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I'd argue that at least some 'live' document from both of these tours is pretty damn close to essential for anyone who already owns 25 or more hours of Miles, period. Miles and Trane (live) from that 1960 tour is an eye-opener cuz of Trane (nuff said), and I think Miles' playing with Stitt on this particular set is pretty dad gum important in its own right. Miles' playing is even stronger with Stitt (I'd argue), simply because he didn't have Trane in the band doing what Trane did so uniquely on that tour.

Bringing up an old thread to mention... Well, today I was diagnosed with having Gall Stones. Don't know yet if that means I'm going to have to have my gall bladder removed (or not), and if so, how soon?? -- but I should find that out on Monday. (BTW, everything I'm seeing online seems to indicate that I'm more than likely gonna hafta have it removed. Behold the power of Google.) I've had some moderate back pain, off and on, for about the last two or three months, and then earlier this week I had two consecutive nights of THE most intense discomfort in my middle-to-lower back you could ever imagine. Not pain, exactly, but extreme discomfort. Couldn't sleep a wink from 1am until 5am both nights -- yuck! Got a CT-scan done on Tuesday, and found out today that it WASN'T kidney stones (like my doctor and I initially thought), but rather gall stones. (Kidney stones might hurt like hell, but I've had them before (11 years ago), and I was really hoping that's what this was gonna turn out to be. Better to dual the devil you know, rather than the devil you don't know -- I was figuring.) If I do have to have my gall bladder out, so be it -- I sure hope I can hold off on the surgery until sometime in July. I have -- count 'em -- FOUR trips planned between now and July 4th weekend, all of which are tied to events that can't be rescheduled (my dad's 80th birthday in St. Louis, a work-related trip I was really looking forward to, the national Unitarian Universalist convention in Portland Oregon, and another trip to St. Louis over the July 4th weekend to go hear 'The Police' in concert!!). I do NOT want to screw up any of these trips, so I’ve got my fingers and toes crossed. Guess I'll find out on Monday.

... and here's different performance (video to go with a studio recording, I think), and a bit more complete (more to the intro)... The Zoot : 'Eleanor Rigby' - music video

Though I'll admit that I'm probably in the minority, I can't be the only one here who actually thinks this is kinda cool. The Zoot : 'Eleanor Rigby' (circa 1970)

My wife and I will be seeing and hopefully meeting Obama in a few days... Seriously!! -- Obama will be here in Kansas City on Saturday for a high-dollar lunch/fundraiser, and a big "$25 a head to get in" public rally (technically not a "rally", but a "low-dollar" fundraiser), and my wife and I are helping coordinate the public rally. Details seem to evolve hour by hour with the planning for events like this, but last I heard two days ago, we are part of about a dozen volunteers that are credentialed with the campaign to work in the behind-the-scenes secure areas where the Senator will actually be before and immediately after the public event.) ...and if I have more than 60-seconds to ask him something, I was half thinking about having him to name two or three jazz artists that really turned his crank back in the day (since I've read he was a jazz fan in his youth). He probably gets so much damned advice, and "stories" that people want to tell him -- that I figured a NON-political question might actually not be such a bad idea. (That is, as long as I don't choke when I actually get the chance to talk with him.)

Sure hope they record and release something. I'd buy it in a hearbeart.

Does anybody know if Blue's last two BN dates would fit (together) on one CD?? I've always wanted to hear these. Seems like a perfect Rare Groove release, if that series was still going on. Hello Water??

I have Graffiti Blues on CD (which I think is actually some weird hybrid of most of the actual Graffiti Blues LP issue, with a couple extra tracks from one or two other Mainstream sessions by Blue, and maybe not even the complete Graffiti Blues LP for that matter). In any case, although the music is really lame (tune-wise), Blue's playing is REALLY much stronger than I was expecting. MUCH stronger. His tone is WAY great, and the ideas in his solos are more substantive than I was ever expecting too. If you ever see a copy somewhere cheap, grab it. I only got it purely out of curiosity (found it used for like $6, and didn't even expect to want to keep it after I'd listened to it), but I find myself enjoying most of it far more than the lameness of the tunes would ever dictate. Edit: Listening to it now, and relatively speaking, Blue really plays his ass off. Edit2: But, dear god, two or three of these tunes are REALLY lame.

Well, at the very least, everything will ALWAYS be "in stock", right?

Please Look Twice (probably NSFW, but it's for a very important public safety concern.)

a fantastic date, IMHO (I've got the TOCJ), and if/when it ever comes out in the U.S. - it most certainly would be issued here first as a Conn, rather than an RVG. (It's WAY too obscure a date for them to issue as an RVG first.) One of these days I'll get around to arranging a letter-writing campaign to see that it's issued here (as a Conn), with some or all of the Trainwreck session as bonus material. (It would be a crime if it were a straight reissue without at least some of The Trainwreck as bonus material.)

Worth their weight in gold, and then some. I've got a pair that I take to rock concerts (and certain jazz concerts that I know will be WAY over amplified). Hands down, probably the best $140 I ever spent (I think I paid $100 for mine back in the mid 90's). If I lost mine, I'd replace 'em within 6 months or less -- and I'm not even a musician working in high volume contexts. (Well, I used to use them on stage when I still sang in the Kansas City Symphony Chorus, when I'd often sit 3 feet behind the French horn section -- on certain kinds of bombastic works. They were a godsend there too, which is why my audiologist mother insisted I get a pair when I joined the chorus in '95.) Seriously, anybody who loves music and ever goes to rock concerts should get a pair without reservation.

Is it too early to bring this up again??

Chuck, if I might so inquire, what do you now think of "Power to the People"? -- Joe's third Milestone release. (BTW, I mostly agree with you about "The Kicker" and "Tetragon" being a bit lacking -- a 'step back' (or maybe 'backing off the accelerator petal' a bit, if you will) -- as compared with probably all his previous BN leader dates.)

As long as everybody else in the band shows up -- I'm sure it'll be a great event!! and... Not to threadcrap, but over the years I've met more people (well, people that I know face to face anyway), that have had tickets to Freddie gigs where he's cancelled -- than I know people who have actually ever heard him live. (And I'm in that former group, not the later.)

Gotta mostly side with Chuck on this one. Well, I would anyway if you were asking if you should buy tickets and go. But since you've ALREADY got tickets, then I guess you could go either way. But, if I was pressed for time with other commitments, and I only had so many evenings that week or month that I could afford the time to devote to getting out to listen to some live music -- I'm sure there would be other choices I'd avail myself of. Just saying that there're LOTS of things I'd go to if I had 'free' tickets. But having the time to go to them, anymore -- that's also a factor for me. (And a lot more than when I was in my younger days.)

On the other hand, if your friend digs the recording enough to at least spin in once or twice a month, every month for a while (at least 6 months) -- many of the tunes you've chosen may start to become familiar enough to him that he might come to appreciate them in their own right, on their own merits. Now maybe what I might do NEXT, is try to make another compilation for him constructed of exactly the SAME tunes, in the exact same sequence -- as recorded by OTHER players, with at least some using different instrumentation than the originals. Nothing too far out, but maybe one or two that push the boundaries a bit more than the others. In fact, maybe have a couple of the alternate interpretations on the 2nd disc be much less "out there" than the originals, and a couple a little more "out there" -- you know, to show how the tune can be performed different ways. One of the many joys of jazz for me is in hearing the same tunes performed different ways.

Total agreement. IMHO, "Power to the People" is as good anything Joe ever recorded.

Totally an uninformed guess here, but my money would be on the radio station retaining some rights to the material. What specific rights, I couldn't even begin to say, but if that weren't the case -- then wouldn't there be way more (legit) releases of "airchecks" than there are?? I mean, there are MANY good-quality airchecks that we've all (collectively) heard over the years (in collectors circles) -- a number of which would make incredible releases (for instance, I've heard a couple Woody Shaw things that are just as good as (or maybe even better than!) anything legitimately released with him). So then, my theory is that it ain't just the artists and labels that have to get cleared. Otherwise, what accounts for some really outstanding recordings (performance and sound-quality both) never having been released. (All this is wild-ass speculation on my part -- there are plenty here that know how this stuff really works, I and certainly will defer to their expertise.)

How's the sound quality?? And if so, would any or all of these tracks be suitable bonus material for a CD release of the date that this thread is about??

Absolutely, positively, without any doubt (or delay), do get Don Cherry's "Complete Communion".

Edit: To say "thanks!!" in response to the previous post. Much appreciated!!