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Mosaic does include the image of some of the original covers, in color, in some of its Select sets.

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Hot Ptah is the one legged catcher for the Port Rupert Mundys in the Patriot League during World War II, in Phillip Roth's "The Great American Novel." That is why I said that you would have to ask Phillip Roth.

Do you think that literally no one has ever walked through? I wonder if Henry Threadgill, Roscoe Mitchell, David Murray, have walked through--or do you think that they did not but others did? It's an interesting question. Another interesting point to me--Coltrane did everything in twelve years, from his first quintet date with Miles to his death, and so many developments in between. Why has time slowed down so much in terms of jazz development? From 1994 to now, what has really happened? In my opinion, this is not a fast paced, exciting time in jazz, and there are no new, startling developments taking place every few weeks or months. Why was it different back in Coltrane's time?

You'll need to email Phillip Roth.

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Near 100 with high humidity in Kansas City. Got all the way down to 94 last night. The heat and humidity take your breath away.

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Eric, Love Garden in Lawrence, Kansas is great. To me, nothing else yet equals the Music Exchange or Recycled Sounds. I have driven by the Music Exchange's new location in the West Bottoms but it has not been open. With the owner's well publicized personal problems, I wonder if it will ever reopen. Zebedee's on 39th Street is promising, but needs more new stock. The owner used to own Alley Cat Records on Main Street, and on the last day of that store's existence, he sold me the box set of the Complete John Coltrane on Prestige for cheap--so I am rooting for him to succeed at Zebedee's, which is in a start-up mode. Prospero's Books on 39th Street has a limited amount of vinyl and almost no jazz CDs in their basement now. The owner talked about turning it into a great music store, but it has not happened yet. I have not checked out the Kansas stores yet. There have always been a lot of used music stores coming and going in Kansas City. I recall fondly Love Records and Exile, for example. I wonder if the new stores will really make it this time.

Kansas City has seen the closing of its two great used music stores this year, the Music Exchange and Recycled Sounds. The Music Exchange may reopen in a new location after selling off most of its CD stock (but not its 1 million+ vinyl albums) but it has not reopened yet. Recycled Sounds was owned by Anne Winter, who said that the store was still a going concern. It made an effort to reach out to young people, who made up a lot of the customers. The staff was knowledgable about current pop and rock and hosted bands for in-store concerts. The store also had a good, ever changing selection of jazz--the good stuff seemed to fly out of there all the time. In a newspaper article about the store's closing, Ms. Winter said that she just did not feel like running a music store any more. She has another job and she had lost her enthusiasm for the store. She commented that since she closed the store, she had a deeper love of music again, because she "didn't have to listen to so much bad music to stay up to date."

I keep my Mosaic boxes, with booklets and CDs, on the shelf, as trophies. I never listen to the CDs or read the booklets.

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I love Fred's book. It's very funny in many places. I do not consider it bitter, as Fred is perhaps hardest on himself, and gives a lot of detailed factual information about why certain musical situations were less than ideal--he doesn't just whine or complain. I was lucky enough to see Fred live a few years ago. He was in a group with Rodney Jones (guitar), Arthur Blythe, Dr. Lonnie Smith and Idris Muhammad. It was a great concert. Fred sang on one song and played many great trombone solos. That concert took place in a small theater, the same night that Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra were in town. I saw Wynton & Co., then drove to the Jones/Wesley/Blythe/Smith/Muhammad concert in another part of town. I had to park three blocks away and run through a pouring rain to get to it. I remember thinking, "boy, you really have to love music to do this." But it was totally worth it.

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The greatness of Air was taken for granted by the originator(s) of the thread, though it's something that bears repeating whenever possible. That is very true. Their "Air Lore" is far above the jazz history revival efforts of many other artists who will remain nameless. Live, they were incredible.

There is a humorous parody review, done in the Crouch style, now posted on the JC thread. The poster states that it is from an earlier publication, but I had not read it before.

I always liked 2 the best (Weather Bird, with just Louis and Earl Hines).

Every post lost in my post count is crucial, because I am wound incredibly tight. I am a very highly competitive Type A personality, and must win in every situation. Excellence is the least that will satisfy me. Every lost post in my post count is thus like a direct slap in the face, a wound to me. It is unfair to lose post counts which I worked so hard to achieve, sacrificed so much for--I deserve my high post count. While I am many thousands of posts behind some members, I will catch up shortly. In the words of Vince Lombardi, "when we get to the goal line, nothing can stop us--not a tank, not a wall, not a dozen men." I think that I did not lose any posts in my post count when the board went down, though.

Hampton's 1956 sessions with Oscar Pettiford are also excellent. He could really play some great music when the situation was right.

I have tried to get every Henry Threadgill album, ever since witnessing an amazing performance by Air at the Detroit Jazz Center in the fall of 1980. My favorite Threadgill albums are "Just The Facts and Pass The Bucket", and "Too Much Sugar For a Dime". These are very compelling sessions. "X-75" is probably my next favorite. But all of the rest are very worthy of your time!

I sent an email to Mike Ricci and told him about this thread. His only comment was that he has banned nine out of 9,600 members at AAJ, and two of the nine are posting on this thread.