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Additionally, the label's updated packaging is some of the nicest I've ever seen.

Great news. I do wish it had all of BALLETS though!

Given that 95%+ of the world vinyl is horrible shit, please go for it. Melt all that Mancini into nothing, PLEASE.

Braxton - Santa Cruz Broke a bit of a personal rule to never spend more than $35 on a single CD, but at $45 I doubt I could do much better. It surely would've run close to that at Tower Records ca. 1998 anyways. Looking forward to it!!

The Kidd Jordan set is endlessly rewarding.

Very inspiring.

I had a pal who's wheelhouse is very exclusively pop and rock who used to troll the hell out of IHM. I think they banned him. But they had a nice community there, if a bit stiff.

I don't want to go down a rabbit hole of shit talking this guy, 'cause he genuinely doesn't bother me, but anyone who's read his blog can see perfectly where he's coming from, and jazz is not his home base. Personally I don't have a lot of use for these types, but they're more than entitled to their place in the conversation, and it's better in the long run to have people unpredisposed to this music come to it and have their say. Really not a big deal, but ...

It's made up. Sonny had nothing to do with it.

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/sonny-rollins-words "Satire" or "humor" apparently. Getting at what I don't know. This offends me less as a jazz fan than as a thinking person and a reader. Prose journalism has been in a state of free fall these last several years and inane junk like this only solidifies my opinion. But yeah, it's also terribly insulting to use a living person's likeness in this way without their knowledge. I'd say TNY could do better but these days I don't really think so. The twin evils of "Gladwellification" and "Feedification" have torpedoed the balance of intelligent print institutions but I guess that's another conversation. Pathetic.

Very excited to have finally scored a copy of Lee Konitz at the Half Note (Verve 2xCD).

Emphasis: some, some

Thoughts?

You should rectify that once and for all: buy Camera Obscura and Aurora. You'll never forget who Sara Serpa is after that.

More Okka re-ups: Fred Anderson - Birdhouse and Destiny. The latter is one I've especially wanted to hear (w/ Marilyn Crispell & Hamid). Glad to see the balance of this catalogue in print once again. If it can be done, it should be done.

Some nice music there. Is that the original "Baraka" or the new reissue? I'm guessing original. It was from eBay.

Agreed. I think he managed to do something totally complimentary to Monk's music and not everyone can say that. Two of the original masters gone this week.

DKV Trio - Baraka AALY + Ken Vandermark - Live at the Glenn Miller Café Italian Instabile Orchestra - Skies of Europe Vinny Golia/Joëlle Léandre/Ken Filiano - Haunting The Spirits Inside Them

$15 shipped in the US for the lot: George Shearing/Red Norvo Trio - Midnight on Cloud 69 (Jazz Heritage, but full color repro of Savoy CD) Dizzy Gillespie - School Days (Jazz Heritage, but full color repro of Savoy CD) Ralph Burns - Bijou Woody Herman - 1963 (mini LP) V/A - The Best of Musicraft Jazz (Dizzy, Duke, Sassy, Teddy Wilson, Raeburn, & more ... good stuff) Chris Tyle's Silver Leaf Jazz Band - New Orleans Wiggle (Penguin Crown holder)

Lucky you. Those damn FMPs...

^^^ You're a brave man.

Good a place to ask as any: my Trost copy of THE LIVING MUSIC has Schoof and Schlippenbach identified as the other on the back. Is this switch native to the original LP?

I could be wrong, but I find that Instagram makes embedding pretty impossible. I've had luck doing this: 1) Go to the instagram website and log in 2) Go to the 'page' for the picture you want 3) Right click 'View Page Source' 4) Down a ways you will find a url that ends in .jpeg That's the url for your photo. 5) Copy this url and paste as usual. That's how I was able to do this: Very convoluted, I know. Maybe there's a better way? But for some reason IG doesn't encourage this.

Re: Long Story Short and the much-lauded Brotzmann/Ghania/Laswell/Drake improvisation ... I went into this one wary of Bill Laswell's presence, and maybe that colored my reaction to it, but (esp. compared to the Wels concert with the trio on Okka listed above) he pretty much ruined it for me. It sounded less like an improvisation and more like a jam. Not good. His sound is cheesy and I felt like he marshaled the other players into a pretty fixed structure that created easy vamps and crescendos. Clearly I'm in the minority on this one, but that's what I heard. For me one of the great highlights was the Brotzmann/Satoh/Moriyama track. I really need to pick up their album on Not Two for more of that. I also dug the Tentet + John Tchicai, DKV +3, & Bro/Adasiewicz/Toyozumi, among others. I went through the set in a week on my commute and it blew my brains out so I'm not sure when I'll be in the mood to revisit it again.