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That'd be me, the OP (in this case). Sure, I'm definitely still curious. Such an incredible tune!! Geez, I just looked, and this thread that I created is 15(!) years old!! So it predates all of the 5-6 times I've heard Billy since I moved out here to D.C. (in 2011), most of those times with you, Michael. My how time flies.

4 copies arrived here in DC on Saturday - one already distributed. I've only had the chance to read half the chapter on Joe Henderson (busy week at work!) -- but I'm certainly liking what I'm seeing. Bravo!!

There was a thread Q's jazz channel, that I know I've read/followed somewhere. Not sure if it was here, or on the Hoffman board -- or maybe something on Reddit. Somewhere around the time the channel started streaming, iirc.

Wonder if that version of Mombasa had Carmell Jones in the group? I'm guessing not, as the only Mombasa record that Jones is on, is from 1980 (here).

Yup, my box-boxes are all in a milk-crate (save for a couple that won't fit), and all the jewel boxes are integrated in with the rest of my collection in their various areas -- all the Blue Note stuff alpha by artist on one shelf, and everything else (non-BN) on another shelf, alpha by artist. I don't dig out the big booklets all that much, so they're all in the big boxes -- but they're not hard to access when I need to. My 15+ Selects are all filed similarly, in with the rest of the collection, and actively listened to. My only "safety" copy is a still-sealed duplicate of the Andrew Hill Select, which I felt was a reasonable precaution when I saw it was going OOP (a set I *definitely* didn't want to be without, in case one or more of my regular discs got scratched, or somehow went sideways).

My wife read the Washington Post article over the weekend ("Hey, have you heard about this Kenny Burrell guy?"), and she thought the whole thing was beyond weird, to the point of being suspicious. Suspicious of what specifically, it's hard to know. But I completely agree, it's beyond weird.

I was only "especially interested" in about 1/3rd of the Bee Hive box (on paper), but once I got it -- almost fully another 1/3rd is nearly as good as the 1/3rd I really wanted most. But your point is taken -- as there's a good (last) 1/3rd of it I'll probably hardly ever listen to.

I hate to say it, but I agree that the whole thing is just weird, weird, weird. I'm not going to make any pronouncements, or level any charges (whether they're baseless, or not, who knows). I will say that I'm glad the press is continuing to follow up on this, and presumably will further-continue to. After all this drama, and all the weirdness, I do think the donors (at least) deserve more solid, verifiable information. I'll continue to hold my tongue, and not engage in too much speculation (at least in print), until more facts are known.

Last time around they had one Tyrone Washington photo (at least that they mentioned in their email blast about it), which I sort of wished I'd inquired about getting via email. If anyone sees another TW photo for under $100, I'd be very tempted.

About all I ever buy at the one baseball game we go to most years is a tall 16oz hard cider, which usually is at least $9. About same at the Caps hockey games we went too a few years ago (when a friend got us free tix about once a year). I'm half ok paying those kind of prices, but it definitely limits me to just one per game.

I thought the Federalist Papers author(s)/non-author question was the hardest, and I'm sure I would have missed it.

My wife got 9/10. We took it collectively with my Dad. I think I would have gotten at least 8/10 (but maybe not 9, and definitely not 10).

So other than when I was a kid. I've only had my one (current) pair of perscription glasses, which are actually *progressive* lenses. Got 'em about 6 years ago, and their actually clear glass up top (my distance vision was great), and simple 2x magnification down at the bottom. And cuz they're progressive, the magnification is smoothly increasing between 1x in the middle (no magnification at all), up to 2x down towards the bottom. The ONE part of the process I really didn't exactly trust then (and I have **NO** idea how it's accomplished if you buy glasses on-line), is that the eye-tech person in the store had me put on the frames I wanted to buy with plain/clear lenses, and then marked on the glasses where the center of the pupil of each of my eyes was, when I had the glasses on. Presumably so they could place the "beginning" of the progressive magnification right in the center of where my eye is looking out (which I guess isn't always exactly in the enter of the lens, depending on your own eyes). What really bugged me was this was done -- pardon the pun, but how else can I say this? -- this was done *entirely* by the eye-tech person "eyeballing" it. VERY unscientifically too, by my take of the process. "Yeah, that looks about right" does not invoke a lot of confidence, let me tell you. So anyway, how in the hell do they do that part when you buy on-line?? That's probably the biggest part of my hesitancy in getting new glasses -- which I actally need to do this calendar year -- is how in hell do you insure that "good enough, yeah I guess that's close" really is "good enough"??!!! We've socked away extra in our home health savings (which avoid being taxed) specifically for me to get some new and probably stronger glasses this year (which has to be spent, use-or-lose, by Dec 31 -- so my question isn't academic. EDIT: To clarify, at least 6 years ago, my distance vision didn't need any correction, and I could technically get away with wearing cheap $5 reading glasses when I needed to (which is 100% of the time now, when I need to read/see up close). My "reader" magnification needed back 6-7 years ago was 2x, and probably needs to be about 2.5x now. I really didn't "need" to get progressive lenses back then, but I hated forever needing to put readers on, and take them off, 30 times a day. And don't like "looking over" my cheap readers either. So I got the progressives purely for convenience and aesthetics too (I'll admit).

Yup, I'm *sure* that was the one. You(?) started a thread about the general topic of city-specific jazz books. Not sure how long the thread got here, but I do remember there being a very nice (long) list of books.

Without adding specifically to the discussion here (now), isn't there a "city-based" jazz-book thread somewhere around here? I remember a good discussion of books specifically about one-city-each's jazz history. Anyone have a link?

Szwed's Miles biography (So What), is really my go-to Miles bio, and beautifully written. Highly recommend.

Also could mean that the disc itself was manufactured outside of Japan, and the liners and packaging were printed in Japan. I think(?) I got a disc or two like that from CDJapan once, but I couldn't begin to remember which one(s). I'm not remembering any that didn't (still) have Japanese packaging, iirc. Either way, as Jim said, it means pretty much what it says at face value.

On The Corner made more 'sense' to me (or at least sooner), than Bitches Brew did, actually. I'm not claiming OTC made perfect sense to me immediately -- but it never puzzled me like Bitches Brew did (until I heard a bunch of the BB material on all those Euro-boot CD's that were coming out in the early 90's). I think my first exposure to both was around 1989, at the end of my sophomore year in college (barely 18 months after my first serious exposure to jazz). I'd listened to *TONS* of Hendrix my last 2 years of high school (incl. 20+ bootlegs), so although the language of On The Corner wasn't the same (as Jimi), the onslaught of sound didn't bother me.

Have a good one! Cheers!!

I discovered that doc online on YouTube about 2 months ago, and it's pretty good. Certainly gives the participants plenty of space to talk (mean that as a good thing).

I have to confess I don't know any of the Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet albums (I guess there are 5 of them). At $23+ a pop for the recent Japanese reissues, I'm not sure I want to dive in and get all 5 (not knowing any of them). if I were going to get just 1 or 2, which one's should I target? 20+ years ago, I used to have a couple Ian Carr CD's of albums from the 70's (Nucleus stuff), but have no idea what ever happened to them. I'm guessing I must have traded them (too much soprano sax maybe? - I can't remember). In any case, I'm sure I've never heard a note of the Rendell-Carr quintet stuff in all these years.

There's actually a 2CD set of this particular volume (8) -- which has two separate LP issues (part 1, and part 2). I think(?) the LP issues are only available separately (individually), but the CD issue is only available as a 2CD set. Highly recommended.

Just giving this a bump for no particular reason. I'd seen article Jim scanned in my own copy, but seem to have missed you having uploaded them (thanks!). Came here just now to post my favorite tune from Frank Foster's Manhattan Fever ("Seventh Avenue Bill") -- as I'd had reason to post it in another thread earlier today) -- but see I already did so up a ways, back in Sept of last year. Shame Garnett didn't record more, and get more solo-space when he did record -- I still think he's a underrated/under-recorded player.

This long (12-min) track from the Foster kills me every time...

The Frank Foster date is really great, as is the bonus session it has. (Some really nice Garnett Brown on at least one of those sessions.)