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Congratulations Georghe. I hope this year is better for you and I’m looking forward to listening to it.

Ted Nash maybe - not sure.

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Congrats. Sounds good!

I really enjoyed it. The interviews and footage were top notch. Made me want to deep dive Sun Ra afterwards. Don't know if anyone else caught the King Records doc right after but the first 15 mins of that were great. Hopefully the PBS app allows streaming of these.

I didn't know he was American. Brubeck I can understand. Who in 2026 really loves his style?

Just finished it. Very enjoyable. Thoreau once said "in wildness is the preservation of the world" or something like that. With Sun Ra: in weirdness is the preservation of the cosmos. In a world that is pressing for sameness and homogeneity, this strangeness is salvation.

When you were on a 28.8 dial-up modem, you rarely read every post to these newsgroups. You had to pick and choose. You could only tie up you landline for so long.

There seems to be a lot of other junk in that group.

Yes, American based in the Netherlands... I've read that comparison often but I wouldn't know of an interview where he says this himself.... Btw Lewis Porter has an interesting pair of posts on why Brubeck has not been much of an influence on other pianist https://lewisporter.substack.com/t/brubeckdave

This was recently reissued as a OJC. Wonder if they got the rights from Craft.

I say it again, Pramsohler is the greatest. I will buy all of his CDs. Audax is his label, btw.

That's interesting. The dutch player? Did he say this somewhere? I sort of missed Clusone at the time, and I have never really got to grips with his music as a result, although I always enjoyed their records.

My feeling is the TPs should stick to instrumental jazz.

I love this one! Carmelo Garcia and Carlos Vidal are great.

“A Portrait of Duke” Frank Roberscheuten, a Dutch recording of great Ellington tunes on Arbor cd

This looks like another re-re-rerecyled reissue for incurable upgraders. I'm extremely selective about what Sinatra records I feel I need in my record collection anyway, so I for one will stick with my reissue by Dutch Capitol (Vol. 4 in the "The Frank Sinatra Story" LP series).

Listening again to the instrumental remixes of the first two LP sides of Yes “Tales from Topographic Oceans” in the 12-cd 2 LP Super Deluxe Edition.

Michael Moore was the first name that came to my mind

I wouldn't say Immanuel Wilkins "claims primary inspiration" from Desmond--I'd be very surprised if he did--but I hear strong elements of his sound at time in Wilkin's own sound. I love them both.

A master pianist with a wonderful big band. Nice way to start off what should be a cooler cloudy day. Adullah Ibrahim and WDR Big Band Cologne “Bombella (Gold Train-South Africa)” Sunnyside cd

Norman Connors should be listed as Etc. Since he allegedly ruined the date.