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Yes, he should have been given this to listen to since it could be him.

Originally from DC, now in California. I really like her voice. I am fussy about vocalists Is there a new date yet?

So too late to change the 'personnel unknown'. Some sleuths may figure it out after the fact.

Whether it goes where we are hoping it goes is mostly out of my hands. It took years of cajoling this guy to get as far as I got. Five years ago, we were at 'I think I still have some tapes in my basement, I will try to dig them up one day'.

Thanks for finding the clips! A first listen does not rule out the possibility that it is Nichols. There is no smoking gun one way or the other.

Oh, OK, I see your point. Isn't Chewy an attorney in his 40s by now? His youthful exuberance must surely have been tempered by now. I feel the urge to call up Lou Donaldson suddenly. Good times.

What other acetates might be in there?

Not sure I follow. Chewy has expressed the correct opinion that an archive is the ultimate destination for such material. This does not preclude the possibility of commercialization. I was just adding the information that the Left Bank DC chapter also has a Hank Mobley recording. I am pursuing all the angles I can to ensure proper preservation of this material. My goal is to avoid another Uptown Left Bank debacle.

Working on it. They have a Hank tape also. Be patient.

Lord does not even list that one.

They have no been at Morgan State for years.

It was sponsored by the DC chapter of Left Bank, and the concert took place in Hyattsville, MD.

Another mystery. Philip Glass had a label with a similar name, but much later. Did they ever release anything? Who owned it? Could it be a demo and Sheila just slapped a bogus name on it? Who still alive played/recorded with Herbie Nichols. We have Sheila, Steve Swallow and Archie Shepp. Larry Ridley did a gig with him. Who else?

There are a lot of gaps in the story, and not much time to fill them since it is coming out next month. I am working under the assumption that Capri would prefer to identify the personnel before the release date. I assume they have made some attempts at doing so, but what attempts we don't know. How long ago did they find this? - Sheila does not remember the session or the personnel. Has she listened to it and still recognized no one? - Some names were thrown in the mix, including Herbie Nichols and Steve Swallow. Has Swallow been given an audition copy? David Frishberg is not mentioned, but he preceded Herbie. Another guy I would give an audition copy to. - Have any Herbie Nichols experts been asked to weigh in? From his reply on Facebook, it seems Mark Miller was not asked. If it were me, I would run it by Duck Baker and a few others. - The media got a preview track. Can any journalist say for sure it is not Nichols? I will ask around. There are some more avenues to pursue.

I was able to get Eastern Moods as MP3s through my Public Library, so at least I have heard it. Would love to see it on CD, I have all the others on CD.

(will post the comments here for those who avoid Facebook, check for updates) Me: In the discussion about the new Roy Brooks Left Bank CD on the Organissimo Jazz Forum, the question came up about the food that was sold during Left Bank concerts. Did people usually bring their own food for the most part or did they buy it? And it was BYOB, correct? BYOB but Left Bank supplied table set ups (Chips, pretzels etc.) most attendees brought food and there was some smoking chicken served for sale from the kitchen. And I mean finger licking good! And Gladys the cake lady. Fried chicken and set-ups. You could always get a pint across the street at the Wigwam It was great to see folks arriving still dressed in their ‘Sunday best’ church garb, some of the gentlemen had small briefcases that contained flasks and shot glasses and jiggers. LBJS provided the ice!

Watched my friend Danielle's livestream tonight. It will be up on YouTube for a while: (125) Danielle Wertz - 08-7-2021 - YouTube

I think it was BYOB. but you could bring your own food, or buy. Let me ask on the Facebook group.

Hmmm...So maybe they did not look at the page of photos in that Yearbook.

Does it say that Robert Torrence is the photographer? This does sound like one of the ones I saw yesterday...

I saw the collection yesterday - great material. Some photos in the Yearbook of Groove Holmes gigs, but not enough clues to put a date on the Micky Fields record.

I saw a Yearbook yesterday in the Left Bank collection at UMBC that had a page of photos from the gig. That might be one of them. The photographer Bob Torrence liked to use that blurring effect a lot, I guess to make sure they looked like they were in action and not posed. Normally, the producers would have access to all the Yearbooks since John Fowler has a complete set. There are some amazing photos in there: Lee Morgan, Jackie McLean, Tyrone Washington with Horace Silver... The originals are probably lost...

What photos are in the booklet of the Understanding CD?

It was never lost, and I think it was already out in some bootleg form. The others in this series were CDrs, so screw that. I have the hour VHS, I thought it was good enough for me. I would buy the CD/DVD if it ever came out officially. But there are tracks I have never heard, like the one with Jackie McLean.

I took it somewhere about two months ago. So far, so good.