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I would buy the 38 CDs if released in a cardboard box with cardboard sleeves at a much lower price.

Rising numbers of younger fans spark a UK jazz renaissance: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jul/29/rising-numbers-of-younger-fans-spark-a-uk-jazz-renaissance

Throughout the last 10 years or more, I have several times given as a gift the 2001 Impulse CD John Coltrane Spiritual.

I also heard that Santana put on a great show at New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest.

On May 6, a blogger named Aslan Sagutdinov was arrested for holding a blank poster in a public square in Uralsk, Kazakhstan… The blankness of the poster is comparable to the statement that John Cage made in his famous work 4’33” (1952) when he allowed the listeners to interpret a perceived silence. https://hyperallergic.com/500658/man-arrested-in-kazakhstan/

the Woodstock 50 team announced that it has enlisted the help of Oppenheimer & Co. to complete financing for the three-day event to take place in August. https://www.vulture.com/2019/05/woodstock-50-is-back-on-maybe.html

If we include violence on jazz musicians, there's also Anita O'Day's description of being raped (in her memoir High Times Hard Times, p. 172). You can read the description in Google Books.

Someone needs to write a biography of Jimmy Giuffre.

If you stop in Austin, check out Waterloo Records. Every time I go there, I get the impression that the vinyl section has expanded.

Did Gustav Mahler take the A Train? Most likely, he took the Ninth Avenue Line, which is now defunct, but went to Harlem like the song popularized decades later by Duke Ellington. During his New York years (1908–11), Mahler is reported to have missed his 72nd Street stop and didn’t know it until he hit 140th Street. https://www.wqxr.org/story/gustav-mahler-take-a-train-new-york-philharmonic/

Speaking of Buddy Miles, the Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles! Live! album needs to be remastered and remixed and re-everything else!.

I would say Greg Walker was Santana's best vocalist, and Walker appeared after "Welcome".

My apologies if this has already been posted: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/11/buddy-guy-is-keeping-the-blues-alive

In the 1930s: https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/hearing-the-hammond-organ/

Check it out: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-grammys-hazel-scott-alicia-keys-20190210-story.html

Looks like it is 55 hours of unseen footage https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/peter-jackson-directing-happier-doc-163519113.html

I say make the entire 18 hours available to the public.

A reunion with Brian Eno

An essay that dives deep into something about the early days of computer music in the United States - it got its start, quite literally, in the off-hour downtime of the military-industrial complex: https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/automation-divine-early-computer-music-and-the-selling-of-the-cold-war/

If I remember correctly, Friedrich Gulda's "Fugue" is in the first half of Keith Emerson's "Piano Improvisations" (in the "Welcome Back My Friends to the Show that Never Ends" 3-LP Emerson, Lake and Palmer album)

By the end of the tenure? She's Turiya Alice Coltrane on the album (Illuminations) that she recorded with Carlos Santana. The album appeared around September 1974.

“…But what if the story that so many of us lean on to prove that classical music can be, in a word, “crazy,” is just that — a story? Because there’s a very good chance the Rite riot never happened. And if that’s the case, then how did we begin to believe it?...” https://www.wqxr.org/story/what-if-we-got-story-rite-wrong/

A 22-year-old bassoonist was in a church parking lot in the town of Springfield sitting on his trunk and playing scales while waiting for a rehearsal to start, when he was slowly approached by police wearing bulletproof vests. It seems a nearby citizen, worried by mass shootings in the news and unfamiliar with large double-reed instruments, had called 911. Said the young man, "In the right kind of light, it looks like a bazooka, but I don't think it was the right kind of light." Fortunately, the police giggled, and did not throw the bassoonist to the ground or worse. https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/someone-called-911-but-this-man-maple-instrument-wasn-gun-was-bassoon/c9275VpPesPWZoNPNydoZL/

In the middle of a recent article on Margo Guryan, there is this comment on Brookmeyer: “Her first husband, jazz musician Bob Brookmeyer, was a prime example of someone trodden over by agents, managers and the rest, she said.” https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/margo-guryan-music-industry_us_5aa16fd0e4b0e9381c16951b

If you have not heard the following already: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/04/29/health/brain-on-jazz-improvisation-improv/index.html