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Henry Threadgill - Listen Ship (preorder)

There was more to them than just the hits, namely a very keen humor and ears to match. RIP, and I will always laugh with you, not at you (except for that "Magdalena" thing....)

I'll take that as the compliment I believe you meant it to be.

I loved The Turtles. R.I.P.

Proof that humor belongs in music. Not anybody can do it the way he did it. R.I.P. I still have that 45. Hilarious.

This evening:

https://variety.com/2025/music/news/mark-volman-dead-turtles-happy-together-1236509450/

Mimi Jones: Feet in the Mud. Hot Tone Music HTM 108 [US 2016]

👍 - as Verve Records V6-8396 [US 1961] on my shelf ...

Or at all 😒. For sure. You have to pre-order to be safe.

I am retiring in two months and I have done enough experimenting and playing around with equipment over the years, that i want to just lock in on an open baffle sound thatvI love. I like that I can swap out the driver and crossover if I want to.

Sometimes, I wonder what it means that, at least on this board, my interests regarding new releases seem to be closest to someone who is exactly 40 years and a month older than me... I guess it means that great taste skips generations at times.... (my favorite releases this year so far are the Amina Claudine Myers solo album, Shakkei by Alexandra Grimal and Giovanni di Domenico as well as Tilburg Noord by Mete Erker but that's all more lowkey/local stuff compared to Fieldwork) what I bought these days: My first "Tonepoet", heavily discounted, Picture of Heath, and At the Piano by Hampton Hawes

José Roberto Bertrami - Blue Wave (Milestone, 1983)

Thanks. I saw a bunch of October Ultra-Vybes on DG earlier today (mostly Bluiett) but didn't get to those titles. Agreed on ordering procedure. Four to five CDs used to be about my "line in the sand" for cdjapan (lower price but higher shipping) vs. DG. But I can't imagine various entities getting their s**t together any time soon. And Japanese reissues are generally carpe diem.

I have a friend who used to always have his entire collection for sale on discogs at the prices he was willing to part with things ... which led to prices that were completely disconnected from the market for the stuff he really wanted to keep... that Ayler box sure is a prized possession in this household...

Fieldwork: Thereupon

I ended up putting in a fairly large order of random used CDs from Dusty Groove. The main CD that caught my attention was Charlie Rouse - Soul Mates (Uptown), largely curious about the interplay between Rouse and Sahib Shihab, but I also got Eddie Harris There Was a Time (Echo of Harlem) (Enja), Larry Young's Mothership (possibly have this in some form already, LP??, but it was cheap), a couple of George Wallington CDs, and Lou Donaldson's Play the Right Thing (Milestone). I suspect I'll end up paying some import fees, but I'll find that out in a week or so.

https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/release/music/jazz-fusion/month/2025/10?periods=1 Some very desirable MPS albums being reissued on Ultra Vybe CD's in October. The three I'm thrilled by are Billy Harper - Trying to Make Heaven My Home, Hannibal Marvin Peterson - Hannibal, and Hannibal Marvin Peterson - Hannibal in Berlin. I'm going the Dusty Groove pre-order route on those three rather than risking CDJapan reciprocal tariff chaos, despite their much lower unit prices ($13.50 rather than DG's $18.99)/

Dollar Brand/Abdullah Ibrahim - Blues for a Hip King: The African Recordings (Kaz Records, rel. 1988)

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