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I first encountered his work as a kid on the 'That Was The Week That Was' TV show. Had no idea he was still alive - 97 is quite a run. These are the songs of his that always stuck with me:

A summer's evening is ideal for Art Farmer, the ineffable craftsman, as he, Jimmy Heath and Cedar Walton send me into some kind of spiritual bliss on The Time and the Place. I just got back from a weekend in midtown NYC, and this is the sort of jazz that exists no more, but sings though my head as I walked those streets. Recorded 58 years ago this summer in NYC. A time and a place.

Very little comedy stays popular forever. I remember when this guy was HUGE. Now, it's mostly just old folks who remember hi. I do, and fondly. RIP

This link might be viewable in an "incognito" or "private" tab, but I'm sure there are other stories. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-27/tom-lehrer-harvard-s-satiric-melodic-mathematician-dies-at-97

I am removing this from sale due to lack of interest. Thanks for looking.

Last price reduction on the Mobley 1963-1970 box set. That is the lowest I can go on that one. Offered for sale are the following great Mosaic Hank Mobley box sets: The Complete Blue Note Hank Mobley Fifties Sessions 6 CD, Mosaic, 1998 All is in Near Mint (NM) condition - outer box, CDs, jewel cases, booklet https://www.discogs.com/release/5250366-Hank-Mobley-The-Complete-Blue-Note-Hank-Mobley-Fifties-Sessions $100 (+ $10 media mail shipping) U.S. shipping only. I can only ship on the weekend. Payment by pay pal friends/family The Complete Hank Mobley Blue Note Sessions 1963-1970 8 CD, Mosaic, 2019 All is in Near Mint (NM) condition - outer box, CDs, jewel cases, booklet Limited to only 2,500 copies This one is very scarce and pricey on the used market. There are currently only 3 copies for sale on discogs and the lowest-priced copy is $300 (not including tax and shipping). See discogs link below. https://www.discogs.com/release/14546480-Hank-Mobley-The-Complete-Hank-Mobley-Blue-Note-Sessions-1963-70 $230 (+ $10 media mail shipping) U.S. shipping only. I can only ship on the weekend. Payment by pay pal friends/family

Could have been, or else may have been a timing thing, depending on when your crowd started buying rock albums. From what I see, Paranoid (released 1970) went 4x platinum, Masters of Reality (released 1971) and We Sold Our Soul (released 1976) each went 2x platinum, and nothing else went more than single platinum. We Sold Our Soul was a double album, which I think was specially priced (I never owned it), so it probably looked like the better "deal" back then.

Pretty tempting. I last saw Herbie at Blossom (Kool Jazz Festival) back in 1984. It was a fine show, even with the young Marsalis brothers in the band. He also had two guys named Ron Carter and Tony Williams. Not to mention that Miles was the first act on that very long and thoroughly enjoyable evening.

Yours truly presenting an evening with Cal Tjader's music at a friend's studio. The music sounded terrific on his expensive Hi-Fi.

These Middle Quartets are...expansive!

Brass is Metal: THIS should be covered by a Metal band.

Thanks! Pretty obscure movie, but I saw it on TV one time, a weekday afternoon movie on a local station, back when they did that type of thing. And of course, there is no YouTube evidence of it, not that I can find anyway. What an odd mixture of talent:

Indeed! The contrast, the switch, it was makes Sabotage stand out!

The Big Beat https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051410/?ref_=ttfc_ov_bk

Glad to have this! Cover's cool, has this feel:

Woah.

Maybe it was a New England thing or a Massachusetts thing, but I didn't know anyone that had "Paranoid" in their LP racks. If they had any Sabbath, it was usually the compilation, "We Sold Our Soul For Rock & Roll".

You took notice, to quote Bernard Stollman, "you never heard such sounds in your life" Nothing proceeds this, but then: Even my mom had a 45 single of Paranoid she bought back in 1970!