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If you've got the Urbie 10" on Blue Note for sale, I'd like to buy it.

I can certainly hear than and I'm pretty sure they knew each other then, but I don't know how closely they were working on things.

I think that's been proposed and the two label licensing was a hang up. Great stuff and I might buy that since I currently only have some of it (less than half).

This is true, in my experience working in record stores and libraries. It's not a huge new audience, but it's there.

I think I have 10 from the main list, 4 selects and 2 singles. Mostly bought used, some new directly from them. Mostly bought awhile ago, right back to the '80s. Not sure what it would take for me to get a new one now.

YouTube track 7, wonderful stuff that BN should reissue asap How do I disguise the link?

I just don't feel the need to check musicians' work like this. What do I hear/listen to/for? I hear quotes without particularly listening for them, I hear theme and variations, I hear interaction and energy and stylistic references and speech like inflections that imply questioning or certainty or wonder, etc. I hear continuality and flow and juxtapositions and sonic novelties. Music has many dimensions. Different strokes for different folks. This assumes that general audiences want to know what the changes are or when the chorus starts, they don't and don't need to.

I have the perfect set for Mosaic, gather all the officially unissued (and/or rejected) Blue Note for which decent sources still exist and put it in a box with that pic of Hank & Lee laughing their guts out at Slugs on the cover. Won't make Cuscuna happy but I think their audience would eat it up. I would buy it and I haven't bought anything from Mosaic in years, maybe decades if we mean bought new directly from them. Off the top of my head - Lee, Hank, 3 Sounds, Rueben Wilson, Lou D, Jimmy Shirley, who else? Assuming that most of this actually exists.

Best 20 years of my life, mostly because of my wife and our daughter, and steady employment, but this place was a part of it too.

Miller was born in 1959 according to Wiki, so not too likely.

47 pages from the US District Court for the Southern District of NY, yeah, they probably got the law exactly right. Will have to read in full when I have time.

Geri Allen, Tears of a Clown

I think all assumptions and received opinion re best entry points for newbies are questionable at best. Depends on the person in question.

I may have mentioned previously that my wife won tickets, lodging, and air fare back in '03 IIRC - it was fun but screaming hot. I think I'll let that be the memory. I have the Lovano & Hank Jones album that was recorded there that year.

Booker Ervin, The Trance 10/27/65 - Booker, Jaki, Reggie Workman, Dawson Booker Ervin, Setting the Pace, date? - Booker, Dexter, Jaki, Reggie, Dawson Booker Ervin, The Song Book 2/27/64 - Booker, Tommy Flanagan, Richard Davis, Dawson Booker Ervin, The Blues 6/30/64 - Booker, Carmel Jones, Gildo Mahones, R. Davis, Dawson that's all the 2/3 dates I can think of

There are a lot of reasons why Amtrak has struggled but still managed to survive 50+ years now. I've been in full rail fan mode for a couple of years, but I'll try to keep it short. Geography, historic routes and who ran them, who merged with whom and kept which lines and service on them, who joined Amtrak when it formed and who chose not to (the Rock Island not joining initially is why Des Moines has no service and Amtrak goes across Iowa to its south), and the fact that Amtrak happened at least 10 years later than it should have. By 1958 at the latest it was obvious that passenger rail in America was in serious trouble. Even if Amtrak got everything that it has proposed, we'd have good service in a few heavily populated corridors, with some adjustments for where folks live now, but in much of the country it would be a bare skeleton. Even if we got the significantly more service that the Rail Passengers Association and other local groups have proposed (which would take time, hard work and massive $), we'd still be short of the service that existed in 1962 when the private companies were hemorrhaging $ and the mass abandonment of service and rail lines had already begun. Demographic shifts don't necessarily help - some places have grown, some shrunk, some are older, some industries and other things have changed, and only some cities still have usable depots downtown or even anywhere they could reasonably be built - where rails and row still exist they are configured to serve freight mostly and even seemingly little things like lack of a crossover track to get to the platform or exit in the right direction or turn around for a return trip, these can all be expensive to fix. And if we want true high-speed rail, that need dedicated and very expensive track. Amtrak's current focus is on more service and more reliable, split between new destinations (Mobile will probably happen this year) and more frequency (a second train from Chicago to the Twin cities will probably happen, maybe this year). And maybe bump the max up to 90mph and fix the worst bottle necks - if you want a quicker trip, fix the slowest parts first. Oh, and to keep it in the plains, Denver will likely get a north-south route going from Cheyenne to Pueblo, which could connect to enhanced long distance service. If there is to be a genuine passenger rail revival, it will be much more day trains <500 miles than long distance, although even the 2 day trains in the west serve a lot of shorter partial route trips.

The Cypress Hills on the Sk - Alberta border, a bit of an anomaly since it escaped glaciation in the last ice age. No, it's not.

If we take an expansive view of the Great Plains, it's a very big region with a lot of variation in topography, vegetation, and climate. But the trees tend to come in scattered clumps, and the weather vacillates between extremes and can change in the blink of an eye. The CPR mainline between Winnipeg and Calgary, parallel to the Trans Canada Hwy, still exists, as does the route over the Crow's Nest Pass going straight west from Medicine Hat thru Lethbridge and on to Vancouver by way of Cranbrook BC. Most of the former Northern Pacific RR route thru the southern tier of MT still exists and is used for freight. Usage patterns have changed due to changes in commodities markets and containerized shipping and rail consolidation since WWII led to the abandonment of a lot of railroad right of way, often with the tracks torn up and sold for scrap due to unenlightened tax policy and the dire financial straits of many RR companies. For instance, most former Milwaukee Road right of way is now part of the rails to trails program - it was brilliantly engineered but weirdly routed and was definitely one RR too many through the northern states from Chicago to Seattle. Many western towns large and small have abandoned or repurposed depots but have had no passenger service for decades. Even where these stations (or a portion of the existing larger buildings) could be put back into service, they would need significant work to serve as modern facilities meeting ADA requirements, etc. Some towns and cities in the region(s) have grown a great deal in the last 50 years since Amtrak started (or the last 60-70 since the golden age of passenger rail) and many smaller ones have shrunk or stagnated. And even freight RR use has contracted to only the most profitable lines as the industry struggled to stay afloat in the wake of massive subsidies for its competitors (trucking and air freight). So many small town grain elevators have been abandoned, which often killed the towns, and which meant the fewer bigger farms truck their grain further to market over the roads which get chewed up more, which is why many formerly paved roads in SK are now gravel, it's easier to maintain and a good gravel road is better than a bad paved one. Abeerdeen SK where my brother lives is fortunate to still have an elevator, school, and post office, so it's unusual for a town of that size (600 or so) in that it's still growing. But it's so close to Saskatoon that folks commute from there and it's more convenient for farmers to take their grain there than fight the traffic to take it into Saskatoon (if that's even an option, I'm not sure if it is). When I lived in SK, wheat dominated the Province's economy and everything else - oil, gas, pothash, livestock, other grains, manufacturing, was secondary. Now not so much, and Pothash Corp is the 800 lb Gorilla with their name plastered all over cultural events. There are also significant differences between Canada and the States as far as the geography and cultural place of the plains/prairies in the two countries. The States have a big swath of intermountain west but in Canada the Rockies are further west and the prairies are separated from the Quebec to Windsor corridor where most Canadians still live by 'northern' (actually western) Ontario which is full of lakes and streams and forest and much emptier than the prairies. http://www.on-top.ca/Outings/2021/images/2021-06-27%20Big%20Bend%20Peak/Story%20Checks%20Out.jpg Prairie humour.

One of the odd things about the High Line (the communities along US Hwy 2 across the northern tier of MT) is that they still have daily passenger rail service (via the Empire Builder) whereas the more heavily populated southern part of the state has none. There are those advocating for a return to service on roughly the route of the North Pacific's North Coast Limited. Even more surprising and appalling to me is that the southern tier of Alberta and Saskatchewan has no passenger rail now. This was formerly served by the Canadian Pacific and is much more heavily populated than any part of Montana or North Dakota.

Choteau MT, just on the edge of the plains, east of the Rockies, S by SW of Cut Bank. I've eaten here more than once, homemade pies are excellent, but the best thing is that if you're lucky you can get a parking spot in the shade 'cause it's usually late in the day and hot when I get here. HaVEN'T BEEN FOR A FEW YEARS, HOPE IT'S STILL THERE. Wallace Stegner's Wolf Willow is an odd hodgepodge of fiction and fact but gives a good feel for East End SK and the country around their on the east side of the cypress hills. If you have occasion to drive thru the plains/prairies, I highly recommend taking the time to get off the freeways and go through some smaller towns.

Oh my goodness, how much do you want to talk about this? I've lived in Saskatoon, Des Moines, and a Minneapolis suburb. And travel across parts of the big empty nearly every year for most of my life. The plains are a beautiful and unique place (although if you're talking about the Canadian part, 'prairies' is the preferred term). And it's not all the same at all, Montana east of the Rockies is a very different place than Iowa. Aberdeen SK, where my brother lives: The Empire Builder on the trestle just outside Cut Bank MT, you can just see the Rocky Mountain front in the background. My wife has relatives here, and it's on the way to SK, so I've been there many times. Also took the Builder through this country coming and going last year. I've thought about retiring somewhere just east of the front - it's the best of both worlds to me. Cut Bank, Shelby, Havre on the High Line, all familiar territory.

Congratulations on bring these all to fruition.

Wish I'd heard that, that would be something.

This is a heck of a thing to wake up to. RIP