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Oh, what a beautiful morning. Memphis the American Bully was mystified by a group of turkeys just over the road at the edge of the forest. He had never heard such things before! I’m starting off with Charlie Haden and the Liberation Music Orchestra live at the Montreal Jazz Festival. A great listen in every way!

I have the repress of the Japanese set on gold disc. IMO it sounds better than the US cd set, and the Tower Records SACD set sounds a bit better than the Japanese. The edits really don't bother me.

Jesper Lundgaard - Love & Peace: The Music of Horace Parlan (Storyville) Quintet album featuring Doug Raney and Bob Rockwell

I was listening to Gene Ammons play Strange Fruit, is there anyone else who could make that work as an instrumental?

Brownie's photos are here https://www.ayler.co.uk/html/judsonhall.html The photographer in the pictures is W Eugene Smith whose pictures from the session could include brownie but I don't think such pictures are known...

IIRC Brownie posted those pics on this site a number of years back - just gone back to the thread you listed & the link to the pictures is there but no images appear unfortunately

October 5 Clifton Anderson - 1957 Saw him with his uncle Sonny Rollins in Hamburg in the main hall of the Laeiszhalle on November 28, 2008

Can't find a photo, guess I was wrong, but here are brownie's memories of an Albert Ayler recording session at Judson Hall https://www.organissimo.org/forum/topic/37678-brownie-on-ayler/

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He's performed with you on a multitude of sessions

Upcoming Lester Young RSD (Black Friday, November) Birdland 51-52 recordings - looks like a single LP only & a paltry 8 tracks Wonder if the source material will be the 6 LP Boris Rose Ambrosia broadcast recordings (or their original acetates) - pity they didn't attempt a larger more complete set (something I recently recommended as a Mosaic box release) https://recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/19301

Looking forward to it!

Imho the 1965 Plugged Nickel recordings, while wonderful, are inferior in musical quality to the 1967 live recordings from Newport and Europe. My guess is their reputation is largely based on the fact that for a long time they (and Miles in Berlin) were the only widely circulating live recordings of this quintet.

also Bell Sound Studios, Millbrook, NY (Timothy Leary), Judson Hall (Ayler SpiritsRejoice), A-1 Sound (Herb Abramson's Studio) see p61-62 (Ch 😎 of "Always in Trouble" plus p150-159 (section on Richard Alderson) "The studio where I recorded all the ESP stuff was an abandoned warehouse on West 65th Street, which had been condemned" The name was changed from RLA to Impact Studio when Harry Belafonte bought in

October 5, 2025: Kushal Das (sitar), Abhijit Banerjee (tabla), Unity Church of the Hills, Austin October 9, 2025: Paul Cornish Trio, JazzTX, San Antonio October 10 2025: Paul Cornish Trio, Monk's Jazz Club, Austin Stanley Clarke, Carver Center, San Antonio Richard Bona and Asante Trio, Royal Palace Restaurant and Lounge, Addison October 11, 2025: Richard Bona and Asante Trio, Royal Palace Restaurant and Lounge, Addison Tutu Jones, The Goat, Dallas October 12, 2025: Joy Clark, Little Freddie King, Bobby Rush, Crescent City Blues Festival, New Orleans October 13, 2025: Clarence Johnson III, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth October 17, 2025: Walter Smith III Quartet, Wortham Theater, Houston October 21, 2025: Lila Downs, Jones Hall, Houston October 24, 2025: Jackie Venson, Tulips FTW, Fort Worth Camille Thurman Quartet, Walton Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas Quamon Fowler, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth Joe McPhee, Alienated Majesty, No Idea Festival, Austin October 25, 2025: Joe McPhee, Scottish Rite Theater, No Idea Festival, Austin Shelley Carrol, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth October 29, 2025: Chuck Redd, Parker Jazz Club, Austin November 5, 2025: Cory Weeds, Parker Jazz Club, Austin November 10, 2025: Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Walton Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas November 12, 2025: Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Meyerson, Dallas November 14, 2025: Nicholas Payton Quartet, Wortham Theater, Houston Wynton Marsalis, Grand Opera House, Galveston Mike Stern, Guitar Sanctuary, McKinney November 15, 2025: Wynton Marsalis, Hogg Auditorium, Austin Mike Stern Band, Walton Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas Kunal Gunjal (Santoor) & Amit Kavthekar (Tabla), ICMC, Plano November 16, 2025: Wynton Marsalis, Hobby Center, Houston November 22,2025: Jim Snidero, Scat Jazz, Fort Worth February 22, 2026: Branford Marsalis Quaret, Wortham Theater, Houston March 7, 2026: Pat Metheny Side-Eye, Wortham Theater, Houston March 13, 2026: T.K. Blue and African Rhythms Alumni, A Tribute to Randy Weston, Walton Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas March 21, 2026: Fort Worth African American Roots Music Festival, Southside Preservation Hall, Fort Worth March 26-29, 2026: Pat Metheny Side-Eye III, Chucho Valdes Royal Quartet, John Scofield Trio, Marc Ribot, Shabaka, Mary Halvorson, Julian Lage Quartet, John Zorn (Various), Chicago Underground Duo, Marquis Hill Blacktet, Brandon Woody, Brian Marsella, Chad Taylor Quintet, Ches Smith Clone Row, Darius Jones Trio, Dave Douglas Gifts Quartet, Either/Orchestra, Harriet Tubman & Georgia Ann Muldrow, Isaiah Collier, Marilyn Crispell & Harvey Sorgen, Matt Mitchelll's Zealous Angles, Miles Okazaki: The Compete Monk, Miles Okazaki Trickster, Nate Smith, Nik Bartsch, Nik Bartsch Ronin, Openness Trio, Orchestre Baobab, Patricia Brennan Septet, Sullivan Fortner Trio, Tim Berne, Tom Skinner, William Hooker Quartet, Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, Tennessee April 1, 2026: Samara Joy, Winspear Opera House, Dallas April 2, 2026: Kaia Kater, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, Arkansas April 10, 2026: Coltrane at 100 (Joe Lovano, Melissa Aldana, Ndudzo Makhathini, Matt Garrison, Jefftain Watts), Cullen Theater, Houston April 23-26, 2026: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival April 30-May 3, 2026: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival May 9, 2026: Hiromi's Sonic Wonder, Cullen Theater, Houston May 16, 2026: Chucho Valdes, Paramount Theater, Austin

Maybe I'm in the minority, but the 70+ mins single cd Columbia sampler they released of the Plugged Nickel, did it for me.

Oh, right — those were Japanese only too.

1976 and American Columbia wasn't interested for a while. There was no Second Great Quintet yet.

Currently available for pre-order through Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Plugged-Nickel-Live-1965/dp/B0FT7CWYF7/

That's great, Stompin! While we're on the subject, can anyone recommend a wired earbud? At these prices, I might check out one of them too.

Week 18 results Sask 20....Ottawa 13 The Redblacks' defense did pretty well, but their offense wasn't good enough to beat anybody. With their eleventh loss, the Redblacks were eliminated from the playoffs. https://www.cfl.ca/2025/10/03/recap-saskatchewan-20-ottawa-13/ https://www.cfl.ca/2025/10/03/riders-defence-steps-up-to-end-redblacks-playoff-hopes/ https://www.tsn.ca/cfl/article/roughriders-snap-skid-eliminate-redblacks-from-playoff-contention/ https://3downnation.com/2025/10/04/same-old-issues-doom-ottawa-redblacks-in-elimination-loss-to-saskatchewan-10-other-thoughts/ https://3downnation.com/2025/10/04/saskatchewan-roughriders-pick-their-spots-in-win-over-ottawa-six-other-thoughts/ https://pifflespodcast.com/blog/riders-get-back-to-winning-ways-one-step-closer-to-first-place-with-win-in-ottawa/ https://cflnewshub.com/cfl-news/cfl-scores-today-saskatchewan-roughriders-20-ottawa-redblacks-13-defence-leads-riders-to-road-win/ https://www.cfl.ca/2025/10/03/3-stats-that-defined-saskatchewans-week-18-win-over-ottawa/ https://3downnation.com/2025/10/03/ottawa-redblacks-officially-eliminated-from-playoff-contention/ ***** Hamilton 47....Toronto 29 The Argos trailed by only 10 after three, but the Ticats demolished them in the fourth. Katsantonis had three interceptions. With their eleventh loss, the Argos were eliminated from the playoffs. Thus, a Western team is assured to cross over. https://www.cfl.ca/2025/10/04/recap-hamilton-47-toronto-29/ https://www.cfl.ca/2025/10/04/tiger-cats-take-down-argonauts-in-toronto-to-claim-season-series/ https://www.tsn.ca/cfl/article/ticats-strength-hold-of-first-in-east-while-ending-argonauts-playoff-hopes-with-win/ https://www.cfl.ca/2025/10/04/3-stats-that-defined-hamiltons-week-18-win-over-toronto/ https://3downnation.com/2025/10/04/toronto-argonauts-officially-eliminated-from-cfl-playoff-contention/ ***** With the Redblacks' loss, the Alouettes clinched second. https://3downnation.com/2025/10/03/montreal-alouettes-clinch-playoff-spot-home-postseason-game/ ***** The Argos are thinking about leaving Chad Kelly on the injured list for the remainder of the year. https://3downnation.com/2025/10/04/toronto-argonauts-ryan-dinwiddie-says-writing-on-the-wall-for-qb-chad-kelly-to-sit-entire-2025-season/ https://www.tsn.ca/cfl/article/argos-leaning-toward-leaving-qb-kelly-on-injured-list-for-rest-of-season/

Those might be THE most whack examples of cover art in the entire ‘legit’ Miles catalog.

Hearing that they were on sale I decided to try out some cheap earbuds - Soundcore P30i - which are similar to P20i but with noise cancelling. They arrived today and are not too bad in a pinch, like in a dentist office, riding a bike or some other public situation where it feels a bit clunky to wear bulky headphones or they might fall off, etc. The controls are fiddly, require some memorization (tap twice on the left ear, etc), and there is a tendency to activate every switch while trying to screw the earbud more tightly into my ear. The soundcore app is ok but they don't have a pc version so you have to use a phone or something, which means I have to keep putting on 3x cheaters to see anything - this is not an old person's world.

1976. Think about that.