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And note, there’s two batches too — bunch on Sept 13th — and several more on Sept 27th. I’m gonna be tempted by a number of them, even not having parsed through the details of them yet.

Interesting. I wonder if DG can get that back from USPS (I’m assuming $10.90 was your shipping charge) — or if Dusty just eats it.

Me too, sometimes even less!! — Chicago to DC.

PM also sent on: Thomas Chapin Haywire — for a buddy of mine. He says I need the other two Chapins for myself (he already has ‘em) — but I need to find some online samples first to be sure. (To be honest, I’ve never even heard of the guy before — name isn’t ringing any bells for me whatsoever.)

PM sent on both Teddy Charles discs. Thx!!

Recommended! An all Wayne Shorter program — and Sam Yahwl is on B3. Plays on standard CD players too.

Despite my deep love of Billy Harper, Tyrone Washington, Ornette, plenty of Sun Ra’s cadre of sax players (though admittedly not the absolute most ‘out’ of his free stuff), Gary Thomas, etc… I quite sheepishly have to admit that it’s Trane’s sheets-of-sound playing on Prestige that I’ve connected with the most. There are aspects — especially their ‘jam’-iness — of many of those recordings that leave a fair bit to be desired. But Trane’s playing — soloing — on those Prestige recordings is really lovely, and definitely moves me (or much of it does). And I have to confess that in all these years, I have yet to connect super-deeply even with Trane’s Atlantic(!) years — let alone either Impulse era. I know, I know… there’s absolutely no logic to this, given the number of other ‘challenging’ jazz sax players I do like and even love — but it is what it is. If it’s any indication, it was only a few months(!) ago that I *FINALLY* broke down and bought my first ever physical copy of A Love Supreme (the 2CD edition with the live version, and a few studio alternates). I listened to it about 4 times (and the live version twice) — all inside of two weeks time. And while I certainly ‘liked’ it (the studio version more than the live one) — I also didn’t quite “love” it. It was certainly interesting, and largely enjoyable — but I’m nowhere as moved by ALS as I certainly ought to be. And nobody is more shocked by this than I am. I like Giant Steps (the album) better, but even that only hits about a 7/10 for me. I hesitate to say ALS is a 6/10 album — but 6/10 does probably accurately reflect my ‘excitement’ level, or degree of emotional connection I had with it. I do have nothing but the highest respect for all of Trane’s output, Impulse years included. I just haven’t connected with much or any of it yet.

Don’t know much nor ever known much about Buffet, but this popped up on my YouTube feed… Buffet on Carson — and the second song he sings is “Stars Fell on Alabama”:

Astonishing!! Some of the best camera work one could even imagine.

Sorry, that CD comp cover is also glorious — it just is.

The only Kenton I’ve ever had is the Graettinger City of a Glass comp (CD), with that drop dead gorgeous cover ❤️ (below), which — if I could ever find an LP-size image of it (in good quality) — I would be tempted to frame and hang on the wall. But I have it because my MOM had the original City of Glass 10” — which she also mentioned to me a few times as something wild she found somewhere, and picked up I think(?) because she had a cursory interest in modern dance. She heard a couple John Cage things back in the 50’s — that I think Merce Cunningham had brought to the University of Illinois (where she was in school), and a bit of modern music too — she also heard/saw some sort of Harry Partch dance/ballet collaboration too while she was in college at U of I. — and she fondly remembered the homemade microtonal instruments for the music. Anyway, I somehow suspect she picked up a copy of that City of Glass 10” because the dance department had performed something set to it maybe. Wish she was still around, or I’d ask her about it.

Aurora (2005) and a Mosaic Select (2011) — so about four hours of material. www.discogs.com/release/11160136-Sam-Rivers-Rivbea-All-star-Orchestra-Aurora https://www.discogs.com/release/5301764-Sam-Rivers-The-Rivbea-Orchestra-Mosaic-Select-Trilogy I seem to vaguely remember there was one (or two?) download album(s) too — which I never got the details of (and I never downloaded). That band sounded like they played as if their life depended on it. And I used to say they sounded like if Arnold Schoenberg led a big band, with a more ‘free-jazz’-influenced version of James Brown’s rhythm section. No shit, they were outrageous!

I’ve said it before, but I sure WISH Sam River’s Florida big band — from his later years — had gone on as a ghost band. An absolutely impossible endeavor, financially, I realize — but man, that band was just about the best larger-group Sam ever worked with, far as I’m concerned.

They also have a pop-up msg on their site that, fwiw, says: SUMMER DEALS We are on vacation from 21 July till 2 September. Orders will be processed in the first week of September. 10% discount on all products, albums from Mosaic Records are excluded 40% discount on following labels: Arhoolie, Candid, Chiaroscuro, Clean Feed, Delmark, Double time, Fresh sound, Justin Time, Leo, Nagel Heyer, SteepleChase, Storyville, Reservoir, Red, RCA Discounts are settled directly at checkout and are [and then this sentence never finishes, it just ends there] We are on vacation from 21 July till 2 September. Orders will be processed in the first week of September.

I have this lengthy 2cd set compilation (each disc is ~79 minutes) — and it’s wonderful… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_Best_of_Fela_Kuti It’s been out a number of times, some under different titles too… https://www.discogs.com/master/114003-Fela-Kuti-The-Best-Best-Of-Fela-Kuti-The-Black-President I’ve nearly bought the mega set a couple times, but it’s SO long, I just couldn’t justify it, knowing I’d barely get thru the whole thing more than a time or two (maybe once a decade, if I was lucky). I think(?) I vaguely remember there’s another (2nd, different) 2cd comp (maybe by the same people who did the one I liked to above?) — and I’ve thought about picking it up a time or two (which if I ever find one used, I probably will).

Correct — two B3-players wouldn’t scratch that itch for me — especially very traditional B3-type soul jazz. I’m looking for one organ (at most) plus one or more other non-organ instruments, playing off each other — ‘in constant conversation’ so to speak. But “no organ” is perfectly fine too. The Roland Haynes doesn’t have any ‘organ’, at least none that I’m remembering aurally (the liners just say both players are on ‘keyboards’ is only how specific it gets). Both the Haynes and Mal dates happen to be exactly two (2) keyboard players, plus bass and drums — so in both cases, the entire record is sort of the texture and timbre I’m looking for. JOS and Joey DeFrancesco goin’ at it together probably wouldn’t be what I’m looking for. This isn’t about grease — it’s maybe even more a ‘proggy’ thing, almost (or partly so). Active bass-playing, but with static harmonies also seems to be part of the sound I’m looking for. Not quite ‘busy’ — but sometimes, in combo with the drummer, the net effect might be described by some as ‘busy’ (or something that’s the opposite of ‘languid’).

Very specific, I realize. But these two albums have really been scratching an itch the last couple days — and I’m lookin’ for more. In particular, parts of Mal’s The Call — specifically Jimmy Jackson’s organ playing — really reminds me of what Rick Wright added to the textures of some pre-Dark Side era Pink Floyd. That, plus all the static harmony, pedal-point bass playing, and semi-simplistic drumming (by jazz standards). And the Roland Haynes record is really a delight too. Other suggestions don’t absolutely have to be lacking horns — but I’m looking for REALLY “keyboard-forward” sounding stuff, where the two ‘non-piano’ keyboard players can really play off each other. Probably not 50 other albums like these, but are there at least a few others?? ALSO, I’m thinking there could possibly even be some PROG albums (instrumental, or otherwise) that also scratch this same itch for me. In fact, Mal’s The Call almost seems as much like a prog(!) album, as it is jazz. Gosh, I sure wish Mal had done more on electric piano — did he ever touch the instrument again? The wikipedia entry for this album says it’s his only leader-date with a non-acoustic-piano keyboard. Didn’t he do some stuff with Embryo, and maybe some of that was on e-piano or maybe Rhodes?

Like, fired him publicly, or on stage even ? (Or somehow you saw and/or heard it?)

I hadn’t set out to get all 13 volumes (soon to be 14), but it’s mostly a well-curated series. And in my defense, when I started I never dreamed the series would go on and on and on (and on) like it has. The only volume that I already had most of of on CD, was (obviously) the Blue Note one. But I was so tickled that the included one of the three long BONUS TRACKS from the second “not-released-until-2006” Solomon Ilori session (the one with Donald Byrd and Hubert Laws) — and I also wanted to read what they’d said about it in their liners — so I bought it as a vote-of-confidence for the whole series. (And to my own surprise, the Impluse, Steeplechase, and Prestige volumes all gave me a fair number of key tracks I was aware of and quite liked, but from albums I’d never felt strongly enough to buy.) It’s mostly a darn good series, and almost every volume has at least 4-5 tracks I wouldn’t want to be without. Good stuff. 👍

I’ll have to get this one too — as I have all of the previous volumes (on CD, Vol. 7 was the hardest to finally track down, btw). This seems to be the exact track-listing for Vol 14. https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/spiritual-jazz-14-private

Just listened to this finally, and yeah, that’s great! I’m normally half-allergic to war-horse Monk tunes — but that one hit me very nicely. Hell, Branford was killin’ it too — and I’m well more than half allergic to most soprano playing — but Branford’s tone, intonation, and approach here was just wonderful (and didn’t trigger me one bit). Wynton had so much technique, but (strangely) also wasn’t limited by it — and he had ideas too (could solo in unpredictable ways, and remain unpredictable through entire solos). It’s such a shame he went the direction(s) he did, musically and on his soapbox. Easily had the potential of being on my personal top-10 list of all-time favorite trumpeters — as opposed to not even being in my top-100.

It’s funny to see this thread today, because on my commute into work just this morning… I contemplated starting a thread asking for recommendations of favorite recordings with Wynton as a sideman. My opinion of Wynton’s polemics is well documented around here — but I occasionally have some interesting and wonderful things come up on my “Woody Shaw”-based Pandora station with Wynton as a sideman. The track du jour this morning was something from Jeff “Tain” Watts’ 1999 Columbia album Citizen Tain… https://www.discogs.com/release/3243861-Jeff-Tain-Watts-Citizen-Tain So I guess this is a good a place as any to mention that despite all his BS, sometimes — especially 20+ years ago — Wynton could really play.

About 150 LP’s, but probably ~2,000 jazz CD’s (plus another 2,000 more non-jazz) — so maybe ~4,000 total CD’s. I really need to cut all that by 1,000 — but at least I’m not up to the 7,000+ I had back in Kansas City a dozen years ago. I use Pandora all the time — most as a ‘radio’ — but at $5 a month, it’s commercial free — and I can stream specific albums for 30 minutes if I watch one video-ad (which is what I use to listen to specific albums when deciding whether to buy them or not). I don’t do downloads — and other than a ~100+ CDR’s (mostly OOP stuff I can’t find, of vinyl things that can’t be had on CD), I really have the mindset that I want to own legit (CD’s) copies of anything I want to actually listen to in the coming years. And I try like hell to avoid the euro-PD stuff as much as I can (unless it’s truly material than never got issued in the first place — so live grey-market stuff is ok, just not cheap PD reissues of commercial stuff). Streaming is great, but other than Pandora (as the ‘radio’), I only do streaming to get more familiar with stuff I think I wanna buy — or to listen to stuff I’m actively searching for physical copies of.

I can’t imagine very many people have even ever had the opportunity to see the film/documentary that Miles Davis wrote the soundtrack for — about heavyweight boxer Jack Johnson… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Johnson_(film)

At this point, we might at well call it what it is: jazz-LARPing — especially something like remaking the Hot 5’s & 7’s.