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I may have been at one of the concerts these were slected from:

Looking forward to the Oliver Lake volume finally hitting these shores, and can't wait to see what else they pull out of the vaults. All of the first 3 releases are phenomenal, maybe the Blythe most of all.

Got mine yesterday via USPS. Started reading the booklet which has a long quote from Tony Janak in which he explains that the recordings were sent out on 12 inch discs with as many as 60 tunes on a double sided disc. Does anyone know what the playback speed was?

Back perhaps a couple of years ago Ken was diagnosed with an illness, and had to cancel some appearances. After a period of time he returned and seemed to be doing well. I have seen Ken play in person more than a dozen times over the past (roughly) 20 years. He was not only a fine clarinet and saxophone player, but was also a very funny guy who usually made humorous comments at his gigs. He will be missed. R.I.P.

Beethoven Piano Trio No.1 and No.5

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Oh no! That's too young I was listening to his excellent work on that Charlie Byrd record just last night.

Still more Stanley Cowell. This time as a sideman. Charles Tolliver - Mosaic Select 20 Disc 1 - originally released as Live at Slugs', Vols. 1 & 2 on Strata-East

What a player!

More Stanley Cowell:

Sad news, he was phenomenal, especially his many recordings for Concord.

Took me forever, but I finally found it on VHS. VHS!!!!

True. Maybe Frank had some spontaneous RVG moments with his reel-to-reel? 😁 I think some of the Showboat recordings have been on the bootleg market for a while, but I don't know if those are Tiberi recordings or not. I'd be down with that. I'm guessing we'll see vinyl, however. ================= An aside: When I see the name "Frank Tiberi," I don't think of Coltrane recordings at all. Instead, I think of Tiberi's transcribed tenor solo on Chick Corea's "La Fiesta" from Woody Herman's Giant Steps album. My high school jazz band (this was eons ago) played that chart (the actual Herman chart), and Tiberi's solo was written out as an option for the tenor player to use as a solo. My director said, "Yeah, you should learn that solo." I did, and it was weird for a 16 year-old. I didn't understand what I was doing at all, and had no idea how Tiberi was handling the changes. 😅 Here's the track. Tiberi's solo begins at 2:08. Listening to it now, I only remembered the first four bars. (Our band did not play the tune this fast.) It's a good chart though!

RIP to one of the faithful keepers of the flame.

Chick Corea & Origin “A Week at the Blue Note” 6 cd box set, disc 2

R.I.P. That comes as quite a surprise. Ken played tenor (and some alto), but mostly clarinet. He will be remembered for the clarinet. His approach was conservative, but he produced a lot of enjoyable music. I particularly enjoy It's a Lonesome Old Town.

Sure! He will be up there with his admired Pee Wee Russell, with whom he shared that way of playing and improvising without safety net (in Whitney Balliett's words) over quite traditional/mainstream material.

Ken was terrific. R.I.P.

When The Cookers played at Church of Sound here in London a few years back we got to the venue (...a church) quite early and found Billy walking around taking it in. I wish I'd said hello and told him how much I love his music but I don't like to bother musicians.

Wow... at least he went out playing. Saw him a few times and I think the last was as part of an Allen Lowe concert in Brooklyn at IBeam (with Ursula Oppens).