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Riccardo Muti - The Complete Warner Symphonic Recordings, disc 86. Works by Johann Strauss II, Josef Strauss, Johann Strauss I, Franz von Suppé and Joseph Hellmesberger. A waltz extravaganza for the Vienna New Year!

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Erskine, set is sold.

according to wikipedia, it paid for the land, the house Hutcherson still had to build himself... still, good question!

Paul Gonsalves Quartet, Boom-Jackie-Boom-Chick

I know some people are tired of Beato - nevertheless:

I don't recall this ...

(Our own) Chris Albertson’s?

Tom Harrell “Live at the Village Vanguard” RCA cd Back to jazz! This is a fine ablum, Tom’s first live one as a leader. Great working band! Tom Harrell – trumpet Jimmy Greene – tenor saxophone Xavier Davis – piano Ugonna Okegwo – bass Quincy Davis – drums

Hey... Is there a book out there that you would consider the best biography of her? I was listening to a random cut of hers on KCSM. I know the general outlines of her life (sexual abuse, bisexuality?, obviously racism, etc.), but I'd like to get more reliable info. Thanks.

Someone posted that they were listening to the SF Jazz Collective recording from 2005 that had Bobby playing on it and for some reason, I googled Bobby just to refresh my memory of this era of his playing. I tripped over an interesting discussion on reddit: The interesting quote from his daughter was that "The song "Ummh" paid for his house in Montara. I live in his house to this day, raising my kids Ruby and my son Bobby". I did not know that Hutcherson's "Ummh" was some sort of moneymaker for him. Does anyone know how this one tune made him enough money to buy a house? Was it some sort of jukebox hit that I never knew about?

Sly & The Family Stone “There’s a Riot Goin’ On” Epic/Legacy cd This digipak has gathered dust for some time. . . a very influential album and a real time travel for me. Sounding as I don’t think it ever has with the system as it is now. . . a clarity and depth is present that really helps this somewhat imperfect recording. 300×295 9.98 KB

What a great story. I was in HS about 7 years after you & I don't think I ever heard any band cover Sabbath even then. I only remember a few rock concerts that disappointed me. One was the Rossington-Collins Band, formed by the surviving member of Lynyrd Skynyrd. I went expecting so much after hearing their debut LP but they stunk up the place, with the lead singer, Dale Kratz, basically screeching through the songs. I wanted to leave early but I was the driver that night so I had to stay to the end.

Survived a hot night. . . putting up with the sound of the window unit was a necessity. Getting excited about the 50th Anniversary releases of “Blues for Allah” coming up in September, which has led me to put on this finely recorded live version of the material. . . . Grateful Dead “One from the Vault” disc 1

Joe Henderson - Double Rainbow (Verve)

Yeah! Love these stories! I didn't play trumpet (though my wife bought me one a couple of years ago, so I tinker with it) but was 1st chair claranet in advanced middle school and high school concert band, and the only other one out of two in Florida to play contra bass claranet; but maybe this would've not happened at all, if it wasn't for my mom, buying Chuck Magione, Grover Washington Junior, Spyro Gyra, etc., albums in the late 70's for me, and consequently, that's what really got me into jazz. So, thank you, Mom and thank you, Chuck! In tribute:

That is what I wanted to say. Sorry if my description was not correct.

Me too

This somewhat was my experience as well. I was 13 in 1978 when Feels So Good was released as a single, and a trumpet player in the middle school band. This specific track caught my ear like nothing else that I'd heard previously, instrumentally. And it inspired me to improve my chops through 10th grade, which advanced me to 1st chair trumpet in the school band. Then (living in Germany) I discovered bier, and arrogantly decided I didn't like the band teacher, so gave up playing altogether. But Mangione initiated my interest in further exploring "real" jazz trumpeters that came before him, which then led to an overall exploration of jazz which has continued to this day. So thanks for being the gateway, Chuck. Rest in Peace.

I like what you say here. The whole Black Sabbath gimic with the devil worshipping, wearing crosses, etc., was all part of the show. None of them were really into it and was part of the act. Outside of that, they were all just a bunch of blokes from Birmingham that were on the ride of their lives.

PM on Elvis. Thanks.

Saw an interesting focused exhibit (in Montreal) on Berthe Weill who was an important art dealer in Paris who helped launch the careers of Picasso and Modigliani, among others. The exhibit features many of the paintings that passed through her gallery. https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/exhibitions/berthe-weill/ The exhibit runs through Sept. 7 or so in Montreal and then heads over to Paris this fall. Here in Toronto there is a new exhibit at the AGO on Joyce Wieland. https://ago.ca/exhibitions/joyce-wieland-heart There is also a very focused exhibit of woodblock prints by Naoko Matsubara, which just opened at the AGO. https://ago.ca/exhibitions/naoko-matsubara I haven't managed to get over there yet to see it, but I will in the next week or so.

RIP, Ozzy Back in HS, my band was one of the first to play Sabbath at HS Battle of the Bands and dances, in the US, and people didn't know what we were playing. I heard the title song to their first album on WABC FM, and it scared the hell outta me! The next day I ran down to TSS and bought the album with my allowance. Our lead singer basically turned into Ozzy, and even wrote away to one of those ads in the back of comic books and got an 'official' document sent to him, declaring him to be an "official Minister of his own church- The church of Satan!" I still have a picture of me from back then, when I still looked like something resembling a human being, staring into a candle light ceremony where our lead singer/Minister tried to call on Satan, "a black shape with eyes of fire". He never showed up... Then the fateful day came, Nov. 10, 1970. My sister worked at the Fillmore East, and she called up and said,"That weird band you love, Black Sabbath, is playing at the Fillmore; ya want me to get you and yer creepy friends free tickets to see them?" I said, "Please, please, please!!!!!!!!!!!! So the whole band (except our drummer, who was one of those kids who studied, did his homework, and listened to his parents, and was forbidden to take the LIRR into the evil city of NY) took a field trip, and somehow found our way into the bowels of the East Village, and sat there with orchestra seats, waiting for Ozzy to come on. We were disappointed to see four guys with long hair, who looked nothing like demons from hell, stumble their way through the BS album, with feedback and chops problems. They were followed by the British Jazz-Rock band "If", who could actually play the s--t out of their instruments, and I said goodbye to BS, and hello to the Jazz of Dick Morrissey and Terry Smith- jazz guitarist extraordinaire!. Dick Morrissey's son said the guys in If couldn't believe how bad BS was, and they used to have to put their hands over their ears to tolerate it. I should thank Ozzy actually, after that concert, I was so shocked at the difference between If and BS, I realized jazz was what I was looking for. Oh Larder!

RIP, Chuck. His "Feels So Good"gave us Band Directors something to play that the band and the audience actually liked.