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Even if you (one) doesn't care for the orchestra side—though how could you not like "Flute Salad"??—there's no disputing that the charts are played flawlessly. Especially that opening bass clarinet line. You never hear a breath or a split note. I only wish Nelson had stepped a little closer to the mike. The quartet sides are badass, especially with the addition of "Straight No Chaser" and "Example 78" as bonus tracks. Ron Carter sounds great on "Elegy for A Duck." That's one hip bass vamp. And notice how the tune is a clever nod to "Take Five." I wonder what made Nelson decide to pick up the soprano for this album. He plays it so well...it's not simply a "double" for him.

My most frequently listened to Mosaic.

Ron Carter, not Richard Davis. My bad. They also did this one: Not Ohio. But this one was: One side Stokes, on side Oliver. Both are interesting!

A Carnegie Hall concert from November 23, 1946. First issued on a Italian lp on the Queen label. The four non V-disc tracks from that concert have never been reissued since.

Flying Dutchman was a fascinating record label in a fascinating era. The drone thing doesn't make sense for my neighborhood with our quarter-acre lots, maybe somewhere more ex-urban where the houses are father apart.

RIP, tragic stuff. And one of the notworthy high profile responses to it was sickening. The Princess Bride is by far the most quoted movie in our household.

Hard to keep the list short...

I have greatly appreciated Tad's contributions to this board, hope to pick up the paperback eventually.

I remember Ohio. Oh, that one's got Richard Davis and James Spaulding

My stuff got here, apparently when I was home, and no shootings reported on my street that day. Welcome to Ohio😁

I have had one CD and several CDrs stop playing. The CDrs that failed were not burned by myself. They were sold as a regular CDs and I got a CDrs instead.

Have this, puts me in the mood, a good one! NP

I helped the author - providing recordings and photos - so I plan to pick this up probably out of Christmas Amazon gift card. I don't know if it will be at the top of my reading stack but I will post when I get to it. BTW I started a thread in the Jazz in Print subforum.

Unfortunately, I've never heard Blakey play live, but from recordings, I think Blakey's playing from the 80s onward occasionally featured off-rhythm or unstable moments. If it's a decline in hearing, that makes sense.

and in 60 years, historians may read this post and speculate whether it was one of the triggers for the miserable documentation of discographical data in the 2030s but, yes, the hobby historian in me also only comes out for the old stuff, it's what hobby historians do

For contemporary music, it does not bother me. When artists were playing and even revording on a daily or weekly basis, it made sense to refer to sessions by exact dates - today, alas, it is not really relevant.

As Bertrand said. I like Junior Cook's playing a lot. Would love to get some reviews of this book before laying out the money.

This is a REALLY good set!

The Last Mile is not in sight in this neighborhood!!! I don't see the efficiency either. I routinely see drivers park, get several deliveries in hand, and then sprint between houses before getting back on the truck and then moving on to do it again. Brave new world, this is

Mixed feelings about the orchestra side, I get that. But that quartet side is something else again!