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I approved a few "iffy" looking accounts today. I hope we don't get spammed like crazy but it's a chance we decided to take. I also blocked/banned several new accounts using the https://www.stopforumspam.com website, which tracks spammers' digital footprints.

Slept in late this morning. Hardly never happens, feels a bit weird! It got really cool last night–it’s 56 degrees right now! Listening to Bob Dylan “The Cutting Edge Collector’s Edition” disc 12

The Phil Woods Quintet: Heaven. BlackHawk/Bellaphon BKH 50401 CD [West Germany 1986] Personnel: Phil Woods (as, cl), Tom Harrell (tp, fl-h), Hal Galper (p), Steve Gilmore (b), Bill Goodwin (dr)

https://open.substack.com/pub/lorenschoenberg128589/p/todays-jazz-potpourri?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=post viewer https://www.jazz88.org/Player.asp?f=JP072025&p=https%3A//www.jazz88.org/programs/Jazz_Potpourri/%3Futm_source%3Dsubstack%26utm_medium%3Demail%23Jukebox&s=Jazz Potpourri%2C broadcast 07/20/25- Let's Swing!%26nbsp%3B&d=7182

2024 2 lp reissue

Ts-find (Mono copy, couldn't find a nice picture)

July 21 Plas Johnson - 1931

😆 It could be a problem with the actual printing of the booklet, too

The Lasting Impression of Hugh Masekela

PM for: Charles Lloyd Quartets- (ECM)- Opened. Back of box shows shelf wear. Otherwise it is in excellent condition. $20 $15

I'm not sure that Zaentz had the same level of respect for old-school musicians like Tjader as he did for Rock Star Cash Cows like Fogerty.

Obviously he didn't consult John Fogerty first. I guess it makes sense that he would go back to Fantasy, as Pablo hadn't started up yet.

For nearly five decades, Kazuo “Kaz” Kajimura ran the pre-eminent jazz venue on the West Coast, hosting legends of the genre: Ray Brown, Betty Carter, Hank Jones, Tito Puente. But visitors to Yoshi’s Jazz Club likely wouldn’t recognize Kajimura as the owner of the club. Six days a week for 50 years, he biked to his job, and stayed largely behind the curtain—building and arranging furniture to create clear sightlines for audiences, fixing leaky toilets, planning artist residencies, clearing tables and picking musicians up from the airport. When friends would ask Toshi Holland, Kajimura’s sister, how they could meet the club owner, “I’d tell them, ‘Find a very tiny Japanese guy who looks like the janitor,’ ” she said. “He was wearing beat-up jeans with dirty hands, because he was always fixing something. That’s my brother.” The club became proof of how a jazz club could endure, both as a waypoint for generations of artists as they toured the West Coast and as an anchor for the local scene. “To have a club like Yoshi’s, with national touring artists in six or seven days a week, and for it to be profitable, that’s an achievement in and of itself,” said Jason Olaine, vice president of programming at the Jazz at Lincoln Center organization in New York, who worked as the artistic director at Yoshi’s in the early 1990s. “Yoshi’s is a symbol of how a community can support jazz,” Olaine said. Kajimura died of Alzheimer’s disease on June 15 in Brentwood, Calif., at the age of 81. He is survived by his wife, Dadre Traughber, and four sisters. More here: https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/music/kaz-kajimura-dies-bay-area-jazz-club-46c974ea?st=YV81yt&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

I'd volunteer to proofread for them, gratis.

Too Much - Netflix, episodes 1 & 2.

Yep! That’s the ticket.

That’s too bad; I never saw him, but enjoyed his playing. 87 makes sense if he was working with Sam Rivers in the mid 60s.

Mike Alterman, a pianist that I worked with for five years in a band, spent eight months on the road with Chet Baker in the early 60s, and was so traumatized by the experience that he never said a word about it in all the time I knew him. I'd meet Mike occasionally after the time we worked together in that band, and he'd talk about the time he spent in the Woody Herman Band (he can be heard on the WH album "East Meets West" playing a long solo on a blues), the time he was fired by our current prez for asking for a raise in his solo piano gig in Trump Towers (Trump heard him playing some show tunes and said to Mike, "I like that!", so he figured it was a good time to ask DT for a raise- wrong), but he went to the grave a few years ago without saying a word about his eight months with Chet on the road, at least to me. RIP, Mike.

Today's Mosaic e-mail stated that pre-orders will ship later in the week of July 27. It was supposed to ship this week but Mosaic said the delay was due to a printing error in the booklet and the booklet had to be reprinted.

It was Tjader who approached Saul Zaentz of Fantasy when he saw the bankruptcy of Skye coming. Together they worked out a new contract. I don't know about the US, but here in Germany Fantasy LPs were all over the place due to their distributors here - Bellaphon, and later ZYX.

Forgot to post this one in the afternoon.. The unothodox string writing of Clare Fischer on side two of the Harold Arlen LP makes this almost a Thrid Stram album.

I've watched a few Brewers games lately and might start watching regularly-ish. I'm sending a vibe developing!