Rooster_Ties

Losing a parent can be tough at any age. Very sorry for your loss, Michael.

You must mean Disc Three (because CD2 is the solo-piano disc). Entirely by coincidence, I'd just finished disc 2, and just started disc 3, just as I saw your post that I'm quoting here!

BTW, I spent some time with the Konitz/Marsh/Evans at the Half Note material early last week — spun the whole thing maybe 3x — and Lennie is (I’m afraid) sorely missing. Not that Bill Evans sticks out or anything (as I said before, he practically lays out half the time) — and Lennie’s absence is really striking, by comparison to all the Lennie that I was suddenly listening to a couple days later on the new box. But the Konitz/Marsh frontline is still wonderful, and it’s still a fortunate thing to have documented.

Thanks, Chuck. Yeah, I figured as much. Was just curious if there was another option I was overlooking — but I’ll probably spring for that Conception comp soon.

Multi-bones…

I understand these were originally on 78’s. By any chance, have these two particular tracks been released officially (no shady euro-releases,) on CD — anywhere else — except (obviously) on the OJC Prestige Conception compilation? (A friend already has the Miles ‘complete’ Prestige box, and these are the only two tracks on the Conception comp he’s looking for — and we were looking for other legit CD options, if any.) A5 Lee Konitz– Indian Summer Guitar – Billy Bauer A6 Lee Konitz– Duet For Saxophone And Guitar Guitar – Billy Bauer https://www.discogs.com/release/6764843-Miles-Davis-Stan-Getz-Gerry-Mulligan-Lee-Konitz-Sonny-Rollins-Zoot-Sims-Conception I’m especially falling in love with this second one, “Duet For Saxophone And Guitar” ❤️ — but both are real swell!

Never even heard of Eddie Preston (Trumpet) before… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Preston

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https://www.discogs.com/release/9258522-Stanley-Spector-Stanley-Spectors-Lessons-In-Improvisation-For-The-Jazz-Drummer-Volume-One-Time-And-T

Didn’t Jaki do a few of these play-along things? Seems like this isn’t the first one I’ve ever seen (on-line, of course).

Alas, I’m not on Facebook (never have). BTW, I just edited my post above, with more about them I found online.

Don’t know a thing about them, other than they (whoever they are, which I never figured out) had done some sort of collaboration recently-ish with Frank Ferdinand… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFS_(band)

How many bidders were you up against? Since it was just a local auction, I had visions of you really getting a steal. In fact, until I looked again a second time (and saw it was local), I was gonna guess more like $400.

Does anyone have contact info for either Carol Tristano or Lenny Popkin? I’d love to drop them a note, thanking them for sharing all this wonderful music. EDIT: FWIW, this German Wikipedia link about her (if Google translate is accurate), says Carol and Lenny are married, and have lived in Paris since 2005. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Tristano >> She is married to Popkin, with whom she has lived in Paris since 2005 and plays in the trio, which also performed in Germany. (Not sure how to link to it go get it to appear in English — but my phone automatically gave me the option to translate it, so I’ve quoted it here.) The Wikipedia source note also goes to another German-language link, which my phone is also translating… https://www.oberland.de/magazin/kultur/lenny-popkin-trio >> What an elegant tone, what brilliant improvisations by saxophonist and trio leader Lenny Popkin. The world-renowned musician is not only a student of cool jazz developer and pianist Lennie Tristano, he also married his daughter: drummer Carol Tristano. (No specific mention of Paris though, in the article source.)

If you ever manage to come up with a list of all the titles — or even just all the artist names — please post it here! I’d be curious to see what all you came up with. Dare I ask how much it set you back? I’m gonna wildly guess $230. Maybe we should all guess, and see who comes closest.

Just yesterday, I saw the Target a couple blocks from us has a prominent display just inside the main entrance with books, music (LP’s) by Black authors and musicians — nearly all of them with people on the covers of the books and LP’s. And t-shirts, similarly themed (all with prominent individuals). Big banner over all of it — don’t think it said “Black Pride” or “Black Culture” — but something very similar. A Love Supreme was practically front and center. Was disappointed I didn’t see any Miles LP’s. The Trane was the only jazz one. Still, nice to see!

I’m really glad for the logical grouping/programming, by disc — enormously helpful in wrapping my head around all this material. With the added benefit of almost no radical jumps in sound quality either — every disc flows pretty nicely. I even had the solo piano (2) and duo/trio discs (4 & 5) on all day Thursday while my wife was “at work” in the same room — and she didn’t mind a bit of it — and she really liked the solo-piano disc especially (she also likes the solo-piano disc from the Tristano/Konitz/Marsh Mosaic too). The sound quality of those three discs is uniformly excellent (2, 4 & 5). I kind of wish they had included a nice ‘group’ photo of Lennie’s entire personal archive of tapes, wires, and — if any — acetates (I think there were a couple tracks here and there with some surface noise). But maybe not at the loss of another photo that they did include (come to think of it).

Does anyone have this release, and care to discuss? (I’m just discovering of its existence this very minute, and did a quick search to see if it had ever been mentioned around these parts before.)

No shit. I waited tables at a Denny’s on the graveyard shift, the summer between my freshman and sophomore years in college — and there’s no way extra free food would fly at any Denny’s.

What looks to be a nice and recent article I just stumbled on (just seconds ago, I haven't had the chance to read it yet). https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jan/12/how-japan-created-its-own-jazz

A correction that is accurate, and that I much appreciate. (and please note, I put medical fascism and liberty in quotes)

“Medical Fascism” — 0 “Liberty” — 1

Am thru disc 5 now, the last one (for me). Discs 4 & 5 are by comparison, are both a bit more staid than all the rest — I’m not as instantly aware that they’re Lennie, stylistically speaking — but upon future, closer inspection, I’m sure more of what makes him ‘him’ will become more apparent to me. I can now also see the argument for releasing all of this — probably 6 hours worth (I haven’t done the math yet) — all in one unified set. What I find to be the most exciting parts, are all the ones with the most difficult sourcing in terms of sound quality — but their historic importance is unquestionable. But people would be screaming to the rafters if they’d only released that material as, let’s say, just a 2cd set (no matter how historically important and wonderful the underlying music). LIKEWISE, if they’d only released discs 4 & 5 together as a 2cd set, it might have looked more exciting on paper than it actually turned out to be (at least for people like me). Everything is, to one degree or another, quite good — even if it’s not all uniformly spectacular (I’d say the glass is 75% full). But thank goodness there’s a company still willing to do historic releases like this, and big ones at that (at 6 hrs). I’m spinning disc 5 again now, and hearing things I didn’t notice the first time around (what I get for doing other things while listening). That this is none other than “Lennie” is certainly more apparent now, than some of my first time through disc 5. He sure was something special, and well-deserving of a release like this.

I’ve got all of the first 4 High Notes (vol 1-4) under just Woody’s name — but I know I’m missing 1-3 of the various but numerous Woody Shaw related “previously unreleased” releases from the last 8-10 years or so. (Not that I’m complaining about how many there’re been of late, as they’re all excellent!). But it doesn’t help that a couple of them are similar, and both labeled as “Vol 1”. I think(?) all I’m missing is one of the Vol 1’s — and the also similar Louis Hayes (which is a double CD, iirc). And I might(?) be missing just the 2nd volume of Woody/Hayes “One Tour” single disc, also on Highnote (iirc) — but maybe not (can’t remember if I got it once on eBay really cheap, maybe). There’s so many, it’s hard to keep track! Can we compile a simple list of them ALL (all the ones from the last 10 years) by title, and organized (grouped) by label?? Something a person could use as checklist for what they have, and don’t? I can give it a go over the next few days, what I have anyway, but my CD’s are all spread out at the moment (the pandemic has me listening to more music than I have in years, but my bad habit of never putting things back is really out of control).

Thank you!