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BIG UPDATE: Kinda sudden, but after 30+ years with the same agency, my wife will be retired in just a few days — with her full retirement benefits intact. She worked for a Federal agency that’s suddenly undergoing major (existential) upheaval, and that’s probably all I need to say without provoking political conversation here, and I appreciate our politics-free rules. SO, now we’re looking to get out of Dodge within 6-10 months (maybe 12 months tops) — and we’re all but certain we ARE gonna head for Pittsburgh!! But we gotta buy a car first (as I mentioned up-thread, we haven’t owned a car in 15 years, and the last car we bought was in 2006) — probably a Prius (we loved our ‘06 Prius, and always love when we end up being able to rent them too). We’re planning to spend a whole week in Pittsburgh in early May (too many other irons in the fire in April, in part because I need to visit my Dad in St. Louis (maybe twice) for some out-patient surgery he has — he’ll be 98 in a few months!) This move, and our semi-retirement is a good 3-5 years before we’d really planned — my wife will be just 58 later this year, and I’ll only be 56 later this month). But neither of us plan to go back to working full time (knock-on-wood), although we’ll both be looking for some good or at least decent part-time jobs (good for us — I’m sure the pay won’t be great, but enough to pay a few bills). And we’re gonna look for another shoebox of an apartment (like we’ve had here in DC) — but very fortunately we still get along famously! I’ll gonna continue working here (for now), about 3-4 days a week — and only ramp that down whenever we get a lot closer to actually moving. It’s only about 30 hrs/week, but it gives me the flexibility to go deal with my dad in St. Louis mostly whenever I need to (about 7x per year). In all honestly, we’re both pretty excited about these changes, sudden as they are. Pittsburgh, here we come!!

Me too, definitely — but it’ll depend on the price-point of the CD’s. And there’s no way I’m paying as much as the recent McCoy/JoeHen discovery, for just 38 minutes of Tina that’s new (but mostly alternates). I love Tina, but there are limits.

UPDATE: We now expect to be moved to Pittsburgh within a year (at most). I won’t transgress board norms, except to say current events here in DC are necessitating this sudden accelerated timeline. We still haven’t been to visit but once! (a dozen years ago, and that was just 4-5 days) — but we should have all the time in the world to go scope things out next month, the way things are looking. If we re-sign our pending lease, our deadline to get out of DC will be a little more than a year from now. We’re all but sure Pittsburgh will be a good choose for us — baring any unforeseen bumps in the road. New adventures await.

Have the bonus cuts (song titles) been mentioned anywhere yet? It would be a shame if they were download-only (and not on CD). I’d repurchase for that much extra music, if truly previously unreleased — or I’d sure be tempted!!

I was just kidding!! I almost even posted Bagses’ (or Bagses’s) instead!!

Bags’s Groove.

Used copy just spotted at Dusty. Not sure what they were selling new copies for, but this one is $12.99, fwiw. https://www.dustygroove.com/item/205402/Andrew-Hill:Beautiful-Day-Revisited

Especially for a band that lip syncs. Not even worth 10% of that, if you ask me, for that reason alone.

Ted Gioia’s West Coast Jazz, Modern Jazz in California 1945-1960 (U of C Press, 1992). Just stumbled a decent used copy over the weekend down in Richmond. Only a dozen pages in, and quite enjoying it! Definitely an area of jazz I’m a bit deficient in, beyond the scads of stuff I’ve absorbed reading posts around here for the last 20+ years.

Toe-tapping, to say the least!!

Yes, thanks!! — I would have never see this otherwise. This appears to be the original source, and there’s a bit more than just the quotes posted on the Hoffman forum. https://jazztimes.com/features/columns/steve-swallow-pete-la-roca/

Pennsylvania? Weren’t they in like Austria, iirc?

Reminds me, I’ve always wondered what all the sources were for the recordings used in the Eastwood film — and I’ve been curious to try and contrast the versions there with their re-recorded rhythm sections and such… with the originals (if any of those originals had ever been issued, or at least surfaced).

Full liners to the 2LP issue are visible here… https://www.discogs.com/release/10360001-Various-Cool-Europa-European-Progressive-Jazz-In-Germany-1959-63 Discogs notes say: Track A1 previously released on Francy Boland Ensemble; track C1 previously released on Bongo Jazzand C3 on Jazz Da Camera. All other music previously unreleased.

First Google hit, fwiw… https://sonoramarecords.bandcamp.com/album/cool-europa-european-progressive-jazz-in-germany-1959-63

Idle curiosity, is that Steve Jordan the drummer (and producer, MD, etc…)?? Best known now as the new drummer for The Rolling Stones, he’s been Keith Richards’ only other songwriting partner (and drummer) for all 3 of Keef’s fantastic solo albums. And Jordan has produced dozens of albums for quite a range of artists, including Bettye LaVette‘a last 3 albums — and played as a session drummer on 50+ albums. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jordan_(drummer) Is that who’s playing in this group with Tolliver, Harper, et al.? (I like Jordan, and his playing and production are usually a big plus in my book on what all I’ve heard at least.)

Might set up an eBay search that’ll run automatically (every day), with a price limit so you don’t get anything over $25 (or whatever). Be patient, and within 6-12 months one may pop up!! (I found another Uptown CD that way in a couple months, for less than $9 iirc (including shipping) about 5-6 years ago — a title Chuck said he’d missed out on, that I had shipped directly to him.)

Perhaps(?) an atypical choice… but as a composition, I’ve always been mesmerized by his “Reflections in D”

Totally agree, but I just caved and ordered one from mega-eBay seller get_importCDs — who has an automatic 25% off two or more items going thru the end of today/Sunday (and I got something else for my wife). So with get_importCDs’ free shipping, the McCoy/Joe ended up being $28 plus sales tax — and the other title for my wife ended up essentially matching Amazon’s current quite cheap price (of $11). But, yeah, even $28 is pretty damn high, imho — though I understand the packaging has quite extensive liners (but still, $28, sheesh!!)

I had a very similar reaction. I streamed it yesterday while walking, and txt’d a friend that Jack D really shines (first thing I said), and that Joe was really on fire too — that first song especially.

I think that very Black Lion disc was my second-ever Mal purchase (maybe 15-18 yrs ago) — after Free At Last (1969) perhaps a year before. Funny story — I was in a Half Price Books and heard some distinctive, brooding piano-trio thing on the overhead speakers throughout the store. And even though I wasn’t steeped in Mal at the time (not at all), I felt strongly it might have been him… and I made one of the HPB employees go find the 6-disc player in the back office, and after I’d followed him to the back of the store, he came out of the office with 6 empty jewel boxes saying “one of these”. And low and behold, it was that Mal Black Lion disc. I asked him if it was a disc they’d pulled from the for-sale stock out on the floor, and when he said yes, I said I’d take it! Got it home, and discovered that it was that extra ‘bonus’ live album (just two long tracks) that I’d heard in the store. And then within 6 months I think I’d tracked down close to half-a-dozen other Mal discs (specifically from the early 70’s), most of them live.

How / why did you end up with a copy, Chuck? (Of all people, I figure you’ve probably had all the Prestige Miles material for decades.)

$33 on CD from Amazon, seems to be the same from Dusty. Just saw it at Euclid Records for $38 here in St. Louis (flying out from visiting my dad this week). Blue Note web site is $33 (plus shipping, or free shipping if you buy north of $85). Anybody got a line on anywhere that has this cheaper on CD?? ($33 is kind of highway robbery, if you ask me.)

I think(?) I’ve probably dialed up this single on YouTube a time or three, but if — like me — you haven’t heard it in half-a-decade or more, here ‘tis… This is both sides of the single in one video, back to back…