Rooster_Ties

I’ve grown to love good Brutalism ❤️ — and there’s a lot of it out there. But there’s certainly a fair bit of bad Brutalism too. One thing it took me a while to notice is that most of the time, you can’t have good Brutalism without really nice, complimentary landscape architecture — sympathetic designs that almost go hand in hand. “Green” and good landscape design can really elevate a building or complex — and the absence of it is often the difference between the design of the building really working aesthetically or not.

Spoken like a true elitist! (and I should know… I’m right there with you on that point.)

I wonder what all they played for that purpose!!!

How did I know that was gonna be the one with Woody Shaw (had to look it up, because I can never remember which of those 70’s Hutcherson albums are which, by title). I have the Select, but somewhere along the way I also picked up a modest priced Japanese reissue of Cirrus as single too — on the off chance I ever got tempted to sell my Select.

Total agreement on all counts. I barely knew or know anything about country music (my wife either), but we both watched the Burns doc — like you said, because of our love of history, and general positivity about ‘Americana’ (and most things that can entail) — …and Stuart's remarks were among the very best of the entire series.

And a Lee Morgan 60’s set has the likely(?) prospect of the complete sessions of at least one (or was it two?) sessions that have only been partially released. Specifically the session with Frank Mitchell from September 13, 1968 (tracks 7-9 on the CD release of The Sixth Sense — am I remembering right?) Is there another partial session I’m forgetting? — I seem to vaguely remember like there were two?

The only things I’m on are a couple forums — here, and the Hoffman forums. And Reddit. And that’s it. I don’t even have a Google login, if you even imagine — and never have (or if I ever did, I haven’t used it in 10-15 years). I do see tweets occasionally, when they’re posted within online news articles and blog posts. And every once in a blue moon (like maybe twice a year), I’ll Google something to find something specific on Twitter (or that I suspect is on Twitter). And, of course, various Reddit threads link to Twitter, and Instagram — sometimes I can see them without a login, sometimes I can’t. My wife has a Facebook account that she never (ever) uses — but every once in a while we’ll have to log into it in order to see some Facebook page we can’t see otherwise, usually for some business. Or during the pandemic, there were a few live webcasts of some classical or bluegrass music we could only see thru Facebook. We are both very disconnected from most social media. I comment a lot on Reddit, but my wife doesn’t even have Reddit account — and she never comments or posts anywhere, on any platform whatsoever. She’s like a 100% lurker on everything she enjoys online.

My wife discovered The Jayhawks way back when she was in college in the early 90’s at the University of Kansas. Being that KU’s mascot was the Jayhawk, the band name naturally caught her eye — and I don’t think she knew they were from Minneapolis (with seemingly no connection to Kansas) until after she’d bought a couple of their CD’s. We’ve got tickets to see The Jayhawks for the very first time — here in DC, in September — and she’s planning to wear a KU Jayhawk t-shirt when we go!

The Jayhawks!! …and sometimes, of all people, Bruce Hornsby (no kidding). and I have my wife 100% too thank for turning me on to both of them — which I’d probably never have done otherwise.

Radiohead covers at least hold the possibility of being an opportunity for something interesting, imho (Björk covers too) — but I’m always a skeptical regardless.

BTW, as great as Sonny Simmons’ Ancient Ritual is — I think I’ve seen maybe 8-10 cd copies out in the wild over the years, and I think 100% of them had promo stamps on the cover and/or the disc. Seriously! What’s up with that??

I think the fairly extensive liners for this obscure 1971 date by a band from Las Vegas paint a picture of the general Las Vegas jazz and ‘jazz-adjacent’ scene — iirc. I’ll have to look later and see what else they say that might be relevant here. https://www.organissimo.org/forum/topic/81816-spirit-free-plays-starship-dandy-obscure-1971-lp-by-las-vegas-group

Now three years!! Bump for an old, fun thread!!

Thanks for posting this, very interesting! For those who can’t see the JT article, it seems to also be available here — along with a bunch of photos of the album, and other info (I’ve only just skimmed it). https://www.queermusicheritage.com/sep2004liad.html …and here: https://www.queermusicheritage.com/mar2012-LIAD.html …and the whole thing can be had and/or heard here: https://loveisadrag.bandcamp.com/album/for-adult-listeners-only

BTW, if anyone has just a Larry Young booklet — but no set… I also have all of the LY set as individual CD’s now, and I’d be glad to sell my LY Mosaic CD’s and cases (but no box) in exchange for a donation to the board for whatever the going rate is (and I’ll cover the P&H myself, to any US address). Thing is, I’d like to keep the water-damaged LY booklet I have — so the offer only goes for the discs and cases.

Well then, how about this??!!!

The only booklet-less set I ever bought was the Larry Young box — which I scored on eBay (cd’s only, no box) for ~$70 iirc (20 years ago, after it was OOP). But a dozen years ago someone on the board here offered me their slightly water-damaged LY book (which they’d gotten a replacement for from Mosaic several years earlier). I’d tried to get one from Mosaic at some point, but by the time I made my inquiry, they were already done and gone. So my LY set is box-less, but not booklet-less! (Not that I care about boxes.)

Jim, you’re a saint for dealing with all this headache — now, and various board-related headaches over TWO decades. Boggles the mind how time flies.

Several years ago while visiting Philly, my wife and I thoroughly enjoyed dining at Abe Fisher (by the same executive chef as Zahav) — which appears to have closed permanently since the pandemic. It was one of THE very best meals either of us has ever had dining out while traveling, in over 25 years. And the decor (again, of Abe Fisher, now closed) was fantastic too — a wonderful melding of mid century modern and “modern” modern.

https://londonjazzcollector.wordpress.com/2014/04/01/blue-note-missing-over-fifty-years-discovered/

Wish to hell this had also been on CD. Except for the lack of it being released on CD.

What’s your take, Jim?

Very nice article, and I’m glad to see some mention of the similarities of Cook and Joe Henderson. It’s frankly uncanny just how much Cook sounds like Joe sometimes — especially on a number of Blue Mitchel’s leader-dates for BN. But he plays so well, usually, that he practically never comes off as a bad knockoff of Joe — at least in my estimation. Still, the resemblance is sometimes almost unnerving.