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Oh, and my annual physical is 7 days from now — so I will definitely bring it up with my GP. (I’m also hoping it’s at least somewhat better by then.)

Well more than a quarter-step — damn near a half-step. I’ve tested it holding an A440 YouTube video on my phone next to one ear, and then moving the phone over to the other ear — and it’s quite a difference. Here’s what it is, apparently (what I found from just googling about it)… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplacusis It just started 5-6 days ago, along with some ringing in my right ear (the ear that’s perceiving things almost a half-step sharper than reality). I’m not incredibly worried about it YET — I’m assuming I have some fluid and maybe an infection too — in my right ear (the one ringing), but no pain. And I assume it’ll sort itself out in a week or two, on its own. I had tons of ear infections as a kid, got tubes in my ears (tiny tube in the eardrum) at least twice (as a kid) — and I eventually grew out of it. And for the most part, I haven’t had more than a half-dozen ear infections in the last 35+ years. I’m also assuming maybe I’ve actually experienced this effect — but more in BOTH ears at the same time (if it is fluid behind the eardrum) — but rarely in just one ear only. Anyway, let me also tell you this is anoying as fuck. It’s like everything is double-tracked 24/7 — with the second track a half-step sharp — aka perpetual half-step-dissonance. (Maybe Charles Ives would have loved it!!) I can sorta listen to MONO recordings, as long as they don’t have lots of piano chords (especially delicate ones). So listening to piano trio recordings is absolutely out — but most early horn-driven bebop is a little more tolerable (better with 2 horns, not just one — but not 3 or more either). But stereo recordings — especially with some instruments hard-panned to the left, and others entirely to the right — and especially listening on earbuds — is absolute torture. Anybody here ever experienced this before??? There was a public holiday event at work on Sunday, with Xmas music on the PA — and let me tell you Alvin and The Chipmonks just about did me in.

My first two Joe records — Mode for Joe and Power to the People (along with KOB and Nefertiti) — were THE very FIRST jazz albums I ever owned (circa 1990, summer before my junior year of college). Got ‘em all at the very same time. And I played all four constantly for 2 or 3 months straight, right after I got ‘em — and those particular two by Joe remain my favorites of his.

Any recollections?

I got the set full-price 1-2 years after it was first released — and it was probably the very first non-Mosaic box set I ever bought. I think I only had 3 Mosaics at that point: the Hill, McLean, and Cherry boxes. That Henderson box is easily one of the top-10 jazz boxes I’ve owned — and maybe top-5 actually.

I think this seems to be an upload of the entire CD — at least what comes up searching on YouTube for… 高柳昌行 ・ 阿部薫 – 解体的交感

I haven’t heard tons of Mulligan, but apart from the excellent Concert Band Mosaic, the single album I probably like best is The JM Songbook — which is really elevated by Bill Holman’s imaginative arranging. ❤️

Herbie’s playing on *The Trainwreck* is — imho — phenomenal (or phenomenally interesting)… …and somewhat in the vein of his contributions to *The All Seeing Eye*. A really visceral side of Herbie we didn’t get to hear all that often.

Funny, I just looked again — and despite those two filled-in ‘O’ letters bothering me for 20+ years now — I also only JUST noticed that the ‘P’ is filled in too!! (Uugh!!)

While there are a number of Patrick Roques BN covers that I do like — Mothership isn’t one of them I’m afraid. Don’t really care for the use multiple colors in the lettering in Larry’s name and the album name — nor the filled-in color in the ‘o’ letters in “Young” and “Mother”. And the colors in general aren’t a pallet that feels as much like a classic BN cover as some. That said… I do like that “Mothership” is all concatenated together as if it’s just one word. I guess (I know) it was always two words originally (at least on the LT series LP) — but simply as a matter of (my) personal preference, I’ve always called the album Mothership, and not Mother Ship.

I absolutely love Tyrone’s Trainwreck, full stop. And frankly, think it’s actually a stronger album than Natural Essence. The entire Trainwreck deserves to be released, including all four alternates. I’d pre-order 10 copies on CD the same day it is announced.

Will Mothership get an all-new cover design? I’m guessing ‘yes’ — but we’ll see. I don’t buy brand new vinyl, and rarely buy much use vinyl at all either (haven’t for 20-25 years, I’m nearly all CD — except for maybe a couple dozen obscure 60’s or 70’s titles I found used quite cheaply). Still curious if Mothership gets a new cover design though.

Answering myself, though it’s been a decade since I’ve read it — I especially recall Szwed’s Miles bio as being really wonderfully written. Been as many or more years since I’ve read his Sun Ra bio too — but I specifically remembering coming away from reading So What thinking just was a truly great example of writing it was (a joy to read, iirc, its use of language, etc. — not necessarily overly flowery or anything, but it was just a really well-told story, in addition to however good the content was). And also, how it seemed to cover areas of Miles’ life that I hadn’t read about as often as I had in the 3 or 4 (or 5?) other Miles bios I’d read prior.

Oh really — there’s a single LP with that version of FJD too?? Would love to find out what that is (or rather, was). Can’t imagine it’s been on CD either, but who knows?

How about John Szwed’s Miles bio?

What about the 3rd disc in the Music Inc Big Band Select?? Can’t be without that! — unless Mack Avenue puts that out as a separate (single) CD of its own. And can someone remind me, are all(?) the bonus tracks from the 3rd disc of the Music Inc Quartet Select fully represented on the Mack Avenue discs? If not, then there’s that to consider too.

I love this live version from 1971, from an obscure Japanese-only various artist double-LP is pretty wild — and it sorta rivals the Miroslav/McLaughlin/Henderson version a bit, at least in its intensity… I sure wish it was on CD, but alas, it hasn’t ever been reissued since it first came out — and I only know it from YouTube.) https://www.discogs.com/release/11263311-Terumasa-Hino-Kosuke-Mine-Sadao-Watanabe-Takeru-Muraoka-Masabumi-Kikuchi-Yoshiaki-Masuo-Kunimitsu-In?srsltid=AfmBOoopfdoQqRblY0Di9aE2larfRz7U6bQgjqSdOh8uHaTBO2ZUngMK

This seems to be that two-fer comp… https://www.discogs.com/release/14722696-Sonny-Stitt-Don-Patterson-Brothers-4 Have to confess that I’ve never explored any of Stitt with organ before — and was only vaguely aware Grant Green had done any sideman work as late as 1969.

OK, but what about FJD’s cousin, “Hopscotch”???!! — from Charlie ‘Charles’ Rouse’s Two Is One — credited to Joe Chambers. Did Chambers ever record the tune again? The Two is One version seems to be the first and only(?) version either Rouse or Chambers ever recorded. Did/does Chambers ever play it live? Or has he ever commented on it?

Gosh, he was such a great resource and source of positivity. He will be missed!

Larry Young and Elvin Jones!

Absolutely one of the greats. 83 is too young — or at least a little younger than need be. RIP.

That’s the ONLY Mosaic I think I’ve ever pre-ordered (out of 40+ Mosaic sets I’ve bought over the last 30 years, including Selects). Not so much for Berliner Jazztage specifically, as it was because I absolutely HATED most of the 32jazz reissues of Woody’s Muse catalog. Especially the ones in those black plastic CD cases — you know, the ones with the adhesive album cover art — uugh!!!!!!

Berliner Jazztage is my single favorite Woody Shaw album too!! — and absolutely in my top-25 overall (in all of jazz). Trouble is, my top-25 could be any of 100 different albums on any given day — but it’s a phenomenal album, for the quality of the soloists, and the arranging too. Absolute top-drawer.