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Nels Cline “Lovers” Blue Note, disc 2. Quite inventive arrangements and the engineering is just awesome.

I don't consider the majority to be unlistenable either (though five or six discs are). And agree that the music is an experience. We all have varying, but limited, amounts of time, money, shelf space, and listening energy, and each of us need to make our own decisions on how to invest those. My decisions are different than yours, but I don't know that I am therefore a "lazy listener" with "lazy results". I also experienced lo-fi Bird bootlegs and stuff like that (we're basically the same age, got the bug for the music at basically the same time), and decided not to go there moving forward except for certain selected cases (such as the Coltrane 1961 Sutherland Lounge recordings) . There's good stuff each of us is never going to hear or re-hear, and we each need to decide what our own parameters for that will be. YMMV, which is fine.

Onyx Records, I picked up their first issue, The Foremost, around 1975. In the fullness of time I’ve picked up most of the label’s output.

Patty Griffin: Crown Of Roses

I think it’s been 10 years or so since I last put out a BFT. I hope to retire in March, can you put me down for June?

I saw Terumaso Hino once with Dave Liebman, and Hino had a pocket trumpet like Don Cherry !

It was not that Paul Desmond was prevented from using a pianist, he had a special appreciation for Dave Brubeck’s way of playing with him.

Good stuff.

Beautiful.

What about these Decca things? https://www.discogs.com/release/18327259-Duke-Ellington-And-His-Orchestra-Duke-Ellington-The-Beginning-Vol-1-1926-1928?srsltid=AfmBOoot_6FUEzYm1cXfCEzqQTBnKgsp4gr8EZceejOCCNe2QDRJ76sY https://www.discogs.com/release/6101977-Duke-Ellington-And-His-Orchestra-Hot-In-Harlem-1928-1929-Vol-2?srsltid=AfmBOopB5qWld45AC2PW6BgYZpP1MOi2w6NIEF5svEMBybXI30mbPXOK https://www.discogs.com/release/1604363-Duke-Ellington-The-Jungle-Band-Duke-Ellington-Rockin-In-Rhythm-Vol-3-1929-1931?srsltid=AfmBOop4faBDbD--o55foegZJNllW0pVglvoy4IhkfiKBkOTnDa9HM8e Fake stereo though....

There it is I mean Jesus, I grew up in lo-fi Bird bootlegs and other shit like that. The notes/musics are there (mostly). The rest is up to the listener. Lazy listening yields lazy results.

Storyville issues a new CD: Copenhagen 1964. It concerns the concert in Tivoli Concert Hall March 13, 1964. The recordings are from the second concert DE6421. Track listing Take the “A” train, Medley (Black and tan fantasy, The Mooche, Creole love call), Harlem, Happy Reunion, Excerpts from the Impressions of the Far East suite: Amad, Agra, Blue bird of Delhi, Depk, Isfahan, Things ain’t what they used to be, Banquet from Timon of Athens, Skillipoop, Kinda Dukish/Rockin’ in rhythm, Jones. Catalog number Storyville 101-8545.

Gang -- a couple of related questions: First, does anyone know if Brunswick ever released in the 1950s or early '60s another 12-inch volume (or two) of its 1920s Ellington material that would have been a companion to the "Early Ellington" LP pictured below. Second, has anyone heard the early '60s LPs of this material issued in England on the Ace of Hearts label and can offer an opinion about the sound quality/transfers? Thanks ...

Archie Shepp: The Early Albums Collection. Enlightenment EN4CD9165 [UK 2019] Disc 1

Playing it now and liking it.

Disc One I am reading his book A Cure for Gravity, so I opened this up.

Hawkwind - Love in Space

The first six tracks were an Eddie Harris LP on VeeJay: I wanted to have that for a long time, and this compilation was the easiest way to find it on CD. Schifrin was the most outfageous of all bossa nova pianists! Highly recommended. Jordi Pujol's liner notes are a perfect outline of Schifrin's career.

Tastes in these things are different, but I would not consider the majority of the material in the 1966 box set "unlistenable." There are a few that are more difficult to listen to than most, but man the music is really . . . something.

Bob DeVos, Eric Alexander, Gary Fritz, Steve Johns, Dan Kostelnik: Shifting Sands. Savant SCD 2077 [US 2006]