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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.

Just enjoyed this performance from the National Cathedral here in Washington. Merry Christmas!!

Definitely!!!

Hutch, do you have Larry Young’s Mother Ship? - on BN from 1969. If not, you need it! I’ve always likened it to being a cross between Unity and Don Cherry’s Complete Communion. It’s not hyperbole to say that Mother Ship changed my perspective on jazz organ nearly 100%. Before that I had’t heard much of any Big John Parton, and the only Larry Young I knew was Unity (and my focus way back then was more on Unity’s horn front line). Suffice to say that jazz organ meant “Jimmy Smith” (stylistically) for my first 10 years of listening. Then Mother Ship completely blew my mind when it first got it, circa 1998-99 iirc.

And low and behold, the entire album (Miles Mode) happens to have been uploaded to YouTube...

Last I looked, the Positivity Rate here in DC was somewhere around 5% -- vs. about 15% where my Dad lives (outside of St. Louis) -- vs. scary high MUCH higher rates in Iowa and one of the Dakotas (iirc, but I can't remember which one), Wisconsin, Michigan, you name it around the upper Midwest. How people can be traveling for Christmas in all this is absolutely beyond me. On a positive note, the Exec Director of the retirement home that my Dad's in (in Illinois, outside of St. Louis)... ...she thinks all her residents may be vaccinated in as little as 4-6 weeks. Fingers crossed she's right. I'll be glad when it's my wife's and my turn here in DC whenever that is (June, July, hopefully not any later than that)... ...but I will be absolutely thrilled when my Dad gets it. We haven't lost any real sleep over his situation, but half of that is our willfully convincing ourselves that the people where he lives are mostly taking every precaution. They've only had once case of COVID all year (a resident who got it gosh knows where outside where my Dad lives), but they immediately quarantined her, and stopped the virus in its tracks. Every nursing home and retirement center for 50 miles in any direction (of where my Dad is) has had a dozen or more cases, along with deaths (some a dozen or more) -- but the home where my Dad is has just had that ONE case, and that's it. The Exec Director there is absolutely hell on wheels, and I wouldn't want to cross her in an alley late at night. Tenacious doesn't even cover half of it. She has been fanatical about keeping everyone in her care, and all her employees safe -- and impressing upon her employees that they have to be vigilant in the personal lives. I'm sure there have been some lapses here and there (it's not like all her employees are living in a bubble at the retirement home)... ...but the results speaks for itself.

Ain't that the truth (talking to myself, at least). Big box sets especially -- a few of which I can't remember having spun much from in 5 years or more -- some 10 years even.

And my all-time favorite Art Blakey leader-dates are the two released instances of the Billy Harper / Bill Hardman version of the Jazz Measengers (from 1967)... ...so what does that tell you about my opinion?

Oh, I’m not assuming he worked as a leader a lot. 1) Ideally I’d love to have a live document of a Joe leader-date from the 60’s (just dreaming). 2) Absent that, Joe did record a LOT in the 60’s — what, 35+ dates as a sideman? — so I presume he played a lot live as a sideman in the 60’s. I’m just surprised so (relatively) few documents of him live (as a sideman) have ever surfaced from the 60’s. Wouldn’t he have gigged with Lee Morgan, or Freddie Hubbard, or Blue Mitchell? Or maybe a time or few with McCoy Tyner? Surely as a working musician, he had to have had a variety of gigs to pay the bills, no? Just seems like someone as well-documented on such a wide variety of studio dates (by, what? - close to 15 other leaders’ dates), would seemed to have avoided having been recorded live by all but a few times (in that decade).

Oh yeah, forgot about that one. Have to confess to not having ever picked that one up yet, but will eventually I imagine. But what I’m really looking for is a live leader-date by Joe in the 60’s. As it stands, all there really is live with Joe (in the 60’s) are 2 or maybe 3 short Horace Silver live dates circa 1966 (iirc), plus that one with/by Nat Adderly in ‘67, and one or two Thad/Mel big band things from ‘69 (plus the Uptown Dorham thing from ‘63). A bit, sure, but given how much Joe recorded in the 60’s (incl. tons of sideman work), I would have thought a few more live documents would have surfaced.

Not remembering that one at all. Can anyone come up with a link?

Long as we’re going down memory lane, I’m suddenly and distinctly remembering the endless verbal battles on the old BNBB (and some on AAJ too, iirc) — between the more open-minded listeners (many of whom migrated here)... ...and a certain few people who were absolute die-hard Wynton devotees / more musically-conservative listeners (some ‘fanatically’ so). I honesty never knew who was who back then, but am I remembering the username “Hardbop” correctly?

I would have thought that the relative “commercial viability” of Joe Henderson would have resulted in at least some sort of lost recordings of him being released over the last 20 years. But as far as I’m remembering, I think almost the only truly then ‘NEW’ Joe Henderson that’s been released in close to 2 decades(!) is that one Erich Kleinschuster led session for Austrian(?) Radio in 1968 (first issued in 2005). And before that, the Charlie Haden pianoless trio with Joe at Montreal (1989), released in 2003 on Verve. Is there anything else I’m forgetting by Joe — or prominently with Joe — released since 2000?

I’m pretty sure I mentioned it more than once on the board (and in detail) — but here’s one such instance... I’m glad I cut-n-pasted the info directly into that old thread, because it appears the source (link) I found it at 7 years ago... is no longer active. (I also vaguely remember later finding something with track-times maybe? - or else I’m just dreaming I did). Just for good measure, here it is again... =============== 17 September 1966 Elvin Jones-Joe Henderson Quartet Performer(s): Jones, Elvin (drums); Henderson, Joe (tenor saxophone); Moore, Don (bass); Hutcherson, Bobby (vibraphone) Inner Urge Isotope Shade of Jade ===============