Stereojack

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/

I recently had a conversation with the current owner of Stereo Jack's at its new location, and he confessed to me that because they have less display space than at the old store, they simply don't have enough room for the many rows of dollar bins. ☹️

I can only speak about the dollar bin at my store, but the pricing had nothing to do with condition. There were many gems to be found in the dollar bin, and they were there simply because they were items that we had determined that customers wouldn't pay any more for. New customers routinely asked about the condition of the records in the dollar bin, and we reassured them that everything was in clean condition. Of course times are changing, and perhaps a dollar isn't what it used to be! Many stores may now feel that records that will only bring a dollar just aren't worth putting out.

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I followed the band on record at the time, had the first four LP's. I was in the audience for their Woodstock appearance, and they were quite good, as I recall. Haven't heard them in years, but it's nice to know that their catalog has been made available again.

I first saw him with George Benson's quartet back in 1966. Oh man, that was 56 years ago! Great player, always dependable. R.I.P., Ronnie.

The JHB album on Columbia was a favorite in my house back in the day.

With the recent death of Barry Harris at 91, I got to wondering how many major jazz artists are still with us over 90? So far, I've been able to come up with five: Sonny Rollins, 91 Kenny Burrell, 90 Roy Haynes, 96 Lou Donaldson, 95 Bill Crow, 94 Any others?