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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

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.

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.

Agree, Shaw's final Muse dates aren't so hot. But "In Your Own Sweet Way" has always been one of Shaw's very best live dates, bar none (any era), at least for me. It's a disc I've bought whenever I've found used copies, just to give to people, it's that good.

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.

Welcome back!! What's new?

When you get it, report back! And as long as I'm here... Track #1: "Isis Unveiled" - which kicks off side 1 (all 'live'). As with most of this album, it gets incrementally more interesting as the whole thing unfolds. (Which is to say that the tenor-solo really gets going about 2-minutes in.) I like how the tenor player just keeps adding more heat, bit by bit, until things are a whole lot hotter than you expected a few minutes earlier. Then they slide back into the theme near the end of his solo, very gracefully. The transitions in intensity are very well thought out and executed, and land on these ears damn nicely.

Me too! (Re: "Chili Peppers") Great arrangement! And though I'm normally not a big fan of soprano sax, I thought the soprano solo was really outstanding. Almost the quality of a 'Nathan Davis' on soprano (I thought).

Even if the license ran out, they would have been permitttd to sell all the stock already pressed. I'm mostly nearly positive that the contracts wouldn't have forced them to destroy already existing inventory simply because the timer ran out. (Or I'd be shocked to learn otherwise.)

Great concert!!

Other than Hank (obviously), I think I was aware of most of Tolliver's history with every name on this list from his website -- except for Sonny Rollins -? Not disputing it, but when did Tolliver and Rollins work together?

Tolliver? Maybe, but I'm just not seeing it. Also, when did Hank and Charles Tolliver ever cross paths? If they did, that'd certainly be news to me.

We should all email them about when we can pre-order the Barron set. I'd certainly get one!

I did not realize until I just noticed in his Wikipedia bio, that Gary is no longer at the Peabody in Baltimore... Peabody Institute’s Gary Thomas resigns – and fans and students lament Questions about the future of Peabody’s jazz program swirl as its celebrated saxophonist founder leaves... https://baltimorebrew.com/2017/10/16/peabody-institutes-gary-thomas-resigns-and-fans-and-students-lament/