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Thanks Mark. You're a brave man to publish those sidebar lists! I'm so glad to see love for 'Transition' and 'Crescent', and such an eloquent description of the transcedence of 'A Love Supreme' (which was my sudden immediate gateway in jazz in 1972 when I first heard it).

Yeah, that's true. Oftentimes the individual cds would be more expensive. And in some cases the box set is the only practical way to get the music.

I often find them prohibitive in terms of both space and cost. I tend to do cost/benefit analysis as far as buying them and keeping them. I only kept a handful of the big Mosaic sets in my collection as the music became available in other CD configurations(though I've kept a lot Selects). Yet things like the 90's Atlantic boxes on Trane, Ornette, and Mingus and the Prestige boxes on Trane, Rollins, Miles, and Dolphy, and the Milestone Joe Henderson box are perfect for my needs. I tend to work straight through a box set when I listen to it, regardless of size.

quintet with Marion Brown? the concert with the Ayler Brothers would be interesting to hear as well, if it were taped.

Slightly 😝? Typical Concord fail.

l would love to see a 1975 Miles Davis Japan tour box and the rest of the Coltrane Half Note stuff ("Creation"!). Would be nice to get the Olatunji concert on vinyl, too. We're more likely to get Miles 1987 live and The Gentle Side of John Coltrane remastered by an audiophile dudebro.

Sam Ostropov - Blight Music Fun idea: a recent record exploring the kind of music that the David Murray Octet and others like it made in their prime. There are lots of roads that were never fully explored.

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.