Rooster_Ties

Buyer beware, indeed!

Really? Damn!

Just pulled the trigger on this set, and looking forward!!

I have an extra copy of that Japanese "In The World" on CD too (which I don't need, cuz I bought the whole box), if anybody needs to go that route. Mini-LP, w/ obi!

Well, if the MJQ set is back in play (and it appears it is!), then I'm contemplating getting all four of these (gulp)... Bee Hive, MJQ, Oliver Nelson, and Threadgill. But I'm not sure I'll convince myself to get all four, and I certainly don't "need" all of them. Heck of a chunk of change (~$540 with shipping), and will I really listen to all of them enough? Decisions, decisions.

So I see the MJQ box is backordered, but says it is expected to be available again in May (presumably 2017). Given the current situation, is it touch and go (at best, and probably extremely iffy), or is there any chance it could become available again? (In other words, am I just SOL on that one?)

This double-posting this here is really quite the trip. This double-posting this here is really quite the trip.

So, is this the only thread that's doing automatic double-postings? So, is this the only thread that's doing automatic double-postings?

A number of lengthy clips and appearances in 1964, and again in 1967 & 1969 (and later), but hardly any before 1964 -- just that one most famous one in ~59/60 with in the Robert Herdridge(sp?) hosted show, the one including Trane and Gil Evans. A number of lengthy clips and appearances in 1964, and again in 1967 & 1969 (and later), but hardly any before 1964 -- just that one most famous one in ~59/60 with in the Robert Herdridge(sp?) hosted show, the one including Trane and Gil Evans.

You can say that again! You can say that again!

The double-posting thing was happening from my phone, and I'm wondering if it's going to happen now with this (from my desktop/PC). The double-posting thing was happening from my phone, and I'm wondering if it's going to happen now with this (from my desktop/PC).

Broken record, I know, but I think it's so surprising that we have a few Tina Brooks solos on video (w/ that Ray Charles footage, wasn't it from a South America tour or something like that?). But it's downright shocking that there's nearly half-an-hour of Dupree Bolton(!) on video(!!) with Curtis Amy, on like 3-4 tunes. The odds of that having happened seem like 1 in 1,000, at best. Amazing!

There's footage of Tina Brooks. And of Dupree Bolton, of all things. But none of Hank.

This is the solo transition I was thinking of in my first post upthread, but rereading your original post, this doesn't really match the description. (It's the first track, "An Aperitif" from Third Season.) In any case, the transition from Hank's to Lee's solo (at 1:50) has I think Mobley going (to far?) into the first phrase of Lee's solo space (like he want to far). But then Lee echoes exactly what Hank played immediately before. Did they plan it that way? I don't know - opinions? You really have to hear the whole context to pickup where in the form it happens, so start no later than about 1:30 if you jump in the middle...

Love the Shaw Muse box. Had nearly all of it on CD, in those damn 32Jazz issues -- but was glad to upgrade and support Mosaic in the process (got it within the few month or so it was first available). Wish there had been more previously unreleased material (just one track from the live Berlin "Concert Ensemble" date, iirc, which is my single favorite Shaw leader-date, btw), but I guess there would have been more if only the 32Jazz titles hadn't already included a few alternates here and there.

I think there is something like that on Slice of the Top, or maybe Third Stream, early in the track-listing (cut #1 or #2, iirc). That's if I'm understanding your description correctly, and if so, that's a transition that I've always loved. (Not sure which date 1540 is.)

I really wish I could make it to the concert tonight, but I'm deep into last minute stuff at work for our organizations quarterly board meetings (which are out of town once a year, early next week). i suspect I'll be working late again tonight, past 7 I'm afaid.

My grandmother (father's side) was born in 1897, and she lived to 100! She had memories of visiting the St. Louis world's fair in 1904, among many other notable things (half of which I've forgotten, I'm afraid). Drove until she was 95, lived in an apartment by herself until 98, and still had most of her faculties until early in her 99th year. My own father turns 90 next month, and although he's slowing down a bit (in the last year especially), I think he might well match his mother's longevity and quality of life. I'm just 48 myself, but have always felt better-connected a little farther back into the past (than my contemporaries), both because my own parents were a good generation older (my dad especially, who's easily old enough to be my grandfather), and my grandma - who was easily old enough to have been my great-grandmother. Growing up (in the 70's & 80's), everything after about 1920 seemed like relatively 'recent' history to me, since stories told around the dining room table - particularly around holidays - spanned a good bit of the last century.

I know, am well aware, and THAT was his rep in plenty of press around the time of the hidden-cameras court-case. So how in the hell does he go from that, to being on the cover of the state-sponsored travel glossy with a shelf-life of a full year? Couldn't (and still can't) fathom how that happened.

Assuming jazz itself isn't actually dead, I thought Frank Zappa's explanation for the smell seemed entirely plausible.

A topic I've long thought I'd try to bring up somewhere (in some context), and I do mean to do so respectfully... Is the question of how in the heck Chuck rehabilitated himself purely from a PR-perspective, after the various charges that were brought against him regarding the hidden cameras he had installed in his restaurant (I think all civil charges, iirc, or were any of them criminal?). I don't mean to re-litigate any of that (honestly), but I have to confess I was absolutely dumbfounded about 15 years ago when I discovered Chuck's picture, big as life, on the front cover of the official, annual St. Louis Tourism Bureau brochure -- and I'm talkin' one of those semi-thick magazines they give out for an entire calendar year, close to 70-80 pages, slick and glossy, the whole 9-yards. His image on the cover of that Tourism "Magazine" for St. Louis -- hell, it might have even been for the entire state of Missouri, come to think of it -- took up 80% of the cover. As little as 10 or 15 years before (I forget the exact chronology), I was very much aware of the hidden-cameras case against him, and although I realize either the charges were ultimately dropped, or pled-down -- or he settled out of court (probably without claiming any culpability), I always felt like Chuck was seriously hurt in "the court of public opinion". Does anyone remember better than me, was it simply a matter of enough time had passed that people simply forgot about all that? It wasn't that I expected his overall popularity to disappear overnight -- THAT was never going to happen. But for Chuck to have those sort of charges leveled against him, and to then later appear as the poster-personal for an entire region's (or state's) tourism advertising campaign (a risk-adverse client, as you might ever find), just came as an utter surprise to me. Is my take and memory on the whole thing out of whack? Did he more successfully "beat those charges" than I'm remembering? All I remember is that the story had all kinds of "ick"-factor written all over it. And, again, simply from a PR-perspective (realizing that that are a heck of a lot of people with all kinds of morals and urges in this world - a fact I'm not the least bit oblivious to), I just could not imagine he would ever manage to turn around what I assumed (maybe wrongly?) was some pretty seriously-negative public perception issues.

What I sure wish would surface is some live Horace Silver from after 1965. Were there any live gigs with the Tyrone/Woody front line? Or did Tolliver play any live gigs with Horace?

Pepper is probably my *least* favorite 'mature' Beatles album. The sum of all its parts is not insignificant -- I'll certainly acknowledge that -- but I have to confess to not being all that excited about very many of the parts, individually. My favorite Beatle, by far, was George - and Pepper has about the least amount of "George"-factor going for it. I never got a copy on CD, so perhaps I might spring for the double-disc version. And I'll confess that although I might love to hear the full 6-disc set a time or two -- that I'm sure I wouldn't spin the whole thing more than once a year (if that), once I got past the first month with the thing. About once a decade I'll go on a big Beatles kick, but it never lasts all that long.

Moncur, on valve trombone.

Here's a list of cities/venues/dates where it is going to be shown. Week of April 28 here in DC, I'm sure I'll try and catch it... http://www.coltranefilm.com/?page_id=1408 Be sure to click "load more" down at the bottom, as there are a couple more that don't display by default the first time.