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My bandcamp order: I got the LP version of "Split Decision" & it comes with a download. I went digital on the others because the shipping from outside the US is just too expensive.

I have a copy of the LP and even when I bought it, I used a fingernail to make sure it wasn't a sticker.

Next up: Ross Tompkins and Good Friends (Concord, 1978) with Al Cohn, Monty Budwig, and Nick Ceroli Al Cohn elevates this date, making it something much better than ordinary. Now that you mention it, it does indeed look like a sticker.

The Heavy Hitters - The Heavy Hitters (Cellar Jazz). Listening to this on bandcamp & it's bandcamp Friday, so I may just pull the trigger.

Whenever I see this LP, I always think that they did the artwork and forgot Harold's name, so they stuck a sticker on it.

PM me your Facebook name and I'll go there and hit the "Invite" button.

Now spinning: Harold Mabern - Rakin' and Scrapin' (Prestige, rec. 1968) OJC LP reissue Very cool. That particular line-up -- with Mraz & Foster -- only lasted for one album. Beginning with their second LP, Quest II, the bassist was Ron McClure and the drummer was Billy Hart. I've never had a chance to see Quest live, but I did see Liebman & Beirach as a duo at Mezzrow back in 2019.

I saw "Einstein on The Beach" in Los Angeles about 10 years ago. An amazing work. That was a definitely bucket-list thing for me...

The Desmond set is marvelous, highly recommended!

Original LPs

I tried it and got this: This content isn't available right now When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted.

Bandcamp Friday! I picked up a few things (dls only...) that have been on my wishlist for a while - a couple by Eric St-Laurent a local guitarist I've seen at the Rex a few times: Darn That Band https://eric-st-laurent.bandcamp.com/album/darn-that-band and El Choclo https://eric-st-laurent.bandcamp.com/album/el-choclo and Sweet as Broken Dates https://ostinatorecords.bandcamp.com/album/sweet-as-broken-dates-lost-somali-tapes-from-the-horn-of-africa (which is very much in the same vein as the Ethiopiques series) Then I got an email from Cuniforme and picked up a few of their releases as well... Doors of Perception by Raoul Björkenheim https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/doors-of-perception Bring Your Own by Led Bib https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/bring-your-own-2 and The People in Your Neighbourhood https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-people-in-your-neighbourhood also by Led Bib I did consider pre-ordering Hotel Pupik by Led Bib, but I need another track to preview. I'm not sure I am sold on their new direction.

Bill Evans “Some Other Time: The Lost Session From The Black Forest” Resonance 2 cd set, disc 2

Bump Price Reduced Wadada Leo Smith- Ten Freedom Summers $25 $20 -Grant Green- Retrospective $25 $20 -Paul Desmond- Complete RCA Albums Collection $44 $38 -Taylor Ho Bynum 7-tette $8 $6 - Musica Improvisa (10 CD set) $40 $35

SOLD Fly Abercrombie...Wait; Class Trip and The Third Quartet Andersen- The Triangle Paul Bley- Sangkt Gerold, Time Will Tell Evan Parker- Toward the Margins Stefano Bollani- Joy in Spite

Bob Dylan “Time Out of Mind” Sony Blu-Spec CD2 This is such an amazing, powerful album. The new remix is good, but I find that I prefer the original mix–maybe because I have had it so long, but maybe because the swampy density of the sound just seems appropriate for the material. I’ll never tire of this work–the songs, the sequencing, the mood.

SOLD Horace Silver Joe Henderson

I own and recommend the Steve Miller and the Rundgren boxes.

Bump- Final round of price reductions. List updated. Paypal friends/family only. Shipping via USPS media mail at cost. You can combine sets from this list with the jazz and classical threads that I have up. Thanks for looking. Steve Miller Welcome to The Vault- Discs and contents mint. Box M- $50 $42 $37 $32 Bear’s Sonic Journal, Doc and Merle Watson. Slight box wear $70 $45 Warren Zevon- I’ll sleep when I’m dead- Slight box wear $12 $10 $8 Johnny Cash- Unearthed (box set) still sealed $20 $18 $15 Todd Rundgren- Complete Bearsville- $80 $70 $62 New Riders- Bears Sonic Choice- Box has been “smushed.” It looks as though something heavy was set on it. I received it this way. $30 $24

I went out to Discogs, and threw copies of the Bluiett CD from four or five sellers into my cart, to explore adding other CD's to an order of it to optimize postage. I came back some hours later, and two of the copies of the Bluiett CD had sold in the interim! Surely other members here jumping on it 🙂. BTW, I agree with Thom that I'm not always in onh Bluiett's recordings. He had a tendency to go self-consciously retro/gimmicky at times, and I found those to be tedious. But when he was good, he was very good!

Finished Untamed. Dope Girls - HULU

I saw that group way back in January of 1984, at the Caravan of Dreams.

Quest [D. Liebman, R. Beirach, G. Mraz, A. Foster] - Quest (Trio JP/Palo Alto Jazz, 1982)

Irene Kral - Angel Eyes ; Live in Tokyo