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It would be Bird and it has yet to be assembled. Plenty of studio boxes, but live Bird is a whole nother thing. But there is that bootleg Rollins/Village Gate box that is pretty damn...intense.

and Australia!! still looking for a few Rutherfords to plug the gaps

Episode 48 https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/straight-life-episode-forty-eight-3 ***** Episode 49 https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/straight-life-episode-forty-nine-2

Berliner Jazztage is my single favorite Woody Shaw album too!! — and absolutely in my top-25 overall (in all of jazz). Trouble is, my top-25 could be any of 100 different albums on any given day — but it’s a phenomenal album, for the quality of the soloists, and the arranging too. Absolute top-drawer.

with good reason...

My all-time favorite jazz album:

never owned that one, but would certainly grab the LP if I ran into it. Great band.

The Kent Carters are excellent indeed. yeah, there's still some gaps to fill I see... too bad they don't ship to the US!

Not an actual box set per se... But the vast amount of live Woody Shaw (leader and co-leader dates) might as well be a box set (of sorts). Six (6) discs on Highnote alone (if you include the two with Louis Hayes). Then a bunch further on other labels, some from essentially the exact same sorts of sources as the Highnote material (or at least that one from the "International Trumpet Guild" sure the heck seems like Vol 5 in the Highnote series, in all but name). Anyway, we've gotten a TON of live Shaw over the last 25 years (the first live Highnote came out in 2000). And -- though released separately -- collectively it all seems like a live box set of sorts (and not just the Highnotes either -- but all the more recent ones too). Not every track is a 10/10, but I'd argue the great majority is (at worst) a 7/10, and often better An embarrassment of riches for Shaw fans -- what is it, a dozen hours? Closer to 15?

Various: Club Soul. Kent Records KENT 022 [UK 1984] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flamingo_Club

Columbia CL 1274: 0 stars RCA Camden CAS-490: 9,000 stars

Steve Swallow was on that record too!

Sam Brown was on that album; a dude whose involvement with all types of drugs led to his suicide at the age of 39. RIP.

October 23 Ernie Watts - 1945 Saw him in the 1990s in Hildesheim with Quartet West. Charlie Haden played behind a paravent ...

And now, the news that everyone has been waiting for...the Playoff Scenarios! https://www.cfl.ca/2025/10/23/112th-grey-cup-playoff-scenarios-hosting-duties-matchups-crossover-to-be-determined/ ***** Week 21 picks https://doorfliesopen.com/2025/10/23/cfl-beat-254/ My picks... Tiger-Cats over Redblacks - The Ticats will clinch first place with a win. Stampeders over Elks - The Stamps need the win for the playoff implications. Alouettes over Blue Bombers - The Als are the better team. But this game is meaningless to them if the Ticats win. The Bombers need the win for playoff implications. So let's reconsider this one after we know the results of Friday's games. Lions over Roughriders - BC needs the win for playoff implications. But maybe not, if the Stampeders and Bombers have already lost. Another one we need to wait and see about. ***** Game Notes https://www.cfl.ca/2025/10/23/game-notes-what-you-need-to-know-ahead-of-week-21/ ***** RB all-star candidates https://www.cfl.ca/2025/10/23/6-running-backs-who-deserve-to-be-named-to-the-all-cfl-team/ ***** Week 21 previews https://www.cfl.ca/2025/10/23/3-keys-to-victory-for-ottawa-hamilton-in-week-21/ https://3downnation.com/2025/10/23/dl-cleyon-laing-lb-lucas-cormier-return-for-ottawa-redblacks-finale/ https://cflnewshub.com/cfl-news/hamilton-tiger-cats/cfl-week-21-ottawa-redblacks-hamilton-tiger-cats/ https://www.cfl.ca/2025/10/23/3-keys-to-victory-for-calgary-edmonton-in-week-21/ https://3downnation.com/2025/10/23/edmonton-elks-sit-five-starters-for-regular-season-finale-against-stamps/ https://3downnation.com/2025/10/23/calgary-stampeders-lose-receiver-jalen-philpot-for-final-clash-with-elks/ https://3downnation.com/2025/10/23/he-isnt-a-five-year-vet-montreal-alouettes-to-play-qb-davis-alexander-in-finale-regardless-of-playoff-implications/ ***** MOP and MOC candidates https://www.tsn.ca/cfl/article/breaking-down-who-should-win-the-cfls-most-outstanding-player-most-outstanding-canadian-awards/ ***** For the first time ever, the Bombers have sold out their entire regular season. https://3downnation.com/2025/10/23/winnipeg-blue-bombers-sell-out-entire-regular-season-for-first-time-in-franchise-history/ *****

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If you look into this Free Press article. they cite a study that has little backing for their conclusions. Their article is based on an internet-only study with no clinical follow-up: https://www.annemergmed.com/article/S0196-0644(25)00018-6/abstract Basically, they had an online survey where they asked a bunch of people who claim to smoke a lot of marijuana if they get sick and based on their answers, made a conclusion that marijuana smoking is the only reason for their problems. A study like this could be done for almost any medical condition.

Disc 2

Interesting new one from the Mahavishnu - see link. Released 14 November on vinyl and CD but the latter is nearly $35 albeit for an SACD. Never heard of the label but I guess this is because it's a movie score. https://www.impexrecords.com/john-mclaughlin-music-for-abandoned-heights-180g-33rpm-lp/#:~:text=Experience guitar legend John McLaughlin's stunning 2025,Music for Abandoned Heights%2C on HQ-180g vinyl.

This is odd... when someone on the Hoffman forums asked the LP mastering engineer, Matt Lutthans, whether this was digital or analog, instead of, "We mastered this from a 24/192 digital master" we got this word salad: Here's the deal. There's digital, and then there's digital. Cutting an album from a commercial CD, or from some sort of (often poorly) pre-mastered, processed digital file....that's one thing, and it's generally subpar; nearly always quite bad. Fine. We know about those. This is not one of those. In this particular case, the performances were recorded on an Ampex 600, if I recall correctly, and yes, the recordings are mono. A set of tapes has been in Jim Wilke's collection for all these decades, and those two reels were physically shipped to me for mastering. (Blue Note now owns and archives these original tape reels.) As the production team and I started going through the contents of the tapes, we discovered a problem: One song was absent from the tapes I received, but a flat, existing, archival digital transfer existed for that track, and it sounded fine, so we included it -- and the album is better for it. For the tracks that were on the analog reels: They were transferred by me, personally, at The Mastering Lab at 24/192, and those files remained UNPROCESSED and untweaked throughout the digital steps for LP production. (The digital work on those tracks consisted of flat editing for increased continuity/flow ONLY.) What you hear on the LP is those flat 24/192 files, edited slightly, no compression/limiting, "no nothing," run through the tube-based analog TML console for live-during-cutting EQ, then into the all-tube cutting system. (The track that came from an existing digital transfer required a little bit of in-the-box EQ to get its tonality to match with the newly-made transfers of the other tracks, but it was minimal, and final "artistic decision" EQ was still done on the TML analog console for that track, as with the others.) I used to really respect Matt's work but this explanation from him on this has really messed that up. "There's digital and then there's digital"?? No Matt, this is digital. Which is not a bad thing in my book, but it's still a thing. Is Blue Note trying to replicate the Mobile Fidelity fiasco? If it's a digital master, just fess up.

Agreed. These products are unregulated which poses issues on several fronts, public health being a biggie. I have friends that use weed and shroom products that display self testing results, and these friends haven't had any issues. Those products are purchased at higher end boutique stores and not the quickie mart. That's why I'm wondering what products are being used in the linked article, and if there's any studies cited. That still has a paywall unfortunately. Maybe it works for others?