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Haven't listened to this for years. Enjoying it!

John Doe - solo

I will tell you a weird story - years ago I was on my way to a club in Midtown Manhattan. I was walking (I was about 19, so this might have been 1973) and who did I see ahead of me but Budd Johnson. I was thrilled; I walked up and introduced myself, and Johnson said "I want you to meet my friend, Big Al Sears (who was standing next to him)." I was very excited about this, wish I'd had a camera.

last I spoke to him he was diagnosed with early-onset dementia. I had been talking to him for a while since his wife stuck him in a facility without telling him what she was doing, and while he was still very cognizant. At that point he got a lawyer and was sent back home. He had started to fade, and when I did last call, a caregiver came on the phone and said he was doing ok. That's the last contact I had. I imagine he is in some kind of care facility and probably totally out of it by now. He does have a son but I cannot remember his first name, so I know of no way to reach him, sadly enough.

“Charlie Parker on Dial Completed” Spotlite/TOCJ Japan 4 cd set, disc 1 Bird on the West Coast.

After seeing it mentioned here I pulled out my Japanese copy of the 4 disc Charlie Parker on Dial Completed. It really sounds great. As does the last edition of this music I listened to, the Mosaic Dial box set. I usually tend to gravitate to Savoy sides for Bird, but the Dial have a lot to enjoy.

Bird was a player who really improvised, conceived very different solos in each take. In that respect he was largely superior to his sidemen who often had to learn the tunes during the session. So all alternates merit listening, although he sometimes lost interest while the other were still finding their way through the tunes. I for one like both approaches to listening, just for Bird's incredible creativity, but listening to the music as the jazz world first got to hear it is hard to beat.

Al Sears is here.

Those Ludos look quite similar to the old Apple wired. They always fell out of my ears as well.

And he was right, but I would have bought them.

All of that is true. We can only speculate what is going on in Larry's situation right now. My comment was based on Larry's last words here, which indicated that he & others felt that he was not that far gone to dementia. I think it's safe to say that at this point, we'll likely never know one way or the other.

Yes!!! Yes!!! Yes!!!

Good points. That sounds like fraud. Spotify and youtube are a mixed blessing but I suspect they are still a blessing to the artist, because the services make their music available to the general public. If you want to check somebody out used to be you had to listen to the radio till their songs came up. Now you can go find works by the artist, listen, and if you like it, buy the album. True, millions of people are putting stuff up on youtube so it's harder to stand out than it once was. It's a different world and this is a pretty big part of how music is distributed nowadays.

Spurred by Mark Stryker's desert island list: Desert Island List no. 3: BLUE NOTE RECORDS

If you’re an artist and fake music supposedly by you is streaming, you have a right to be pissed off. The other thing is that these fake tracks are being programmed by bots to be played repeatedly in order to increase their share of the overall royalty pool.

Very cool indeed. Randy Weston has not been well-represented in the 1980s. The Brooklyn Academy disc is interesting for having such a large band--a fairly rare thing for Weston.

I saw this being played on another board and realized I had it somewhere and hadn’t listened in a long time. I felt a little of the exciting promise of this ensemble at that time. Nice! “Jazz Futures Live in Concert” Novus cd