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I’m putting NO faith whatsoever in getindianews.com’s assessment of a jazz musician’s net worth. I only quoted the number here because it was so jaw-dropping.

Got my Moderna booster on Wednesday (11/7), and other than a really sore shoulder, no other significant side effects. I’d gotten J&J originally, so I’m very glad to have gotten another jab, especially with something other than J&J. My wife and father both got 3rd Pfizer shots a couple weeks ago, and I think my wife’s folks both got theirs too around then.

This seems to still be the only link I can find online, which I find kind of surprising. Maybe he wasn’t a household name, but he certainly was known pretty well among jazz fans, I would think? Also, just looking at that “article” again, how in the heck did Slide amass such an incredible fortune as a jazz trombonist??!! Quoting directly from the article… Slide Hampton Net Worth The net worth of Slide Hampton has been reported to be approximately $10 Million, he is a well-known musician, he must have amassed a sizable fortune throughout his life, working with numerous bands…

Ah, I’m not on Facebook — never have been, I have to confess.

Perhaps a little generic, but those are all reasonably nice! — well, most of them anyway. Honesty, many of those are nicer than some other original Muse covers I’ve seen (assuming what I was seeing were in fact the original Muse cover designs).

I don’t particularly doubt the news, but I’ve looked for some sort of an obit and perhaps some confirmation. Virtually nothing out there, at least that my Google skills can come up with. Really just this — from Get India News(!) — only posted 4 hours ago… https://getindianews.com/who-was-slide-hampton-and-what-was-his-cause-of-death-american-jazz-trombonist-died-at-89/

Great smile! Handsome chap.

There was also a Lee Morgan too, now that I’m thinking of it.

Now I’m vaguely remembering a Three Sounds title too, iirc. I only saw about 6-8 unique titles over the few years they were ‘available’ — maybe 10 tops. About half of them had already had legit US reissues here, McMasters — half of them were the first time I’d ever seen those particular titles here in the US anyway. At the time, the only place I ever saw any Japanese BN imports in any actual brick ‘n’ mortars was at Jazz Record Mart, which I only got to about once a year. Oh, and maybe Tower Records (or was it still Rose Records?) also in Chicago, around the same time (and just yearly). The thing was, they all sounded great! Better than the legit US issues. But I never A/B’ed any of the same title in both releases.

What about those all those Japanese(!) Blue Note cheapos with the generic blue and white covers (maybe a little black in there too). I want to say they all said “Best Selection” or something similar — but the weren’t compilations, but rather full albums, in GREAT sound quality too (iirc) — or at least LIGHT YEARS better than the Applause CD issues of similar Blue Note stuff. I had an Ornette one (maybe one or both of the Golden Circles?), and Jackie McClean too (maybe one of the pianoless titles with Grachan Moncur and Bobby Hutcherson?). Maybe a couple more, I can’t remember. Circa early 90’s, iirc. I only ever saw them at Euclid Records and/or Vintage Vinyl in St. Louis. Anybody else remember these?? Not that the cover art was ‘bad’ — it was just generic, and all the same for every album — except the text. Might not have even had tray-card inserts, iirc. But the sound quality was damn good, pretty similar to full-blown TOCJ’s, iirc. Anybody? Were these legit? I know the Applause were supposedly legit, at least on LP and cassettes (then subject to a later lawsuit in the CD era, which BN somehow won and got Applause shut down from issuing more CD’s) — iirc. But no idea about the origin and legal status of the Japanese “Best Selection” BN titles. Always wondered about them, especially given the sound quality. Was this one of them?? https://www.amazon.com/Ornette-Coleman-Trio-Best-Selection/dp/B000OV33CW Edit: I seem to remember one of the other titles I had in this cheap series was a Blue Mitchel BN (maybe the one (or one of the ones?) with Joe Henderson?) Forgot to mention I rarely paid more than $7-$8 for them back then, iirc. Here’s Joe Henderson’s Our Thing… https://m.bonanza.com/listings/our-thing-best-selection-by-joe-henderson-cd-jazz-master-series/1163446999?goog_pla=1&gpid=293946777986&keyword=&goog_pla=1&pos=&ad_type=pla&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI4peOq4ai9AIVGPrICh2_HgqqEAQYASABEgJEKfD_BwE or here too.. https://www.ebay.com/itm/203295065228#vi__app-cvip-panel Duke Pearson… https://www.ebay.com/itm/164907796743

Charles Tolliver — Impact The “big band” one on Strata East (with a few strings, iirc)… https://www.discogs.com/release/1234323-Charles-Tolliver-Music-Inc-Orchestra-Impact And the live Music Inc quartet one, which has some nice bonus tracks on several of the more recent CD issues… https://www.discogs.com/release/5227891-Music-Inc-Charles-Tolliver-Stanley-Cowell-Ron-Mathewson-Alvin-Queen-Impact This one has the bonus material… https://www.discogs.com/release/3420811-Charles-Tolliver-Impact

A recent live version of “Bachafillen” — if less than a decade ago can be considered ‘recent’. "Bachafillen" by Garnett Brown, arr. Thad Jones, transcribed and edited by Dave Sharp. Performed by the University of Northern Iowa's Jazz Band One directed by Chris Merz at The HuB in downtown Cedar Falls, Iowa on February 9, 2012.

Thanks Jim. I’m eyeing a used copy of Festival Album (from 1966, also on PJ), the expanded CD issue — but it’s used, and close to $20, I thought I’d get some other opinions first. I’m streaming it now, and I keep going back and forth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Festival_Album

I like the Jazz Crusaders by and large, but I have to admit I think the Mosaic was actually my first ever purchase of anything under that name (and I’m not really interested in any “Crusaders”). But I’ve never explored any of their live output. If I was just going to pick up one of two, which ones are best? Or do I need any of them at all? — if I’ve already got the studio box. I have to admit the box is probably slightly more than I would have bought, if I’d been picking them up one by one over the years. It’s all good, don’t get me wrong, but there’s a bit of a sameness to it all too. But how’s the live stuff? More of the same? Or am I missing out on something?

I mentioned Scandinavian folk and classical music above (around Christmas), but that’s definitely a “winter” thing too — with the start of December, there’s just a lot of synergy between music of the north, and winter — including Björk and The Sugarcubes too (being Icelandic and all).

I think I meant to say her dad is 3/4ths Swedish, and that she’s 3/8ths (not 5/8ths) — but I just double checked with her a little while ago, and some of that is Norwegian too — but still more Swedish than Norwegian.

We break out the Scandinavian folk-music, and Scandinavian chamber music after Thanksgiving — and it’s essentially “holiday” music for us, along with various Christmas musics. My wife is 5/8ths Swedish (her dad is 3/4ths).

Is this what they’re trying to reference with that “The Sound” business? https://www.discogs.com/release/4111684-Stan-Getz-The-Sound As if the title of one album — and a compilation at that (according to Discogs) — makes that some sort of nickname that Getz seemingly never had. (At least that’s all I’m really getting from Goggle — searching on Getz’ name, and “the sound” in quotes as a literal search string.)

Maybe when Pat Metheny kicks the bucket, Kenny G can release an albums of “duets” with him too.

I thought so too, but then I’m also seeing this, which may put Pfizer and Moderna on more of an equal footing? Maybe? Per the CDC: “COVID-19 booster shots are the same formulation as the current COVID-19 vaccines. However, in the case of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine booster shot, it is half the dose of the vaccine people get for their initial series.”

I got J&J back in March, and I plan to get a booster shot a week from tomorrow — and I’m just seeing I can just as easily get Pfizer as Moderna — and I’m suddenly wondering which one I should get?? (Definitely not getting J&J again.)

Lord, and that’s the actual title of the album too??!!???

I listened to this a LOT back around 1991-92 (and I know the year, because it was when I was working on my second BA) — and now whenever I go back to it every 4-5 years or so, I’m shocked how familiar it all seems, even all these years later. I’ve never made any sense of it, but I do feel like I connected with it pretty darn well back then, when I was about 21.

DL only, I presume. (Surely no physical media, I couldn’t imagine.)

The Mosaic site has a new "expected release date" of Dec 1st (was previously Nov 15, as recently as a day or two ago). Not terribly surprised, and I'll just be glad if I can get it by a few days Christmas.