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One of Guy's (Brownie's) photos...

I always connect "Freedom Jazz Dance" with "Gingerbread Boy," very likely because they're back-to-back on Miles Smiles. But the compositions do seem to share some intervallic qualities.

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I do own it so some of it wasn’t recorded in Europe but at Birdland? Wow that’s messy.

Listened to this "note" just the other day. A great entrance indeed. I can't remember where I read this (it was decades ago), but Lateef was evidently a huge proponent of playing long tones (like, really long tones) as a method of warming up. Holding a pitch (with no circular breathing) for close to a minute or longer.

Tremendous. Yes! Great album!!!

!!!! Yamashita is one of my favorite pianists. I'd love to hear his take on Hawes. On another note— Probably because they both recorded for Contemporary around the same time, for some reason I connect Hawes with Phineas Newborn. How much would you all say that Hawes and Newborn overlap in concept? (Or do they not overlap at all.)

My Braxton collection is relatively small, but these two are the albums I come back to the most.

I had the same thought. I don't own the Pablo box, but...

Still available. 4 Sun Ra albums for $95 (+$8 shipping). All are in NM/NM condition. I played each record one or two times. Each record is flat and plays perfectly. Stray Voltage 2 LP, Modern Harmonic, 2025. RSD 2025. Color (orange frosted) vinyl. Gatefold. Still in original clear plastic outer sleeve w/hype sticker attached. Although a few Arkestra members appear on a few tracks, this is mainly just Sun Ra on a variety of electronic keyboards and synthesizers. Excelsior Mill Modern Harmonic, 2024. Color (violet) vinyl. Still in original clear plastic outer sleeve w/hype sticker attached. Another Sun Ra electronic keyboard and synthesizer workout. Cosmos Inner City, recent (perhaps 2010 or so) 180gram reissue Still in original shrink wrap but shrink wrap open on side edge to retrieve record. Sun Embassy Roaratorio, 2018 No shrink wrap or plastic outer sleeve on this one $95 (+ $8 media mail shipping) for all 4 Sun Ra albums U.S. shipping only Payment by pay pal friends/family

I don't know. I don't have qualms about buying a boot now and then. In this case it was a gift.

Finerpoppin' Records is a new bootleg label to me. There is no info anywhere on the web about it. It says "Made in the EU", but the EU PD cutoff is 1962, so this isn't in the public domain there. I wonder if it's another Blue Moon/Jordi Pujol label? He usually presses sessions like these in Andorra where the EU PD cutoff is not observed.

Two masters I love–Earl Hines and Muggsy Spanier! “Earl Hines / Muggsy Spanier All Stars – The Chicago Dates” Storyville cd. 300×299 6.95 KB Bass – Pops Foster Clarinet – Darnell Howard Drums – Earl Watkins Piano – Earl Hines Trombone – Jimmy Archey Trumpet, Cornet – Muggsy Spanier

If we can keep pictures and references to you-know-who out of it, we can try to leave this open. If it gets too political, Jim A has directed me to close it.

When my daughters were little, they loved Disney movies, with my oldest loving "The Little Mermaid" to the point that I wore out two VHS tape copies of it. I decided to get a laser disc player to stop having to re-buy VHS tapes. One day I came home from work and found out that my girls had decided to play hopscotch in the living room and thought that the laser discs were the perfect size for their feet. Two laser discs cracked in half. CD-Rs are very different from manufactured CDs and some players won't play a perfectly good CD-R. Instead of pits and lands there are dye & holes-in-dye. As I understand it, the frequency of the laser works in a way that for a manufactured CD, the reflected signal is out of phase and gets "scattered" depending on if it lands on a pit (top area) or a land (depressed area). CD-Rs work the same way. but the dye is what scatters the light. The reflective layer has solid pit "ridges" with dye coated over it. The dye should block a refection from the reflective layer underneath. Depending on the dye, some amount of light gets reflected back. If the dye degrades enough. too much light gets reflected and those pits become lands. In a way, it looks like CD-Rs work the opposite of manufactured CDs in that the land is technically the top of a pit. I just learned this today (I assume it's right). I was always told that heat and direct sunlight were bad for CD-Rs, as they degraded the dye quicker. Some dyes were better than others but no CD-R dye will last long if left in direct sunlight.

Cool! It’s great to sometimes just play all those records to hear that actual evolution a development in his playing. I do the same sometimes with Mal or Jackie McLean for instance

Interesting and full life. His half-sister was a famous writer and his father was a mine speculator with claimed lineage to Scottish royalty.

Not for me either, in contrast wit Home Alone ...

good lord... I knew about the Birdland aspect, but not the other messiness.

yeah, wasn't aware of that one until yesterday. Looks great.

I have them both on CD. The first is excellent due to the vocals of Dorothy Moskowitz and the violin of Gordon Marrone. The second is less interesting. Byrd's vocals are actually an annoyance, but credit him with the project conception.

Watched last night. Never gets old for me.

David Wild lists a corrected discography for the Pablo box on his website: Track Title Box Set Dates Previous Issue Correct Dates 1/1 Impressions Paris 11/18/61 Stockholm 11/23/61 Set #2 1/2 My Favorite Things Paris 11/18/61 Rhino R2-71255 The Last Giant Stockholm 11/23/61 Set #2 1/3 Blue Trane Stockholm 11/23/61 OK 1/4 Naima Stockholm 11/23/61 OK 1/5 Impressions Stockholm 11/23/61 OK 1/6 My Favorite Things Stockholm 11/23/61 OK 2/1 Mr. P.C. Hamburg 11/25/61 Birdland NYC 2/9/62 2/2 Miles' Mode Hamburg 11/25/61 Birdland NYC 2/9/62 2/3 My Favorite Things Hamburg 11/25/61 Birdland NYC 2/9/62 2/4 Norman Granz Intro Paris 11/17/62 OK Set #2 2/5 Bye Bye Blackbird Paris 11/17/62 OK Set #2 2/6 The Inch Worm Paris 11/17/62 2308-217-2 Paris Concert OK Set #2 2/7 Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye Paris 11/17/62 2308-217-2 Paris Concert OK Set #2 3/1 Mr. P.C. Paris 11/17/62 OK set #1 3/2 My Favorite Things Paris 11/17/62 Possibly Paris 63 1101 3/3 The Inch Worm Paris 11/17/62 Stockholm 11/19/62 #2 3/4 Mr. P.C. Paris 11/17/62 Stockholm 11/19/62 #1 3/5 Naima Stockholm 11/19/62 OK Set #1 4/1 Traneing In Stockholm 11/19/62 2308-227 Bye Bye Blackbird OK Set #1 4/2 Bye Bye Blackbird Stockholm 11/19/62 2308-227 Bye Bye Blackbird OK Set #2 4/3 Impressions Stockholm 11/19/62 OK Set #2 4/4 Swedish Introduction Stockholm 10/22/63 OK 4/5 Traneing In Stockholm 10/22/63 OK 4/6 Mr. P.C. Stockholm 10/22/63 2308-222-2 The European Tour OK 5/1 Naima Stockholm 10/22/63 2308-222-2 The European Tour OK 5/2 The Promise Stockholm 10/22/63 2308-222-2 The European Tour OK 5/3 Spiritual Stockholm 10/22/63 2620-101 Afro Blue Impressions OK 5/4 Impressions Stockholm 10/22/63 2620-101 Afro Blue Impressions OK 5/5 I Want To Talk About You Stockholm 10/22/63 2308-222-2 The European Tour OK 5/6 My Favorite Things Stockholm 10/22/63 OK 6/1 Mr. P.C. Paris 11/1/63 2308-217-2 Paris Concert Probably correct 6/2 Lonnie's Lament Berlin 11/2/63 2620-101 Afro Blue Impressions OK 6/3 Naima Berlin 11/2/63 2620-101 Afro Blue Impressions OK 6/4 Chasin' The Trane Berlin 11/2/63 2620-101 Afro Blue Impressions OK 6/5 My Favorite Things Berlin 11/2/63 2620-101 Afro Blue Impressions OK 7/1 Afro Blue Berlin 11/2/63 2620-101 Afro Blue Impressions OK 7/2 Cousin Mary Berlin 11/2/63 2620-101 Afro Blue Impressions OK 7/3 I Want To Talk About You Berlin 11/2/63 2620-101 Afro Blue Impressions OK 7/4 Impressions Stuttgart 11/4/63 Unknown (not Stuttgart) Thanks. I look forward to hearing the sonic upgrade.