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R.I.P When I first heard him in 1972, on his ECM LP and with Oregon I was overwhelmed. That band was an Idol for all in the band in whicj I played at the time. A very important early influence.

Here is a nice copy of the recent Who Are You Super Deluxe box set at about half of the new price because this copy is missing the book. It has everything else - CDs, blu-ray, outer box. But no book. The Who – Who Are You 2025 Super Deluxe box set (7 CD/1 Blu-ray), missing book. It contains all 8 discs and the slipcover that holds them, plus the outer slipcover. Missing the book. All is in NM condition - the outer box is still in original shrink wrap with hype sticker attached but the shrink wrap has been opened on side edge to be able to retrieve contents. $65 (+ $7 media mail shipping) U.S. shipping only. Pay pal friends/family

The 50s Blue Note albums are all really enjoyable. Arguably the pinnacle for this style of “functional” hard hop - great players at the top of their game but no dominant voice, on compositions that take a back seat to the playing (unlike Silver or Blakey) but don’t sound generic

"Thinking of Home" is one of my favorite Mobley releases. Yes, I hear a bit of the change in his sound due to his encroaching illness, but I just love the compositions and arrangements here. Right now I try sometimes but I can’t stay away from Ellington. These World Transcription recordings are in great fidelity and showcase some great compositions. Duke Ellington And His Orchestra “Volume Five - 1945” Circle cd

Way better than I expected, includes strong covers of Tyner's "Contemplation" and Hubbard's "Little Sunflower", and a good Cedar Walton tune, "When Love is New", averaging 14 minutes each.

And if you've ever wanted to hear the stritch outside of Roland Kirk, it's played very well on this record:

Sounds like something I might like. Oh.....Beaver Harris 😄 Buster Williams 😄 I saw Larry Coryell only once but liked it very much. It was shortly after he had recorded with Sonny Rollins ("Don´t Ask!")

I think I might give it another try. I have it somewhere but I doubt I listened to it more than twice. If I remember, I was a bit disappointed by the sound of Hank´s tenor and had the impression, that his lung problems had started since he sounds if he was very short of breath... But as I said, maybe if I don´t have anything better to do, I´ll give it another try.... oh oh ! this might be something for ME !!!! I am so much into those more spiritual kinds of the music now, late Trane, Pharoah, Albert Ayler and Alice Coltrane I might love it. Seems to be a must for me. And .....Pharoah Sanders is.....maybe my most favourite of all of them....watch out my upcoming album with an original I dedicated to him !

I don´t see the point, Hank Mobley was one of my favourites and sure of a lot of fans and I think there is an increasing interest in his music. Music students get better and better and really dig what was stuff. So I don´t really care if Hank Mobley smoked or not. I practically grew up in jazz joints with all that smoke in cellar clubs, I was underage when I started to go to them joints, and like all of us guys I started to smoke early. Right now I couldn´t imagine to smoke in a club, that´s over, indifferent whether it´s allowed or not, it´s just out of fashion. If you want to smoke, you go out in front of the door during intermission or so, that´s everybody´s own business, but I am glad my clothes and my hair don´t smell smokey anymore.

I remember I saw and heard her in Miles´ band from late 1985. Mike Stern had returned after Scofield left, and I must admit I liked Stern more in Miles´ band than Scofield, maybe for a lot of you that might be a sacrilege but Stern had more the power I enjoyed from Miles guitarists from 1973 on....(Reggie Lucas, Pete Cosey !). Yes, I remember Marilyn Manzur had a special solo spot and maybe also danced a bit. But in general it was not the most memorable Miles Concert: I saw him in the same year in summer and somehow the band, or Miles himself had more power, and as I remember the November 85 concert was the only Miles Concert I ever saw that was not sold out ! Maybe there was a kind of unsureness of Miles where to go next musically, since the deal with Columbia ended and it was before the deal with Warner Brothers.

RIP, I still remember when I first heard Oregon's album Distant Hills.

In any order: Billy Harper - Black Saint Billy Harper - In Europe Cecil Taylor - Winged Serpent Henry Threadgill - Spirit of Nuff Nuff Joseph Jarman - Black Paladins Julius Hemphill - Flat Out Jump Suite Mal Waldron - Seagulls of Kristiansund Mal Waldron - Crowd Scène Marc Copland - Paradiso Micha Mengelberg - Change of the Season Steve Lacy and Mal Waldron - Sempre Amore Steve Lacy - Revenue Steve Lacy - The Window Steve Lacy - Trickles

RIP

What a wonderful musician he was. RIP.

RIP, sir.

Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio at Windmills.

Lee Konitz, Jazz a Confronto (Horo)

Ernest Dawkins, Afro Straight (Delmark)

That is terrible, such a wonderful acoustic guitarist. I saw him several times with Oregon, and twice in solo concerts, the last a few years ago at the Big Ears Festival.

Ornette Coleman, Opening the Caravan of Dreams Ronald Shannon Jackson, Live at the Caravan of Dreams Ronald Shannon Jackson, When Colors Play Ronald Shannon Jackson, Earned Dreams James Blood Ulmer, Live at the Caravan of Dreams James Clay, David Newman, Cornell Dupree, Texas Jazz Reunion, Return to the Wide Open Spaces George Coleman, Manhattan Panorama Buddy Guy, The Real Deal

Ah, too bad.