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Would Universal/Impulse still have the Masters?

Trolling around Bandcamp Friday, I came across a Zappa/Mothers date called More Pig Music. I guess it must be from around 1968, 11-piece band with the Gardners, Don Preston, Ian Underwood. It was free. What's up with that? Does the estate know? Any other free downloads on Bandcamp?

Also from Holland like that Rollins record but won't get as much fuss, I assure you. Combine this and the 1967 Newport date and you would have a nice little CD, about an hour long.

(60) Booker A Day To Mourn Live @ VARA Studio 7, 1966 - YouTube (60) Booker - Blues It, Live @ Vara, 1966 - YouTube (60) Booker Ervin Live You Don't Know What Love Is - YouTube

Yes, it was recorded on 1/20/85, the day after the Lonely City record, which was the same trio plus four horns (including Jordan). This new release has a couple of songs in common with that trio date. That is great that you have a DAT copy, because it is not clear what the family plans to do with his holdings. His son has expressed some interest in continuing from what I heard, but nothing concrete yet. I am very intrigued about the other material with Jordan...

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Crap, yes, Jim is talking about Maynard, I was talking about Horace. Definitely Wayne with Maynard. I was hoping Jim had the Silver concert. Dang. The only way to hear that is at LC. Maybe next year. I found a flyer showing Wayne was scheduled for Newport with Horace, but here is the evidence that it is Jordan: 1) LC says so 2) The review in Downbeat says so 3) The Burt Goldblatt book says so 2) and 3) are irrefutable, I think. 1) not so much, don't get me started...

(disclaimer - I have no financial interest in this release) When I first met saxophonist Brad Linde in DC, we talked about some of our favorite unsung legends, and we both immediately thought of the great composer and pianist Freddie Redd! I knew Freddie was living in LA and gigging on occasion, but I was not able to find him when I was there in 2004. Brad suggested we track him down and bring him to DC, and thanks to Michael Cuscuna we were able to do so! There were many memorable night at Twins Jazz, And Die Musik, Creative Alliance, Bohemian Caverns etc., and Freddie and Butch Warren even co-led a quintet for a while, which presented a Take 5 concert celebrating Thelonious Monk at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in July 2012. Freddie lived in the DC/Baltimore area for about 5 years, before moving back to his home town of New York City in 2013. Before he left, Brad organized a recording session at An Die Musik in Baltimore (special thanks to Henry Wong!) and the results are now out for all to enjoy! Brad and Freddie are joined by four very special guests: Michael Formanek, Matt Wilson, Brian Settles and Sarah Hughes! Digital downloads are available now, and a limited run of 300 CDs will come out next month. Note: Several of these pieces are previously unrecorded by Freddie. 'Love Is Love' in particular is a gem! Reminiscing | Freddie Redd | Brad Linde (bandcamp.com)

Jim, I would like to discuss this with you some more. There is info I cannot post here. How can I reach you? There are photos from this gig showing Clifford though. Very odd... Maynard Ferguson & Orchestra live at Newport Jazz Festival, Jul 3, 1959 at Wolfgang's The Maynard is above as an example. There is a download for $5 button on the top right. Does that work for you?

1) Apparently Wayne did not make the Newport gig and Clifford Jordan took over. There are photos with Jordan. They also have it at the Library of Congress, I hope to listen to it one day. 2) You don't need to be a member anymore - $5 per download, no commitments. No more FLAC, just MP3. 3) They seemed to have stopped adding new titles.

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!