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I xeroxed them all at the Library of Congress and I assumed that Mosaic had none left for years. However, on Herbie Nichols' centennial on 1/3/2019, I was at the RVG studio for a celebration. A dozen family members were there and Don Sickler had a booklet for each of them, which made me assume that Mosaic still had leftovers. So I put it out there in case someone had duplicates that sometimes came with the sets but you are right, I should contact Scott also.

Anyone have an extra Herbie Nichols, Tina Brooks, Larry Young or Freddie Redd booklet? I got all of those as single CDs.

Jim is referencing Family Circus. Time for an intervention. Take two Aylers and call me in the morning. Yes, that's it. Does Wayne play on it at all? How long is it? I assume I know the composer

Or 'Z' as in Zev. You know what should come out legally - WR live in Berlin 1971. Some tracks with three extra horns. Amazing version of Moto Grosso Feio.

The actual title is Man on Mercury.

The Forecast Tomorrow compilation included an unissued studio take of Directions. I wonder how much more studio material there is. I know Mysterious Traveler had a bonus cut on a Japanese release that I have never found.

That is why I asked! This has always puzzled me. Maybe it was titled later. Or the date is wrong. There is someone who might have an idea.

I don't know any more than what is in the Sonny thread, alas.

Which Hutcherson piece?

There is a Cherry bio in the works. I will try to dig up the email with the author's name. Edit: The biographer is Magnus Nygren, who is involved in the book above. BUT the blurb says this: 'and Don Cherry biographer Magnus Nygren' so he may be working on a separate book.

I am not even sure there will be an LP. Too much music to fit and remember the pact between all the labels that the CD and LP have to match note for note. Backstory: this was going to be recorded in NYC and then everything shut down, so Joe recorded it in North Carolina where he lives. It was hard to find a studio...

Any suggestions on how to remove all the blank spaces? They are not there when I edit, but show up when I post - I guess cut and paste does not work well here.

The Panama Jazz Festival premiered the video of Wayne Shorter's final concert (as they are calling it) in Panama in January 2018. You can watch it until 11:30PM EST tomorrow 1/23 - it requires a donation of $5 or more (it is a 30-minute concert). The Carrington/Davis/Jeanty set from last Saturday 1/16 is excellent: Horarios » Panama Jazz Festival 2021 Also, my friend Terry Koger from Baltimore celebrated Jackie McLean tonight, I think it will be available forever: (44) Terry Koger Quintet - 90th Birthday Tribute to John "Jackie" Lenwood McLean (1931 - 2006) - YouTube

Joe Chambers asked me to share the press release for his forthcoming Blue Note recording. (Disclaimer: I have no financial interest in this recording) On February 26, the venerated multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe Chambers will release ‘Samba de Maracatu’, a notable Blue Note Records return for a significant figure in the label’s history. The album’s Brazilian flavored title track, which is available today to stream or download, was composed by Chambers and features him performing vibraphone, drums, and percussion with Brad Merritt on keyboards and Steve Haines on bass. The album is a nine-song set of original compositions, standards, and pieces by Wayne Shorter, Bobby Hutcherson, and Horace Silver. In the mid-to-late 1960s, Chambers played drums for numerous Blue Note luminaries appearing on some of the decade’s most progressive albums including Shorter’s ‘Adam’s Apple’ and ‘Etcetera’, Hutcherson’s ‘Components’ and ‘Happenings’, Freddie Hubbard’s ‘Breaking Point’, Joe Henderson’s ‘Mode for Joe’, Sam Rivers’ ‘Contours’, Andrew Hill’s ‘Andrew!!!’, Donald Byrd’s ‘Fancy Free’, and many more. The label’s owners – Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff – offered Chambers a chance to record his own album for the imprint during that fertile period, but he was riding so high on recording and touring with so many jazz greats that he declined the opportunity. Chambers eventually did release his own Blue Note debut ‘Mirrors’ in 1998 featuring trumpeter Eddie Henderson, saxophonist Vincent Herring, pianist Mulgrew Miller, and bassist Ira Coleman. On 'Samba de Maracatu', Chambers asserts himself more as a mallet player, particularly on the vibraphone. Throughout the album, he uses the vibraphone as the lead melodic and improvisational voice that often converses with Merritt’s piano accompaniments and solos. While ‘Samba de Maracatu’ isn’t a Brazilian jazz album in the strictest sense, Chambers utilizes various rhythms and indigenous Brazilian percussion instruments on several pieces, including the title track, which references the syncretic Afro-Brazil rhythms that originated in the northeast region of Brazil.

I heard the opening track, surprisingly hard-boppish!

I had it but it got lost in the Atlantic Fire.

Also known as Scoochie and Skoo Chee! The owner of Whisky Jazz is named Bourbon???

I like the way you think!

I bought it, and you are correct. Clearly he was a last minute addition. He sounds great, definitely worth it for Booker fans. I am pretty sure Booker's Blues is not the same piece he recorded for Candid.

Thanks! This makes it clearer how this came about. So Booker and Nuria only meet on three tracks. Does Booker solo on those?

Núria Feliu, Tete Montoliu, Erich Peter, Booker Ervin & Billie Brooks by Núria Feliu on Amazon Music - Amazon.com Trying to fill in my last gaps in the Ervin discography. I saw this one can be downloaded on Amazon for $8.99. It seems Booker gets a fair amount of solo space from the sound clips. Is he on all tracks?

My friend, writer Lauren Du Graf, is reaching out to the Jazz community to help her find archival footage of Billy Hart. The footage will be used in a short documentary on jazz musicians during the pandemic. The Director is Sean Mattison, and Lauren is the producer. The documentary includes a new interview with Billy Hart. They are looking for archival footage of Billy from any period, but preferably older footage, to be used in the film. As a placeholder, they have footage of Billy they found on YouTube, but they are looking for something that is better quality that wouldn’t be too time consuming to get permission for. Billy himself didn’t have a strong sense of where such footage could be tracked down. Thank you in advance for any leads you might have! Bertrand.

A lot more logical than downbeat. I give it 3.5 stars also, but my rating system is more random. There seems to be a fade-in on the first tune. Does this mean there were tape issues? Were they only able to salvage 46 minutes? Big G seems to suggest in the notes that they selected the best takes... Or maybe they took out the intro because there was no room on the vinyl

So they just named it that because of the first four bars? I am sure Cecil McBee will not remember what it is.

Probably, but what were the grounds?