Rooster_Ties

I’ve never had any problems with PayPal in well over 15 years. That said, I’ve never given them my bank account number either (and have no plans to).

I’ll try and spin all 7 discs over the next week or two, and come to a decision. They came out in sets of 3 (with vol 4 being the odd man out). The packaging/graphics/spines, while all sympathetic across the entire series - also has some visual clues that ‘group’ 1-4, then 5-7, and finally 8-10. It’s a lovely design concept. THUS, I could keep just 1-3, and it’d still be a “complete” subset of the entire set. (Whew!! )

Chuck, be aware that website is pure bullshit. Anyone can plug quite a number of names into the URL, and it will generate a dynamic webpage - complete with a fake magazine cover - for the person you provide. Upthread I gave links with Herbie Hancock, Bill Clinton, and Taylor Swift, all with the same boilerplate text, and only the name and headline changed (and fake magazine cover). Here’s Tiger Woods... https://en.mediamass.net/people/tiger-woods/deathhoax.html Yesterday, less than an hour after Jack D’s Facebook post was reported in the r/jazz subreddit, I saw two(!) different posts with this same BS website with Gary Peacock’s name plugged in, one in another RIP thread, and the second one was in a bare post of it’s own (a separate thread), both from the same user. I reported both as “misinformation”, and replied to both pointing out the spurious nature of the website. Here’s one where I plugged in Celine Dion into the URL: https://en.mediamass.net/people/celine-dion/deathhoax.html Citing it means nothing.

That’s a nonsense site that I saw posted twice(!) on the reddit jazz sub, less than an hour after I first saw Jack D’s FB page link posted here. https://en.mediamass.net/people/herbie-hancock/deathhoax.html https://en.mediamass.net/people/bill-clinton/deathhoax.html https://en.mediamass.net/people/taylor-swift/deathhoax.html Doesn’t work for quite every name I’ve tried, but when you change the name in the URL, the website builds the page from scratch from that, including the phony magazine cover.

Feel free to temp me! You never know what I might find too good to pass up. If it’s any simpler, rather than typing up a big list, we could also chat by phone - if that’s less trouble. But let me decide for sure that I want to part with 4-10. I’ll probably go that way, but I ought to spin them all to be sure. I don’t load stuff on to hard drives, or burn CD’s - so I just need to be sure that 1-3 are enough to satiate my ongoing listening.

Tempting. I have the entire set, except for the last 2005 issue of (then) previously unreleased recordings. I wouldn’t want to part with all of them, but perhaps if I could keep just the first 3 volumes - that might make some sense (so logically, I’d want to part with vols. 4-10, a total of 7 CD’s). I might try and drive a semi-hard bargain (price-wise), but *NOT* a penny for myself -- and I’d ask that payment be given in full to the upkeep, maintenance and feeding of this board (as a direct contribution to Jim, to pay for his yearly costs of maintaining the Big O board). And I’d pay all the shipping costs out of my own pocket. Not 100% if I’m sure if I want to part with any of them, but lord knows I need to downsize my collection. Note: Vol. 4 is a shorter CD, about 20 minutes (iirc), which was a “bonus” volume that buyers could somehow buy at a discount with proof of purchase of all of the first 3 volumes (or something like that - I bought mine used, not via whatever that special offer was). Might take me a week to decide. I bought them all piecemeal over a few years, at least half of them used copies, all in great condition (but I’d need to look through them all to confirm).

Just stumbled on this mini-doc about Wallace...

Where (else) would one hear trumpeter Danny Moore in a small(er) group context? A cursory glance through discogs, it appears I have about 8-10 records with him - all larger groups though (several by Thad & Mel, but Tolliver's big band, and a great Lonnie Smith date (Mama Wailer) - but he doesn't get any solos there -- or at least not that I remember, and discogs doesn't seem to think he had any solos on that date either). https://www.discogs.com/artist/346651-Danny-Moore Might this be a rare chance (at least on record now) to hear Donny Moore in a two-horn front line? About the earliest album I can find (on discogs) where he gets to be out-front more, seems to maybe be this Fank Strozier date from 1977 on Steeplechase (the whole album is up on YouTube, this is just the first track where Moore gets a pretty hot solo - around 1:35).

Nature Boy (Blue Note, 2000 — Somethin’ Else, 1999 in Japan). https://www.discogs.com/master/view/1340374 Opening cut...

Amen to that! One of the very best post-BN dates Jackie ever. “Beautiful” describes it perfectly. ❤️

Chevy Chase?

Inquiring minds wonder... Will Snarky Puppy hit the top 10? Top 5? #1? (Full disclosure, I’ve never owned any Snarky Puppy releases.)

Little mini-doc about the album...

Just stumbled on my older copy of the Swainson Quintet CD (mine is on Sound-Service/Bellaphon, out of Europe). In any case I knew I had a copy at one point, and I’m glad to have a copy already (and not be tempted to repurchase it). Listening to it now. Nothing revelatory, but a pretty solid and very straight-ahead date. Says Woody is on trumpet throughout, but some of his playing is so smooth you might mistake it for a flugel. And considering this was Woody’s very last studio date, he sounds remarkably good (considering). A very nice, if not quite ‘fiery’ date. Sounds very much like a “Concord date” too, I might add. Not that I can articulate exactly what I mean by that — other than having it on now I’m suddenly reminded of some other similar Concord dates I’ve had over the years. One that just came to mind was Allen Farnham’s 5th House (Concord, 1989) - which I haven’t heard in well over 15 years.

A LOT of the music I’m most interested in - at last jazz - is really a lot more obscure. Small labels, non-US artists (Japanese, European), and I love really well-curated various artist CD’s of African and Ethiopian music. And some obscure Scandinavian jazz (beyond ECM). I would venture a guess that less than 50% of my non-pop/non-rock CD purchases are of music that I couldn’t stream, even if I tried. CD is definitely the way to go for me.

I would take Discogs listing prices with a grain of salt. Or at least for more obscure titles, best to also check Discog’s actual sales history (with hi, low, and median actual-sales-data). Sometimes recent eBay sales data is also helpful, but (unfortunately only limited to the last 3 months, unless you’re a seller, and then maybe you get a little more data - is it 6 months?). Amazon 3rd-party sellers’ listings sometimes help too, but also suffer from the lack of “real world” listing pricing data, same as if you only look at Discogs offerings (without looking at actual sales). Fortunately that actual sales data is available w/ Discogs.

95% CD here in our household, but I realize I’m in a minority that will be tiny within years (if not already). Hate downloads, and vinyl is too much of a pain generally speaking (though I’m ok with buying old vinyl... as long as the title has either never been on CD ever, or if it costs more than 4x as much on CD vs. LP). But I’ll gladly pay up to a 3x premium to get something on CD (vs. LP), especially for a title I’m really interested in. I will stream stuff to sample it, but if I really like it, I’ll always try and track down a CD copy (though it might take me 5+ years before I find some titles I want for a cheap enough price). But I’ll also pay upwards of $20/disc for certain Japanese-only titles, not because I want Japanese masterings - but for titles that have only ever been issued on CD in Japan. Rarely do I ever buy (or rebuy) CD’s based on sonics, and (for instance), in most cases the more recent domestic-RVG reissues have always been “ok enough” for my purposes. All that said, I Only buy about 35-40 CD’s per year these days, down from what had to be 300/year back 15-20 years ago.

Just checked my Elvin Mosaic booklet, which I’m sure I haven’t looked at since before moved to DC (so well over 9 years ago). And I’m glad to report that my booklet is complete. (Couldn’t have sworn under oath if I remembered absolutely whether I’d looked thru it carefully - though I certainly would have thought I would have several times within the first few years since I’d bought the set). Just checked my receipt too (still in the box), and it’s dated 19 years ago to the day, as of tomorrow (i.e. 8/27/2001).

Don’t suppose there’s any examples of this band on YouTube or anywhere else by chance - ? My cursory search on YouTube came up with zilch (“Sonny Rollins 1967”).

No track-listing (yet), but some pics and a few more paragraphs of info... https://resonancerecords.org/product/sonny-rollins-rollins-in-holland/

How much Parker is there in stereo to begin with? I probably used to know more clearly years ago, but I seem to be under the impression that the great (vast?) majority of Bird’s entire documented output was all in mono. I do remember all the various sources of Parker’s sax lines they “Frankenstein’d” for the Clint Eastwood Bird soundtrack, were all in mono. And right or wrong, I got the impression that was emblematic of Bird’s entire output. (I’m obviously revealing the depth of my lack of knowledge of Parker’s oeuvre.)

As a retort to the Dem’s “kid with the stutter” - maybe the Repubs can find a kid with bone spurs.

Can a kind soul remind me, is this the only album Mingus recorded on piano? I used to know (years ago), and I always meant to pick up the Mingus piano album(s) at some point... ...much as I meant to pick up Jack DeJohnette’s piano album(s) too - and how many of those are there too?? - another fact I swear I used to know 15-20 years ago. Thanks!

Big band, lotta mouths to feed.

I barely know any of the pre-Buckingham/Nicks (pre-1975) version of FM, but have thought about picking up a few of these albums off and on over the last decade or so. Should I take the plunge on the whole kit and caboodle?