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Why not post the actual link? Hard to know where the heck a link on bit.ly will end up (or any other sort of URL shortener)... https://medium.com/@cjshearn/deepfake-technology-for-music-is-dangerous-dystopian-and-unethical-a293d9f8c7d0

How’d you find the guy in Italy to do the upgrade? Was he recommended?

Just saw this online -- club is reopening tonight.

Great! Hey, where are we in terms of the yearly-total to date on donations? And remind us what the expected expense for the entire year too. Meaning… “where’re we at?” and “how far do we got to go?”

I’ve ‘sold’ a number of CD’s to board members too this year, incl. a recent batch for $60 (which went thru on Sept 29th) — except I had the purchaser ‘pay’ the board thru a donation (not a penny to me). And I don’t think the donation total has changed since before then, iirc.

Wouldn’t we have all heard about that, if it had? It’d be one of the top stories for a couple days. I listen to Marketplace for on NPR every morning (a couple different 10-minute segments, at 5:50am and 7:50am every weekday) — and I haven’t heard a PEEP about Amazon or Meta loosing that much value in one day. Why are we putting up with posts like that? — which should really be deleted, when they’re clearly disreputable.

Here’s another one, very low opening bid required ($6), but $18 shipping from Japan. Who knows what the final price will come to. https://www.ebay.com/itm/364027141917

Just got a push-msg from the local NBC tv affiliate here in DC, of a fire that occurred at Blues Alley less than 2 hrs ago. Don’t seem to be able to link to the story (link only goes to NBC4’s app, and it makes you download the app to see it). It may be on their website later. Here’s the text of the story… (Can’t seem to cut-n-paste the story from the app either. The story says it was just posted 9 minutes ago.) I’ll see if I can find another source online, soon as other local sources post their stories. maybe this cut-n-paste will work… (Can’t select the headline to paste) Georgetown club Blues Alley sustained apparently significant damage in a fire Tuesday evening. D.C. Fire and EMS received a call for a fire in the ductwork before 6:30 p.m. Firefighters found fire burning through the attic and roof, according to D.C. fire. The building was evacuated, and firefighters brought the fire under control and ventilated the building. Blues Alley’s owner told News4’s Mark Segraves the building is gone because of damage from fire and water. He said only a few people were in the building at the time. Record-release shows by Owen Broder was scheduled for 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Tuesday. Cuban trumpet legend and Dizzy Gillespie protégé Arturo Sandoval is scheduled for four nights at the club beginning Thursday. (I’m assuming the owner saying “the building is gone” means a total loss.) Here’s another story too… https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-news/washington-dc/fire-at-blues-alley-club-in-dc/amp/

I’m certain my wife and I will be seeing this in a theater —both of us quite looking forward to it.

And contemporary!

How about somebody put that Roy Books out on CD, by a real (legit) reissue label — since it’s never been on CD before (far as I’m aware). $13.99, maybe $15.99 (If they have to) for it on CD… …not $30 dollars for some fucking bullshit colored vinyl nonsense. I would have had this Roy Brooks title on CD years ago, if any (legit) reissue label had ever bothered to have done it.

25-30 years ago, I thought maybe I’d like Charles Ives “The Unanswered Question” played at my own funeral — but I don’t think I would pick that again now (and I haven’t thought about it probably 20+ years). I’d probably pick something more upbeat now — and maybe a little more raucous too, perhaps.

My cousin said he dad (my uncle, who’s enormous Downbeat collection I ended up with)… my cousin said her dad wanted something called “Blood Count” played, and maybe also something called “UMG” — and she had no idea what either one was. Quickly figured out both were the tunes from His Mother Called Him Bill, “Blood Count” and “U.M.M.G.” — so we played them during the visitation, announcing that he’d specially asked for them — and then we spun the entire album, iirc. Had a memorial service for him several months later (lot more people, as he’d died a couple weeks before Xmas), and I think we played both tunes for that too.

Just got a used copy of this from Dusty to my door a couple days ago, and have really been enjoying it. The timbre is very slippery — and Mark and Gary ‘play as one’ very nicely, just like Lee & Warne were together. Nice selection of tunes too, imho.

I’ll have to do some digging to see what my earlier CD of Out To Lunch was (not even 100% sure I still have it) — but I have a hunch it was the 1987 McMaster. In any case, I do know that the SHM (UCCU) edition with the bonus tracks sounds dramatically better than whatever I had before. And I say ‘dramatically’ because normally I rarely notice sonic upgrades unless they are pretty significant (and I rarely repurchase titles just for potential and purported sonic upgrades). Not ‘never’ — but rarely. BUT, I was really taken aback by the improvement in the sound quality of most of the 4 (or maybe 5?) SHM Blue Note reissues a few years ago — all of which I bought because of the bonus material (Out to Lunch, Unity, Mode for Joe, and a Wayne Shorter title I’m forgetting specifically — and maybe one more, can’t remember). But… I’m not sure yet if my earlier copy of Out to Lunch was the McMaster, or maybe the US RVG.

Addendum: …and by “crazy money” I just meant over $50 — which always seemed crazy for a ‘Leo’ CD — a label where (at least at one time) it wasn’t all that hard to find various Sun Ra titles, and a lot more reasonably priced too (at least 10-15+ years ago, anyway). Was Lito just sold in a lot more limited quantities for some reason?

After almost 20 years of looking, I finally just found a copy of this on CD. I'm sure I've never seen one out in the wild -- and I'm not sure I've ever seen one online even (or not for anything less than crazy money, and even then, only after it sold). Dusty Groove had one (just arrived yesterday), for $25 used. More than I wanted to pay, but I've been wanting one of these for going on a quarter century(!) -- as I think I first heard it in the late 90's, maybe around '98 or '99.

https://www.dustygroove.com/item/122190 Dusty hype: A fantastic lost link in the jazz legacy of Hammond hero Brother Jack McDuff – and a set that shows that he was still really kicking it strongly in the clubs during his later years, even if some of his records didn't always have the right groove! As on his 60s live recordings for Prestige Records, the vibe here is wonderful – in part thanks to drummer Garrett King, who was a regular partner in McDuff's group – and who always had the same sort of sharp, sometimes-playful sense of rhythm as the great Joe Dukes – Jack's famous drummer from the 60s. Together, the pair alone are a real treat here – really setting each other off as they groove back and forth – while Henry Johnson brings in some great work on guitar, and Danny Wollinski completes the group on tenor. We saw some killer late McDuff sets like this in small clubs, and can definitely promise that the vibe here is the real deal – wonderful work from our favorite Hammond player ever. Titles include "Fly Away", "Deja Vu", "Untitled D Minor", "Blues 1 & 8", "Walkin The Dog", "Another Real Goodun", "Greensleeves", "Killer Joe", and "Make It Good".

The YouTube description is… 私がBassを弾いた＜面白シリーズ＞その② 音も画像もよくないですが・・(笑)、こういう企画は現存するもので他にはありません。 ま、笑って頂ければ。 Perhaps the words we’re looking for are there. Google translate to the rescue!! Watashi ga Bass o hiita < omoshiro shirīzu > sono ②-on mo gazō mo yokunaidesuga(Emi), kōiu kikaku wa genson suru monode hoka ni wa arimasen. Ma, waratte itadakereba. Or maybe not.

Definitely!! To my way of thinking, it’s one of the very best Elvin BN leader-dates out of them all — or at least most ‘valuable’ because Lee’s on it.

I’ve never owned or heard the date — and to be honest, I’m only vaguely aware of the cover, which makes me think I’ve scarcely ever been aware of the date at all. Have to confess that the BN Mosaic is the only Elvin leader dates I’ve ever had, or heard.

Here's quite a bit of footage (30 minutes, 3-4 tunes) of Gary Thomas way back in 1982 (in someone else's band) -- a full 5 years before his first major-label sideman appearance (with Wallace Roney, for Muse) -- and his own first leader-date too (both in 1987).

I won’t claim to have understood OTC immediately (or even quickly) — but I did take to it more quickly than Bitches Brew (I first heard both my senior year in college, 1990-91). And I seem to remember being more actively intrigued by OTC initially too, and never found it off-putting. Bitches Brew was always more of mystery to me at first, until I started getting some of the ‘Lost Quintet’ Euro-boots around 1992, which strangely helped me get into the studio Bitches Brew material more.

I've only spun the whole thing (the burns I have) about 3-4 times -- and I had a similar experience with the bonus CD's the first time I put them on. But then the next time through, I was a lot more positive about them (very specifically remember that). 3rd and 4th times I'm not sure if I remember anything specific about them (pro or con). So I guess the jury's still a little bit out for me, and I would likely give the entire thing a few more spins before I dropped more than $35 on one. That said, I still am on the lookout for one.