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Not sure if this ‘@‘ reference will summon you (@Jim Alfredson) because of the space in your user ID (or if someone knows how else I can do that, please educate me). Jim, I just saw you’d posted a nice (lengthy) reply to a brand new board member in the Hammond zone — your first post in months, and one of very few in the last year. How ya doing, man? All things considered, I mean (the world has been in a tough place for a solid year, no less Michigan for damn sure). How’s your beautiful family? I’m sure I’m not alone in hoping you and everyone in your sphere are well. How’s about a little check-in? — so I can stop worrying about you, as I’ve occasionally done for the last 6 months or so (when first I realized we hadn’t heard much from you in ages). We’re here for you, man, if life’s been dealing’ a few rough hands. Hoping like the devil that all’s ok, or at least “pretty much ok”, as I said before, all things considered. Much love to you, and yours. — Tom

This is the only 2016 release I’m seeing on Discogs, fwiw. Is this the one you’re looking for? https://www.discogs.com/Joyce-Anos-80/release/9406018

What is the disc more specifically? — artist and title.

Children, and buildings too... https://www.ksl.com/article/32424611/vernal-bank-built-by-bricks-sent-through-the-mail-mdash-partly-true

Haven’t read the articles yet, but I have seen various articles and reports over the years that the parts of the brain related to music (incl. singing) are somewhat distinct from those associated with both speech, and also memory. Meaning not only are speech and singing distinct (controlled by different parts), but musical memory is distinct from other kinds of memory. IIRC, this is sometimes evident in some Alzheimer’s patients, but also in some patients with very specific kinds of brain injuries otherwise. Music therapy seems to be a very positive thing among those who had significant musical skills and/or experiences in their earlier decades. I would imagine Tony’s musical gifts will be at least in some evidence (and benefit to him) for his remaining years.

Are video game themes the new ‘standards’?

One possible future for jazz... Surely just one of MANY possible futures. So then I guess let’s make this the official “what the hell are the kids doing to jazz now??” thread...

Speaking of obscure players on Mal Waldron albums — I think trombonist Hermann Breuer from Moods is really one of THE finest horn-players on any post-1967 Mal record you can think of. That tone!! Aggressive, exciting, and so very ‘in your face’. About the only other example I know, of similarly dark-sounding trombone playing that’s that intense, is Garnett Brown on Booker Ervin’s Heavy!!! (1966). I don’t suppose anyone knows of any other similar examples of Hermann Breuer’s playing that isn’t buried in a really big ensemble. He seems to only be on well less than a dozen albums when last I did a deep internet search 10 years ago, but at that time I never did see anything where he was but one of 3 horns in a front-line.

Aha, right you are! I’ve never been a fan of the Blackhawk albums, and haven’t owned copies in 20 years. But a little googling confirms it...

I wonder if Tyson ever commented specifically about her image being on the cover for Sorcerer — anyone know? (Either contemporaneously, or years later.) I know the whole bit about Miles’ reaction to seeing the white women on the cover of Miles Ahead, and Frances then being on the covers of Someday My Prince Will Come and E.S.P. (am I forgetting another one with Cicely? — I don’t think so, but there were a lot of alternate covers issued in various countries over the years, from what I gather from Discogs). Then that’s Betty Mabry on the cover of Filles De Kilimanjaro.

No hard limit in terms of how far back in time (from today), though if I'd put "20 years" in the title, that would stretch back too deeply into the " Patrick Roques" era in BN reissues. But I just saw a new BN cover (for a new LP reissue of this session) -- that was, well, totally new to me... And similarly, there's this semi-recent Duke Pearson LP reissue of material that (to the best of my knowledge) never came out in the LP era (and never had "classic-era"-looking BN cover-art... What others can we collectively think of? DOESN'T have to be limited to Blue Note -- but anything "interesting" qualifies (whatever catches/caught your eye)... So then, NEW reissues (of previously issued material), with NEW and notable cover-art (or that tries to harken back to previous eras).

How has there still never been a Billy Harper Blue Note leader-date?? He was on Lee Morgan’s last Blue Note session, and a couple other BN dates too. He’s a MONSTER player (and composer too) — still is!! — so you’d think it would be a no-brainer?!?!

That Hutch & Land track is a real corker! It can also be found (in full) on the 2nd disc of this 2CD set (which is probably more of a pain in ass to find, but if you ever happen stumble on one -- it's a really great compilation, as is the entire series of CD's)... https://www.discogs.com/Various-Spiritual-Jazz-Volume-4-Americans-In-Europe/release/4715837 https://hardwax.com/25200/various-artists/spiritual-jazz-4-americans-in-europe/ Looks like you can buy a download of just that one track too, couple different sources too matter of fact... https://spiritualjazz.bandcamp.com/album/spiritual-jazz-4-americans-in-europe https://spiritualjazz.bandcamp.com/track/the-creators https://www.amazon.com/The-Creators/dp/B00B4872HQ Here's the whole thing on YouTube, if you just want to give it a spin (you can also listen to the whole thing from the bandcamp links too, iirc)...

Mr. Pop’s on a Blue Note release? Who’d a ever thunk it!

I’d gladly pay expensive Japanese import prices for ‘Reminiscent Suite’ on CD (even $30) — but not $80-$200 for it on vinyl. I might go $40-$45 for vinyl, but I’ve never seen a copy available online for anything less than ~$85-$90 (probably close to $100 with shipping).

Relieved to hear your positive report, Dmitry - keep it up! (And keep keeping it up too.)

Thanks. My Dad is now on quarantine for 7 days, meaning he’ll get his meals delivered to his room. I talked to him this morning after the exec-dir visited him (both of them masked). I’m sure the experience made him squirm (he LOATHS conflict), and he did not want to talk to me for long today, and when I offered to call him tonight all he said was “if you want to” (implying he didn’t necessarily want me to). I’m glad I did what I did, and felt I had to do — but the whole thing put a knot in my stomach all night (I didn’t sleep well). My dad may be in a funk about it the whole week, or just a few days - only time will tell.

“Furious” is probably overstating how I feel, but super-frustrated doesn’t quite cover it. My 93 year old dad really doesn’t ever sneak out to go to stores, but he often DOES seems to piggyback unauthorized errands onto the tail end of his authorized doctor’s office visits (he still drives, by himself). He lives in a group retirement community, with group-dinning. Today he tried to stop and get a haircut after a regular doctor’s appointment (which is ok, because according to all appearances, his barber is following all the necessary protocols — strict mask wearing by all, only 2 people in a waiting room big enough to hold 10, and the barber wipes down the chair and all surfaces between customers, with disinfectant). Well, the wait at the barber was too long (or he’d miss getting back to his group retirement home for lunch)... SO, driving home, he drives by his Masonic lodge — which has a group in fm about 8-12 guys who play cards most Thursday mornings, and have donuts). He said he was only there for about 10-15 minutes. OK, fine (I’m thinking), not ideal — but what’s done is done. Then towards the end of my phone call with him, I asked him if all the guys were wearing masks (thinking surely they would be), and my Dad says they DO/DID all have masks, BUT ALL OR NEARLY ALL OF THEM HAVE THEIR MASKS DOWN ON THEIR CHINS/“around their neck” is technically what my dad said. NOT covering their noses, and NOT even covering their mouths!!! (AARG!!!!) But Dad did say they all apparently did wear their masks as they were coming in / as they got there / were getting there. But once they’re there (at his Masonic lodge), the masks come down. Shortly after that my Dad also said that the card-playing group had been meeting 2-3 times a month since March, and “apparently they’re all “getting by” since none of them have “apparently” gotten sick.” (So “it must be OK”, his implication being.) I tried to call the executive director of the home he’s in, to rat him out, but I just missed her (she was out getting her own first Covid vaccine shot), so I can’t talk to her until tomorrow morning. But my Dad is now getting his meals in his room for the moment (dinner tonight, and breakfast tomorrow), at least until the exec-director can decide what she wants/needs to do — possibly putting him on quarantine for 10-12 days (meals in his room only). My dad told me “not to get him in trouble with her” — but I said I had to, and then he threatened to hang up on me. So I told him I was hanging up on him, so I could call and rat him out (and then I did hang up on him, before he could hang up on me). I call him every single day, and talk to him 20-45 minutes a day, and I’ve been doing my best to keep him out of stores by forcing him to go over his tiny shopping lists, so I can get stuff for him from Amazon, or a local grocery store that delivers. So just when I thought I’d gotten his temptation to go do errands under control, he goes and pulls a boneheaded move like this. I doubt he caught anything, but he very easily might have (the positivity rate in his county outside of St. Louis is about 15% — 3x worse than here in DC, but only half as bad as plenty of other places like Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, etc — if not now, then recently). I did call him back 30 min later, and explained he had to get all his meals in his room now, until the exec-director could decide what to do in the morning. He said he wasn’t happy with me, and I said I sure wasn’t happy with him.

Doug may be the 2nd Gentleman... but he will always be the first 2nd Gentleman. BTW, without getting political (and recognizing no politicians are perfect candidates), if I might add — Kamala was both my and my wife’s first choice early on in this primary race. Keeping this non-partisan, I think it was way past time for a woman to be elected as part of a presidential ticket — and I’m very hopeful we’ll see a woman in the Oval Office in my lifetime (I’ll be 52 this year). Yesterday was an important day historically speaking, and I’m proud to see another huge crack in that glass ceiling.

I met a gal in my previous job back in Kansas City named Naima, after the song. She was born in the very late 60’s, iirc.

Can’t see the pic, but sure would like to!

Some questions... How did Joe come to pull away from Blue Note? / sign with Milestone (MS)? — and why specifically *WHEN* he did? Did he leave BN, and then (after he was no longer under contract to BN), was he then sought after by MS? *OR* — did MS ‘woo’ him away from BN? Then Joe came back for one (just one) BN session after his first two MS albums — namely The Prisoner (‘69). Was that perhaps in exchange for Herbie appearing on Joe’s Power To The People that same year? (Assuming Herbie was still under contract to BN at the time — the two albums were recorded almost exactly 1 month apart, in April and May ‘69 — Herbie’s album being the one recorded first). Joe had such a phenomenal record of sideman appearances on BN, were they stingy giving him enough leader-dates?? (Or enough promotion?) Looking again just now, the span of time between the recording dates of Joe’s five leader-dates for BN was about a week less than 2 years and 8 months (early June ‘63 thru late Jan ‘66). I think of Joe as being one of less than a dozen “quintessential” Blue Note artists — and yet his total time under contract w/ BN was ~4 years, 4.5 years tops. The Real McCoy (BN) was recorded in April ‘67 — and The Kicker (MS) in Aug ‘67. Was Joe still under contract with BN while The Real McCoy was being recorded? What other related questions am I not thinking of? (PS: my CD copies of most of these albums are a bit scattered at the moment, or else I’d look for “so-n-so appears courtesy of...” type language in the liners for said albums — in terms of a few of my “date-related” and “who-was-under-contract-to-who” type questions.)

I’d jump all over that; primarily because of the non-BN dates — an easy purchase decision.

IIRC, an alternate take of the title track from Mode For Joe (that first came out on the SHM-CD reissue of that album in Japan, in 2015) — that is the only(?) as-yet-still-rare, and only-recently-released Joe Henderson track, that would surely be included. It’s a LOVELY alternate, that I can highly recommend. Which begs the question if any other sort of rarities could be included. Joe’s probably been my single favorite tenor player for well over 25 years, and it’d be difficult not to want to buy this, even if there was no other previously unreleased material. “Difficult” but maybe no “impossible”?? — only time will tell. My enthusiasm for Joe may have waned a bit over the years, but he’s probably still my #1, if push really came to shove.

Aren’t there some similar(?) sort of stickers on various Japanese CD’s? — I’m thinking of those little, pale pink and green (iirc) stickers on so many of the DIW discs I have — so those serve some kind of similar function? — or we’re those label-specific? I could swear I’ve seen them on more than just DIW releases from Japan, and now that I think of it, I’ve also seen them on books from Japan too, I think?