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Prior discussion of this tune!!

Unfortunately we just unplugged and turned in our cable box yesterday — before our move to Pittsburgh in two days (this Monday). Will have to watch it on Passport in the next few weeks when I can (we’re PBS subscriber/supporters, NPR too).

OK, here's the most epic one of Kansas City that I know of... Jimmy Witherspoon With Jay McShann And His Band – Goin' To Kansas City Blues And after a LOT of digging around on DIscogs (simply searching on 'Pittsburgh' - and scrolling through pages and pages of results), this might be the only(?) jazz album I can find with an actual pic of downtown PGH on the cover... Frank Cunimondo – Frank Cunimondo Plays George Benson Live In Concert – Vinyl (LP, Album, Stereo), 1978 [r9325057] | Discogs Seems to have been a local guy, best I can tell. It's been on CD too -- but the cover looks way too 'CD modern' for my taste -- but I'm looking for LP covers anyway (if I'm gonna hang any). Every release on that same label is by Cunimondo -- so it's essentially a private label then... Mondo Records Inc. | Discogs Here's the cover of the CD reissue...

Those are all four of the bigger cities I’ve lived in throughout my life (well, Pittsburgh starting in a few weeks). But rather than devoting an entire topic to Pittsburgh only (which there don’t seem to be dozens of examples from Pittsburgh alone) — I thought I’d go for our four cities in one thread. How many can we come up with?? The landmarks can be obscure, and don’t have to be incredibly well known — but outdoor shots that include buildings, venues, what-have-you — or best of all, entire city-scapes. Who knows — maybe I’ll decide to track down physical copies of the very best example from each city — and put framed copies of the covers in a hallway in our new place in Pittsburgh.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m unquestionably ALL in on getting this on CD. But with a total of 5(!) tunes that are all 22+ minutes each — by just a quartet (Joe + piano trio) — that’s gotta mean a LOTTA bass solos.

Track listing for the Joe Hen… A1 – Mr. P. C. (24:00) B1 - Inner Urge (26:46) C1 - Invitation (22:15) C2 - Relaxin' at Camarillo (7:41) D1 - Recorda Me (23:33) E1 - 'Round Midnight (16:10) E2 - Good Morning Heartache (9:30) F1 - Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise (23:39) F2 - Isotope (6:37) https://recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/19818

Technically mine was the Don Cherry Complete BN Mosaics — all of two CD’s total!! But that was just to dip my toe in the pool with Mosaic, just to see what one of their sets even was like (and I’d never seen a jazz CD box set up close before, of any kind). But almost immediately after, I bought the Andrew Hill and Jackie McLean Mosaics (same order), and others not a year more later (I forget the chronology). So I really consider those Hill and McLean Mosaics as my first ‘real’ box sets.

Books and CD’s were the first thing we packed — about 50 cubic feet of boxes, iirc. And that was AFTER we donated or sold off 20 cubic feet (combined) of books and CD’s. I only have about 200 LP’s (if that even) — and of those, only about 50 are ones I especially wanted to keep (but I’m probably gonna wait to get to Pittsburgh before I thin out the LP’s — mostly in the interest of time).

I’ve heard Christian McBride’s name mentioned here and there — just wishful thinking (nothing from any insiders). I suppose Jason Moran is available too (after he left the KC).

I’ve got about 55 box sets (including maybe 20 selects). At least HALF of them I haven’t spent anywhere near enough time with over the last 20–25 years — which I plan to rectify in retirement, a whole box a week sometimes (with luck). Most of them are Mosaics — but I think I’ve got about 10 non-Mosaic big boxes too.

So, a little less than 4 weeks til we and all our stuff moves to Pittsburgh. As of this post, I think we’re about 60% packed (+/-5%) — and since neither of us are working any more, we should be 90% done within 2 weeks. Which is good, because we’re taking 2-3 days to run up to PGH with a carload of artwork — plus a few clothes, and some kitchen stuff — the week before the movers take everything. Won’t be too much longer!!

No, afraid not. The set is 8 discs long — and comes in 2 four-disc ‘fat-boy’ jewel box cases — along with a tall booklet that has all the notes.

On the Dusty Groove site alone (all because the spellings on the releases themselves) — sometimes he’s Rickey, sometimes Ricky (no ‘e’) — and I think I’ve occasionally seen Rick.

Yeah, saw the Post-Gazette is folding — but oddly, they’re not even trying to do anything just online, not in any sort of reduced capacity even. Hard to fathom a city the size of Pittsburgh without a newspaper of record. We’re already trying to survey the PGH media landscape for where to get our news — hoping to find some enterprising, hopefully non-profit news-gathering source (which if they’re no. I’m sure when we transfer our NPR support from here in DC to the Pittsburgh NPR station, we’ll double our yearly donation.

I’m sure we’ll take in 2 or 3 games a year — the view of downtown over the outfield is amazing!! I’m on my phone (in St. Louis visiting my dad) — but the main photo on the PNC Park Wikipedia page is a pretty good example… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNC_Park