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That is very sad news. I never knew him personally but interacted with him virtually for many years. RIP

I pre-ordered mine immediately but still have not received any confirmation from Mosaic.

I like the way he sings Masquerade but can take or leave a lot of the rest of his vocals.

Best wishes to Larry! It is always great to have his voice around here.

I wonder if these are newly discovered takes that were not on the Mosaic box or other previous issues of this music? Or is the claim of previously unreleased just BS?

Lester speaks! Check this out: https://lewisporter.substack.com/p/every-film-clip-of-lester-young-preview

Best wishes to Archie Shepp!

I look forward to hearing what you believe to be the very best solo recordings of Earl Hines and Cecil Taylor.

Interesting that nobody seems to have mentioned Bud Powell yet. His solo recordings for Clef from February, 1951 are some of his greatest achievements on record (IMO). Then there is Jelly Roll Morton's solo session for General in 1940. Fats Waller also made some extraordinary solo recordings.

I like the looseness of Cannonball's playing on the Emarcy and Savoy records - a heavy Bird-inflected plate of down home blues delivered with a powerful wallop. What came later may have been more fully realized in many ways, but I also really love what Cannonball played in his earlier years.

Me three. I love that first quintet and those Emarcy albums.

My father took me to see Albert King on his Born Under a Bad Sign tour when I was 9 years old. I was blown away and immersed myself in the blues LPs in my father's collection. This one especially hit me. I listened to it every day for a while. It made me know that I had to play the blues.

Aretha was so gifted that she could sing the phone book, as they say. But I think that her greatest artistic strength was in gospel and gospel-infused R&B (i.e. soul). I can take or leave a lot of the rest of it, although most of it is certainly enjoyable. Yes, I consider Aretha Franklin to be one of the greatest singers ever recorded in any genre.

Thanks

Is there discographical information on the dates of the previously unissued live performances?

I'm in, for sure! It is really an unexpected luxury to finally get to know Hasaan so many years after his passing.

Count me in! I love McCann's 60s trio sound.

A very nice piece! Thank you.

Nice post. There is some mystery surrounding the origins of jazz, as well as blues, due to a scarcity of recorded evidence until the 1920s. One point to consider is the following: the question of where jazz was born depends greatly on how we define jazz. It is possible to define jazz to include ragtime. A that case, a strong argument can be made that it wasn't born in New Orleans. If we define jazz as the kind of mix of ragtime, blues, and rhythmic nuance that Jelly Roll Morton talked about, then a strong case can be made for New Orleans as the center of its birth. Personally, I don't have any problem with considering New Orleans the true birthplace of jazz.

Thanks, Lon.

Has anybody heard this yet? A few tracks from this concert have been bootlegged before but this is more than 70 minutes apparently in excellent sound. More Miles from 1957 couldn't be a bad thing.

Growing up and becoming a jazz fan in the San Francisco Bay Area, I heard Richie Cole very often. I always thought of him as a good practitioner as opposed to a great creative artist. But he gave a lot to community, free concerts on the street all over the place. I thought that he also gave fine support to Eddie Jefferson. So I am a bit surprised by the idea that he never "found traction with other people." Of course, I did not know him personally and appearances can be deceiving.