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‘Known’ — but unconfirmed (and probably uncomfortable). But it is certainly plausible that it could be him (as much as can be said for supposed footage of someone, when their face isn’t even visible on camera). I have to confess the first I ever heard Nick Drake was courtesy of Volkswagen…

Cumin, not so much — but watch the fuck out for turmeric!! That stuff will stain clothes forever! also… https://www.foodrepublic.com/2013/06/19/how-do-you-remove-turmeric-stains-and-how-it-might-get-you-laid/amp/

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Not me, exactly — but after my favorite jazz-loving uncle passed away in ~2012, my cousin (his daughter) said he wanted something called “Upper Manhattan Medical Group” played at his memorial service (something he must have either told her like a decade before, or maybe it was in his will or some other notes he’d prepared many years earlier). She had no idea what that was (“was it an album?” she asked me, and had I ever heard of anything like that?). I figured it was probably the version Duke recorded on And His Mother Called Him Bill. This was my same uncle whose 25+ years of Downbeat magazines I was very lucky to have inherited ‘inherit’ — thanks to my cousin, who otherwise might have donated them to our alma mater (where my uncle, her father, also taught for 40+ years). Clearly UMMG meant a lot to him, and I do think of it when I hear it now.

I feel the same way, probably because I don’t think I ever heard it until I saw this thread (or maybe some similar thread we had around here) — I’ve only ever had the most common US CD issue. It is interesting, and I’m not anti-saw as a general rule — see also the Khachaturian piano concerto… http://www.singende-saege.com/khachaturian-piano-concerto.html …but in this case (with the Lee Morgan), I don’t miss it because I never knew it that way in the first place.

Also, I’m just remembering, I don’t think I was completely aware of the set-list — only that it was all Miles & Gil charts (but maybe I hadn’t expected “Boplicity” — or maybe I did know it opened the concert (I really can’t remember)… But either way, I really wasn’t prepared to hear Miles modern timbre (warts and all) playing something from the 40’s. A very poignant moment, for me at the time.

On the PBS special with Miles & Quincy Jones (when it first broadcast in late 1992 or early ‘93) — the first time I heard that rendition of “Boplicity”… …that definitely brought a couple tears to my eyes. I was pretty deep into Miles by that point, having amassed at least 70% of his Columbia output in just 3 short years (lot of that was dubs on cassettes, mind you). But that really brought it home that Miles was gone.

I have that one too -- with a 10 minute version of Jimi Hendrix' "Up From The Skies". It (plus "Little Wing" from the main Sting album this single goes with) were surely the very first time I ever heard the Gil Evans Orchestra. Got it very early in college -- before I got into jazz -- but I was a HUGE Hendrix nut, thus my interest.

I knew he played piano, but had no idea he could sing too…

Probably going to get my 2nd booster on Thursday this week. Leaning towards Pfizer, after my initial vaccine was the one-and-done Johnson & Jonson, and then my 1st booster was Moderna — then I’ll have had one of each kind.

N-gauge is the shit. My dad had a couple HO layouts when I was growing up (and long after), but I always thought the N-gauge set I occasionally saw elsewhere were just marvelous. There’s one even smaller gauge than N — maybe Z? — but it always seemed a little too small. N was just about perfect, to my way of thinking.

I’ve never filed classical under anything other than composer — realizing I do have plenty of discs with multiple composers. That said, my wife has a big interest in Scandinavian composers (Norwegian and Swedish especially) — and for all those multi-composer discs of ‘Scandihoovian’ stuff, all that goes in a separate section all by itself, along with some Scandinavian folk music stuff too. That all works for me — but then I rarely ever think of my classical discs in terms of who the conductor or soloist is. My brain only has room for composers in it, at least in terms of my ‘memory’. I do remember a few here and there, but usually only ensemble names — and even more rarely, conductors. (And practically never soloists.)

…or David Murray. I remember walking into Euclid records in St. Louis back in the 90’s, and seeing a Murray CD displayed prominently at the front counter with a little sign that said “this week’s new David Murray CD”.

I’m constantly keeping my eyes out for interesting mostly-piano-centric jazz that my wife will like — and there are easily 15 obscure, unknown jazz artists’ discs I’ve also picked up from Dusty Groove that I’ve bought entirely because I try and find online samples of anything I think will really pique her interest. She likes some Bad Plus, and a little GoGo Penguin. And I’ve found some other more modern piano jazz with more ‘indie-rock’-style production values. I’ll have to look, and find (and post) some samples to better explain.

I’ll have to ask my wife if she thinks most of my jazz is ‘evil’ — but I suspect I already know the answer (hint: it’s “yes”). But I do have a specific section that’s “jazz my wife likes” — about 50 discs that are mostly piano stuff (trios mostly), sans horns — but especially sans saxophone, which my wife truly regards as evil (I know that, for sure!). But, bless her, she digs Mal Waldron (Free at Last, especially), and the Legendary Hasaan Ibn Ali trio album — and plenty of Stanley Cowell (she even ‘knows’ a few of his tunes enough to recognize him), and John Hicks too — and she’s been to see Brad Mehldau 3 or maybe 4 times, iirc, including one of his free-form solo concerts (and once without me, before I’d gotten moved to Washington, while I was still trying to sell our house). Oh, and she really likes the solo piano disc of Lennie Tristano’s from the Tristano/Konitz/Marsh Mosaic, and its twin from the new Tristano Mosaic of Lennie’s personal recordings I say she thinks saxophone is evil, but she’s fine with Dave Brubeck (we both love Jazz Impressions of Eurasia), and tolerates Lee Konitz pretty well.

Thank you!! I knew that was what I’d heard and read — and it’s really disappointing to see how badly Sweden dropped the ball on this. Almost unconscionable, really — is more like it (though no less than what half of this country and how our then leadership handled it).

I’ll have to post the whole list sometime (I’ll make it a separate thread). I’m out of town visiting my Dad this week, and I’ve got a couple hundred discs I need to refile (been like that for months), before I really know what all’s in that section. But I’ll start a thread about it in the next week or two — and see what people think. Come to think of it, it’s probably more like 60 discs — but still, lotta stuff too obscure to remember much of by title or even artist, even though I own it. (Plus I do have a few other better-known things in there, just because they sorta fit nicely stylistically.) Maybe I’ll post a new title every day, with some YouTube clips, if I can find ‘em. Not all of it’s world class stuff, mind you — just stuff I liked well-enough to keep and not trade away (or donate).

I got tired of not being able to find any of 100 discs of obscure 70’s stuff, by leaders I can never remember the names of. Practically all of it is arguably ‘weird’ — blind purchases I’ve made from Dusty Groove (usually not totally blind, as one can often find at least a couple tracks on YouTube at least). So I pulled all that stuff out and made it its own section, so I can just browse through that kind of stuff when I’m in the mood. I also put Sun Ra’s brief ‘disco’ phase (Lanquidity, and such) in that section too. But 85% of the section is no-names, that I can usually only remember specifically by what the cover looks like.

Visiting my Dad this week (right now) outside of St. Louis, and yesterday I got him his 2nd booster shot (his 4th shot overall) — all 4 Pfizer. My wife and I have not yet gotten our 2nd booster shots — but we intend to in the next few weeks. I got the one-shot J&J initially last March, and then a Moderna booster in November — and I’m thinking of getting Pfizer for my 2nd booster (so I’ll have literally had one of each).

There are entire deep catalogs of artists that I barely have any of. Not because I specifically “dislike” the artist in question — but simply because the depth of my interest in them is simply much thinner (or in some cases - much, much thinner). Thus I have about 5x as many discs by (and with) Terumasa Hino — as I do Monk (who I have very little of). And I have about 3x as many discs by (and with) Joe Henderson — as I do Coltrane. But there’s only really two artists I’m almost a completists about collecting — Andrew Hill, and Woody Shaw. I also have TONS of Miles from his main run with Columbia, from ‘56-75 (all the metal spine boxes, and more). But I don’t have much (if any) of his Prestige output, and only a smattering of his post-1980 output — both of which I used to have tons of too, but I traded off years ago.

Can’t tell you how many discs I have filed under the name of the person (sideman) on the the date that’s the entire reason I bought it. No, not every date Joe Henderson is on as a sideman is filed under “Henderson”. But you can be darned sure all the sideman work he did in the 70’s and later — all that’s filed with the rest of Joe’s leader-dates (cuz that’s 90% of why I bought that stuff). My basic rule is I file stuff where I think I’ll find it later. AND, when I’m looking for some more obscure stuff with someone on it, then it’s nice to be able to peruse all those obscure dates with Joe (cuz I’ll never remember half of them by their own leader).

I used to feel sort of the same way. Or at least when it came to paring down my collection about 12 years ago (from 8,500 CD’s down to about 4,500 — when I moved from KC to DC). If I had two CD’s by the same artist, I had the damnedest time getting rid of one of them. It was relatively easier to go from 5 titles by the same leader down to just two. But if I had only two to start with, I felt obligated to keep both. Then I said, this is silly!! — and I did manage to cull things down from 2 to just 1 in about a dozen instances. But it was like an artificial roadblock I just couldn’t get past, until I just decided I simply wouldn’t be bound by that arbitrary rule. And yeah, usually if I own one volume of something, I either feel obligated to get the other one — or else get rid of the first one — there’s no logical way to just be ‘halfway’ about only owning one and not the other (since presumably the missing volume is just as good as the one I already have).