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Is this them? http://moosicus.com/releases/

So who wants to edumacate me on like 2 or 3 of the best Grover sideman dates on Prestige?

Bump, specifically on this question again (as yet undiscussed, let alone answered).

Dear lord, that’s truly awful. (Bravo!)

Out of curiosity, does the disc play the same way (same problem) on multiple players? Of if the problem happens on multiple players, does it manifest the same way on all of them? More often than not over the years, when I've had small playing issues like this, the results weren't always the same on different equipment. Not that that necessarily tells you anything, or really "helps" particularly.

Although I’m not super torn about it, I’m afraid I’m probably going to pass on this one. I already have everything except the three (3) truly “previously unreleased” alternates (and I do already have that Japanese SHM-CD of Mode For Joe, including the alternate take of “Mode For Joe” that was previously unreleased prior to 2015 — which is marvelous!!). Much as I’d like to have the booklet, it’s just too hard to justify the cash outlay for just 3 alternates. Not every release I have of all this stuff (all on CD) is probably optimal in terms of sound quality, but neither is my sound system anywhere close to nice enough for it to matter. If there was a fair bit more unreleased material, I could justify it (like *IF* I didn’t already have those precious Unity alternates, and *IF* they were included here — something that important, I’d have no self control at all). But those three (3) particular alternates aren’t gonna change my world or anything. I didn’t bite on the 60’s Mobley set either, and I suspect there won’t be enough new stuff with any sort of Lee 60’s set either. But I’d pre-order a Bill Barron set!!

FWIW, none of the tracks from Basra were penned by Joe — in terms of why nothing from that date was included in the “sideman” tracks ‘extras’ at the end of disc #4. (Everything there is a Henderson tune.)

(and yes, I know it’s a Dylan song)

Cuz when you think “saxophone”, you think “brassy”. (re: the ‘hype’ copy on the back.)

But is it really especially better in any significant way, than the DVD (or just enjoying the audio from the DVD) Plus, isn’t (or at least wasn’t) the basic list price of the DVD a good $10 less than $38? Just replicating the audio of a DVD on vinyl (I’m assuming the source isn’t especially different, and the source for the LP could well have been digital), really doesn’t do anything except float the boats for those who have a fetish for vinyl.

That UK two-fer comp CD is the same one I have — but isn’t there also a different US two-fer comp CD under the title of the first of the two albums (with the Soul Man! tracks tacked on as bonus cuts on the back half?). And I want to say the first date on that US two-fer CD isn’t a trio date, but maybe it has a vibe-player on it? (making it a quartet, still a Timmons leader-date, iirc). Anybody know which one I’m talking about? (I only discovered it after I’d gotten the other UK two-fer). The thing is, I always wondered if that quartet date (the one with the vibes?) was better than Soul Food.

IIRC, I think I've also seen all of these listed on the Dusty Groove site -- can't remember if that was already in-stock items, or if (at the time), it was under "coming releases". Anyway, Dusty could maybe might be a source on these as well.

I really love all the Rathaus discs I own (maybe 5?) -- but especially that one that Chuck was just listening to, which I'd call the perfect introduction to him. Chuck's description of it being "post Mahler" is probably far more descriptive that whatever I might try and say about it. Certainly energetic, but not really spiky per se. Neo-Romantic, with modernist leanings. Here are the first movements of each of the two works on that disc...

My 2nd and 3rd Mosaic purchases (the McLean and Hill) were almost 90% based on the strength and reputations of the sidemen. Point of Departure might have been the only Hill date I had before I got the box (or perhaps one other, at most), and I can’t swear if I had any McLean leader-dates before I got his Mosaic. One thing’s for sure, I was almost a total Hill neophyte before I bought the box (and back then, POD always seemed like a close cousin to Out To Lunch, as much or even more than being a “Hill” album — so much so, that even to this day I can half forget that Joe Henderson is even on POD (if I haven’t heard it in 6 months) — which is saying a LOT, since Joe is my all-time favorite tenor player, and always has been, even back then). And it was the presence of Herbie Hancock and Lee Morgan, among others, who sold me on the McLean set.

I probably didn’t really discover Tina until the True Blue conn in 1994, far as I can remember — or at least that’s the first time I ever took any close notice of him. My very first Mosaic purchase was the Don Cherry BN set in late ‘94 (a bit because of the low price point) — then the McLean in Jan ‘95, and the big Hill box in May ‘95. (Not sure, but the Tina set might have already been sold out by then, or it wouldn’t have been all that much later.) I might have had House Party or The Sermon before True Blue — but I was slow to warm to much organ jazz that early in my listening in college and the first couple years after (my ‘college’ jazz listening was all around 1989-93). Sure, I “liked” organ jazz “ok”, but it didn’t fire me up the way other more horn-dominant dates did. Only Unity really grabbed me back then — but I hadn’t yet heard any other Larry Young, or ANY John Patton at all — and the smattering of Jimmy Smith dates I had all sounded a little too samey-samey. Pretty sure they Tina Mosaic was sold out by the time I got The True Blue conn, or else within a year after, iirc. But then I DID get all the Tina dates, one by one, quick as they came out on CD domestically — and had really warmed to him big-time, from the very start. Not sure when I picked up Open Sesame, but it wasn’t too long after True Blue, or maybe even slightly before.

7-minute story on Fresh Air today, apparently (found out about it after the fact, from the zoom)... Newly Unearthed 1965 Album Represents Hasaan Ibn Ali's Posthumous Vindication https://www.npr.org/2021/04/06/984703269/newly-unearthed-1965-album-represents-hasaan-ibn-alis-posthumous-vindication Seems to include some clips from the album (from the transcript).

Registered; wouldn’t miss it!!!

I’ll keep wearing them as long as the general idea is that more people wearing them is prudent for public health. Sure my glasses fog up under certain temperature/humidity conditions — and it’s harder to communicate without facial expressions as clear — but none of that is anything more than a little annoying (at worst). We’re all in this together, and ideally everyone ought to do what they can to encourage the kinds of “herd behaviors” that will help stop this thing — and I’m genuinely “relatively glad” to wear a mask all the rest of 2021 (though hopefully not for the next decade). What won’t fly everywhere, I realize — but here in DC I expect we’ll all be wearing masks indoors well into the summer and fall, or for however the mask mandates are in place. Outside everyone still wears them here too, but I expect that to start to fade in the next couple months — human nature being what it is.

American Masters (PBS) alert! - a Doc Severinsen episode aired last night, and probably repeating all week. Our DVR auto-records the PBS American Masters series, and last night was “Never Too Late, The Doc Severinsen Story” (90 min), fwiw. Only about 10 minutes in now.

I might. I do have a handful of duplicates of a number of CD’s in a box somewhere. I’ll have to take a look... EDIT: I’m afraid I don’t seem to have an extra copy of Compulsion. Sorry.

Whew!!!!

Just got the call to be to my doctor's office in 90 minutes, for a J&J shot -- and am quite pleased, as this literally came out of nowhere barely 20 hours ago.

Just got the call to be to my doctor's office in 90 minutes, for a J&J shot -- and am quite pleased, as this literally came out of nowhere barely 20 hours ago.

I think I counted not one, but two tracks by Sonny Rollins with bagpipes.

Just got a call out of the blue from my regular doctor’s office, asking if I could come down on very short notice tomorrow (or maybe another day this week). They’re administering J&J shots, and once a vial is open, they have to use all of it within X (4?) hours — and if they call me, can I get there in less than 90 minutes (and which days this week do I have that kind of flexibility). I also had to have a pre-condition (or maybe that just helped put my name higher on the list) — and my BMI is definitely over 30 (alas), improving my odds — having gained 20 lbs over the last year. My 93 year old Dad gets his 2nd Pfizer shot tomorrow, and my wife got her 2nd Pfizer shot yesterday (she’s borderline diabetic — but just barely on the “actually diabetic” side of the line, so close enough to qualify). And my wife’s parents both got their second shots a couple weeks ago (both of them are in their early 80’s). So fingers-crossed for me tomorrow, or this week — knock on wood!!