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Saw the video before the window passed - I'm jonesing to see this, definitely! Interview footage with Woody II (the man himself, the son is III), from one or possibly two different interviews. Can't remember quite all of the other interviewees, Michael Cuscuna and Anthony Braxton definitely, but one or two others I'm forgetting at this hour. Definitely interested, but then Woody is my favorite hard-bop trumpeter, and probably my favorite trumpeter 2nd only to Miles.

Every time I want to buy something from Amazon, I look on my "wish list" (which has about 100+ items on it, mostly CD's, but plenty of books, and a few other things) -- to see if I can get to $35 in stuff I really want to buy right now. If so, great, then free shipping. If not, then I add the new item to my wishlist, knowing it will be there the next time I want t to buy something from Amazon. Rinse, and repeat! As a result, I only buy from Amazon 5 or 6 or maybe 8 times per year, and never without the benefit of free shipping. Or, another way of looking at it -- Amazon ALWAYS has free shipping on nearly EVERYTHING (even without prime) -- if you just aggregate your purchases into $35 increments. Without the "wishlist" function, it would be a huge pain in the ass -- but with it, I never have any trouble getting to the $35 threshhold (and almost never with a bunch of purchases I don't need, as long as I remember to wishlist everything I ever lookup on Amazon).

Speaking of which, "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)" from Goats Head Soup -- might just be my favorite actual Stones song.

Keith Richards' first solo album, Talk is Cheap (1988), has always been a favorite. Honestly, I prefer it over just about any actual Stones album.

And I forgot to mention -- the next best thing to Trane on all the Prestige dates, is all the MAL WALDRON.

My experience of this material is almost entirely from the three (3) most recent boxes that collect his 1) leader-dates, 2) collaborations as co-leader, and 3) sideman appearances. Which is to say that I've heard next to none of Trane's Prestige material in their original "album" contexts. I'm probably really weird, in that I've never really gotten bitten by the Coltrane bug. I have a TON of respect for his playing (boatloads!!), but -- as crazy as it sounds -- relatively little interest in either his Impulse or even Atlantic material. (For instance, I have about 4x or 5x as much Joe Henderson on CD, as Trane.) And although I'm a Miles Davis nut (and have have nearly everything I can get my hands on, including all the Columbia boxes), I have NEVER been all that interested in MILES on Prestige. All of which is to say that I was totally SHOCKED a few years ago, when I bought my first of the three Trane Prestige boxes -- how much I enjoyed his playing. I don't know that the material is always the absolute greatest, but his playing is just lovely, and really spoke and still speaks to me. Very underrated, or maybe my expectations were unnaturally low, and they were exceded greatly.

Has the date with Lee Morgan ever been issued on CD otherwise? Don't know if I'd ever part with mine, but I *know* I wouldn't ever turn loose of my Elvin box without that Lee Morgan date on CD.

Did someone mention Andrew Hill?

Amen to all that!! Did Jack Bruce and John McLaughlin ever team up again on anything?? Devastating combo on those two tracks in particular.

Doesn't Rawalpindi Blues flow into the next track? - which I believe does have Don Cherry. Either that, or else the "next track" that it appears to flow into, is in fact part of Rawalpindi Blues in the first place. I do know that Don Cherry is on whatever immediately follows what I've always thought of as being Rawalpindi Blues. Love Escalator (have since college, circa 1990), and I just had it on a couple days ago in fact. I usually go a least a full year between spins (sometimes two years), but whenever I hear it, I'm immediately taken back to the awful apartments I had back in college, where I used to spin Escalator the most. Amazingly, I think EOTH was one of the first 50 or 60 jazz CD's I ever owned -- or certainly one of the first 100. As off the wall as it is, even I'm kind of surprised I took to it as much as I did. Probably helped that I had a musical-theater background (most during high-school and early in college, mostly in a couple dozen community theater productions).

"Walkin'" and "Watermelon Man"? Really, THAT'S what gets played in tribute to Herbie? I'm sure we could all collectively come up with 10 tunes that made more sense than those two.

Do the liners happen to mention any other material from that same night? I see the CD clocks in just a hair under 80 minutes, which begs the question if there was any other material from the same source. Still needing to pick this one up, one of these days.

Whenever I get bored listening to a live performance of Haydn or Mozart when attending the symphony (particularly if it's an actual Haydn or Mozart symphony, so NOT something with vocals (or chorus), or a concerto with a solo instrument out front) -- I've sometimes tried to imagine what Ornette would do trying to play over whatever the form is (on alto, if it matters). I figure that's better than snoring, and getting a swift elbow to the ribcage from my wife. [speaking as one who's gotten that swift elbow a time or two.] I think I've done this 4 or 5 times over the years - true story. And speaking of Andrew Hill, Hank's "No Room For Squares" session (the complete session, from the McMaster edition, with just that one session only) never made even half as much sense to me until I started listening to it like it was an Andrew Hill album. Which is to say that it never made sense to me as a Mobley album, but when I 'adjusted my ears' - it suddenly made a LOT more sense.

On a related note, has "Sizzle" (Impulse!, 1975) ever been on CD anywhere in the world yet? That's another great RIvers date I've wanted on disc for ages (I do have it on LP).

You all can laugh, but Naxos has two or three CDs worth of Baroque arrangements for string chamber-orchestra iirc, of popular Christmas tunes (mostly all the traditional ones) and they are among our very favorites every Christmas, year after year for 10 years running. The arrangements are really great, and they've become THE way I prefer to hear those familiar Xmas war-horse themes. Even on repeat (my wife plays them a whole lot), they still never annoy me. I'm not even the biggest Baroque fan ever, but these things are great! Naxos also has a couple CDs worth of piano-trio arrangements of holiday favorites that are fun too. The Baroque ones came out in the mid-to-late 90's, and I think the piano-trio ones are from the early 2000's.

Very carefully.

Out if curiosity, what are the jazz quiz questions?

Gobble Tov!

The $35 minimum doesn't bother me a bit. I've usually got several dozen things saved in my wish-list at any given moment, and 9 times out of 10, my Amazon purchases are over $50 anyway. I only order from them about 4 times a year, maybe 5 or 6 times max.

Sometime this week I saw a link somewhere to a performance by an orchestra shortly after Kennedy's death, playing the slow movement from Beethoven's third symphony, iirc. I don't recall which orchestra, or the exact date of the performance. It may have been something I saw on Reddit. FWIW.

So, what are the 2 or 3 best tracks from their debut? Can't remember if I've ever heard it, or if I have, it was a good 20-25 years ago (when I was in college). I've certainly been aware of the album that long, but I'm drawing a complete blank as to the sound.

Still, the unreleased session is far and away MORE than 'good enough' that it really deserves an honest, 'real' release. Download is far better than nothing, but I wouldn't donate $500 to $800 just to see it released as a download only. The more I hear it, the less and less of a 'Trainwreck' it sounds like to me. "Contrasts" or the 3rd disk of the Andrew Hill BN Select are both FAR less 'together' than this supposed 'Trainwreck'.

Thinking some details might be helpful, here's a link - with samples... CLICK

I'm sure if I hung out with a different crowd -- or was more social, generally speaking -- I'd probably drink more. My wife and I are both introverts, and although we eat out a lot - we're also both just cheap enough that we realize what (good) alcohol would do to the bill each time we do eat out. I'm sure (combined) we easily spend $100 more per week eating out than is really necessary -- and if we drank too, that would be another $75/week minimum. We almost never drink at home, because neither of us are really drawn to it enough to bother.

Wow, and amazing!! Such good news - especially considering the full range of possible outcomes. Very best wishes for the both of you.