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Anybody know where this 1997 Belden remake of Bjork's "Venus As A Boy" comes from? The video is from Bob's own YouTube channel, and the description there says: ANIMATION Recorded April 28, 1997 at DK Studios, NYC Tim Hagans-trumpet, Bob Belden-soprano sax, John Hart-guitar, Kevin Hays-Rhodes, Scott Kinsey-synths, David Dyson-bass, Billy Kilson-drums Was this from an actual album? If so, which one?

Woody Shaw devotee that I am, how am I only just now stumbling on this album for the very first time today? Guess it's still AWOL on CD, correct? (This thread came up in Google, searching for "Gary Bartz Home" - one of the first page of hits.)

Looks like there's some sort of Q&A along with the 7:15pm screenings this weekend (Fri & Sat only), here in DC. Wonder who with?? https://www.landmarktheatres.com/washington-d-c/west-end-cinema/film-info/i-called-him-morgan

http://icalledhimmorgan.com/screenings/ I see it's going to be playing here in DC starting on Friday. I saw it here in a free screening about a month ago, at the National Gallery -- but I might just go back and see it again (and may encourage my wife to go, in part because it doesn't so much focus on the music, as it does on the musician (his life, and death), and of course, his common-law wife. I said it elsewhere (in another thread), but I highly recommend catching this if you can. Dozens and dozens of amazing photos I'd never seen. Not a ton of footage that wasn't already on YouTube, but there were great interviews with nearly every member of Lee's last working band, along with an interview with Wayne too. I can see where fans of the music might have preferred a slightly more music-centric documentary, but honestly, I thought the approach was compelling, and something that lots of casual viewers could get drawn into. The ending, if you didn't already know Lee's story, was a bit of a shocker. Viewers are presented with a stark, fairly no-holds-barred view of Lee's common-law-wife -- without acknowledging her role in his death (to put it mildly), until about the last 25-30 minutes of the film. She isn't sugarcoated, but still, if you didn't know going into it, I'm sure the facts as they unfold in the film would come as some genuine surprise to the uninitiated. A very thought-provoking film. Even after all these years, there seemed to be the vestiges of some real affection for her (or, rather, the memory of what was clearly -- at one time -- genuine affection). Complicated stuff, and I thought a compellingly told story.

My Google-Fu is failing me, what venue in DC in June?

48, gulp. Goodbye "mid-40's", hello "late-40's".

Damn! Includes *alternate takes* from all the expanded single-disc editions. I may have to jump on this one -- Fifth Dimension is the only one I have currently (and I've always meant to get others, and always the expanded editions). Hot damn!!

Wish I didn't already have this, or I'd bite!

John Szwed's book is probably the best there is (are there any as in depth as his?). Couple that with one of the editions of the vast discography, and I would guess that would cover a great deal of what is known. I contributed a tiny, tiny bit of info to Szwed's book (hardly enough to even mention, about some IAI videos from the 70's and a couple other things I can't even begin remember now, back when I was a we lad of ~22 years, now pushing 50)... ...and much to my shock, my name appeared in the thank-you section -- my own mini 15-nanoseconds of fame.

Wish they'd acquire Horo too!

FWIW, I've been seeing these sorts of direct comminications off and on for months (maybe 3-5 a month?). Usually of the polite/friendly sort as the example here... ...but I do remember one that was a little pointed (about a CD purchase, iirc). I've got some snapshots ("phone screenshots)" of past examples on my phone. I'll see if I can upload them, somehow, here.

I normally browse the forum on my phone, and look at new posts since my last visit. And sometimes I seem to see what appear to be personal messages, in that same feed, which I'm rather suprised to see (since I would assume those would be private). For example, just a couple hours ago today, this one appeared (see example below). I've been seeing such (presumably private?) messages for some time, and have always meant to inquire as to why they seemed to be public (or at least visible to me). Is anyone else seeing these? Is this utilizing some other function that I'm not aware of? Kind of a head-scratcher. (Also, as the exchange appears in my feed, I also see an edit box giving me(!) the ability to "reply to this status...". - ??) jeffsjazz > jazzbo Ciao Lon, I saw that you ordered the new Hank Mobley from Jazz Messengers.I used to order from them monthly for years-great store ! I visited them in Madrid. I was wondering if you've received it,how is it and how is the sound? Thanks Lon, Jeff

Easily (still) my favorite and most revered Select set, as evidenced by my earlier enthusiasm up-thread. And Disk #3 is really a corker!!

Still a crime The Trainwreck hasn't been issued in full (with complete alternate takes of four of the five tunes, no less). Honestly, I think a lot of it is better than Natural Essence, (the ballad, most definitely better than the one on NE). The whole thing hangs together beautifully, if you ask me. Rejected, afaik (or certainly that's been Michael's opinion all these years).

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Have a happy one, Paul. Cheers!!

Joe Henderson's Complete Milestones Years box is probably co-equally my #1, along with any of several Miles boxes. I'm a thousand miles from home (back in St. Louis visiting my Dad this weekend), or I'd survey my collection -- but the Henderson was the very first thing I thought of (and it hadn't been mentioned yet).

Can confirm, just got an email from The Bastards, who have it in stock (no idea how many copies).

My wife and I were at both sets that night too! -- my first time hearing Schneider's group (which played in Columbia, MO (2 hours drive) quite often, but never quite to Kansas City, where I lived for some 17 years - and I never got around to getting down to hear her). Anyway, such an amazing evening!! I really loved "Data Lords" (my favorite tune of the night), and you can REALLY hear how the general feeling of the tune came out of her work with David Bowie (the tune they did together, "Sue (Or In a Season of Crime)" is most definitely a cousin-composition, at least in timbre). IN addition to the tunes you cited, I also remember a really great version of "Love Theme from Spartacus" (also featuring Rich Perry, iirc) -- which, to my ears, was the most Gil-Evans-ish-sounding tune/arrangement all night. Would have liked to have heard a couple more trumpet features, but overall, an incredible evening. I wish I'd suggested to Ms. Schneider at the autograph table between sets, that she might consider doing an entire album of jazz-orchestra arrangements of all of Bowie's Blackstar album (which she clearly loves). I'd probably personally kick in $200 on such an effort through Kickstarter (or ArtistShare). She had a semi-(in)direct hand in Blackstar even coming into being the way it did, so it might even be fitting. I heard/read somewhere recently that "Lazarus" was the other tune that Bowie had brought to her (in addition to "Sue"), but that they hadn't gone anywhere with it.

How many CD's worth of music do you have on your phone? Honest question. That was always my issue, that I could never load even but a tiny fraction of my collection onto my phone. Even my old iPod nano (which held at least 60-70 albums, maybe 100?) didn't even begin to hold but a fraction of my 3,000+ CD's. That, and it's a pain in the ass constantly having to upload (and later delete) CD's from iTunes -- in order to change what was on my phone. A complete switch-out of even 50 albums would take a couple hours (iirc), so I finally said the heck with it. When I can grab 3-4 CD's off the shelf, and play 'em right in the car, why go through the hassle of the phone? That's what I did in Kansas City, and I probably listened to 10-20 CD's per week, between the car and playing them at work. I mean, it would be great to have all my music on my phone, but that wasn't possible (at least when I last bought my phone, which is an iPhone 5, with 16 GB).

Do I have to upgrade my iCloud storage to back up the phone to iTunes? (In other words, is that what "backing it up to iTunes" is? And if so, do I have to pay a monthly fee for the extra storage?) Have to confess, I never even downloaded iTunes to our new laptop a couple years ago (when we had to get a new one), because I just never got around to it (since I only ever used it to get CD's onto my phone, which wasn't worth the effort if I could only store like 10 albums). I did half-consider going back to using my old iPod nano, which held like 60-70 albums, and was great!! But then I thought iTunes would try and synch all those same albums with my phone (which there wasn't space for), and I thought it might be a problem. I have to confess, I never even put my credit-card into iTunes, and only ever used it to upload CD's (since that was the only way to do it).

Can't say I have (ever restored my phone). I presume means going back to the original 'fresh from the factory' state. I'm assuming I'd have to re-download all my apps (write them all down, and search and reinstall all 30 of them). I assume(?) that would also mean wiping all the photos I have on it (which I really hadn't wanted to do), unless I paid more for iCloud storage. I kind of figured I'd upgrade to a new phone in a couple more years (when they hopefully brought back the earphone jack, knock on wood), and I'd be sure to get more memory this time (like 32 or 64 GB). My experience with this iPhone hasn't been bad, but it's getting more sluggish and/or locking up more and more (so my opinion on it is starting to shift). And the top 'reset' button stopped working a couple weeks ago (just completely stopped), which has kind of been a pain - but I have to just let it timeout to let the screen go dim again.

The Music on my phone currently is about 903 MB (only 8 albums). When I first got the phone several years ago, I loaded about 20 albums on it, but over time, I kept getting closer to running out of memory (so I'd just delete a couple albums, and/or a few apps). Right now, the top 10 apps on my phone (by size), are... Photos/Camera - 2.66 GB Music - 903 MB Weather (Channel app) - 577 MB Mail - 445 MB Google - 362 MB Messages (text messages) - 308 MB NPR App - 164 MB Google Maps - 139 MB Pandora - 132 MB Yelp - 124 MB And I've got another 20 (or so) other apps on the phone (but only 9 of them are over 50 MB) -- but I do really use most of them a fair bit. I know too many photos is a big part of the memory issue, and I try and go through and delete stuff I don't need, but I really need to figure out what (if anything) I want to do with them, other than just keep them on my phone. Maybe I should try and get more iCloud storage, I guess (I've gotten messages forever telling me to upgrade to more iPhone storage, which I presume entails some monthly fee). But I'm not so thrilled about storing that stuff out in the stratosphere (not that I care if anyone sees any of them, but it's more like out of sight, out of mind, but then if they disappear, it could be months before I even knew they were gone). When I first started with the phone, I did upload different CD's to the phone, but then I always had to delete them from my phone (to upload others). But then I also had to delete them from iTunes (on my laptop), because I had to limit what I kept in iTunes on my laptop (or else it would all get bigger than what I could upload to my phone). Frickin' pain in the ass, all of it, if you ask me -- which is probably why I haven't bothered trying to reinstall iTunes on the new laptop we got a couple years ago (when our harddrive and motherboard died/got fried). I guess I'm a bit of a technophobe, but really, the amount of energy and time it takes to mess with this stuff just isn't worth it to me. Which is why I'd much rather have 3,000+ CD's, than have to worry about trying to store stuff on a hard drive, and somehow keep it all backed up (and not ever lose any data), over multiple technology changes over the next 30-40 years (or whenever I shuffle off this mortal coil).

Here are tracks 2 & 3 from the disc (separate tracks on the CD, parts 1 & 2 of the same song)...

When you own 3,000+ CD's, and an iPhone 5 (with only 16GB memory), it's a pain in the ass to have to upload and delete albums in order to listen to them in your car. With the other apps on my phone, I can only hold about 10 albums (at most), so in order to give up CD's in the car -- I'd have to constantly delete albums from my phone, and re-upload new ones weekly. Kind of helps that I don't even own a car any more, granted, but when my wife and I rent Zip cars for the weekend -- if they don't have a CD player, I'm pretty much limited to listening to Pandora (as I normally pack about 32 CD's for every trip, in one of those CD flip-binder things). No way my phone can hold 32 CD's of music, though (or not without deleting a ton of apps and photos).