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Japan has used the original LT covers when reissuing those records. Yet another point for Japan.

I agree that record is excellent. Not sure I’d put it on having a romantic diner with my wife though…

From the bin from my local thiftstore. Few tracks into this ... Rhymin' On The Funk = my kind of hip-hop

While there are a number of Patrick Roques BN covers that I do like — Mothership isn’t one of them I’m afraid. Don’t really care for the use multiple colors in the lettering in Larry’s name and the album name — nor the filled-in color in the ‘o’ letters in “Young” and “Mother”. And the colors in general aren’t a pallet that feels as much like a classic BN cover as some. That said… I do like that “Mothership” is all concatenated together as if it’s just one word. I guess (I know) it was always two words originally (at least on the LT series LP) — but simply as a matter of (my) personal preference, I’ve always called the album Mothership, and not Mother Ship.

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Indeed!

For those who don't know his owrk, here's the video of his farewell concert at the FRankfurt music university, where he had been teaching for eleven years.

I really liked his voice when he read the stories submitted to NPR's National Story Project.

A good sample of Guy's work as a photographer is contained here.

Bunny Berigan “1936-1937” Chronogical Classics cd

These recent Muse reissues are focused on music that is, for the most part, not of interest to me. There are a large number of Muse recordings not yet reissued that do very much appeal to me. However, as I have the original Muse CD issues of the music I care for, no worries on my part.

These 2 alto players work well together supported by an outstanding rhythm section of Kenny Barron, Buster Williams, and Jack DeJohnette. A very good album.

Beethoven -String Quartets Op.18/1 & Op.18/2 - Cleveland Quartet

Brötzmann did release an LP titled 14 Love Poems (inspired by Kenneth Patchen), which is quite excellent.

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R.I.P. ...

I don't know that Blue Note will use that Connoisseur CD cover. They've been re-designing many (most?) of Patrick Roques covers for some reason. Someone over on the Hoffman forums claimed to know why this is happening but says that he was asked not to relay the rationale behind this. Maybe Roques managed to get a copyright for that particular use, so it can't be used for a different use without further compensation?

There is discussion of Bob Btookmeyer’s unissued recordings that might be issued in the future. I sent Michael a couple of broadcasts that he didn’t know about, one was the premiere of Brookmeyer’s “Celebration” featuring Gerry Mulligan, the other a duet with Jim Hall in Stockholm with Red Mitchell joining them on a few songs. Scott Robinson has some unissued Brookmeyer music which he would like to release on his ScienSonic label. it was also a nice surprise to see one of my Brookmeyer reviews quoted in the book.

Big fan of the Ian Carr book here. Bought it in hardback when it came out here in 1982 (not long before the Hammersmith Odeon gig I saw) and at that time there were no books out here on Miles. From my recollections, when Carr interviewed Miles in London in the early 80s he was aware of the book and Carr and viewed it favourably.