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For the past few days I've been working my way through The Complete Vee Jay Lee Morgan-Wayne Shorter Sessions. I had all of these LP's back in the day, but this set includes a massive number of alternate takes - more quality music to absorb and enjoy!

I hadn't thought about Don for a while, but I'm very saddened to hear that he has passed. His contributions to the music we love are multi-dimensional, and his name has always been hovering around the top of my list of people in the jazz community for whom I have nothing but admiration. R.I.P., Don.

I agree with jazztrain about Sirius. It has taken a bad rap. Obviously Granz did not consider it worthy of release until a decade after it was recorded, but I'm happy to have it. I saw Hawkins at Lennie's around 1966, and while it was clear that age had begun to take its toll, his playing was still reasonably strong and authoratative. I've heard some of the recordings jazztrain cites (on the Storyville he sounds sad). The video snippet from 1969 is hearbreaking.

I will see you there!

The LP was only issued on mono. The producer of the reissue screwed up and used the wrong take for the stereo version.

We are all beholden to him and his monumental efforts. R.I.P.

So he did. My bad. 🤕

Nobody has mentioned the excellent "Live at Newport '58" on Blue Note, which came out in 2008. and which featured trumpeter Louis Smith. One track had been on a Phontastic Newport compilation. Horace also released "Live 1964" on his own Emerald label in 1984. It has never been on CD. I first saw Horace in 1965, not long after the release of "Song For My Father". I was totally blown away, and a few days later I bought the album "Doin' the Thing", mainly because it contained the track "Filthy McNasty", the tune with which he had ended the show that night. From that point on I was a diehard fan, eventually acquiring all of his LP's, including his one non-Blue Note release, "Silver's Blue" on Epic. I began to lose interest when he started the "United States of Mind" series in 1970, incorporating vocals, and the "Silver 'N" series, with Brass, Woodwinds, Strings, Voices, etc, all of which were created with overdubs. He continued the "spiritual' themes on his own Silveto label all through the 80's, although "Spiritualizing the Senses" (1983) is a straight ahead instrumental record, as is the Blue Note release "In Pursuit of the 27th Man" from 1973.

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I'm sorry to hear the sad news. I have both Criss Cross CD's - will take them out and listen very soon.

I attended this year's bash. I've been going to this event since 1978. There was a three year hiatus because of the pandemic, but now it's back. It was nice to see a lot of the old faces, and there were quite a few new ones. Hopefully the new coordinator, Dave Weiner (a long time attendee), was able to end up in the black for the weekend.

The Longhair album was actually licensed from a French label, but he did have the good taste to release it it the US. I enjoyed the series of Hawaiian slack key guitar albums he produced on his Dancing Cat label, by Ray Kane, Sonny Chillingworth, Keola Beamer, Ledward Kaapana, Cyril Pahinui, Cyril Pahinui, and others.

I still lurk regularly around here, although I rarely post. Stereo Jack's is still open, now in a new location in Ball Square, Somerville, under new management. The owner and staff are all former staffers of the Cambridge store. The address is 736 Broadway, Somerville. https://stereojacks.com/