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FYI, this album appears to finally been reissued on CD, and was in stock at Dusty Groove last week (when I ordered a copy). https://www.dustygroove.com/item/860553/Art-Farmer-with-Joe-Henderson:Yama Got it there for $13.99 (new!), an import from Japan, so the price was great!

I've bought a ton from them too. Their only big failing is sometimes listing more obscure things as being available, when they really aren't (I think I've had that happen a time or two, maybe). But for regular, mainstream 'commodity'-type stuff, they're usually reliable in my experience.

FWIW, I had a CD remote that I thought had bit the dust, wouldn't do a thing even with fresh batteries. Discovered a couple years(!) later that I'd put one of the new batteries in backwards (and probably the initial issue was dead batteries). So maybe double check the batteries are in right? (Couldn't hurt.)

This singular Sun Ra piano-trio(!) Saturn record seems to have reemerged on CD within the last couple weeks. Here's an upload of the album to YouTube (don't know that it's from the same source as the CD - I'm guessing probably not). VERY interesting. I just missed out on getting this in an order from Dusty Groove last night (out of stock again, drat) -- but I'm sure I'll toss this on my next Amazon order. TASTY!!! Sun Ra - God Is More Than Love Can Ever Be (1979)

Assuming that's from Stockholm, my god, that's driven me up a wall for 25 years now. I don't mind the approach at all (the 'sound'), but that degree of repetition (of anything) just doesn't work for repeated spins. Might have been a more positive(?) effect in the hall that night, but it's the kind of thing one could argue might need some trimming for release on record. (Blasphemy, I know, but some judicious editing of some bass solos and/or drum solos (that really need it) have never bothered me.) My 2 cents, FWIW.

Thanks Ghost, Can't swear I've ever seen this one actually in stock (on CD, that is) -- the vinyl, on the other hand, seems not to be so impossible to find. I never was searching for it fanatically around the time it was supposed to come out -- but I *thought* I had an automatic email set up for it, via Dusty -- which I don't know that I ever got. Volume 8 *JUST* came into stock at Dusty last week, and they immediately were out of stock on it barely 48 hours later -- so when I saw it was back in stock yesterday, I jumped on Vol 8 last night (along with a bunch of other stuff). Such a cool series, very well curated for the most part.

What my dad's gotten most (all?) places over the years is a quarter-length. And that's how my mom used to make them too (and I think my dad mother too, iirc).

Whole entire set is up on YouTube as legit audio-only uploads (link supplied down below). Not suggesting that's any kind of replacement for the real deal -- but until the price comes down a bit, I'm listening this way, at least this afternoon. Also, based on the detailed entry at Discogs -- I *thought* I already had almost all this stuff (everything except Olympia, Paris) -- but it looks like I'm also missing the Copenhagen material too (because what I have is apparently the 'TCB, vol 31' CD of Zurich). Of course I have the Stockholm material too -- but from this set, Stockholm is apparently *ALL* I actually own (in any way, shape, or form). I guess that changes my calculus slightly, but still, it's hard for me to get TOO overly excited about Miles in 1960 -- perhaps because I'm more intellectually interested in Trane here, than I really am 'moved' by it. Anyway, this link is actually to the entire playlist for the *entire* set -- but may just come up here (embedded) as a single video (tune) only. I'm the outlier on this board who's never gotten bitten hard by the Trane bug. TONS of mad respect, of course -- but for whatever reason, I'm just not moved by his more "Impluse!-era"-like approaches (which leave me somewhat cold). Heck, I've never even gone through any serious infatuation with his Atlantic-era stuff (or never for any sustained period). When I finally break down and get this, I'm sure I'll find it all incredibly interesting -- but I doubt I'll revisit any of it more than once every year or two. I barely play the Stockholm Miles/Trane thing I have that much now (though I had more fun with it 20 years ago).

I think(?) I've got every volume in this series, 1 through 6, and I just ordered vol 8 from The Bastards. But I somehow never saw vol 7 (specifically on CD) at any point, or if I did, I missed out. Here's the item description from Dusty... https://www.dustygroove.com/item/829928 Spiritual Jazz 7 – Modal, Esoteric, & Progressive Jazz Inspired By Islam 1957 to 1988 Maybe one of the most spiritual entries in this amazing series of jazz – and that's really saying a lot, as you might guess from the title! The tracks here all take inspiration from Islam, but are mostly American recordings overall – the kinds of open, deeply soulful sounds that were first ignited by John Coltrane's Love Supreme, then carried forth by a generation of free thinkers who were also drawing other inspiration from points that were far from their American roots. There's a freshness to this music that still holds up fantastically all these many years later – and in the instrumental setting of most tracks, the spiritual inspiration is voiced by incredible rhythms, soulful reed work, and warmly-interwoven strands of sounds on the tunes. The track selection is superb – and titles include "Kalahari Suite" by Emmanuel Abdul Rahim, "Uhuru" by Creative Arts Ensemble, "Morning" by Yusef Lateef, "The Camel" by Idrees & Jamilia Sulieman, "Nus" by Sabu Martinez & Sahib Shihab, "Taumbu" by Dawan Muhammad, "Nadusilma" by Ahmed Abdul Malik, "Ah Ya Zen" by Abdelrahama Elkhatib, "Mevlana" by East New York Ensemble De Musique, "Africanos/Latinos" by Kahil El Zabar's Ritual Trio with Pharoah Sanders, and "Humility In The Light Of The Creator (alt version)" by Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre. Anyone got a line on a decently priced one on CD? - either from a US source, or without excessive overseas shipping? Thanks!!

Been to most of the German restaurants all around the greater St. Louis area (especially on the east side of the river, closer to where my dad still lives). He's about 98% German, and I think both his folks (my grandparents) spoke German in the families they grew up in (here in the states). My grandmother was born in 1897, back when there was a really substantial German immigrant population in and around St. Louis, and all throughout southern-Illinois, and the "Missouri Rhineland" (central Missouri, between St. Louis and Columbia/Jefferson-City). To this very day, at least once or twice a year we take my Dad to a German restaurant for his favorite: rouladen -- some better, and some nowhere near to his very particular liking (he'll be 91 in a few months, so he's getting more and more "particular" with every year these days). Well outside of St. Louis, over the last 15+ years we've taken him to German restaurants in Hot Spring, AK - Washington DC - Nashville or Memphis (I forget which, to be honest), and Kansas City -- and come to think of it, also in Iowa and Minnesota too, iirc (closer to 20 years ago). Every few years, another German restaurant in/around St. Louis seems to close. And as the article in the OP's post stated, they all seem like going back in time. My wife and I will be down in Austin in mid-may, and the Hill Country area - and hope to get some German food down there too. Not that we're huge fans of it, but given my family's heritage (and I say "my family's" - because I was adopted, and don't really know my own ethnicity specifically, though I suspect I'm also a Euro-mutt myself, with a fair bit of German in me too) -- that we're open to having German food now and then, even without my Dad along.

Mrs. Rooster and I are taking a week off to visit Austin, staying in one Airbnb type rental semi-near downtown Austin (same place the entire week). Back in the mid 90's, I worked about 50% of a whole year in San Marcos TX (flew back and forth between Kansas City every other week) -- almost my very first and practically only exposure to Texas (save for one minor trip to Amarillo a few years before). Got to Austin ~10 times that year, and San Antonio a few times, and up in the Hill Country a bit -- and I've been meaning to get back ever since. No big agenda yet, save for the San Antonio river walk, and the LBJ presidential library. So what all else is must-see in the area? My family is German on both sides, and I know that much of the Hill Country was heavily German dating back to the late 1800's, iirc - so that's of interest. BBQ of course. And almost any museum is potentially of interest. Neither of us are beer drinkers, but we both love hard cider. Oh, and architecture!! Especially art nouveau and deco, through mid-century modern. So what shouldn't we miss?

Will there be another free BN watch with the purchase of 10 titles?

I wanna hear anything Tyrone is on, and Woody too (in that kind of context), for that matter. Woody on that one insane Andrew Hill date from 31-Oct-1967 (the beginning of disc #3 of the Hill BN select), is about as heavy as it gets. I traded emails with Michael C. years ago, and he claimed the tapes were "lost" of that McLean date (w/ Tyrone) -- but I've read elsewhere that the session was a mess (but I've never heard any firsthand reports of that, other than what various people have said Michael C. has said about it over the years). Whether the tapes really are lost, or not - I have no idea.

I seem to recall the prior listing said they were both partials, iirc.

$30-$35 is my price point. I've had the Stockholm material on CD, legit (far as I'm concerned), since ~1992 - over half my adult life (and I'll be 50 next year). I might begrudgingly pay ~$38, but not $50.

Totally agree about the new extra material from Out to Lunch and Mode for Joe (just one new alternate that's unique to the Japanese SHM of Mode (of the title track), but I thought it was a real eye-opener - and worth every penny). The new SHM alternates on Unity were also really valuable too.

Infinity is my very favorite Lee/Jackie pairing on record (of many). Heck, Etcetera may be my very favorite Wayne leader date, in terms of the playing and personnel, and it sat in the vaults almost 10 years too.

I got your Rogers Sessions for you. Right here...

Nor Vincent McEwan (trumpet), or Teddy Robinson (drums) -- ?

Thanks everyone. 49, eek!!!

Damn, dirty Andorrans!

I can already tell you there won't be enough live Tyrone Washington footage included, at least for my taste.

If you don't/can't get a copy of the Woody Shaw CBS set, I've got one I'd be glad to send you (in excellent shape). I don't have a specific price in mind, but I would donate EVERY penny directly to Jim for running this board (you can pay him (the board) directly). So while I might haggle to at least get something reasonable for it -- it wouldn't be for my own benefit -- only the benefit of the Big O Board (and I'll even throw in the cost of shipping myself).

8/10, but half of that was educated guesses. Given the amount of Parker I own and listen to (not tons), I was expecting to get 5 or 6 at best, but it didn't hurt that I lived in Kansas City for 17 years (or I wouldn't have ever gotten Jay McShann, and possibly not the Basie one either).

Happy Birthday, most definitely. But where you at, Paul? LAST VISITED 27 Nov 2016