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Thanks for clearing this up!

Another great Arbors cd, "Bobby Gordon Plays Bing". . . . Peter Ecklund, Keith Ingham, Dan Barrett. . . wow, good stuff.

Price reduced. Here is a nice copy of Dylan's 1966 Live Recordings, a massive 36 CD box set of Dylan in his prime. Bob Dylan - The 1966 Live Recordings 36 CD, Columbia/Sony, 2016 Everything is in Near Mint (NM) condition -outer box, CDs, CD sleeves, booklet. Rated NM because this is open and I played a few CDs. It is in great shape. $92 (+ $8 media mail shipping) U.S. shipping only I can only ship on the weekend Payment by pay pal friends/family

Price reduced: all 4 Sun Ra albums for $92 (+$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 $92 (+ $8 media mail shipping) for all 4 Sun Ra albums U.S. shipping only. I can only ship on the weekend. Payment by pay pal friends/family

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Can you share a scan of that article?

When I wrote liner notes for an Oscar Peterson compilation on Pablo, I found two errors for the track where Oscar Peterson took over from Duke Ellington for a song. Both the date and the drummer were incorrect, Eric Miller disagreed and he was a bit stubborn, then I provided the relevant page from Timmer’s Ellingtonia discography and the citation from Mercer Ellington’s bio of Duke that cited him firing Bobby Durham and replacing him with Chris Columbus. Eric Miller relented and made the edits. Thanks for sharing the update provided by David Wild.

I saw Jane Monheit perform her Christmas show at Jimmy's in Portsmouth, NH last night. She did a nice job. I finally broke down and bought the download of Joey D's Christmas release. Good stuff.

El Combo de Ayer:

When I went to sleep last night- very beautiful music.

As I recall, he wasn't. But I am not sure. Eric Miller was the one who put it together, and I believe he was defiant in the face of criticism.

Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Seek and Listen: Live at the Penthouse (Resonance)

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Seventeen degrees! COLD. Well, at least the days will soon start being a tiny bit longer. I’m re-listening to this excellent recording . . . I didn’t get to finish it yesterday. McCorkle’s.voice was so rich and her interpretations . . real. . . you felt the songs. Susannah McCorkle “I’ll Take Romance” Concord cd.

I've been listening to a fair bit of Robyn Hitchcock lately. Quite a lot of his solo material and the Soft Boys album Underwater Moonlight have been remastered and reissued. He also plays weekly online gigs (called Live from Tubby's House) which are generally very entertaining as he plays his material and some covers and banters with his wife. (You sign up through Bandcamp though they are only available for a few days after the performance...) I saw him live for the first time at the Drake Underground in Toronto. I see that in April he is playing the Athenaeum in my old stomping grounds in Chicago, and then the next day he plays the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto! Unless I have an impossible conflict, I will get tickets.

Tebugo by Evan Parker - Paul Rogers - Louis Moholo https://jazzinbritain1.bandcamp.com/album/tebugo

Considered a Christmas album in my home:

To clear this up and to add to what Mike said, there is a similarity in titles but NOT in contents: The "East/West Controversy" LP on Xanadu 104 was a "split session" (one side per leader) of the Hampton Hawes session for Vantage (of September, 1951) combined with a 1957 session by Paul Chambers (originally released under the leader name of Mel Lewis on VeeJay). The "Piano:East/West" LP on Prestige 7067 has one half by Hampton Hawes (recorded in December, 1952, originally released on 10" LP Prestige 212) and the other side by Freddie Redd (recorded in March, 1955).

Yeah, the collaborations were mainly with Robert N. Bruno (Bob), leader of CM. JJW and the other guys followed Bob's lead. Here's all you need to know about Bruno: https://www.soundclick.com/bobbruno

Granted, one of the prettiest pictures of a toolbox I've ever seen. Whoever was in charge of the lighting, nailed it. But wait, no ladders, backhoes, earthmovers, bull dozers, cherry pickers, foremen? Who's in charge here? I want to speak to the manager.

What a batch of music. Excellent listining, period.

Braxton, Dolphy and Ayler in no particular order.