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+1. especially the early version with all those guys who ended up migrating to The Soft Machine.

Boston’s The Either/Orchestra is back in time to celebrate its 40th Anniversary and we’re celebrating with two concerts at Big Ears 2026. The ten-piece E/O will be joined by legendary Ethiopian vocalist Teshome Mitiku and younger gen vocalist Munit Mesfin for a dive into their Ethiopian songbook, including selections from their new release éthiopiques 32: Nalbandian the Ethiopian as well as 2005’s éthiopiques 20: Live in Addis.

New biography just released. Have Horn, Will Travel: The Life and Music of Herman "Junior" Cook by Courtney M. Nero https://www.amazon.com/Have-Horn-Will-Travel-Musician/dp/157441982X

If he were, a little late to ask. Well this is an issue of musician recollections anyway ... Shep Shepherd said the tune was tossed off at the end of the session because they needed one more. Doggett is equally certain that the session was for this soon-to-be million seller because he had let slip at a gig in Cleveland that this was his new single, and the local record store had 150 pre-orders, called King, asked for Honky Tonk and was told that it didn't exist. Until then, Syd Nathan was pushing back on the idea of a two-sided juke box single because it would mean two slots out of 50 instead of one - a tough sell to jukebox operators. 150 preorders convinced him that Doggett had a tune with potential and greenlighted the recording.

There is no guarantee hat the order of the matrix numbers represents recordings order. Many matrix numbers were attributed after the fact, Columbia often numbered the tracks in the order on the LP sides, even when recorded on separate days. Verve and others re-used matrix numbers when tunes were re-done on a later session. There are many opportunities where errors can occur. The Blue Note numbering system is pretty foolproof as take numbers were assigned in recording order. Musicians' recollections is another matter.

Swinging CD:

Well you guys kinda took an early liking to streaming ... 😎

Two more Blue Note 85th Anniversary discs from Japan have hit the transport. First Lou Donaldson “Blues Walk” SHM-SACD 640×480 73.2 KB Then Freddie Hubbard “Ready for Freddie”

Downloads were mentioned several times above, but streaming only once or twice. In this country, even among people with a strong interest in music (including jazz), streaming has virtually replaced both CDs and downloads since more than ten years. It's true that the albums of more obscure artists might come and go, or may never have been available on these platforms. But the availability of millions of albums for a fixed fee has caused "inflation" for digital music. It's just not something that people are prepared to pay that much for (which off course started already with the rise of downloading around the turn of the millenium). It seems as if this has also affected how many people look at the value of these albums/artists/tracks that come and go - it doesn't seem to bother them too much.

I love the movie and I have a 78 of the Harry Lime theme by Caras . Don't know if I need more.

He came to get the time visually, by looking at the bassist, mostly.

Ellington V-disc recording consist of: aircheck, concert, transcription etc. recordings. I like the sunrise is an instrumental version of the take used on the Liberian Suite Lp. For the LP the vocal was dubbed over. Most if not all V-discs were issued on various Classics CD's. Thanks to V-discs we have the never completely recorded Deep South Suite.

I don´t have this, but I love Woody Shaw and saw him live as often as I could. Fantastic musician ! I heard, this album was quite late in his career but that it is great. Maybe I should purchase it.

Yeah, but he didn´t wear the hearing aids much. I remember a Down Beat interview he did in 1988 and the interviewer wrote "his hearing is not well and he apologies on open conversation and since he perspires a lot, the hearing aids get wet and damaged and need replacement. Well, that´s common among musicians. I have the same thing, 48 years of active playing live music and my hearing is slowly disappearing. I play very loud and listen to music very loud and have to concentrate and listen closely if people want to tell me something: Look at the picture of me at an Art Gallery where they want me to present my upcoming album and the famous writer Leo K. who wants to organize it talks to me about the project and tall as I am I bend down and listen with deepest concentration just to HEAR the stuff he tells me 🤣