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The last thing I 'need' is (even) more Woody Shaw. But if the reports on this one are good, I know I won't be able to resist getting it.

At the risk of being castigated for this line of inquiry, I'll ask if there's any discographical ("sessiongraphal"?) clues as to the proportion of tenor vs. soprano?

And I remember that "two solos, one fast and one slow" comment from here, quite clearly, I really like Ervin (I have 8-10 of his albums on CD), but I think I agree (and did at the time), that he did tend to have two speeds, fast and slow.

I picked up the piano-trio record I linked to above (full YouTube upload of "God Is More Than Love Will Ever Be"). It's really nice, and I sure wish Ra had recorded in a trio format more often like this (inside and outside, about as much in/out as Andrew Hill). Apparently it's the ONLY piano-bass-drums full-length session that Ra ever recorded, other than a few individual tracks here and there from other sessions. Then again, "inside/outside" piano-trio dates is kind of an area I've tried to find as many good examples of as I can find (think Valdo Williams, or late 60's and 70's Mal Waldron).

What, what? When??

When's the Bill Barron?

Very!!

Does anyone know the line-up, and full track listing?

Just as good as the other one, best as I'm remembering (though I haven't spun either one in ages). Got 'em both on CD some 15 years ago.

T-minus 3 days until we fly to Austin. Looks to be fairly hot (at least by my wife's standards) -- low 90's most of the entire week we're there. But on the plus said, the humidity looks to be less than 50% the whole time (thank heavens for that). Don't have a detailed plan, day by day -- but we do have a big list of things we want to do, grouped into logical bunches. Probably 3 full days in Austin, one full day in San Antonio, and 2 full days in and around other parts of the Hill Country (including San Marcos). We're staying in Austin the entire time, at the same place the entire week - so we can do whatever we feel like each day.

Giving this topic a bump, as a parallel question about Eric came up on Reddit recently... https://www.reddit.com/r/Jazz/comments/8j3s0b/eric_kloss_where_is_he_now/

Go to auctionstealer.com, and set up a free account. You can use that to set a "snipe bid" to bid for you 10 seconds before the auction close, and you can set your maximum bid. I've been using that site for well over 10 years, maybe closer to 15 years even? It's great, it lets you bid your maximum at the very, very end – and not drive up the overall final price. (The idea being that if you don't bid until the last minute, last 10 seconds actually, it doesn't give anyone else much or any time to outbid you. Goodbye bidding wars!) Very reliable, and you get 3 free snipe bids every week, without having to pay for their services. I swear by it.

Here's one on eBay, for not such an insane price. Not cheap, but not a whole lot more than I think I paid for my brand new copy from Tower Records back circa 2003... https://www.ebay.com/itm/TYRONE-WASHINGTON-NATURAL-ESSENCE-JAPAN-CD-KENNY-BARRON-WOODY-SHAW/142791013839?hash=item213f01f5cf:g:uTUAAOSwxQha5GpI

Or Radiohead, or Bjork, or Nirvana. Or maybe Michael Jackson, or Tears For Fears, or David Bowie -- to think of some actual recent jazz covers I've encountered in the last 5-8 years.

Not a shred of evidence of the connection to Dolphy, that I can see. (Or did I overlook something?)

I saw this thread last night, and read and shared the article and video with my wife. But it wasn't until I just saw your comment, Brad, about "the feeling is infections" that I remembered an experience I had 100 years ago, back in college (circa 1990), my junior year. I'd sung in the college choir every semester since I was a Freshman, and had taken private voice lessons more often than not during that time. I was a Computer Science major, but I took a whole bunch of music classes, to the point where I ended up getting a double-major (not my aim, but that's how it turned out). So one semester, I did a half-credit independent study on blues, and one of my assignments was to go hear some real gospel in a couple African American churches in town (small town of 35K, in upstate IL). So I went one Sunday to an AME church near campus, and discovered they were having a "music revival" all afternoon the next Saturday, which was perfect timing for me. Long story, short -- I went. And I really got moved by the whole experience. I'd long gone to various churches as I was growing up (long story, but United Church of Christ, Presbyterian, Lutheran, and I was a hired gun in a paid choir all through high school at a Catholic Shrine near where I lived, which was DAMN good money I might add, $15/hour back when the minimum wage was like $3/hour), and I was also a paid choral section leader at the local Congregational Church all through college. BUT, I was decidedly an agnostic, in terms of actual belief (and an atheistic-leaning agnostic, at that - always have been). So I get to the AME "musical revival" -- little 20-year old me (who's white, I might add) -- and I'm totally swept up in the music. To the point where -- I swear this is true (I'm sure I've told this here before) -- I get up and sing (solo!) some spiritual I knew from my college choir experience (something I knew like the back of my hand, because we'd memorized it the previous spring for a college choir tour over spring break). That was all 30 years ago, but I think I must have had a solo in the piece (when my choir did it), which must have given me the courage/chutzpah to get up in front of an all-Black congregation of probably 300-400 people, and sing something from their tradition, and solo at that. "Infectious" indeed. I can attest to that personally.

And it's about time for that unreleased TW session, finally, with all four alternates. Oh please, oh please, oh please.

Pretty positive mine has that 11th 3"-CD - I can check tomorrow to be sure.

I don't think I've ever heard that saw solo before, though it vaguely rings a bell. Is there a version uploaded to YouTube by any chance? (I can't remember which tune it's in, let alone where in the tune it falls.)

Just listened to the sides with Miles this morning, first time in years. They could have made a really fine full-length album together. I need to dig into my Miles & Gil box liners and see, but it seems so unlikely that Miles' and Bob's orbits would have ever intersected. But I must say the irregular form of those tunes, and Dorough's wild phrasing really put Miles in a unique context. Nice obit in the Washington Post yesterday too (or was it the day before). I'll have to post that too. Interesting guy, who really found his calling.

It's gone, looks like it sold. Did someone here get it?

Just to clarify -- this *isn't* a copy that I'm selling. I was just searching on eBay for "Mosaic" in CD's, and sorted by lowest-price first -- and this popped up fairly early in the list. I have NO idea who the seller is, or anything about them -- so no implied specific recommendation from me. Just a potential cheap item for someone, assuming it pans out (if it in fact does).

I've never done business with the seller, and don't know anything about them. Buyer beware, and all that. With all that said, and FWIW: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Herman-Woody-Mosaic-Select-Woody-Herman-CD/192487250782?epid=74138475&hash=item2cd1225b5e:g:HlwAAOSwTmtasE~C There was somebody around here who missed out on getting one around the time it went OOP, but a dozen searches can't seem to help me - neither through the board software, nor Google.

I'm sure some YouTube uploads of a track or two will materialize at some point - no harm in waiting until that day, and making a more fully informed choice. That said, the whole thing just burns!

I imagine he must have performed some of his Schoolhouse Rock material at gigs, one would have to think. I'd be curious to hear some of those live versions. May have to go searching on YouTube later and see what I can find.