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Here my friends some of the new things in my live: I mentioned somewhere about some "Good Morning Headache" (just right now I had spinned the Billie Holiday album with the song !) because a long lasting marriage split up. But then things started to happen: On a gig, I don´t know why, I called "My Ideal" (Will I ever find the girl in my mind......? ya know the lyrics) and 2 days later BAMMMM 🤩 This here was our second date and she set down at my stage keyboard (my new place is smaller and more poorish of course then where I stayed......from high live to low life 😄.... anyway. Her name is the name of the Egyptian GOD OF SUN !!!! I like unusual people !!!! And she just sneaked my "Pharoah Sanders" T-Shirt and started to play, and ya know what, she´s not a piano player but what she figures out makes SENSE and it sounds good to me. Like little bells sounding, just beautiful, and them runs she did and then BANG that bass vamp ! She is the most beautiful girl I ever saw and the tune "Miss RA´s Choice" was written the morning "after" and will be on record ! one more, you see the Pharoah Sanders T-Shirt. By the way, since "RA" is her name, she just took my SUN RA long sleeve and said "That´s mine!" PERIOD ! Got to order another one 😄

Grand Central Featuring Ravi Coltrane & Antoine Roney: Tenor Titans. Alfa Jazz ALCR-313 [Japan s.d.]

To get paid, for one thing.

love the cover. My new girlfried "Miss RA" to whom I dedicated a composition which will be on my next album (out early 2026) and SHE wore that kind of pantyhose on our second date (naturally at a jazz club), on that date in the night of July 1st she also came with me at home to my place and "after it" 🤩😎😄😋, SHE set down at my piano and started to play around with some phrase which became the basis for that special tune !......what more can a musician wish ???????

Up 22 years later. Vintage has expanded in the interim! My most recent excursion was the four seasons of The Joey Bishop show, which was....a trip. 4 seasons, two networks, 3 casts, and 4(?) premises. Today's critics find it an abomination, but I watched in fascination as a lot of the old-time bit players shower up regularly and did their old-time shtick at what was rapidly becoming the end of an era.

Django in his pomp.

At least as printed in the booklet RBB had a copyright (p) 1966. Whether this was only for the broadcast at that time is not mentioned or clarified. 'The Lost Recordings' (french label ---> see Discogs) has copyrights (p) & (c) 2021 for remastered edition. Its on mailorder service so it may be available in the US too.

Op.20/4 Op.20/5 Op.20/6

Any further activity around this film now that Lewis has passed on?

I was the only one watching shark week?

The Carter set is only 2 CDs, which allow for extra listens. I normally do two listens to a disc before moving on, but sometimes something get stuck in the head and stays in for a while. This one definitely is sticking, just because there's so much MUSIC in each quartet. So as an adjunct, I downloaded the Walden Quartet's recording of #1, a landmark 1st recording in my opinion, from the Internet Archive and mix it in with my Juilliard listening. Very "helpful" actually, because the Walden recording is in glorious old-school Mono, so the soundstage is VERY flat (and full). This allows for full, almost immediate, discernment of everything that's going on. So when returning to the Juilliard takes, which are totally Modern Digital, the ear is more attuned to the multi-level reality of the music. Probably going to stay on the Carter for the rest of this week. It's certainly not boring music!

Interesting to browse, the 25 highest sales. $7333 for a copy of True Blue! https://www.discogs.com/digs/collecting/most-valuable-blue-note/?utm_campaign=Newsletter_080625&utm_content=General_Email1&utm_medium=email_action&utm_source=mktg

I'm not saying that I know that everything here is legally fine - how would I know... All I'm saying is 1) this has nothing to do with the European PD deadlines etc because there was no previous issue. 2) Unlike in the case of Palo Alto, this was no tape that someone secretly made. There was a contract regulating what can be done with the recording - and without access to that specific contract, we can only guess. 3) The mistake in the Palo Alto disaster was that they didn't contact Monk's label where he had an exclusive contract, not that they didn't contact his family (who were involved but apparently useless in figuring out the legal situation). 4) Despite the Palo Alto disaster, the fact that this is a release from a division of a major label gives me more confidence than if it was one of those PD labels out of Andorra or the like...

NP: with an unbelievable lineup: Geri Allen, Steve Swallow, Eddie Gomez, and Jack DeJohnette

I'm in. Powerful record.

I'll go to the mat for that record. But a lot of people don't like it so much.

Still unraveling everything inside this record. Deeeeeep album. The music is just the surface, just the segue of what was bubbling underneath. Incredible document of where "intellectual" jazz was heading in 1970. PS: No slip to Miles as "New Directions" needed to go in it's direction (a direction I like too!)

Alexis is from Dayton!

For Losers is one of the great adult darkness concept albums ever. Like Only The Lonely for trapped Black Jazz Musicians.