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The Last Thing He Told Me - Apple+

Today, the Fort Worth Afro-American Roots Music Festival, the area's best music festival. I heard: The Sable Sisters (with Kaia Kater), Ann Harris, Jake Blount, and Sunny War. The Sable Sisters and Sunny War were both really great. Ann Harris, on solo violin and vocals, was also impressive.

The McCoy track, while good, is sorta an outlier. I like Japanese comps of Blue Note work for their track selection. Always a few (if small) surprises.

See You At The Fair

The Spotlite set is warmly recommended. I like the Japanese edition. Purchase (for now) right here.

Peaky Blinders movie - Netflix

I've seen Rathbun perform many times but it's been a long time since he toured around here. Maybe this is why?

I still keep hoping that soulstation1 posts to this thread but my fear is that he is no longer with us.

Bob Dylan “John Wesley Harding” Mobile Fidelity Lab (stereo) SACD I used to obsess over this album earlier in my life. I still love to hear it.

Joined March 9, 2003. Bounced back & forth between here & the BNBB (mainly to watch Heaney & Albertson argue). I remember Jazz Central Station, too. Regular poster thru 2012. Occasional lurker since then. Glad the board is still going and grateful for the friendships developed over the years. I still listen to old Blindfold Tests from years back; lots of great memories associated with those. I *really* miss the old Jazz Trading Post.

a couple that I “ripped”…

Redman, Mehldau, McBride and Blade “Long Gone” Nonesuch cd

If you want to get it all in one whack, that set is probably your best bet. There are other releases I think might sound a bit better on cd, for example all the Bird material that Savoy/Denon Japan released I personally prefer for Savoy, but that's a lot of discs not assembled in a set, and does not have the Dial material. The Spotlite might be the best way to go for Dial. In my opinion now, decades after scurrying and collecting the material, the differences in most of the releases is not VAST and for listening and studying and enjoying Bird most will suffice. . . with that Atlantic/Savoy set probably the most sensible score.

If I'm looking for more than just the master takes, is the 8CD Savoy and Dial box preferred? Or are there better discs that have the complete Savoy and Dial sides separately? I know there's this set for the Dial sides on Spotlite, for instance, that I've heard good things about.

Marcos Valle “Estatica” Far Out cd A friend of mine recommended this cd to me and I am glad I picked it up. A nice mix of styles, sounding like a 'seventies music but also more contemporary, and good sound.

Bassoonist Michael Rabinowitz with bassist Steve LaSpina plus a guitarist and drummer.

Amina Claudine Myers: Song For Mother E Leo Records CD LR 935 [UK 2023]