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"Hank Mobley plays the tenor sax, location unknown, circa 1970s." Photo by K. Abe/Shinko Music/Getty Images From the same source:

My favorite Robertson title on JMT: Shades of Bud Powell: Herb Robertson, trumpet, flugelhorn; Brian Lynch, trumpet; Vincent Chancey, French horn; Robin Eubanks, trombone; Bob Stewart, tuba; Joey Baron, drums, percussion.

What was wrong with the old system?

It's here! It's Bandcamp Friday, "when your purchase gives more to the artists you adore". I'm going to get the latest by Jonathan Stout, a fantastic swing guitarist. And a recently unearthed live recording from "The Master".

That's cool. Welcome to the board. If your experience here is unsatisfying, blame Kevin. That's what we do! 😝

Well, I said "I can't wait" 🥸

Can't wait to welcome these two new members from Hoffman who say such nice things about us: "I realize it's probably on a bit of a decline and its best years were 20 years ago" and: "I can't say I miss seeing certain users act like complete asses. I think what got me to stop visiting for a while was when a critic there who lived in the poshest and wealthiest suburb in the Chicagoland area actually had the nerve to blast certain jazz artists for modeling (and presumably making deals with) fashion designers, as if they're not allowed to have too much success or comfort. Combined with the racial disparity between him and those he was trashing, it just made his garbage all the more off-putting."

Bandcamp Friday is the 6th!

Jazz musicians who became expatriates

If it was up to me, those two would have been arrested for battery.

What's weird or funny about that?

Temptations perform Lindor's classic walk-up tune

According to Golson's obit in DB, Sonny is the lone survivor.

Historically (or is that hysterically), Allen and I rarely agree. Hence the fainting.

I agree with Allen.

"When heroin hit, jazz’s day was already beginning to fade." "Jazz aficionados constitute a left-leaning community and always have. Thus, the literature tends to treat the jazz-heroin epidemic mainly as a story of racism..." "The 1950s were when jazz truly lost its black audience." City Journal is published by the conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.

Did you know that Sonny was a lifetime subscriber of Mad magazine from its inception in 1952?

Gene Ammons with his wife Mildred and Sonny Stitt

Thanks for the heads up, Ken. To be released on Sept. 6, available in CD, vinyl and download formats on Bandcamp. Coincidently, Sept. 6 also marks the return of Bandcamp Friday!