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I'll have to refresh my memory. Drawback of downsizing and shrinking the stacks of books around the house.

Super nice guy!! I didn’t know Paul super well, but I heard/saw him on quite a number of his gigs in KC, and we had lunch a handful of times — and a lovely hang one afternoon in his house and listening room. And he always played a request for me whenever I caught him in small combos with local rhythm sections — often “Beatrice” and “Black Narcissus”.  And he often played a favorite Woody Shaw tune of his for me whenever he could — Paul was a big Shaw fan. And I’m pretty sure I saw Paul with the Woody Herman alums band in KC too (at The Drum room, my main jazz hang) — probably a year or three years before we even met (I forget the exact timing). It was funny, the very first time I actually met Paul — he was playing as an extra with the Westport Art Ensemble, and I chatted him up between sets. And I must have said something — probably about Tyrone Washington and/or Andrew Hill — and he immediately asked me, “Hey, are you on the Organissimo board?  Turns out he’d been lurking here for years! So just from our brief conversation, in less than 2 minutes, he’d figured out who I was here on the board. I immediately copped to being “Rooster_Ties” (such a genuinely weird feeling in that moment, to be ‘known’ just from my ‘personality’ online) — but I also immediately said he REALLY needed to stop lurking, and get in the game and start posting here — which he eventually did in another month or two (I think I had to chide him  about it when I saw him playing a few weeks after our first meeting — after which he finally joined). I can’t overstate what a great, down-to-earth guy Paul always was — generous with his knowledge, and just an all-around wonderful presence. RIP.

It will: https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/UCCI-1062 Just giving the LP a first spin (arrived from Barcelona today) and really enjoying it. Same thought about "Satellite". Too bad Coltrane stuck to relatively few tunes in concerts (often to spectacular results no less, but still)

I started a thread last night in the Forum subforum. Wasn't sure to put it in Artists which it certainly fit ... maybe a mod can combine these.

Sorry to hear of the passing of Paul McKee, trombonist, writer/arranger, jazz educator, yesterday, after a long illness. He posted on org for quite a while under the name Free for All.