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And here's an episode with McCoy Tyner!

New(?), full-length, full-color upload of the entire episode of Soul with Lee and Horace Silver, et al… 01:58 Horace Silver - "Old Mother Nature Calls" 07:12 Horace Silver - "I've Had A Little Talk" 11:22 Lee Morgan - "I Remember Britt" 21:10 Lee Morgan - "Angela" 28:33 Horace Silver Interview 36:54 Bobbi Humphrey - "Sad Bag" 42:38 Horace Silver - "Big Business" 48:43 Horace Silver - "Acid, Pot or Pills" 53:50 Lee Morgan - "The Sidewinder"

I’m betting the whole story can be found here (I don’t have this release, or I’d look myself)… https://www.discogs.com/release/15769735-Various-Soul-Love-Now-The-Black-Fire-Records-Story-1975-1993 Notes: The story of Jimmy Gray's seminal spiritual jazz and soul label featuring Oneness Of Juju, Experience Unlimited, Theatre West, Wayne Davis, Lon Moshe and more. 28 pg booklet with rare photos and interview with Oneness Of Juju's Plunky Branch. Also… https://www.discogs.com/label/28255-Black-Fire

Here’s a similar favorite of mine — Curtis Mayfield’s “Junkie Chase” from the Superfly soundtrack — in this extended version that’s like 3x as long as it appeared in the movie and on the LP originally too. Definitely a guilty pleasure of mine (and has been since I first heard the soundtrack back in college, summer of 1988 iirc).

Sketches of Tina?

So I guess it is Braum’s, with an ‘m’. Just their own freestanding stores then — or do they have product in grocery stores too?

https://www.braums.com/store-locator/ Nothing within 500 miles of me.

I wouldn’t go so far as to call it half-baked — but I’m not sure it’s more than about 60% baked. But as a ‘sketch’ of what could have been, it’s not entirely atrocious or anything.

Too true!!!

+1

Not questioning your veracity, Jim — but how’d you come to hear this? Or if it’s generally known (in certain, limited circles obviously), can you expand? Just curious (always curious).

About 10-15 years ago I flirted with trying to find her 1972 double LP Approximately Infinite Universe (originally a double LP) on cd, but never could find one cheap enough — and then I moved on to other things (and never got one). Not sure which tracks I liked best back then (from my online sampling), but these were the A-sides of the two singles from the album… But hearing them again now as I’m posting this, I think there were other, more up-tempo tunes that were the draw for me. I’ll have to revisit the album via streaming, and see if I can remember what was grabbing me. She had an experimental artistic vision (maybe multiple ones), and I can respect that. I think there was a multi-disc ‘career overview’ box set — and I can try and see what other tracks from AIU were included there.

This seems to be a jazz release on Mr. Bongo, on the DG site… https://www.dustygroove.com/search.php?sf=Mankunku

…and here is “Your Child”:

Yeah, I'd gotten that notion a time or two, I forget where all. Like I wonder if there ever really was any sort of opera he was working on in the 70's (which I've read several minor reports of), after his run at Blue Note. If I were to hazard a guess, I'd be more inclined to say 'no' than 'yes' -- though I don't doubt he might have been sincere in that such an endeavor might have been something he'd pondered more than a few times. I've heard from a couple players in his bands that when they'd ask for his input on how to interpret his cryptic charts and/or instructions, that Hill would ask what they thought 'it' meant, and that if he liked what they said, he'd say "yeah, that's what I meant". I don't mean to suggest he was a total fraud or anything -- he's still one of my all-time favorite jazz artists ever -- and none of this sort of thing is terribly surprising at all to me.

That Flamingos clip looks like the same set designer as this Miles clip from barely two years before!!

Makes me wonder if Andrew Hill and Hindemith ever really crossed paths (which I've wondered before). Hill talks about it here, in this interview below, fwiw. I should say I love a good story as much as anyone -- so I'm not trying to say this is any sort of great sandal or anything (if it happened not to be true). And even if it's not true, good on Andrew for coming up with it! https://tedpanken.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/andrew-hills-80th-birthday-anniversary/

This separate upload claims it's 1963 -- but no idea which one is correct. Sound and image quality is a little better with this one (below) too. I love when there's footage of obscure players like this that exists, by the way.

Some live footage of Lester and that Flamingos song, from 1984 (if the YouTube upload is accurate) -- and a comment to the video says it's from the Pori Jazz Festival in Finland.

No 'surface noise', at least none that I can hear. Agree about the mastering being bright, but that's pretty much exactly how the LP sounds too (so a 'faithful' reproduction, for better or worse). I'd forgotten there was one track that Tyrone plays flute throughout (no tenor). Band is solid, I think everyone plays really well throughout. Roots (1973) is the first recorded appearance by drummer Clifford Barbaro, and the same year as the first recordings that Hubert Eaves III (piano) every recorded on (he was on 4 albums total that year, and Roots has a 1 in 4 chance of being his first). Stafford James had a dozen albums he'd been on by the end of 1973 (starting in 1970, with Sun Ra of all things -- didn't have any idea James had ever recorded with Ra, on Night of the Purple Moon). Halfway lengthy liner notes, but they're all in Japanese -- wish I knew what they said. Definitely glad to have this on CD finally, about 20 years after I first heard the album. Always figured we'd get this on CD eons before Do Right.

Are there any other reports of Stravinsky having gone to hear any other jazz groups back in the day? I would assume he might have heard the Thundering Herd (re: The Ebony Concerto) — but did he hear The Heard? (Do we know?) I mean, go to hear them play live? — as opposed to just hearing them on record.

From Dusty Groove, I just picked up a copy of this very Musak Japanese 2CD reissue of the complete Konitz Storyville recs -- which I've been diggin' all morning -- every bit as much as the first two discs of the Tristano/Konitz/Marsh Mosaic (the live Tristano-Konitz stuff recorded at The Sing Song Room, Confucius Restaurant in '55). Hadn't dreamed I like it as much as I do, but man this is some really nice stuff! I knew all this Storyville material had come out before on a couple Black Lion CD's (which I've never heard) -- but I finally decided to bite the bullet and spring for this Japanese 2CD version -- which sounds great! (I'm sure better, maybe even far better(?)... than any Black Lion CDs ever could). So quite thankfully, no regrats! And I *also* picked up a copy of the Tristano/Billy-Bauer trios on Key Note (Essential Keynote Collection, Vol 2) -- quite cheap, $6. Despite all the alternates being programmed in sequence, I really dug the heck out of it this morning too. Was a little nervous either or both of these wouldn't have been worth getting (on top of all the other Tristano and Konitz I've bought from this era) -- but I would definitely buy them again, if I had it to do over.

Especially the lengthy bonus track on the CD reissue.

The only Woody Herman I have is the 3cd Select — and while I don’t mind it — it’s also probably not something I would replace for $50 if my copy ever got lost/damage. Lou Donaldson Blue Note 57-60 Sessions Mosaic is pretty much the same for me. Nice enough, but not something I’ve spun more than a couple times in the last 10 years (when I got it, used).

Ditto