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Never on CD, far as I know. But I think there may have been a legit digital-download version (maybe even with one bonus alternate take/track?). But I don't do downloads, so I never persued it. Seems like I saw it on Amazon for download even, maybe. Would buy a copy on CD, for sure!

How did this particular set sell out so quickly (relatively speaking) - ? Seems like it was out and gone in a fairly few short years (forgotten the details - maybe it was longer than I'm remembering). It seemed like the kind of set that would be around a while, but maybe sales were better than I was imagining?

Can highly recommend this: Schuller ,Ed – Mu-Point (Tutu) Dewey Redman $12

As long as Spotify give you access to a particular album in perpetuity (well, as long as you keep paying your bills). While any of my CD's could get scratched or go belly-up at some point in the next 20+ years -- I don't think the odds are necessarily a whole lot better that Spotify will provide continuous access to any number of relatively obscure recordings that I hold rather dear, over that same time-period. I mean, Spotify COULD easily provide continuous access to any number of things for a damn long time -- but I'm still skeptical that everything you can listen to today will always be available 10, 20, or 30 years from now.

How expensive? (On mobile, will try and check later, or this weekend.)

Been a fair while since I gave - so I'm good for $100. And/or... I've been meaning to list a few Mosaics for sale here too -- with 100% of the proceeds going to the continued upkeep of the board. "100%" as in the "payment" can go *directly* to Jim (no need for me to be a middle man).

I'm pretty sure(?) I saw him once, or maybe even twice - in Kansas City - with Bobby Watson, as best I'm remembering. Heck of a good player, as I'm recalling, and I'm sure I had his first leader-date on CD at some point or another. RIP.

I wish there were five prolific jazz alto-clarinetists. Joe Lovano is the only player I can think of off the top of my head who's doubled specifically on alto more than a handful of times - though I'd love to be made aware of any others.

Super nice guy. Really bummed to hear this. RIP:

I can't fathom a 'biopic' of Lee's life happening, nor anything good coming from it (should any such movie ever be made).

Amen to that. My all-time favorite Woody Shaw album, bar none. Absolute highest recommendation.

Of all of Woody's 80's output specifically, this is probably my single favorite of his 80's albums. Never cared for Bemsha Swing a whole ton, though I haven't heard it in years. Can't remember my beef with it, but maybe the specific tunes was at least part of it, iirc. A little too much Monk, maybe.

Ike Willis is -- or damn well sure ought to be -- considered a national treasure. "Outside Now" is such a fantastic tune. The version on Broadway The Hard Way was one of the very first post-70's Zappa albums I ever heard -- and that whole '88 live band was totally the shit. Must have listened to Broadway, Best Band, and Jazz Noise on repeat for a whole year when I first got them in the early 90's. Ike's voice is seriously one of the most beautiful and interesting voices in all of pop/rock/jazz/you-name-it.

I got to hang out backstage a couple different times with Kevin and his wife, back some 20+ years ago - at a club in KC that I used to frequent so much I practically worked there (for bigger shows - The Drum Room in Westport, for anyone who remembers KC back in the mid-90's), and I had free run of the place. Kevin and his wife were always super nice, and very down to earth. His wife was a photographer by trade (I think?), and I vaguely remember running into her around town at clubs, now and then - so I chatted with her even more than Kevin. Really good people. Really sorry to hear of this loss, and 59 is definitely young. I understand his wife preceded him, RIP to both really good souls. Not being a huge fan of vocal-jazz, I never sought out hearing Kevin on gigs around Kansas City (not that he played in town a whole ton), but I did catch him a few times -- but more than that, I seemed to run into him more often than I heard him. Not lots, but maybe every year or so. I just tried to find a good picture of both Kevin and his wife (Alllene) to post, and instead found this lovely slideshow (below) of photos from his wife's passing just back in June this year. It's a little long (~10 minutes), but you can skip around - and it includes wedding photos, and other family and candid shots (more of his wife, of course). I have good memories of both of them seeing this, and although it's a little personal, since it is public (Google brought it right up), I think I'll share it here. Music, of course, is Kevin in the background. http://www.creativephotoslideshows.com/Custom-Shows/Funeral-Memorials/Client-Memorial-Slideshows/Allene/i-cnpGrJS

"The Rumproller" for Lee, definitely. But I'm not sure Hill ever wrote anything for Mobley (their only encounter was on No Room For Squares, iirc). If the on-line resource I found this on is right (don't have my McMaster with me at the moment), the full session was as shown down below (and all titles by Hank, or Lee)... QUESTION: SO, then was "Rumproller" the ONLY Hill-penned tune for anyone else? -- other than the four (4) Hill tunes on Bobby Hutcherson's Dialogue, of course. Hank Mobley No Room For Squares - Blue Note BST 84149 Rec. Oct 2, 1963 at Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Hank Mobley (ts), Lee Morgan (tp), Andrew Hill (p), John Ore (b), Philly Joe Jones (d) No Room For Squares (Hank Mobley) Three Way Split (Hank Mobley) Me 'N' You (Lee Morgan) Carolyn (Lee Morgan) Comin' Back* (Hank Mobley) Syrup and Biscuits* (Hank Mobley) No Room For Squares (alt tk)* Carolyn (alt tk)* Notes: *songs from the session which first appeared on the CD re-issue

Ha! Exactly the anecdotal evidence I needed to 'prove' my point! The import of KOB seems pretty darn clear, but most Coltrane fans I know wouldn't elevate Blue Train to anything other than maybe being one of his 10 most important albums. My perspective is a little skewed, by the fact that I never really got bitten hard by the Coltrane bug (weird, I know). I've got tons of respect and admiration for him, but I think I only own barely 20% of Trane's total recorded output -- where I'm well over 80% for Joe Henderson, for instance (and that's including all of Joe's sideman work). I probably haven't listened to my copy of Blue Trane more than 5 times in the last 20 years.

A "darn good" date, sure - but nowhere near the semi-magnum-opus it's been marketed to be over the years. And yeah, the ensembles are way more sloppy than one could ever imagine, considering its street-cred. And Curtis has always seemed to be phoning it in here. How did this album become such a revered cash cow for Blue Note? Was it just the title track being hummable as all get-out, and the cover being as iconic as hell? If so, a killer combo, indeed. I don't know that it reached Sidewinder-esque sales back in its day, but I'm betting sales of Blue Train after 1980 probably matched (or eclipsed?) Sidewinder even. I think I may have even seen copies for sale at Starbucks 10-15 years ago (but never Sidewinder). As a result, to this day, I'm convinced that there are probably a couple thousand Gen Xers out there who've only ever owned 5 jazz CD's (or less), and two of them are Kind of Blue and Blue Train. A good album, sure (arguably top-100, I suppose) -- but nowhere near its near "top-10 jazz albums of all time" perceived status by more than a handful of people. But an absolute feat of marketing, I'll give it that.

What was the lowdown on the overalls? I mean, didn't he make the whole band(!) wear matching overalls for a while there (am I remembering they right?). Were they all tired of dry cleaning bills?

Since I think(?) all these BN SHM's are back out again (with a few that have otherwise unreleased bonus tracks), I just thought I'd point out that I thought the alternate take of the title track from Mode For Joe continues to be a real revelation for me -- and perhaps even surpasses the 'original' (i.e. the far better known released version). Well worth plunking down for, imho, if anyone's ordering some other titles in this series. Anybody else concur?? Meaning specifically about this track.

I don't suppose any of the rest of this 1966 material has ever surfaced. Would love to hear this entire set someday, even as short as it is.

When/what the heck does this alternate cover for Dizzy Reece's Comin' On! come from? CD or LP? I've sure never seen this photo-less one before just moments ago. Weird!

For some reason I thought this series was being issued twice a year, but I'm just now seeing "quarterly" on the cover-art for the whole package -- ??. If it really is quartely, $800 per year is a lot to expect people to drop, imho.

I had the 1992 Bellaphon/Strata-East german version years ago (lost when the friend I loaned it to passed away unexpectedly 10+ years ago, and I never had the heart to reach out to his widow about it). About 5 years ago, replaced it with the more recent Japanese mini-LP reissue, which sounds great (but I never had the change to A/B compare the sound). Just looked on eBay, and there are ZERO copies available on CD now (nor any in the recently completed auctions listings), so it appears to be pretty scarce these days. God damn crime key dates like this are becoming so frickin' rare. A person ought to be able to pick up any of the best half-a-dozen of Harper's dates on CD, without having to shell out $50 or more (which seems to be about the price on Amazon's second-hand market). Seriously, it's a crime such good material is rapidly becoming impossible to buy. Most of Charles Tolliver's key output is headed that direction too, to say nothing of dozens of other important musicians.

BTW, I won a copy of the Verve Mulligan 'Concert Jazz Band' Mosaic on eBay a couple weeks ago (only $60 total!). Turns out it was from Euclid Records in St. Louis (where I'm visiting family next week for Thanksgiving) -- so I got an in-store pick-up planned (and no shipping cost, and no sales-tax because I got it through eBay). Really looking forward to this one, a set I'd considered buying easily a half-dozen times (but never quite got around to). Hell of a price, that I couldn't pass up. EDIT: I'm seeing just now that I posted earlier in this very topic -- way back in 2003! Only took me almost 15 years go get around to it.

I think he might have been both times I met him backstage after concerts (just for a quick autograph). Not in any way "out of it", but he definitely sees the world in his own way. In fact, he might be extra "with it" - maybe practically all time.