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Wait for more reviews to come in. I imagine only 20% of the set will sound much less than decent.

The detailed Tristano discography seems to suggest perhaps about an hour of ‘wire’ sources, not all on the same CD. I didn’t do the exact math, but that’s my recollection when I last took a gander at specifically which parts of the set came from wire recordings (a couple weeks ago). PS: My copy hasn’t shipped yet, so I can’t comment on the SQ directly.

Bump!!

Booker Little (23) too.

Ok, so I’m apparently oblivious to the “Climax” variant(?) of the Blue Note label. Can somebody school me?

I’m cool with that, I think. Or, ontologically speaking, is that even possible? — to be cool with ‘cool’ not being cool.

The new Tristano Mosaic — at 6 CD’s and something approaching 6 hours of all previously unreleased material — would surely have to qualify. I know it’s only just shipping this week, but a few board members have gotten theirs, so it’s still a 2021 release technically. (Suggested in the spirit of it not getting lost in the shuffle.) Unless it turns out to “ought to be” at the very top of the list next year too, once it’s been properly assessed.

Dizzy Reece??!!! I had no idea he was still with us.

I heard it semi-routinely too, my dad being born in 1927. But I would imagine it’s become arcane slang by now.

Gold star to the Voice author, for using the word “hooch” in print.

Check the weather forecast carefully. I just looked, and I’m seeing a 30° high temperature differential between Saturday (81° high), and Sunday (only 51° high). The Hill Country also has a lot to offer, though it’s not immediately in Austin. The LBJ Presidential Library and LBJ’s ranch are both quite interesting — and you couldn’t ask for a more gripping time-period anytime in the last 75 years to learn more about.

The latest from DC… https://www.npr.org/2021/12/28/1068417547/the-nations-capital-is-the-worst-place-for-covid-19-infections-right-now

Me too!!!

Me too; still on hold.

Anyone else feel like most solo Brad Mehldau recordings — at least all of the live ones I’ve ever heard — sound almost like an entirely different player and totally different concept, than Mehldau’s sublime trio work? — with its usually intricate and sympathetic interplay with the rest of his band. I like both, mind you — and I’ve heard both live too (in person). But it’s like two different worlds. I’m tempted to chalk it up to one HUGE difference, that being the liberal use of the sustain petal in Brad’s solo playing, almost building up walls of sound. It’s muddy as hell, but the effect can be sometimes almost trance inducing for the listener (maybe for Brad too? — I couldn’t say). Half of me thinks the solo Mehldau live is just brilliant, and miles above my head. But half of me occasionally wonders if the relentless ‘sustentation’ isn’t also a bit of a cheap parlor trick. Maybe a little of both? NOTE: I’m NOT talking about the more contrapuntal solo studio playing Brad does, like Elegiac Cycle and the like (some 20 years ago). But the more muddy sonic melange of some of his more recent solo live stuff (I seem to remember an 8 CD box I did a short deep dive on, from online streaming sources a couple years ago, iirc). All of Mehldau’s music — when I’m in the right mood for it (which isn’t always) — is just otherworldly, even as different as his solo live stuff is from his trio stuff.

This looks quite interesting. By chance, is there much or even any mention of Lennie Tristano and his compatriots?

So say we all. What a really great guy. Thanks for digging up his avatar too, Chuck. Fond memories.

Larry, did your account get hacked?

Just got a surprise ‘present’ in my mail from yesterday (just getting it today)… A jury summons!!

Funny, I’ve got my Tristano-Konitz-Marsh box on today too, probably in anticipation of the new Tristano box coming in the next week or so. This music is just divine, and the perfect mood for a laidback (solitary) Christmas Day. My wife’s visiting her folks back in Kansas City for a week, but I had to work around the holiday (except today) and I couldn’t shake loose to join her. I’m especially warming to Warne, who I took to the more slowly of the three when I first got this set about a year ago (thanks to a kind soul on the board who let me have it in a trade).

Merry, merry! Many, many of you have probably heard this David Sedaris annual 7-minute holiday favorite on NPR — for a quarter century, around Dec 23rd… https://www.npr.org/2021/12/23/1065187420/david-sedaris-santaland-diaries Well just yesterday I discovered there’s a greatly expanded half-hour version delivered by Sedaris himself, from This American Life… https://www.thisamericanlife.org/47/christmas-and-commerce/act-two-16 Also available here: I haven’t even had the chance to listen to it myself, but it’s on my docket for later today. Enjoy!

I stumbled on a $2 promo CD of Young at Heart in a bargain bin in the early 2000’s, and snapped it up for sure at that price. No liners, and a generic tray card — but the music is wonderful. Right or wrong, I’ve always filed it with my other Mulgrew leader-dates — being “just a” piano trio, after all.

Paul! How the hell are you?! It's been like 5 years. Good to have you back!

What's not transparent about trying to strongly-encourage, strongly-incentivize people getting fully vaccinated? Or providing disincentives to NOT getting vaccinated. Seems pretty transparent to me -- and from all I've seen and read, these measures save lives.

Btw, meant to ask, spam folder?