Rooster_Ties

I have to confess I'm entirely unaware of these Legrand box sets. Can you or someone provide links to them from somewhere like discogs? - or some other quick-to-peruse way to wrap my head around what albums and/or time-frame they each include? (Thanks in advance!)

I've got all the individual discs, so I don't need my complete Hill BN '63-66 box any more (one of the first 3 Mosaic sets I ever bought, back around 1995, iirc). But there's a wrinkle. I had Andrew autograph my Mosaic booklet (the one time I heard Andrew up in Iowa City, in 2003). I could probably be persuaded to part with the whole set (and box), but I'd prefer to keep the booklet. If interested, I wouldn't ask a crazy premium for the set -- in fact, I would be glad actually "sell" the set for the *100% benefit* of the Organissimo board (in other words, you wouldn't pay me -- you'd *pay Jim directly, i.e. make a confirm-able board donation* for whatever price we can agree on. Then I'll pay the postage to send it to you out of my own pocket. Not sure what price to ask, though I promise it'll be fair (but not bargain-basement, since I'm trying to encourage a donation to the cost of running this board, and since I'm not looking for one penny out of the transaction myself).

Not saying he is, but the guy on the left looks a like like a Heath brother, doesn't he? Or maybe a Heath cousin?

I plan to sell some CD's here this year, incl. a handful of Mosaic sets, with ALL the proceeds going to the board. I'll pay the shipping out of my own pocket, and you just pay Jim's PayPal address directly for my asking price - so every penny goes to the board.

Ha!! Fortunately I'm not affected by the shutdown at all -- nor my wife (she works for a Federal agency, but they're fully funded for the whole fiscal year). Yeah, I think MOST of us here could write some Dusty Groove burbs, if we tried.

Love the new cover, BTW. Very mod!

Apparently newly found material... Monorails and Satellites were two volumes of solo piano works recorded by Sun Ra in 1966. Volume 1 was issued on his Saturn label in 1968, volume 2 the following year. They were the first commercial LPs of the artist's solo keyboard excursions. Vol. 1 featured seven idiosyncratic Sun Ra originals and one standard delivered in Sunny's singular manner. Vol. 2 consists entirely of original compositions. A tape of a third, unreleased volume was discovered posthumously by Michael D. Anderson of the Sun Ra Music Archive. Released here for the first time, it consists of five originals and four standards, and was recorded in stereo. Despite Sun Ra's obsession with the future, Monorails and Satellites is something of a nostalgia trip. As a youth in Birmingham, Alabama, the man who became Sun Ra—Herman Poole Blount—spent hours at the Forbes Piano Company, amusing himself (as well as staff and customers) at the showroom keyboards. He practiced standards, emulated his piano heroes, played the latest pop songs, and improvised. The idyllic reveries which the teen experienced in those formative years were no doubt recaptured during the Monorails sessions. The playing here speaks less of a style, and more of a collection of statements. Some of the tunes, with their odd juxtapositions of mood, could be mistaken for silent film scores. Perhaps they were audio notebooks, a way to generate ideas which could be developed with the band ("I think orchestra"). Regardless of any secondary (and admittedly speculative) intent, they serve as compelling standalone works. The fingering reflects Sun Ra's encyclopedic knowledge of piano history as his passages veer from stride to swing, from barrelhouse to post-bop, from march to Cecil Taylor-esque free flights, with a bit of soothing "candelabra" swank thrown in. Sunny's attack is mercurial, his themes unpredictable. His hands can be primitive or playful, then abruptly turn sensitive and elegant. As with the whole of Sun Ra's recorded legacy, you get everything but consistency and predictability. The listener also experiences something rare in the Sun Ra recorded omniverse: intimacy. His albums, generally populated by the rotating Arkestral cast, are raucous affairs. With the Monorails sessions, we eavesdrop on private moments: the artist, alone with his piano. These are brief audio snapshots of what was surely a substantial part of Sun Ra's life, infinitesimal surviving scraps of 100,000 hours similarly spent, most lost to posterity. The 2-CD and 3-LP packages of this set include an essay by three-time Down Beat Artist of the Year VIJAY IYER, along with a historical chronicle by jazz authority BEN YOUNG. – I.C.

I've been meaning to pick up that Evidence CD for years (almost a couple decades actually, hasn't it been?) -- but I never got around to it. And it always bugged me that there was a Vol. 2 that went unissued on CD, which I really HATE when stuff gets issues incompletely like that (I know, it was two separate albums, but they were two of a kind, and I presume recorded at the same sessions, or around the same time). And man, that piano-trio record is phenomenal. EVERYTHING you'd expect from a Sun Ra piano trio album -- every bit as quirky as you might expect, with a good dash of weirdness, but not too much!! Highest recommendation (for that trio record), and I'm sure these 3 volumes of solo-piano sessions will also prove very interesting as well.

Hot damn!! Are these the same folks that brought us that rare Sun Ra piano-trio release last year? - God is More Than Love Will Ever Be (is the title, iirc). I'm all in for this one too, probably.

Very useful -- thx!

Me too. About the only way to make sense of that volume of material is to break it down in some way. Leader-dates, colabs, and sideman appearances *isn't* a half bad way to do it. Nor is separating everything out by year, to be perfectly honest. Just something (anything) to add some logic to a what would otherwise be too overwhelming a sized set (of everything). At least for me.

PM sent -- thx!!

Yeah, he seemed a little Type A when I saw him, but not the most Type A of anyone I've known (and worked with). Honestly, me and Type A's are like oil and water. I'm sure I drive them crazy, and I damn well know they sure as hell drive ME crazy. *Especially* Type A *MEN*. I worked with a ton of Type A guys in my first real job out of college, in a corporate environment, and it just about drove me off a cliff. I'm much more fond of Type A women, including working with and for them. My wife's kind of Type A too. I've got no problem with strong-willed women, long as our values are in decent alignment, etc. Some of my best friends and work colleagues have been Type A women, matter of fact. Zev wasn't that bad, but he's clearly a go-getter, and can be aggressive when he wants to (or if he forgets not to be). Probably need someone like that, though, to make some of this stuff happen.

Zev seemed like a pretty ok guy when I heard him give a talk at UDC around the time that the Larry Young thing came out. Not somebody I'd necessarily click with immediately, but he wasn't terribly off-putting either. To be honest, I don't think I've ever met a fellow jazz fan that wasn't at least a little quirky in the personality dept (and I'm sure anyone who's met me would include ME in that same quirky dept too). He seemed like an only "semi-oddball" jazz enthusiast -- and I'm sure a few of us here are very much in that same vein. I'm appreciative of the work he's doing, and I'll try and support his work with my wallet to the extent I can, as my interests dictate. If he can unearth anything else as amazing as all those Larry Young sides, man, he's doing damn important work there, and more power to him.

I think it also comes down to how long you've known someone, and whether you've worked together before. Trust often doesn't happen overnight, and sometimes much less quickly with some folks. Not suggesting anything about who's right/who's wrong in this (or any) particular instance. Means of communication can also introduce miscommunication (or at least uncertain communication) -- i.e. it's hard to get a read on someone just through email or even over the phone. People have different styles of communication that aren't always compatible too. Put me with a New Yorker who's really a fast-talker, and I'm likely to discount what they're saying quite a bit -- maybe more than I should -- simply on communication-style alone. But doubly so over the phone. Dozens of factors at play.

Do they look like they have scratches, or other visual defects? My earlier reply assumed they all looked clean.

13:12 https://www.discogs.com/Van-Morrison-I-Cant-Go-On-But-Ill-Go-On/release/6238918 Now THAT'S obscure!!

Not discs #5 & # 6, but five or six different discs won't play?? Really?? That seems semi-unfathomable that fully five or six different discs would not be playable, as opposed to one or two which might be more believable. Have you tried another/different player?? ??

Here the second Symphony that I'd recommend... William Levi Dawson, Negro Folk Symphony (1934) http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/2/0/7/1/2/p207125_index.html From its premier in 1934 to its revision in 1952, the Negro Folk Symphony composed by William Levi Dawson captured first the stylistic traits of African American music or during Dawsons time, Negro folk music, namely the spiritual and jazz. In 1952, however, after travel to West Africa Dawson revised the symphony to include African musical traits, namely in its rhythm. Whereas the events of his life implanted the emotive meanings of the Negro spiritual and the necessities of his life ensured early employment as a jazz musician, Dawson sought to be recognized as a classical composer of merit. From his school days at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and his travels to West Africa in 1952 Dawson became immersed not only in the musical language of Africans, but also the sociology and culture of Africans. MORE GOOD INFO ON DAWSON HERE: https://www.allclassical.org/black-history-month-william-levi-dawson/ Again, Neeme Jarvi (and the Detroit Symphony) -- these are the same recording, and there are some other budget releases with more generic covers out there too (Jarvi/Detroit), all the same. It's a really stunner! I've never heard it in a concert hall, but I can't imagine it wouldn't go over incredibly well, and it's a terrible shame it isn't programmed more (and hardly seems to be programmed ever). https://www.discogs.com/Dawson-Ellington-Detroit-Symphony-Orchestra-Neeme-J%C3%A4rvi-Negro-Folk-Symphony-Suite-From-The-River-So/release/3061743 https://www.discogs.com/William-Grant-Still-William-Levi-Dawson-Duke-Ellington-Detroit-Symphony-Orchestra-Neeme-J%C3%A4rvi-Symph/release/10921602

Hmmm, interesting. I would not have expected the Four Freshman set to have sold that incredibly well -- but then again, I have no idea at all what their demand would be like.

I could list 20 with a bit of thought, but I'll start with 3 symphonies (here's the first one, and I'll post the others in coming days)... Symphony No. 2, Op. 19 is a three-movement work for orchestra by American composer Samuel Barber. The 25-minute work was originally written in 1944. The work underwent many revisions and was finally published in 1950. The original manuscript was withdrawn by Barber in 1964. He ordered that G. Schirmer destroy(!) the original manuscript and all scores in their library. The work remained unpublished for many years until 1984 when a set of parts turned up in a warehouse in England. Renewed interest in Barber's work led to a 1990 reprint of the 1950 edition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._2_(Barber) The best recording I've yet found is this probably this one (Neeme Jarvi, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, recorded in 1991). Same recording, earlier release...

Thx. FWIW, here's the one track from that set that has been issued (not by Blue Note, though)...

Bump! Cuz I've sure never heard of this date, to the best of my knowledge. Here 'tis from Discogs... https://www.discogs.com/Antonio-Chocolate-Diaz-Mena-Eso-Es-Latin-Jazz-Man/release/4240210 "Joseph Henderson" only SOLOS on one short track, but supposedly he plays on the entire album in the ensemble.

Was Joe Henderson still signed to Blue Note in September 1966?? Only one of these three (3) tracks has ever been released, but I'd love to hear them all. =============== 17 September 1966 Elvin Jones-Joe Henderson Quartet Performer(s): Jones, Elvin (drums); Henderson, Joe (tenor saxophone); Moore, Don (bass); Hutcherson, Bobby (vibraphone) Inner Urge Isotope Shade of Jade ===============

Trying to not get my expectations all out of whack, but this is some mighty good news no matter how you look at it. But ignoring my own advice (), is this perhaps the most promising Blue-Note related news in close to a decade? Trying to think of anything even remotely similar. IIRC, the last time there were any "new" archival releases on Blue Note, Freddie Hubbard's "Without A Song: Live in Europe" was the first of what was supposed to be a small series of similar, new "archival" live releases on/for Blue Note (Michael Cuscuna himself mentioned a couple other releases were in the works too, in press for the Hubbard, but I'm not remembering anything else that actually surfaced -- ???). In one interview, Michael mentioned We Montgomery (iirc), and something from/by Andrew Hill. The Hill thing never happened, but was the Montgomery something Zev later brought out through Resonance?? BTW, I asked Michael about the Hill when I saw him here at a talk at the Library of Congress ~6 years ago, and he said it was NOT an older, archival Andrew Hill thing -- but something that was (then) much more recent - something Hill recorded in Europe (I want to say maybe some Scandinavian country?), after Hill's resurgence around the turn of the century. For some reason Finland(?!) of all places, is popping in my head, but it could have just as easily been something recorded in the UK. Anyway, it never happened. Or is there anything else I'm forgetting? -- that actually came out on Blue Note -- since this one?? Well, other than the major Monk/Trane thing, of course (which was clearly a one-off, and not part of any sort of series, or effort to start dipping into the archives on any kind of even semi-regular basis). https://www.discogs.com/Freddie-Hubbard-Without-A-Song-Live-In-Europe-1969/master/611815