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Vinyl only?? Sam’s also has (had?) a 5-sided 3LP of Nathan Davis live in ‘65 backed by the Georges Arvanitas trio. And I would have GLADLY paid (even at a premium) for a nice 2cd set of it. Same too with this new Mal trio.

This seems to be the full clip (full tune)… …from the same YouTube uploader: Disorder at the Border, 1966. Featuring: Dizzy Gillespie (t) Kenny Dorham (t) Thad Jones (t) Howard McGhee (t) Bobby Hackett (c) Ruby Braff (c) Clark Terry (fl-h) Jimmy Owens (fl-h) Billy Taylor (p) Kenny Burrell (g) Gene Taylor (b) Vince Schaeffer (d) Recorded in Newport

While I probably won’t rabidly devour this book, but I imagine it’ll be a good read — maybe a darn good one at that. If the reviews are positive , or if someone here reports back it’s good — I’m in.

Not perfectly in tune — but it’s about 5x better than several Left Bank live recordings I’ve heard.

Sounds pretty darn good, far as I’m concerned. Looking forward!!

Hot damn!!!

Much better quality picture of the album cover here… https://www.plaidroomrecords.com/products/pre-order-mccoy-tyner-joe-henderson-forces-of-nature-live-at-slugs-release-date-11-22-2024

This page where I found the cover art also has a track listing (…and btw, the Steve Hoffman link above says it’s 2cds!) https://www.allaboutjazz.com/album/forces-of-nature-live-at-slugs-mccoy-tyner Tracks: In 'N Out; We'll Be Together Again; Taking Off; The Believer; Isotope. “In ‘N Out” and “Isotope” are Joe’s tunes. “We’ll Be Together” is surely the Fischer/Laine standard. There’s a McCoy tune called “The Believer” from an early-1958-recorded session on the 1964 Coltrane album by the same name — and I’m seeing it’s credited to McCoy (I guess that’s right, but 1958? — I thought Trane and McCoy didn’t cross paths on record quite that early, can someone set me right?) I don’t know “Takin’ Off” at all (and nor does Google, with any of the names on this live date). Maybe a spontaneously improvised tune. EDIT: Yeah, it appears “The Believer” was written by McCoy, and recorded by Trane a couple years before they recorded together. https://concord.com/concord-albums/the-believer/ • The title piece was composed by McCoy Tyner, still a teenager at the time and more than two years away from his key role in Coltrane’s working quartet.

Cover art!!

How many BN covers had an “etc.” billed instead of a musician’s name? — and were they *all* McCoy? And did any other labels do the same? (And were any of them McCoy too?)

Wonder whose name the 1966 live set on BN will be released under?? Who was the ‘leader’ on the gig, ostensibly? And/or who was still under contact to BN in 1966? — McCoy or Joe? (Would/could that still be a factor in how it’s released today? — in terms of the name it’s under?). I suppose the date of the show could be a factor too — do we have a date yet? — relative to who was under contract until when. My cursory Googling about this — the album title and “Blue Note” came up with absolutely nothing, besides references to this NYT article. Eagerly awaiting more details!!!!! Like… Two sets, or just one?? Just one cd, or two?? Set-list??

Just searched on my DVR for upcoming showings of anything with “Eddie Hen” — but no dice (here in DC). Hope I didn’t miss it!

Just looked up the fuel-mileage for a 2001 Prius (pre-hatchback, right?), and the mpg ratings for it were 52 city / 45 highway. How are you getting 66.7?? — when we didn’t even get quite that good on our 2006 Prius (which got about 60/52 iirc).

Can’t not post this one!

How much and about when? Just curiosity, as I got mine the month it came out with one of those crazy 40% off coupons on one item from Barnes and Nobel (in-store)— so I kinda got it for a song (might still have the receipt for it in the box, I’ll have to look). Got my Jack Johnson box the same way. One of them might have even been a 50% off coupon, come to think of it. Now that was essentially 40% (of 50%) off FULL-list-price — but that still brought it down to well less than $10/disc iirc.

Lotta these discs are sub 45-minutes each, if it’s 4+ hrs spread across 6 discs. Maybe that’s ok, because it’s one set per disc (with seemingly the one set that’s over 79 minutes split between two discs). I’ll probably break down and get it eventually, if I can ever find it for about $50/$55 (which might have to be used) — but I have to confess to not listening to my Seven Steps box a whole ton in the last 15 years. I passed on Vol 7, btw — but I do have all of the first 6 volumes.

Fun fact! Eno was commissioned to write (and did write) this little 3.25-second ditty… https://themusicnetwork.com/the-odd-story-of-how-brian-eno-composed-the-windows-95-startup-sound/

Wasn’t there a download-only option with one of Andrew’s albums from right around this same time (roughly), with 2-3 extra tracks of some sort? (Or am I now just conjuring that false memory?) Not necessarily this album, but I think(?) it was in this general time-frame. (Anybody know what I’m talking about, and have the details?) Is this that?

Why isn’t an artist like Jason Moran still recording for the label? Why wasn’t a band like The Cookers recruited onto the label? And, related, why hasn’t Billy Harper ever been on the label? That ship has sorta sailed now, but a dozen years ago it certainly hadn’t. Also related, Eddie Henderson? — who even has some history with the label, and is still vibrant and certainly has been the last dozen years. I could come up with a dozen other good and quite logical examples — and no not all of them necessarily coulda/woulda/shouda happened — but my point is, NONE of them did. Sincerely, I don’t think Don Was is doing a “bad” job — but there are definitely some things that could have happened to really continue the lineage of the label, in ways that could have picked up on developments since (after) the 60’s, and even dovetailed with a bit of the label’s post-1970 history. (And I’ll try to come up with some more ideas to flesh out that supposed list of “a dozen” of opportunities that I claim have been missed — so that’s not me just claiming that in some hyperbolic way, without backing it up.)

This link seems to have the entire track listing for both discs… https://shop.decca.com/products/blue-spirits-85-years-of-blue-note-records-2cd I feel about the same as felser, I’m afraid. There seems to be little continuity between the Don Was era of Blue Note, and what all preceded it (even immediately preceded it). They seem like entirely different labels.

Via Discogs, I just looked at the back covers for all the early issues/reissues of & Ten, and “Zeke Tolin” is first outed with the 1970 reissue — but all of 6 preceding issues do maintain the pseudonym (and always in quotes). So I wonder at what point — and how?? (meaning from a contractual standpoint) — how does it become ok to correct these personnel listings officially on jackets?? Or do the rights-holders (to the recording, meaning those doing the reissue) just say f-it, enough time has passed (whatever that means), let’s just name them. I mean, it’s not like there’s a statute of limitations on this stuff, or is there??

I just picked up a cd of Gil & Ten only a couple months ago — the very last of any of Gil’s pre-1975 leader-dates that I was missing, and a hole in my collection that I’d had for 20+ years. A very nice date, and I think I actually prefer it over both of his two ‘58-59 World Pacific albums. I’m normally hesitant about soprano (), but Lacy’s timbre here turned out to be interesting and a welcome new arrow in Gil’s quiver (new for me, at least).

I plan to by the end of the month — that’s not quite ASAP, but pretty close (as today is Sept 5).

Me too!!

Blue 7 / Blue Seven (Newk)