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Answering myself, though it’s been a decade since I’ve read it — I especially recall Szwed’s Miles bio as being really wonderfully written. Been as many or more years since I’ve read his Sun Ra bio too — but I specifically remembering coming away from reading So What thinking just was a truly great example of writing it was (a joy to read, iirc, its use of language, etc. — not necessarily overly flowery or anything, but it was just a really well-told story, in addition to however good the content was). And also, how it seemed to cover areas of Miles’ life that I hadn’t read about as often as I had in the 3 or 4 (or 5?) other Miles bios I’d read prior.

Oh really — there’s a single LP with that version of FJD too?? Would love to find out what that is (or rather, was). Can’t imagine it’s been on CD either, but who knows?

How about John Szwed’s Miles bio?

What about the 3rd disc in the Music Inc Big Band Select?? Can’t be without that! — unless Mack Avenue puts that out as a separate (single) CD of its own. And can someone remind me, are all(?) the bonus tracks from the 3rd disc of the Music Inc Quartet Select fully represented on the Mack Avenue discs? If not, then there’s that to consider too.

I love this live version from 1971, from an obscure Japanese-only various artist double-LP is pretty wild — and it sorta rivals the Miroslav/McLaughlin/Henderson version a bit, at least in its intensity… I sure wish it was on CD, but alas, it hasn’t ever been reissued since it first came out — and I only know it from YouTube.) https://www.discogs.com/release/11263311-Terumasa-Hino-Kosuke-Mine-Sadao-Watanabe-Takeru-Muraoka-Masabumi-Kikuchi-Yoshiaki-Masuo-Kunimitsu-In?srsltid=AfmBOoopfdoQqRblY0Di9aE2larfRz7U6bQgjqSdOh8uHaTBO2ZUngMK

This seems to be that two-fer comp… https://www.discogs.com/release/14722696-Sonny-Stitt-Don-Patterson-Brothers-4 Have to confess that I’ve never explored any of Stitt with organ before — and was only vaguely aware Grant Green had done any sideman work as late as 1969.

OK, but what about FJD’s cousin, “Hopscotch”???!! — from Charlie ‘Charles’ Rouse’s Two Is One — credited to Joe Chambers. Did Chambers ever record the tune again? The Two is One version seems to be the first and only(?) version either Rouse or Chambers ever recorded. Did/does Chambers ever play it live? Or has he ever commented on it?

Gosh, he was such a great resource and source of positivity. He will be missed!

Larry Young and Elvin Jones!

Absolutely one of the greats. 83 is too young — or at least a little younger than need be. RIP.

That’s the ONLY Mosaic I think I’ve ever pre-ordered (out of 40+ Mosaic sets I’ve bought over the last 30 years, including Selects). Not so much for Berliner Jazztage specifically, as it was because I absolutely HATED most of the 32jazz reissues of Woody’s Muse catalog. Especially the ones in those black plastic CD cases — you know, the ones with the adhesive album cover art — uugh!!!!!!

Berliner Jazztage is my single favorite Woody Shaw album too!! — and absolutely in my top-25 overall (in all of jazz). Trouble is, my top-25 could be any of 100 different albums on any given day — but it’s a phenomenal album, for the quality of the soloists, and the arranging too. Absolute top-drawer.

Not an actual box set per se... But the vast amount of live Woody Shaw (leader and co-leader dates) might as well be a box set (of sorts). Six (6) discs on Highnote alone (if you include the two with Louis Hayes). Then a bunch further on other labels, some from essentially the exact same sorts of sources as the Highnote material (or at least that one from the "International Trumpet Guild" sure the heck seems like Vol 5 in the Highnote series, in all but name). Anyway, we've gotten a TON of live Shaw over the last 25 years (the first live Highnote came out in 2000). And -- though released separately -- collectively it all seems like a live box set of sorts (and not just the Highnotes either -- but all the more recent ones too). Not every track is a 10/10, but I'd argue the great majority is (at worst) a 7/10, and often better An embarrassment of riches for Shaw fans -- what is it, a dozen hours? Closer to 15?

Gas station shrooms, or weed, or sushi too for that matter — just inherently seems like a bad idea.

Holy shit — that’s for just a SINGLE 1cd release?? WTF??!!!

Addendum. It appears like that first double-episode was released on VHS — probably appearing as though it was a standalone movie at some point… Per the description of this upload to YouTube… • The infamous flop from NBC's 1979 lineup returns with a recording from the 1988 Star Classics release of Supertrain, titled under the name of the first episode, "Express to Terror". • This recording comes from a recent acquisition of a VHS rental copy of the film.

Was there ever a Super Train movie? My Googling isn’t turning anything up — unless you count the first episode (which Wikipedia says was a double-length 2-hr episode). Or did that play in theaters?

Interestingly, my first jazz love was Miles Davis (starting around 1989) — and I probably had 50% of his Columbia output within 3 years (his 1956-70 output mainly, all years) — so a LOT quicker than I ever had any great volume of anyone else. And I think I got hold of cassette dubs of the Japanese Complete Plugged Nickel around 1991 (along with Euro-boots of the 2nd great quintet, and lost quintet too). ALL THAT SAID, I’ve only recently (last 5-6 years) been getting steadily more into bebop, and listening to 50’s and even 40’s jazz WAY more than I ever did 30-35 years ago. So NOW (recently) when tracks off The Plugged Nickel come up on various Pandora stations for me — which happens a fair bit actually — now I’m hearing Miles (especially) through a whole new set of ears. All I hear is the distinction between his chops, and the chops of more fluid players from the 50’s, Diz, Byrd, Lee, Thad, KD, etc… My frame of reference has definitely changed — or, rather, when I’m not really thinking about it, THAT’S what I’m more naturally focussing on in Miles’ playing. Miles’ language was what I was ‘raised on’ (jazz-wise), and it always seemed perfectly natural — even all the Plugged Nickel material… But now, it’s almost like I have to consciously put on a different set of ears to listen to the Plugged Nickel material — which I’m happy to do — but I’m literally reminding myself (momentarily) that he’s not playing out of the same bag of ideas as the norms for be-bop, and early hard-bop. Never dreamed I’d be hearing Miles that way, but here I am.

To be clear, I do own the Renonance 3cd set outright too — bought it new from Dusty iirc, shorty after it came out. But yesterday was my first time hearing it with earbuds (albeit via Pandora) — in mono, of course.

I dialed up the Resonance 3CD set to listen to Iron Man via Pandora on my iPhone (on earbuds) on a walk recently — and I’d forgotten it was mono, which I’m not at all a stickler about (or so I thought). But then looking for the Illinois Concert to listen to next, on a whim I decided to listen to some random earlier reissue of Iron Man, which happened to be in stereo — and the difference between the mono and stereo was absolutely stark — something I was surprised I even cared about (but maybe it was partially my hearing it thru earbuds?). Somewhere in a box of discs I eventually plan to trade off one of these days, I’ve got my 1986 US ‘Celluloid’ reissue of Iron Man (which appears to have been the album’s very first CD reissue) — and one of the first 20 jazz CD’s I ever owned (I found it used around 1990, iirc). Any thoughts on the mono-vs-stereo aspects of the Resonance set? I probably don’t care about the entire set being in mono — but “Iron Man” in particular, and the Iron Man album a little more generally — is just about my favorite Dolphy ever. (So maybe I’ll dig out my old ‘Celluloid’ cd and keep it after all.)

Oh, right — those were Japanese only too.

Those might be THE most whack examples of cover art in the entire ‘legit’ Miles catalog.

Agree! I never had the original 7-disc Japanese set — but that reminds me… I “ran into” a fellow Miles fanatic online around 1992-93, who made me cassette dubs of the whole Japanese set — and then I got the US 8cd set a few years later. But it was well over a decade later before I ever saw (online) what the original 1992 Japanese packaging looked like… https://www.discogs.com/release/8071963-Miles-Davis-Complete-Live-At-Plugged-Nickel-1965

That’s an excellent question!!