(s) for a while (up until 2024), outlines these problems in his recent (and then last) post(s) over there. Have a look.

Micky Dolenz - Dolenz sings R.E.M.