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A cold, clear morning. So quiet. . . the few around us are not going off to work this morning. Decided to play one of the Goodman discs that I pulled out last week to listen to, Benny Goodman “The Complete 1937 Madhattan Room Boraodcasts, Volume 1” on Viper’s Nest cd This was quite a band!

Maybe the real coming out party is this record Haven't listened to Action+3 in 6 years, and now I'm wondering why I haven't. Great stuff!!! PS Stunning sleeve art, Reid Miles!

Love that exchange Monk has with Johnny Griffin on the tour bus when he was looking at Johnny's threads, like Monk said, "man, those are some bad ass motherfuckers"

This conversation wouldn't even exist, if it wasn't for the fact that BN thought it was a good idea to record them in the first place. So, yep. I have both sets and keeping both sets. Nothing's perfect, but glad to have them than nothing at all.

Please remind me, was this the session that Shorter thought was ruined by Duke Pearson (as producer)?

Michel Portal: ! Dejarme Solo ! Dreyfus Jazz FDM 36506- 2 [France 1991]

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December 07 Matthew Shipp - 1960

Pre order? Are they getting reissued?

Im a big fan of Joe both as leader as a sideman. All of the Blue Notes are great but my favorites would be: - Inner Urge - In n Out on Milestone: - Multiple - Tetragon - Power to the People Later Joe: - Mirror Mirror - So Near So Far - Double Rainbow

Yes, Witch Doctor is very 'hot'. Great record though.

RIP Steve 🥀

This evening, Shelley Carrol Quartet at the Kitchen Cafe. A program of songs associated with Stan Getz. Quite excellent.

TIFF is having a Mikio Naruse retrospective. I've managed to book tickets for 4 of the films and am trying to see 3 more (which are currently sold out, but tickets generally are released a few days ahead of each screening). So far I saw When a Woman Ascends the Stairs and then today, Floating Clouds, which was far too melodramatic for my taste.

It would be a real shame if Shorter had opposed the release. In fact, at least part of the so-called “Because” session had already leaked as bootlegs, and from what I understand, it's quite good. Barbara Burton's vibes are surprisingly good, and McCoy Tyner is good too. I can understand why Shorter “at the time” was reluctant to release it. It feels more like a prequel than a sequel to Odyssey of Iska (or Weather Report), and it's “jazzier.” But listening to it now, it's at least a valuable relic of the past.

https://notat.io/download/file.php?id=3399 Facsimile of Monk's Mood. Chord symbols written in black, squeezed in afterwards, likely by someone else.

There is a scene from a Columbia recording session in the Straight No Chaser documentary where Rouse asks whether the chords he just makes up are correct. So obviously there were no chord symbols on the sheet. I must have some facsimile of a Monk sheet somewhere without chords. I will look for it. To me it makes sense. Monk wanted improvisation on the tune, not the chord changes, and he himself played just like that. If so, he wouldn't have needed to notate changes.

According to the liner notes from the Mosaic box, the problems with the "Meet Me At The Jazz Corner Of The World" tapes are baked in: Although all of the sessions in this collection were recorded by the extraordinary Rudy Van Gelder, there are sonic problems on two sessions. The drums were recorded very ‘hot’ on the March 14, 1961 session and sound at times on the threshold of distortion. On the live Birdland date, there is a vibrating, fluttering distortion that takes place intermittently in the horns and sometimes the entire ensemble. These problems exist on the original master tapes. They have been corrected as much as possible, but are still aurally present.

Much love for Power to the People. I need to dig deeper in Joe's Milestone catologue.