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Funny this topic came up, I recently bought the Johnny Hodges Mosaic LP set and LP1 has a noticable warp near the side so I did some searching on the subject. There are a ton of threads on Discogs.com about this, and one of them linked to this crazy looking product. The LP in question seems to play fine, so I am going to live with it, although it's a bummer to open up an anxiously anticipated package and see that warp.

Ethan Iverson wrote a nice remembrance of Gregg Smith on his blog a week or so ago.

Marni Nixon, the Voice Behind the Screen, Dies at 86 "Classically trained, Ms. Nixon was throughout the 1950s and ’60s the unseen — and usually uncredited — singing voice of the stars in a spate of celebrated Hollywood films. She dubbed Deborah Kerr in “The King and I,” Natalie Wood in “West Side Story” and Audrey Hepburn in “My Fair Lady,” among many others."

Looks like there is a set for sale on Ebay. And one that sold for $35. Edit: That's a different set, actually.

Claude Williamson dies at 89; versatile jazz pianist was mainstay of West Coast cool

I picked up that Don Byas album recently, as I have realized that I have very little from him. Great record. An older thread on Savoy: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?/topic/31023-savoy-records/

I am getting the same thing, only when I click the link to that thread, every other thread loads fine. "Google Safe Browsing recently detected malware on www.organissimo.org. Websites that are normally safe are sometimes infected with malware. The malicious content comes from www.filelodge.com, a known malware distributor."

NYT: Don Friedman, Versatile Jazz Pianist, Dies at 81

Bluegrass music patriarch Ralph Stanley dies at 89 Ralph Stanley passes

Sir Charles Thompson, jazz pianist who bridged swing and bebop, dies at 98

http://www.npr.org/2016/06/13/481844822/chick-corea-gary-burton-tiny-desk-concert

Erroll Garner - Complete Concert by the Sea 3-CD set currently $8.39 at Amazon. The UK third party sellers have new copies for around $7.

Available for preorder on Amazon. Release date June 10.

Those UK Amazon marketplace seller prices are pretty attractive.

I've been on a bit of a Jackie McLean tear over the last few days and just realized today would have been his 85th birthday. So much great music...

TCM is showing six Fred Astaire films today in honor of his birthday anniversay, and then tonight they are showing Citizen Kane, The Maltese Falcon, and Suspicion. Pretty good day. http://www.tcm.com/schedule/

Ethan Iverson has a long interview with Wayne from 2015 up on his new site: https://ethaniverson.com/interview-with-wayne-shorter/

Jymie Merritt turns 90 today. Hope he is doing well. http://www.npr.org/event/music/473389032/jymie-merritt-the-beat-goes-deep

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03rw601 Gregory Porter covers Purple Rain

Wayne Shorter was on the Stephen Colbert show last night sitting in with Jon Batiste. He is introduced right around the 6:30 mark. I didn't watch the whole program, they probably only show him for a few seconds at a time after the commercials.

http://pitchfork.com/features/from-the-pitchfork-review/9865-sonny-rollins-the-saxophone-colossus/

http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/henry-threadgill

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/jazz-great-sonny-rollins-still-not-finished-at-85/