Dmitry

I quit cigarettes cold turkey 11 years ago, after many years of smoking. Feel wonderful, but gained 10 kilos, which are never coming off. Would probably like to have a nice cigar to accompany an appropriate beverage, but am afraid to relapse into cigarettes. So no stogies for me. Enjoy!

This set is now on LAST CHANCE .

I hadn't realized you are Romanian. Were you born there? I learned about the Bloomsbury Group and Formalism in the Art Criticism course I just finished. Clive Bell's Art was one of the books we discussed. Nice quip. Well put!

Speaking of the Threadgill ephemera, I have recently come into possession of this important object: a compact disc of the Henry Threadgill Zooid - THIS BRINGS US TO Volume 1, with a handwritten note on the cover. The text is as follows: To FRANK Thanx's For Your Place I am assuming that Frank had provided a very important service for the person who gifted him this CD. Am I right to assume that the person who chose to remain anonymous is Henry Threadgill? Are there any HT handwriting experts in the group?

Cut the "i", and all will be good.

Received my Disconforme CD and played it. It's in mono, and the last track, at least, in probably an LP dub; maybe the whole thing is. Will play it again tomorrow.

Even the seemingly inclusive company name will not protect Mosaic Records. The new commissars are coming for it...

People get increasingly upset with that inconvenient fact. That's when the name-calling starts. Has been like that since the first argument documented in history of arguments.

I don't have anything against the Guardian, but this is another lazy article. The world record for staying submerged belongs to the crew of HMS Warspite. It's 111 days. The writer really ought to have mentioned that in the article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Warspite_(S103)#:~:text=A total of 111 days,with the Third Submarine Squadron.

Good question. I'm just repeating what I've read. A biography of Jutta Hipp has recently came out in Germany...in German. https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31395846292&searchurl=sortby%3D17%26tn%3Djutta%2Bhipp&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title1 Here's my favorite of the three pictures of hers that I have. It's the Wollman Skating Rink in Central Park, NYC. Interestingly, in the summer months, the site hosted many music acts, including jazz. Program notes and ads in the New York Times showed “Jazz Under the Stars” at the Wollman Memorial Theatre in Central Park for fifteen consecutive days, from July 28 through August 11, 1957, with such stars as Billie Holiday, Chris Connor, Gerry Mulligan, Stan Getz, Buddy Rich, Dinah Washington, Lionel Hampton, Dave Brubeck, and Maynard Ferguson, with commentary by Jean Shepherd and Al “Jazzbo” Collins. https://shepquest.wordpress.com/2014/01/21/jean-shepherd-chart-and-all-that-jazz/ Some of her artworks? including portraits of jazz greats, are held in the collection of the Institute for Jazz Studies at Rutgers University. https://archives.libraries.rutgers.edu/repositories/6/resources/194

I was browsing Coltrane's discography, https://www.jazzdisco.org/john-coltrane/discography/ , and started thinking of who of the many dozens that had played with him, even once, are among the living? Sonny Rollins Some cat called Steve Knoblauch, who Trane let solo on alto sax during his Temple University concert https://thepenngazette.com/jamming-with-trane/ Who else is still around?

I applaud your effort! I've ripped a couple of LPs, and realised this is not for me. Just too much work involved (not that I'd rather spend my allocated lifetime creating something worthwhile instead. Far from it...).

Now I see two points. I should have said: "For me it's not applicable." Were I faced with a choice of losing my cds and records (which may happen), I'd rather listen to internet radio than spend time ripping, labeling, saving, etc. Or just ask Stompin at the Savoy really nicely to make me a copy of his flash card.

Neither will I. I don't see the point of it.

I'll edit my post as I go along. 1. Amazing Grace, I imagine It's either a prologue or an epilogue to some conceptual project, because it did absolutely nothing to me as just a piece of music. Maybe by one of avant-garde groups? 2. This is a big name tenor player and the group, not a current imitator. I'd say it's from mid 1970s-1980s. Very competent tenor and piano. 3. Someone to Watch over Me, valve trombone. Must be Brookmeyer. Excellent sympho-jazz arrangement. Love it.

Johnny E from Seattle. A really gentle way of describing his persona would be "mercurial".

You'd need to go to England to have programs like this on national TV. The American tv-watching public's intellect level has taken a deep dive in the last 30 years.

Stay strong! All those good memories will be your reward. You are lucky to have such a large family.

What about those hand-painted Sun Ra Arkestra LP covers? I am buying this book to find out more. https://rappcats.com/products/sun-ra-art-on-saturn

I am surprised you don't have it. Wonderful record.

In her later years, Jutta Hipp made a living selling her pictures on the streets of NYC. I have a couple of her watercolors.

Tal Farlow was a sign-painter. And to further drive the point...

Great call! How could I've forgotten! He was a true Renaissance man. I think he was also a President of the American antique microscope collectors society, or something equally esoteric. This begs for an addendum: let's see the album covers featuring paintings, drawings, or sculpture (let's throw in the architecture also. After all it is one of the Great Arts) by jazz musicians.

Let's add to the list. The two that come to mind immediately: Miles Davis - painting (I think he started in later years of his life). Tony Bennett - painting (not a fan of his pictures, but the man does who he wants) Roscoe Mitchell also paints. https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-ent-jazz-icon-roscoe-mitchell-painter-20230201-blplkdtp7nedzp2xlbqzvk6uia-story.html https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/roscoe-mitchells-kaleidoscopic-artwork/