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No idea when my dad will be able to get his shot(s) in downstate Illinois (near St. Louis). He lives in a retirement home now, and nearly everyone there is over 75 or 80 (he’ll be 94 in May) — but the home director said that because they aren’t technically a “nursing home” — and the state just considers them a “group living facility” (that just happens to be older people). She’s doing her best to best to get more answers, but it could be late February or March for all we know. She’s incredibly tenacious, so my dad couldn’t have a better advocate working to get his entire facility vaccinated as soon as practicable. Not as quick as we’d like, but this all is an unprecedented effort, and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if there was a delay of a month or two. Hopefully the Federal involvement after the inauguration will ramp up significantly, so I can’t quite complain yet. (AKA, the cavalry is coming, though don’t worry, I’m keeping my expectations in check.)

Tuba Virtuoso Howard Johnson Dies At 79 https://www.npr.org/2021/01/12/956145720/tuba-virtuoso-howard-johnson-dies-at-79 BTW, if there was an NPR remembrance of Stanley Cowell, then I sure missed it (and can’t seem to find any via searches on-line, or from the NPR app).

All that said, a big Welcome to the board, and please do stick around (even if we’re occasionally prickly). Start some threads, ask some questions, make some revolutionary (jazz-related) pronouncements, and join the party. Good to have you among us!

Astounding!! $500 I would have believed, but not $1,300+.

Here’s a copy of Vol 2! - fwiw... https://www.ebay.com/p/3499171 ...and is this a Vol 1 that I’m seeing possibly in stock?! https://www.fnac.com/mp3964280/Guitar-Rarities-Vol-1-1934-46 ... or perhaps this thread might lead to a DL source, though how dubious, I can’t say. https://redskendtifipearsu.bhojicmyacepcienalpakomprarodmabin.co/post2.php?link=Kalaidoscope%20-%20Various%20-%20Guitar%20Rarities:%20Volume%20One%20(1934-1946)%20(CD)

Yeah, I've been eyeing that Marsh/Foster date for close to a year. What I sampled of it (some time ago) from YouTube, sounded really nice!!

About a month ago I acquired the Mosaic box, courtesy of a very gracious board member (thank you!!). And I also have the following two releases... Intuition -- Lennie Tristano and Warne Marsh (1949 & 1956 sessions) -- I picked this one up first, about 4 months ago, and that's what started to get me hooked Then last week I picked up Subconscious-Lee -- Lee Konitz (1949-1950). So if I want to focus on more material from the 40's, 50's, and 60's -- but I'm not really looking for a whole dozen more CD's... ...so I think 3-4 more CD's would probably do it. Is there anything else really key to add by or with Tristano especially?? Konitz too, whose cool playing from the Mosaic box has me TOTALLY transfixed (this is really my first major exposure to his Lee's earlier playing -- though I did hear Lee live in Kansas City in 2006 with Bill Frisell). I do have Birth of the Cool (of course), and an interesting co-leader day with/by Attila Zoller, Lee Konitz, Albert Mangelsdorff called Zo-Ko-Ma (MPS, 1968) -- and I've heard 3-4 later dates that have Lee with Brad Mehldau, Kenny Wheeler, etc... ...and a couple other random Lee leader-dates from the 90's. I'm especially loving the interplay of Warne when he's paired with another sax player (more than that one Warne Atlantic date where he's the only sax player, which I'm still wrapping my head around). NOTE: The only other Warne date I own is All Music, which I've had for about 12 years. BTW, I've meant to try and find a reasonably priced copy of the 3CD expanded version of Lee's Motion (Verve, 1961) literally for YEARS -- but I haven't found one yet. But I have to admit that it's the prospect of hearing more of these guys in contexts where there's a good bit of collective (multi-voice) improv. -- either two horns, or with piano and/or guitar. So where do I go next?? What should I prioritize? Thanks!!

Amen.

surreptitious-lee too.

How do we (you) know this is what the other side is / sounds like? (I thought I only saw one audio file/link in the eBay listing).

The eBay listing also includes a link to a 21-min clip of the (whole?) thing... Can somebody grab this audio, before it disappears presumably soon, when the auction is over (or soon after that). First I was ever aware of Miles playing live with vibes!! - or certainly not in 1960 (totally news to me!). https://clyp.it/jkhw3lrc

Damn!!

Yeah, I’m not coming up with anything either... ...except for this nice (unrelated) clip:

The mammoth Pink Floyd “Early Years” Box set. 29-30 hours of material, almost ALL of it previously unreleased too!! About half on CD — half on DVD’s (w/ duplicate Blue-rays) — and none of the material duplicated between the CD’s and DVD’s/Blue-rays. The price was bouncing up and down over a six week period on Amazon UK (right after release day), and I jumped on it when it got down to what I ultimately paid: $309.52 — including shipping. Very self-indulgent, inarguably.

...a contrafact of “Confirmation”? — or of some other tune? (some other tune as yet unidentified.)

The time has come!!

Someone mentioned Greg Osby up above, and he’s certainly the right age —but in all seriousness, does anyone see any of the main (really “core”) M-BASE proponents as being “Young Lions”?? (In terms of the 80’s incarnation of that term.) Steve Coleman is 4 years older than Greg Osby — but surely Steve Coleman wasn’t concerned a “Young Lion”, was he? Age wasn’t the only definitional characteristic, was it?

I would, however, accept these as potentially being post-apocalyptic robots of some sort. (Part 2)

I'd be lying if I said I disliked Krispy Kreme donuts in particular, or glazed donuts in general... BUT -- there are SO many better and MUCH more interesting options. Cake donuts -- blueberry, sour cream, spice-flavored, chocolate, occasionally strawberry -- CAKE donuts are infinitely more interesting that almost any Krispy Cream / generic "glazed" donuts. So I try to avoid Krispy Cream / Glazed whenever I can (unless there are literally no other easy options) -- both are about as "exciting" as plain Rice Crispy Treats, for instance.

Don’t know nothin’ about no robot apocalypse. Do these robots seem apocalyptic to you? (Part 1)

Also saw coverage of this on the NBC Nightly News last night.

I got the trio on Karim from Dusty Groove in mid 2019, iirc. It could easily show up there again without warning (especially used) — you might set up an auto search on “Waldron Karim” so you can get an email aleart.

Simultaneously the coolest and warmest present ever!!

Such a bounty of fantastic info in your blog, Hutch, and also in the discussion here. The perfect timeframe to elevate some jazz from. While statistically the 60’s dominate my collection — if I take out all my Blue Note sessions, I think I might just barely have a hair more 70’s than any other single decade. And certainly, the 70’s has been the richest decade to find things from (for me), for the last 15 years especially.