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What, what? When??
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When's the Bill Barron?
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Very!!
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Does anyone know the line-up, and full track listing?
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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.
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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.
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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/
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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.
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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
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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.
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Not a shred of evidence of the connection to Dolphy, that I can see. (Or did I overlook something?)
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Gospel, from Japan to Harlem
Rooster_Ties replied to Brad's topic in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...
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.
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Pretty positive mine has that 11th 3"-CD - I can check tomorrow to be sure.
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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.)
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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Be sure to report back! - re: "In Your Own Sweet Way". I also thought this new Woody Shaw things was kinda pricy (and I already have a ton of live Woody Shaw), do I really need any more? Probably not, How can I really justify it? But in a fit a weakness, I tacked it on an order with some other stuff from Dusty Groove -- and I couldn't be more pleased with how damn good it is. I wish there were some full-length uploads to YouTube that I could link to. Honestly, this "Onkel PO's Carnegie Hall Hamburg 1982" thing is one of THE very best Woody Shaw live dates I've ever heard. Red hot performance, and fantastic sound quality (and actually, I'm really *not* a stickler about sound quality, normally) -- but the overall quality of this new one really stood out to me, right from the very first spin - in just about every way.
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I really got lucky on both, entirely because I had those "40% off one item" Barnes and Nobel coupons (in-store only) periodically around this time. So I ended up getting the 'Complete On The Corner' and 'Cellar Door' boxes that way (on release day, so I was sure to get them while the coupon was good). And I think I got the 'Complete Jack Johnson' box that way too (40% off). But if it hadn't been for those coupons, I'm positive I would have waited a few years until I (eventually) found used copies cheaper. And only much later did I discover that the 'Complete On The Corner' sold out fairly quickly, and was nearly ALWAYS expensive used (later, ever more expensive than it was originally new). Got DAMN lucky there -- 40% off on all three of them -- and I didn't have to spend literally YEARS wondering when I'd ever find one for a reasonable price. Without those B&N coupons, the cheapskate in me would have waited -- and would have really lost out.
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