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Where's the info on that?

Thanks. I needed a good laugh as someone who's been here for 20 years, is almost 60, and is a "community regular." Sounds like they are preparing for me for the senior center.

I have it somewhere and never got around to reading it. Is it worth it? Hopefully it's less depressing than Art Pepper's book.

I have always struggled with how to balance an artist's contributions with the more "controversial" aspects of their lives. I was recently reading about the whole Steve Coleman sexual harassment mess and thinking about Chick's Scientology and Miles' abuse... and it's just complicated. I mean I know.... I read Straight Life and I know about Art's behavior... I got nothing new to add... just thinking about how (for me) it's a struggle ignoring stuff like that. More often than not, I do and just listen to the music - but it's a struggle.

Thanks... I find it impossible to keep track of how many ways they splice these up and resell them.

I don't want to rehash this or hijack this thread, but I've got a question. I was looking through my collection and noticed that I didn't have Miles Davis and John Coltrane: The Final Tour. I'm assuming I didn't buy it because I already had some prior version. I assume the material in that volume was previously released. Was it? What were the titles? Thanks.

Thanks guys. FWIW.. Importcds has the cd set for $70...

That was a hard no... Because most of it has been previously released? What's the diff with the Japanese and US versions? How could 90% of it be previously released, when they're saying it's 4 hours of newly released.

I'm listening to Rambling Boy right now (again). Charlie had a beautiful voice. He was a gift. As I said when I started this thread - I miss him.

More importantly, how do you remember that? I can't remember what I ate last night much less how much I paid for anything a decade ago.

The Left Hand of God from Quartet West's Now is the Hour. Makes me cry every time.

I miss him. I was so lucky to have seen him perform 5-10 times. I truly loved Quartet West and the Liberation Music Orchestra.

This version of America The Beautiful always makes me cry. This was and is one my favorite records. I miss both Brecker and Charlie.

That's about right... :) I dread what they are going to do for the 75th...

So the festival is next weekend. I made a mistake getting a 3-day pass as the lineup is really terrible (in my opinion). I'll probably just go on Saturday. For those who are interested they've put the schedule grid up. https://newportjazz.org/2024-schedule I know George Wein handpicked Christian McBride to program it and I generally really like him... but this festival lineup is BLEH....

Another question... Are these Jubilee sessions precursors to the JATP sets as the Storyville release says? How similar? How different?

Okay, so this is interesting. Do we have any idea of the order and timing of when these sets are going to come out? Six months, two years??

Immensely helpful... thanks.

Okay ... can you guys dumb it down for me? We are talking about 4-5 boxed sets of material from Vanguard (a label?) and not the Village Vanguard and the V-Discs like the Ellington Treasury sets from Storyville. These would be recordings from the 40s and 50s. Is that right?

Okay good to know that I'm not alone on this island. Thanks.

I've finally gotten around to listening to this set and I really like it. It's presented in a way that's similar to those Black Saint/Soul Note boxes that came out a decade or so ago. It was a fantastic price with many (seemingly) unreleased takes. .

I am still waiting for mine to ship. Is there any domestic folks (US) who have not gotten theirs yet?

I guess they're behind. My order says it's still processing.

So let me see if I basically get the summary of this thread... We're kind of screwed and there is no simple/good answer. Is that right?

https://something-else.bandcamp.com/album/soul-jazz?from=discover_page Highly recommended. I got it. Played it once and then had to play it again.