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I am very excited about the news and hope to visit as soon as it is ready, hopefully I can do so on a weekend. Sheet music will probably only be viewable onsite. There is also material at the Library of Congress which I made them bring in from copyright 30 years ago. I had sent Wayne copies of all of it, I wonder if what I sent him will wind up at NYPL! I am very curious about a number of unknown pieces, including Mass '65. One piece that was not at LC was his very first composition, La Vie Et La Mort, intended for two organs but eventually played on solo piano. I hope NYPL will have it. I attended the lecture where this blog post was presented. The presenter did not address where the material came from, but I suspect he thought the Library had somehow acquired it. Jazz Scholar Willard Jenkins Reflects on the Library’s Jazz Collections | In The Muse

Credence Clearwater Revival - Willy & The Poor Boys What a great album. Reacquainted after about 30 years following listening to a radio interview with John Fogerty. I remember hearing CCR when I was about 15 and they (alongside Bob Seger) epitomised what this British suburbs boy thought America sounded like 😀 I soon learnt it sounded like a lot more too!

Alto sax Erena Terakubo at Takoma Station in DC - fabulous! She just started teaching at Michigan State in East Lansing so maybe she will team up with Jim and the cats from Organissimo!

Happy 95th!

Friday night: David Murray Quartet in Schenectady. Great show. Tonight, hopefully, the Upstate Composers Orchestra with Bobby Previte at the Avalon Lodge in Catskill.

What a cover

Re-listening to side 2 of this excellent album to hear Jack and Goldie. It’s too bad we lost both of these fine musicians too soon. I love the melancholy atmosphere of this LP. Jack Teagarden “Think Well of Me” Verve mono LP

Nathan Davis Quintet Featuring Carmell Jones “The Hip Walk” Saba/MPS cd Really nice sounding reissue of this 1965 session propelled by the Francy Boland Kenny Clarke Big Band rhythm section. Bass – Jimmy Woode Drums – Kenny Clarke Piano – Francy Boland Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute – Nathan Davis Trumpet – Carmell Jones

Downright cold this morning! Going to be an interesting season ahead. Starting off with some ‘80s Nucleus from the huge box set of Nucleus BBC recordings. “Nucleus Live at the BBC” disc 8, Repretoire Records BBC Radio 2 Sounds of Jazz, 22 April 1984 BBC Radio 3 Jazz Today, 12 February 1985 BBC Radio 2 Sounds of Jazz, 14 April 1985

Verve MV 2504 (Japan 12974) - Tal Farlow " The Swinging Guitar Of Tal Farlow" - rec. 1956 Featuring Eddie Costa (p)

Verve MV 2112 St (Japan1979) - Ocar Peterson "Something Warm" - rec. 1962 live at The London House, Chicago - Engineer: Val Valentin (Volum 3 of 3 LP's)

September 7 Sonny Rollins - 1930

It looks a little like one of the PD releases to be honest

We shall see how long it takes to stabilize and if some exemptions for records and LP are carved out. At the moment, postal traffic into the United States has plunged by more than 80%. Article here: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/06/postal-traffic-us-plunges

LEE PAN- GEUN & KOREA JAZZ QUINTET '78 Plays Arirang And Other Assorted Classics Surprisingly this is really good.

I am tempted to buy the 2lp. If anyone bought and has listened to the records, how is the sound quality?

Miles Davis “Round About Midnight” Mobile Fidelity Lab SACD This disc has not been in my player (or the music in any form) for some time. It’s such brilliant music and it sure sounds incredible!

Has anybody asked Eddie Gomez about Sandy Hurvitz?

Gary Thomas - Till We Have Faces (JMT, 1992) with Pat Metheny, Anthony Cox, and others

Wanted to see how the system was presenting this very familiar recording. Well, it is doing a great job! Bob Dylan “Time out of Mind” Sony Blu-Spec CD2 lp facsimile (complete with anything that was on or in the original LP release). This is just a masterpiece of modern rock music. They tell me everything is going to be alright But I don’t even know what alright means

Jim Pons also played in the Leaves prior to his associations with the Turtles, Zappa, and Flo & Eddie. Sill was an extremely troubled individual, but some of her music was pretty great. Same is true of Essra Mohawk (Sandy Hurvitz)'s music.

Michele Rosewoman Trio - Occasion to Rise (Evidence, 1993) with Rufus Reid and Ralph Peterson