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Doug was very supportive of me in Night Lights' first several years on the air and appears on several shows, including programs about Paul Desmond, Willis Conover, and Vince Guaraldi. His Desmond bio is a work of art. And in the 2000s, long before Substack, Reddit etc, his Rifftides was one of the best jazz blogs going. Sad news, but he leaves lots of good writing behind him.

I wonder if we'll ever get another volume of Dan's writings (unlikely, I'd imagine, especially now that he's departed). Living With Jazz was an excellent anthology and covered a lot of ground, but this thread is a reminder of how much uncollected work is still out there.

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They are paper sleeve and they are hybrid (I believe, have not tried the redbook layer). I imagine the same mastering is on the UHQCD versions previously released remastered by Kevin Gray in the case of the two Blue Notes and the Tone Poet in the case of Birth of the Cool--and perhaps that UHQCD, I don't see who mastered that one.

I really appreciate bringing these liner notes to our attention. I learned a lot about Stuff from them.

What Jim said!

Henry Thomas – Texas Worried Blues (Complete Recorded Works 1927-1929)

Well I'll be damned!

Offered for sale is a great Mosaic box set, The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Sidney Bechet. This is the rare 6 LP box set. Sidney Bechet - The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Sidney Bechet 6 LP, Mosaic, 1985 Limited Edition of 7500 copies (this is copy # 0764). Outer box: The outer box is in VG condition. It has a half-inch horizontal tear to mid right side of the front cover of the outer box. There is also some shelf wear to edges/corners of the outer box. And, as is unfortunately uncommon with these older type of Mosaic boxes, the black spinal tape is torn the length of the spine and the front outer box panel is loose from the rear outer box panel. But the silver spinal lettering is still nice and sharp. Vinyl: The 6 records are in VG+ condition. All are nice and flat and play fine. Booklet: The booklet is in nice shape. $62 (+ $8 media mail shipping). Pay pal friends/family. U.S. shipping only

Thanks for the tip! I just ordered these. It doesn’t say they are paper sleeve but that’s a bonus for me! Also, it’s says they are sacd only, so are they actually hybrids? I also preordered these 2 sacd “Kind of Blue” in stereo and mono. Looked interesting.

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I read this a while back, so good. A good antidote to “bebop brain”.

Well, tastes do differ. Maybe the explanation about where you were "wrong" is that my fave styles (yes, there is that word again! ) are Swing, Bebop and Cool/Westcoast Jazz. I don't dig quite as deeply into Traditional (pre-Swing) jazz and Hard Bop but think I have covered the bases there too. (And am still catching up with Soul Jazz.) So as this might show you, to me it's rather the 1st quintet that definitely is mainstream. BTW, considering how everyone who probably qualifies as being "seriously into jazz" drools about KOB no end wherever you look, read or listen, I'll admit that actually I held out a LONG time before buying a copy (figuring I'd be able to get one at ANY moment if I ever took the plunge). About 8 or 9 years ago I finally gave in. And you know what? To me it sounded very, very accessible and digestible. Not nearly as challenging as many made it out to be. FWIW, there is quite a bit of 50s Lennie Tristano that for me even borders on "jazz easy listening", considering how easy I find it to absorb. (Whereas there is a fair share of 50s Jimmy Giuffre that I find more challenging.) So all this might tell you why the 2nd quintet is a bit off my listening coordinates.

Yeah, I was quasi-excited for these. Could play them when people came over but even though they look like they're in good condition, the noise is pretty bad. I'm going to unload them most likely. I'll prob keep the MJ records though. Off the Wall and Thriller are good even with the noise.

Do they remove items from the Internet Archive?

The notes were interesting to read. I added them to my "online" collection - making them easy to read for those interested: https://storage.googleapis.com/cloudplayer/album.html#1779123281558

I was once given a huge collection of records. An older couple who knew my mother-in-law, heard her stories of my huge record collection and asked if I might want their son's records. I said sure. Their son was a big record buyer. Tons of classic rock artists like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd & The Beatles. Every single one of them had a cover that looked like it had been run over by a steam roller a few times and the records looked like they were played to within an inch of their life on what I'm guessing was a less than ideal turntable. Some of them were almost white with wear. Even worse was the fact that he threw out all the inner sleeves. Ouch. I tried playing a few of them and they just weren't worth keeping. I brought almost the whole bunch to the dump a few days later. I think I kept about 10 out of close to 400 records.

“Garcia Plays Dylan” disc 1

Thanks! Thanks as well - had missed that listing searching for the album. I used to find a lot of albums on the Internet Archive and lately it seems that I have had less luck - perhaps they removed some items?