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Fantastic book with a very valuable CD.

One of the very first jazz CDs I ever bought was Brilliant Corners. It is an OJC edition, but doesn't have the standard OJC spine with the white notch on top-- it's all black; so is the back, and it doesn't have the white box with the blurb. Having initially never seen an OJC CD I thought nothing of it, but have since wondered what edition this is. And now I just received a copy of The Unique Thelonious Monk and it has the same-style spine and back. Anyone know what these are? I wondered if they were early OJCs or something, but I have a very early CD of Dolphy's Out There and that also has the regular design. Like I said, pointless but I've always wondered.

Very nice. There was also a recent On Point about Szwed's book.

Lots and lots of piano trios, esp. 50s vintage. (Not Ahmad though!)

Gus Janssen is awesome.

Des Moines!? Fucking kill me now. I hate my life.

https://twitter.com/wolterwierbos/status/583222049813983232 Click that link for the image. The gist: Braxton, Bynum, Wooley, Laubrock, Chancey, Fei, Halvorson, Tomeka, Testa, & Seabrook from the US, plus the usual Dutch suspects.

Another vote for Walls-Bridges, a long-time favorite. Looking forward to picking up the Blackwell box for the full 2-disc set.

I super dig those early LPs from Minnesota. I can't remember if you're into psych, but all those late 60s/70s Michael Yonkers LPs are excellent. I believe he is credited with production or engineering on at least one of Fine's LPs. Yeah, I heard a few of those back in the day by dint of having lots of MPLS friends. Not a very committed psych head, but I dig those ones and things here and there.

I watched 75%, will finish tonight. Fucking insane. I've never delved too deep into it so a lot of the information was new to me (and apparently there's much, much, much more than the film got into). I'd like to follow up with the book of the same name. The footage from the Cruise thing was bizarre, but the stuff from their 1993 summit was unreal-- you have to see it to believe it. The film does a good job of framing Scientology as fully capitalist venture, and a truly ruthless one at that. It was interesting to learn more about Hubbard and to see just how "accurate" PTA's film The Master was in summarizing his character and the beginnings of the cult.

I had that one on my watch list I buy from that seller very often. I had two things go undelivered, but all other exchanges have gone off no problem.

I very recently bought his collected poems. Very fine stuff.

I'd love to hear Heartplants. Fat chance!

How the hell did you score The Bim? Never seen that for less than $125

Great! There is not enough love in the world to go around for Myra and her amazing music.

Upgrade & Afterlife is the bomb.

Holy crap. Enjoy!

Another one: http://www.discogs.com/Art-Ensemble-Of-Chicago-The-Fred-Anderson-Live-At-Earshot-Jazz-Festival-2002/release/6190092

Yep, stunning record. Reminiscent of doom metal to me.

It was a sub-specialty Warner label, and can essentially be considered as such. The title in a case like this is a mere formality and is essentially for vanity purposes.

Shit!!!!

I love this set of music by Ed Wilkerson, Tomeka Reid, and Scott Hesse:

Agreed on the Lovanos that were mentioned, plus the first few Mehldau trios, Joshua Redman's Mood Swing, and Kenny Garrett's Pursuance. Very fine mainstream work.

Indeed.

As a spin-off from the Verve thread, let's use this space to list some of the great jazz records released by major labels in the 1990s (and late 80s I suppose). Like I said over there, labels like Verve, Blue Note, RCA, A&M, Ryko, Columbia and others had thriving jazz lines. It's sad to see all of these programs crater in the last 10-15 years and to see all of this music go OOP (though it is available very cheaply secondhand in most cases). Hopefully a few new-to-some titles will turn up in the discussion. Some I enjoy: Sun Ra, Don Cherry, and Cecil Taylor on A&M Steve Lacy on RCA/Novus Steve Lacy, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp/Roswell Rudd on Verve Randy Weston, Charlie Haden & Jackie McLean on Verve/Gitanes Abby Lincoln on Verve Don Pullen, Andrew Hill, Jason Moran, Stefon Harris, Ralph Peterson Fo'tet and Geri Allen on Blue Note Dave Douglas on RCA Myra Melford, John Carter, and Clusone 3 on Ryko/Grammavision Don Byron on Nonesuch and Blue Note Alvin Batiste's Late on Columbia DIW reissues via Columbia by David Murray, David S Ware, et al