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So many of these records are sold in credible shops too. It is quite disheartening.

and another bootleg….. this one sounds pretty shitty. Nathan Davis had quite some nice reissues lately but there’s much left to be desired.

Listened in my car back from Tilburg yesterday. Great job Gheorghe! You must be very proud. The singer could definitely sing but vocal jazz is just mostly not for me (with very few exceptions). But that's just personal preference.

February 26 Yosuke Yamashita - 1942

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Excellent brand new release.

That's a great way spending time Mike. How's the sound? That set contains so much essential Hill. I wish every Select contained so much new music.

Welcome jazz friend!

A bootleg that’s sounds….. okay but not more than that. Still hoping for a decent reissue. No idea who has Polydor rights right now.

Cold, and going to be another cold day. At least I ran my errands yesterday and can hunker down at home today. I hope. Pulled out “Mingus Big Band '93–Nostalgia in Times Square” Dreyfus Jazz cd This was a great unit and this disc sounds great this morning.

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February 26 Trevor Watts - 1939 Saw him with his 'Moire Music Group' in Göttingen, November 10, 2001

Saturday night in SF: Tortoise Plus "Orcutt Shelley Miller", an avant-rock trio comprised of three highly celebrated figures of experimental music: Bill Orcutt (Harry Pussy), Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) and Ethan Miller (Howlin' Rain, Comets On Fire)

At the Big Ears Festival 2 years ago they had a mini-festival of Threadgill shows. He played in some, but not all. I think he attended the shows even if he didn't perform. Here, he was applauding Very Very Circus after their show.

Disc One

I’ve been listening to A Glancing Blow (the Clean Feed live recording) and there’s a segment on there when Parker just starts quoting a Monk tune… not where I’d expect to encounter it!

Renting a car - that sounds right, thinking back. I think over its history, as the U.S. expanded west, cities gradually became more spread out, and not quite as centralized as those in the general northeast quadrant of the country. The Phoenix metropolitan area may be a good example of that. Philadelphia is a fascinating city (more interesting to me in many respects to Phoenix). There are board members in that area that live there and lived there longer than I did, so can speak to it better. In the 1750's Philly was the largest city in the U.S., and the second largest city in the British Empire, behind London. Later the Declaration of Independence was adopted there, and the U.S. Constitution was ratified there as well. Our first two Presidents (George Washington and John Adams) lived and served in Philadelphia while Washington D.C. was being built as well. So there are parts that have some architectural similarities to parts of Europe, but certainly much has grown and evolved since then as well.

Does this mean that Threadgill himself is NOT playing?

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A beautiful album.

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