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Anathema!

Same for Dylan?

Yes, it is. Ricky Riccardi already wrote a book on Armstrong's later years (excelent one, btw), and hopefully another one will follow in years to come, focused on his early years. And if Armstrong's 'sell-out discussion' is intended as pejorative, I will forward this conversation to Ricky and you will have to deal with him. He can be very convincing!

Talkin' 'bout completists... I just checked again the list of the artists of whom I own the highest number of discs. Simple rules: a) boxed sets account for the number of individual discs contained; b) the list only includes leader or coleader discs; c) any format, including digital; bootlegs as well d) overlapping/duplication allowed Stupid and inaccurate exercise as it is, I always surprise myself when I periodically run it (for example: why on hell do I own so many Sun Ra and Cecil Taylor discs? or who's that "Varios. Recopilaciones"? or how many hundreds of discs haven't I listened to for ages? ) This here's my list: Cuenta Ellington, Duke (& his Orchestra) 341 Cuenta Varios. Recopilaciones 286 Cuenta Hawkins, Coleman 128 Cuenta Evans, Bill 124 Cuenta Montoliú, Tete 115 Cuenta Gordon, Dexter 99 Cuenta Armstrong, Louis 93 Cuenta Basie, Count (Orchestra) 90 Cuenta Pepper, Art 89 Cuenta Coltrane, John 87 Cuenta Getz, Stan 83 Cuenta Solal, Martial 74 Cuenta Rollins, Sonny 72 Cuenta Monk, Thelonious 72 Cuenta Davis, Miles 69 Cuenta Konitz, Lee 67 Cuenta Young, Lester 61 Cuenta Reinhardt, Django 60 Cuenta Mingus, Charles 58 Cuenta Sims, Zoot 55 Cuenta Parker, Charlie 54 Cuenta Wilson, Teddy 52 Cuenta Gillespie, Dizzy 51 Cuenta Hill, Andrew 51 Cuenta Sun Ra 50 Cuenta Hines, Earl "Fatha" 50 Cuenta Taylor, Cecil 50 Cuenta Baker, Chet 49 Cuenta Webster, Ben 48 Cuenta Stitt, Sony 46 Cuenta Holiday, Billie 46 Cuenta Tatum, Art 45 Cuenta Powell, Bud 44 Cuenta Bley, Paul 39 Cuenta Carter, Benny 39 Cuenta Sutton, Ralph 39 Cuenta Coleman, Ornette 39 Cuenta Hyman, Dick 38 Cuenta Hodges, Johnny 38 Cuenta Garner, Errol 38 Cuenta Waldron, Mal 36 Cuenta Peterson, Oscar 36 Cuenta Morgan, Lee 36 Cuenta Berne, Tim 35 Cuenta Braff, Ruby 35 Cuenta Byrd, Donald 35 Cuenta McLean, Jackie 33 Cuenta Allen, Henry "Red" 33 Cuenta Braxton, Anthony 33 Cuenta Franco, Buddy de 33 Cuenta Byas, Don 32 Cuenta Ammons, Gene 31 Cuenta Grappelli, Stephane 31 Cuenta Dorham, Kenny 31 Cuenta O´Day, Anita 31 Cuenta Fitzgerald, Ella 31 Cuenta Jones, Hank 30 Cuenta Griffin, Johnny 30 Cuenta Adderley, Julian "Cannonball" 29 Cuenta Eldridge, Roy 29 Cuenta Terry, Clark 28 Cuenta Shepp, Archie 28 Cuenta Hawes, Hampton 28 Cuenta Vaughan, Sarah 27 Cuenta Cohn, Al 26 Cuenta Hamilton, Chico 26 Cuenta Mulligan, Gerry 26 Cuenta Bechet, Sidney 26 Cuenta Brookmeyer, Bob 25 Cuenta Farmer, Art 25 Cuenta Kirk, Rahsaan Roland 25 Cuenta Smith, Willie "The Lion" 25 Cuenta Brown, Clifford 25 Cuenta Teagarden, Jack 25 Cuenta Waller, Fats 25

Every day is Bean's day at my place:

Also in the new Rollins thread, like an elephant in a China shop 🤣

Other than the three Bill Evans sets (The Secret Sessions (Recorded At The Village Vanguard 1966-1975), The Last Waltz & Consecration), I don't know of any.

From Peter Losin's Charlie Parker discography: February 5, 1946 (1 item; TT = 2:51) Electro Broadcasting Studio, Glendale CA Commercial for Dial Charlie Parker (as); J.B. "Dizzy" Gillespie (tpt); Eli "Lucky" Thompson (ts); George Handy (p); Arvin Garrison (g); Ray Brown (b); Stan Levey (d) 1 Diggin' Diz (G. Handy) 2:51 Listed as "Bongo Beep" on Dial LP 207 1 Diggin' Diz 78 rpm: Dial 1004 10" LP: Dial LP 207 12" LP: Spotlite SPJ 101 CD: Toshiba/EMI CJ25 5043/6, Toshiba TOCJ 6201/4, Toshiba/Spotlite TOCJ 0001/10, Mosaic MD9-260, Definitive DRCD 11152, Classics 935, ESP-Disk 4050, Frémeaux & Associés FA 1332 This is the only commercial recording of the Billy Berg band with Parker, who failed to show up for the Dial session on February 7 -- at this session Gillespie re-made "Diggin' Diz" and added "Dizzy Atmosphere," "Confirmation," "'Round Midnight," and "When I Grow Too Old To." This session was originally supposed to include Lester Young and Milt Jackson, who never showed up; Thompson and Garrison were recruited at the last minute to take their places. Later in February Parker signed a one-year exclusive contract with Dial.

I was just about starting with disc 1 this morning. Now I'm scared!

Frank Foster on tenor!

R.I.P. For me, it was also the first World Cup for which I learned by heart all lineups. In fact I still can recall a bunch of them: Waldir Peres, Leandro, Oscar, Luizinho, Toninho Cerezo, Júnior, Falçao, Sócrates, Serginho, Zico and Éder. Zico and Sócrates were my idols by then. I also have some remembrances from Argentina '78 and Mario Kempes defeating the Clockwork Orange team, but Spain was different... ... even though I did not attend any of the matches. At that time I was a huge fan of Brazil national team, so I was really disappointed with Italia qualifying for the semifinals and then beating Germany 3-1 in the final. And besides, I have never been very fond of 'catenaccio'. This image of Sandro Pertini celebrating Paolo Rossi's goals is iconic:

Double cd edition.

It arrived in the mail today, together with the Wilen/Montoliu discs. Can’t wait to listen to both new releases.

- Sonny Rollins in Holland (Resonance) - Barney Wilen and Tete Montoliu. Grenoble 1988 (Elemental) Both came in the mail today.