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I tried watching the first episode of Schitt's Creek and I'm not sure that I made it through all the way. It just didn't make me laugh,

she was great (as is her sister Mary Margaret). RIP. Bummer news...

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The University Musical Society in Ann Arbor invited me to write about Miles and Trane at 100 in advance of a forthcoming concert the organization is presenting in homage to these landmark centenaries featuring Terence Blanchard and Ravi Coltrane. There's also a sidebar with my personal Top 10 lists for both Miles and Trane as leaders, plus some bonus tracks. Main essay: https://ums.org/2026/01/28/miles-davis-and-john-coltrane-at-100/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPp8WpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeKw-2FaGNwGLIphPeQfeIGn9xu6x_A6xIwH984npDGl-3l5PzESIUfV0vKKY_aem_Wadu6O_pYRY2b68MnYuG5g Sidebar: https://ums.org/2026/01/29/miles-and-trane-on-record-a-critics-favorites/

I used to buy a fairly large number of box sets, now not so many.

Judging from the cast, it must have been! But I stopped watching TV in 2010 and never saw any of the series.

INGO Two (Italy) - Max Roach-Clifford Brown Quintet live at Basin Street April 1956 -

Ella Fitzgerald “Day Dreams: The Best of the Duke Ellington Songbook” Verve cd The full (and the expanded) set is of course wonderful, but this is a very nice compilation compiling fine tracks.

Shitt's Creek was repeatedly on point too

Capri #74021-2- Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra "Groove Shop" - rec. 1990 - Engineer: Hank Cicalo

Yeah, they were good. Especially for a young budding musician with low budget. I got all their Mingus albums, the Roach album, and I think the "Fabulous Paul Bley Quintet" with Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry was also on it. Starting with Jazz in early teens I was quickly "hooked" by the stuff that went beyond be- and hardbop, all those incredible Impulse albums of Trane, Pharoah, Ornette, Albert Ayler.....the music I love most. And it had started with hearing Dolphy on the 3-LP America label issue of "The Great Concert of Charles Mingus". Hearing what Dolphy did at a very early age opened my mind and my imagination !

I just logged into the forum to start a thread. Thanks for getting one going. RIP. Sad loss, sorely missed indeed. I've gotten out of touch with popular culture, but I loved the old SCTV shows, which is how I got familiar with her. Plus more recently the "mockumentary" films Best In Show, Waiting for Guffman, A Mighty Wind.

If someone is considering a concert and/or recording, would you have some points of contact for publishing? Thanks.

A duo of Jobim recordings. Both from Universal Japan on SHM-CD. First “Jobim” (aka “Matita Perê” in the Brazilian edition) 301×282 51.7 KB 400×400 29.4 KB Followed by “Passarim” I will never tire of listening to these.

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/catherine-ohara-comedy-star-home-alone-schitts-creek-dies-71-rcna256748 Serious chops. Serious. She will be sorely missed.

OK, nothing special.

Me too. I'd like a handful of more volumes from throughout the Columbia period.

I'd still like a Bootleg Series release from the so_called Electric Jungle period.

Max on fire!!!

I have the America pressing also. America/Musidisc reissued several Debut and Fantasy titles in France, in addition to a bunch of new recordings from Shepp, the AEC, Dave Burrell, Frank Wright, Alan Shorter... excellent series.

+1. I have so many of those great Kent anthology CD's on my shelves, and they now put out maybe 1-2 discs a year that is of interest to me. May be that the market is pretty dried up for that sort of release.