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I think they are all on their recent CD reissues.

Is Santa gonna be able to deliver this on Christmas, or am I going to have to wait until January for a birthday gift?

Oh yes Both excellent Milestone records. Top notch Joe.

would be easy enough to do the Japanese Victors as 4 CDs, right? Two solos, the date with Peacock, the date with Hino, Tokyo Bound, and maybe Spanish Bitch could be included if there's room? Don't forget Bill! FWIW, bassist Kiyoshi Tokunaga, who worked with Giuffre, is also on the Curran LP. He also played drums and trumpet, and I believe is/was mostly based out of Seattle. Not sure if he is still alive.

Among the later Milestones, Canyon Lady is also tremendous, IMO.

ESP at least included the year and month, but it would be nice to know specific days/dates as well.

Yeah, definitely in the NYAQ era. The photos are hard to find but I've seen a few. The verso of Mohawk kind of shows the white face paint, but it's not a very clear photo.

Cheikh Lo, Maame (World Circuit)

Strange coincidence ... I'll be giving myself the Kenton biography "This Is An Orchestra" by Michael Sparke for Christmas, and when reading it will no doubt delve into the "Artistry In Rhythm" bio by William F Lee too that came into my possession a couple of months ago (I haven't tackled that one yet, although glancing through it I have some misgivings - e.g. about how contemporary press coverage is worked into it, and excessively quoted at length). But I now did print out that Guardian writeup about Leslie Kenton's book as well and filed it in the Lee biography "for permanent reference". This thread from 2010 had in fact slipped my mind, and the link in the opening post is dead anyhow. So thanks for posting this, Andrea! (Though admittedly I am not sure I'd want to get the book - yet ...)

Yes, that's quite possible. I was just "echoing" and confirming what John L said about discographical information being available throughout for what had been released previously.

Agreed. Black Is The Color contains one of my very favorite Henderson solos—on "Vis-A-Vis":

It's been a family tradition to see them in concert, but tickets sold out pretty quickly this year, so we missed the show. Great guys. Last year I sketched the concert on canvas and the band signed it. Pretty cool experience. If my phone cooperates with my email, I'll post it.

Been mentioned already, mentioning it again, brilliant record, maybe his best:

Interesting, didn't know he did. Couldn't find any images of John Tchicai in makeup.

Power to the People and In Japan are obviously exceptionally good, but I’ve been listening to some of the other later Milestones and they’re also quite enjoyable. Joe had a combo of great sound and great ideas and was willing to make the most out of any setting into which he was placed. And the settings on those albums are generally quite good if not always great.

Looks great. But not available at my location