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Maybe set up an automatic (automated daily) search on eBay, and see what turns up over a few months time. I found an obscure CD once that way, that seemed to normally go for around $30-$50 — but the band name was unique enough I just made the search that alone (and I skipped the album name - helped they only had one album ever). Sure enough about a month later a 3-CD ‘lot’ auction came up, with a minimum bid of $5, and I was the only bidder. Told the seller to keep the other two CD’s, and I got the whole thing with shipping for ~$8.

??? Like, is there something new in the news, re: Ron Brooks? (I lived in KC from 1994-2011, and spent many a day, and many a dime at Record Exchange). BTW, here’s a parallel RIP thread from back in the day, on the Steve Hoffman forum... https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/music-exchange-in-kansas-city-mo.36648/

Ok, but what about that needlessly italicized ampersand?!

In case this tweet/video gets deleted, I’ll quote it and two more tweets further describing it, in full. None of what follows next are my words; all just my cut-n-paste from twitter: > These streamers are at Disney World, visited first aid last night for cough, shortness of breath, and severe vomiting, and were back in Magic Kingdom today complaining of sore throats. (click link for video) https://twitter.com/JennyENicholson/status/1282106395307806720 > She is attributing her symptoms to a tree nut allergic reaction but she took benadryl, saw no change after several hours, and never used her epi pen. The first aid nurses advised that she go to a hospital and she didn't. They've announced they're visiting Animal Kingdom tomorrow. > I'm not saying the channel name and I'm not inviting anyone to go harass these ladies if they find it; I'm sure they're nice ladies who think they're invincible and everything's good. But this is why theme parks shouldn't be open in a pandemic.

I was tickled pink that the Blue Note comp in the spiritual jazz series, included this obscure track. • Solomon Ilori - “Igbesi Aiye (Song of Praise to God)” This is one of the 3 bonus tracks from the 2nd Solomon Ilori session that remained unreleased until 2006 (when the Conn of the Ilori came out). I’ve said it before (started a whole thread about it once), but I absolutely love that second Ilori session, and love that the Spiritual Jazz series brought some attention to it).

I finally got it from amazon.uk, and it ran be about $23 (with shipping), but it’s a damn fine set, so no regrets (even at that price).

I’m sure I’ll get this, even though I have half the music already. I already own vols 1-10 (including the Blue Note vol, #10 iirc). Still need to pick up vol 11 (Steeplechase). Wish they’d stuck with more obscure stuff, rather than label-centric releases - but it’s such a wonderful series, I’ve been buying them all over the years - even vol 7, which was the toughest to track down (had to get it from the UK). I also owned almost every track from the 2CD “Blue Note” volume, but figured I ought to be supportive of what they’re doing with the series (or at least everything from vol 1-8, before the “label” releases started).

Maybe set up an auto-search on eBay (that sends you an email whenever a new one is listed), and you can even set a maximum price threshold, but the title you’re looking for isn’t gonna get scads of hits, so I’d leave the max-price limit off - just so you know the search is working. A more reasonably priced one might come up in 6 months, or 6 weeks, or who knows. Easily done, and doesn’t cost a penny. Pair that with a free eBay sniping tool, and set a max price for yourself (with any specific eBay hits you get)... and you can set it and ignore it... and see what happens. auctionstealer.com has a free service that allows up to like 4-5 snipes per month (or something like that - used to be 3 per week, but I think they don’t offer quite that many). Good luck!

I’ve never been on Facebook, and my wife only made an account years ago so she could access one piece of info on somebody else’s Facebook page (a business, iirc) - probably 7-8 years ago, and she hasn’t logged into it since. From everything I’ve heard and read about even Facebook’s basic (normal) functionality, it’s the kind of platform I’ve never had any sort of interest in being on. I’m delighted to discuss things in online forums, and on Reddit (all text-based, but it’s harder to have on-going discussions on Reddit, especially given the size of its user base). Although I am mostly in agreement with the general “anti-Facebook” crowd that’s emerged in the last couple years (talking more generally, mind you, having nothing to do with the notion of an alternate ‘emergency’ Organissimo meetup place) - I will say that even when Facebook ‘works’, the basic way it works just isn’t my thing.

How about Tim Hagans? I’ve always said “HAH-guhns”. But I vaguely remember (later) learning it’s actually “HAY-guhns” — but I’ve never been able to break myself of the first way I started saying it probably going on 30 years ago. Or I suppose another option might be with a short ‘a’ like in ‘hat’. In any case, I’m practically positive the stress is on the first syllable. I did hear Tim once, just once, back around 1995 in Lawrence Kansas, in Joe Lovano’s piano-less quartet (with Anthony Cox on bass, and I forget the drummer). No idea what the stage announcements that night were (or I’d know now).

Exactly how I operate too. Occasionally I do have some titles that I could easily file in two places - that live date with Joe Henderson and Terumasa Hino is a good example. I used to file it with Joe’s stuff, but now with Hino’s. Then there’s the question about how can I ever find any of those obscure titles (mostly from the 70’s) by artists whose names I can never even remember half the time (ok, most of the time). 90% of this stuff was bought on the strength of Dusty Groove descriptions (and finding uploads on YouTube to confirm my interest). My solution is... instead of filing those random titles in alphabetically with everything else (where I’ll never find them, or find them quickly), instead I pull all those odd-ball 70’s-ish Dusty Groove titles and put them in their own section on the shelves. And I also file a few select titles by really well known players too - like the 4 or 5 semi-groove/semi-funky Sun Ra titles too (apart from all the other Sun Ra I keep elsewhere). A few Herbie titles, and some 70 soul jazz titles too. The other thing I did that made everything easier to find was when I pulled ALL my Blue Note CD’s (1975 and earlier), and keep all of them in a separate bookshelf altogether - several hundred BN titles, including Mosaics. I also keep a few key artists stuff separate too, just cuz I have so much by them - Woody Shaw, Joe Henderson, and Andrew Hill. Those sections are especially large because I also keep Joe’s and Woody’s sideman appearances with their leader-dates (because that’s why I bought those dates). A few exceptions here and there (like that Joe date with Hino), but it all mostly works for me. And I keep all the Japanese artists in their own section, and German artists (60’s) leader-dates together (and other similar European artists). By far from a perfect system, but I can find a lot more stuff more easily.

I think Hill’s 1975 solo-piano Hommage for EastWind is just divine. Granted, Hill’s solo-piano work hits an entirely different spot in my brain, than almost everything he’s done with his trios and larger size combos, etc. But even Hommage hits me a little bit differently than all his other solo-piano stuff. Like maybe it feels a little more ‘of a piece’ - almost like an extended work, actually. And now that I’m thinking OF it (but admittedly not having heard it in ages), Hommage ‘feels’ a little like some of Charles Ives’ more subdued solo-piano works. Granted, the language is different, but (my memory of) that ‘feeling’ is going to the same place in my brain as I’m typing this. A really special album, and one I got Andrew to autograph for me the one and only time I got to hear Andrew perform up in Iowa City of all places, in 2003. (I was celery smitten with Hommage back then as well.)

Ellis and Branford...

another one with Ron Carter...

If I've ever learned anything in this world, it's that doubling down on anything is just asking for trouble - no matter how right you are. I've doubled-down on a few things here and there over the years (not hardly much in the last 10 years, though). And I'm hesitating to think of any instance at all where doubling-down helped (me) in any way whatsoever -- and in most cases, made things exponentially worse. Nothing earth shattering, but I see all these videos where two opposing people are determined (or at least one of them), that BY GOD one (or both of them) is GONNA BE RIGHT, come hell or high water. And that don't never turn out good for anybody, no matter who "wins"

Rand Paul urges Fauci to provide 'more optimism' on coronavirus "We just need more optimism. There is good news out there, and we’re not getting it," Paul said as Fauci, a key member of the White House coronavirus task force, testified before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. In May, Paul told Fauci that he should "have a little bit of humility" because he (Fauci) didn't know what was best for the economy. https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/505302-rand-paul-urges-fauci-to-provide-more-optimism-on-coronavirus

Nifty live video I stumbled on quite by accident just now. I'm not sure I remember hearing a "Dupree's Paradise" specifically with Jean Luc Ponty before, come to think of it - was there ever a version with JLP released before? My memory of my own Zappa collection is fading, I'm afraid (most of it in one of the boxes under the bed - having run out of shelf space here). This is from 1973 (should this YouTube upload ever go belly-up), and clocks in at 16 minutes. EDIT: This is DAMN nice. I've just spun it twice, and I would GLADLY pay for a CD release of something with this track in a heartbeat. Been ages since I've heard it, but I'm liking this 1973 version quite a bit better than the JLP-less version of "Dupree's Paradise" from "You Can't Do This On Stage Vol. 2 - The Helsinki Concert" (1974). That Ponty solo is a corker! More details... August 21, 1973 @ Solliden, Skansen, Stockholm, Sweden The Mothers Of Invention: FZ—guitar, vocals Tom Fowler—bass Bruce Fowler—trombone Jean-Luc Ponty—violin Ian Underwood—woodwinds, synthesizer George Duke—keyboards Ruth Underwood—percussion Ralph Humphrey—drums

Had a hunch your call to/with Trane when he was in the hospital was maybe related to the two recordings of ASCENSION -- and a little searching confirmed it... Thus spaketh Chuck here on this very board, nearly 17 years ago! "While working at the Jazz Record Mart, a customer asked to hear ASCENSION and I put it on the turntable. I noticed it was a different take than the one I knew. I grabbed the record and ran to the Down Beat office to see Don DeMichael. Don was the editor and a good friend. He'd heard nothing of the two takes and said "Lets call John". He placed the call, got the news Coltrane was in the hospital, and placed a call to JC there. We were both on the phone and mentioned the discovery. Coltrane said the change was at his request - he thought the others played better on the "new" take. I said I thought his solo was better on the other one and he said that didn't matter. After talking to Coltrane, DeMichael called Leroi Jones and told him of my discovery. Jones (then a regular DN columnist) asked for an exclusive, and he subsequently produced a story. " Source:

Some variously-striped politicians, yes. But the big cheese is still sore that the mean Dems done and made mask wearing a personal attack on him. Then you've STILL got policies like this, that are **STILL** in effect!!! -- which is just utterly fucking insane... Ricketts tells local governments they won't get federal COVID-19 money if they require masks LINCOLN — At his regular coronavirus press conferences, Gov. Pete Ricketts makes a point of urging Nebraskans to wear a mask when they go to a store. But when it comes to the state’s 93 courthouses and other county offices, he doesn’t want local officials to require masks. In fact, he’s told counties that they won’t receive any of the $100 million in federal COVID-19 money if their “customers” are required to wear masks. https://www.omaha.com/news/state_and_regional/ricketts-tells-local-governments-they-wont-get-federal-covid-19-money-if-they-require-masks/article_d15459b9-26df-527e-9899-9f579a3d8597.html#anchor_item_1

I'm mostly ok with the colors, but I'm sorry, but that ampersand is all kinds of whack. Is it italicized? "&" Sure looks like it to me. I know the names below are in italics, but the album title isn't - and those three things all being that same yellow/maze color. The ampersand has more to do with... is more closely related too... is literally CLOSER to... the album title, than it is the names down below. The ampersand is also much closer in size to the title, and both seem to be bold (where the names definitely aren't bold). So why is the ampersand in italics? It just doesn't make any sense at all. Can I not buy it for that reason instead?? - even if we disagree about whether the colors or wrong, or not. On a related topic, can I be "decidedly ambivalent" about the colors? I'm not even sure if that's a upgrade or downgrade from my claim of being "mostly ok" with the colors earlier in this very post. I'll have to get back to you on that one. Stay tuned.

I think we’re pretty much fucked. Most places, and at many times the ongoing threat will always be an order of magnitude higher than might have otherwise been necessary. Going forward, there will always be enough cases that there’s practically no way to keep this virus under control anytime before we get a vaccine. And even then, I just read that something like 30% of people say they won’t get vaccinated - and I don’t know what kind of impact that will have on trying to develop herd immunity. My father is on semi-lockdown in his retirement community (that’s way more a low-rent situation than it sounds, so don’t conjure up visions of a lavish, gated community - it’s is a nice facility built back in the 80’s, that’s been well maintained, but think utilitarian with lots of TLC, and good maintenance). I expect he’ll be living out his 93rd year pretty much in solitude (other than meals), which is shame because he’s active and still drives, etc. But I expect him to slow down a LOT over the next 2-3 years, and I hate to see him loose what is probably the best of those 3 years to being on lockdown.

Mind blown!!

I’ve said it before, but disc #1, Bennie Maupin specifically...

Searching on that same ISBN number alone sometimes brings up other Japanese sites with the same product. And doing that, each search hit I’m finding only lists the same 10 tracks as always (presumably). https://books.rakuten.co.jp/rb/15036404/ http://www.billboard-japan.com/goods/detail/563482 https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B4%E3%80%81%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%80%81%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%83%83%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%80%81%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B4-UHQCD%E9%99%90%E5%AE%9A%E7%9B%A4-%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%93%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8B%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AA/dp/B072KRY3D5 Even this 2017 listing on discogs (with the prior mastering, from which this new 2020 is taken/shares) - again, on discogs, under the ‘notes’ section it says “with bonus tracks” - but then it ONLY lists the same 10 tracks as all the prior releases... https://www.discogs.com/Herbie-Nichols-Trio-Love-Gloom-Cash-Love/release/13282740 Some (many? - all?) of the search hits above might pertain to the 2017 reissue (this next one does for sure), so it may share the same ISBN number with this new release. But since the discogs site clearly says “bonus tracks” for the 2017 issue, but then DOESN’T list any actual new bonus material - I would greatly doubt there actually is any real bonus on the new 2020 edition. Same here. https://merurido.jp/item.php?ky=CDSOL45506 More hits with that same ISBN number, that list the song titles... https://7net.omni7.jp/detail/1301366424 https://tower.jp/item/4556230/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B4%E3%80%81%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%80%81%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%83%83%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%80%81%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B4%EF%BC%9C%E5%AE%8C%E5%85%A8%E9%99%90%E5%AE%9A%E7%94%9F%E7%94%A3%E7%9B%A4%EF%BC%9E You get the idea. None of that “proves” anything about the new 2020 reissue, but a lot of circumstantial evidence for there not really being more than 10 tracks on it, imho.

True, but disc #1 is really outstanding, top to bottom. Thankfully BN programmed this particular release with all like material collected together sympathetically.