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

Yikes!!!

I’ll send a PM, and I’m glad to sell you this CD - it’t the early Bellaphon issue (I think the first CD issue). And my copy, to my great surprise, is near mint - despite my having bought it used somewhere along the way. We can talk terms in PM’s, but I’m thinking how’s about a $25 donation directly to Jim (to help fund the costs of keeping these forums running), and I’ll take care of the p&h costs myself.

Let me revisit this session, I’m practically positive I have the old Bellaphon reissue in my stacks.

I wish I could hear one of the tracks from the night with the valve trombone. Mosaic used to have 3 sample tracks per set, usually, but it appears that detail was overlooked here - or maybe with other recent sets of late. Not trying to pile on about Mosaic, so don’t take this as a bitter complaint.

That’s mostly my take too. There may be any number of grains of truth in what she suggests, but I do not concur with her larger point.

Interesting read! Had no idea he had any St. Louis confections, but then article says: “After high school, Zorn studied composition at Webster College in St. Louis.” - which happens to be where my late aunt went to college (studying art and art history, back in the mid 50’s, long before Zorn would have been there - anyway, small world! I don’t have a ton of Zorn (and there is certain a ton to be had), but I do still have all 10 of the original Masada quartet CD’s, which I bought piecemeal over a couple years, all pre-internet. SUCH an important body of work, but after that, I decided that was enough Zorn to hold me for a while, and that’s all I have to this day.

Unfortunately the first copy is “Disk one only!!” (and from Australia) - and the second copy is from Norway (heaven knows what the shipping charge would be like). I wouldn’t pay $24 for an incomplete set, but I will say I find the first disc the probably far more interesting of the two, fwiw. A good document of some of Bennie Maupin’s most amazing tenor-work of his entire career. That said, a “Disk one only!!” version would still be worth $10 in my book, could such an animal ever be found. Wish I had a duplicate copy I could share.

Choral singing in groups is a pretty risky proposition too, from all I’ve read and heard (I say that as a lifelong choral singer, incl. a 10 year stint in the Kansas City Symphony Chorus).

I’m not steeped in Jamal’s output - I only have the 3 of his 4 Impulse albums specifically from 1970-71 (incl. The Awakening) - and back in college I had the ubiquitous Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival (1985). Jamal reminds me a bit of my experiences with Medeski Martin & Wood over the years, and also GoGo Penguin more recently - both groups I “mostly like” - a LOT even! - but don’t quite “love” (but maybe close sometimes, or occasionally)... There are ASPECTS of Jamal’s concept that I really LOVE - the same with MMW & GoGo Pengy - and yet, there’s something missing with all of them (for me). I can only spin about an album’s worth of any of them before usually needing to move on. Those “aspects” are quite interesting (even compelling!), but the overall effect isn’t as interesting as the most interesting aspects are. I’m fine with music that’s kind of amorphous - witness Andrew Hill (who you all know I love), but then Hill is also a lot more cacophonous too (than Jamal especially). Still, I’m glad for another somewhat non-traditional piano voice to choose from, and I find it interesting that he achieved as much popularity as he seemed to, and for SO long.

Without having intended specifically to collect Mosaic brochures, I did happen to keep all those that I got that were included with all my Mosaic “big box” purchases - which I simply tucked in the boxes as I made Mosaic purchases over the years, starting around 1994 (iirc). Not sure what brochure numbers I have, I’ll have to look.

Heard all about it on NPR this morning! Thelonious Monk's Missing 'Palo Alto' High School Concert Album Is Out July 31 https://www.npr.org/2020/06/19/880564012/a-previously-unreleased-thelonious-monk-concert-is-coming-next-month

I’ve got a “safety” extra copy of the Andrew Hill BN select I’ve never opened. At this point, it is what it is, so I’ll probably leave it sealed.

Hey, I’ve got both of those CD’s!! Just pulled them off the shelf too. Have to confess I don’t know that I’ve listened to them in 5 or maybe 10 years even. I can only guess that I picked them up in the late 90’s (they seem to have come out in 1994). Am just remembering that every track has up to 4 sub-track “indexes” - not that I’ve had a player that could access sub-tracks in close to 20 years.

I’m not steeped in Monk, so it’s no surprise this is a surprise to me... ...but perhaps also a surprise to someone else here too? > Dewey Redman told me that Ed Blackwell once recommended him to Monk. But when Dewey called Monk and asked to get together to go over the tunes, Monk merely said, “Do you know my music or don’t you?” If Dewey had said yes, he could have had the gig: In other words, show up and play the book perfectly from memory, done and done. However, Dewey was used to a situation like Ornette Coleman, where you rehearsed everything over and over in advance. Therefore, unfortunately, Dewey never played with Monk.

Don’t worry. As long as it’s less than 2 million, ‘they’ can still try to frame the narrative as a ‘win’. Or at least try to.

Here is a new and informative video piece about the Bible “photo-op” and preceding events - from the Washington Post (via their official YouTube channel). Much of the video footage is sourced from various official cable TV news and local (live) broadcast TV news teams (multiple stations). FYI, I saw the events live as they unfolded on the local NBC affiliate’s coverage with 2-3 local reporters on-scene (each with their own camera crew). Much of their local coverage was interspersed with the “Official” pool newsfeed from the White House (single camera, no audio). It all seemed pretty harrowing in real-time, over about 15-20 minutes.

His editorial/comments in The Atlantic (just released in the last hour or three?), fuck yeah. Fucking fuck yeah. All I can say, without saying more.

I was out for the first time Monday (just got my first haircut in almost 4 months, and now I look worthy of going into boot-camp). And I discovered practically all the store fronts 2-3 and 4 blocks north of me - the heart of the commercial district of our Columbia Heights neighborhood - were now all boarded up (presumably Tuesday morning, or perhaps Monday afternoon/evening even) in anticipation of possible looting. ALL retail stores, most restaurants nicer than fast-food, liquor stores, and even the CVS and another independent pharmacy - all covered floor to ceiling, stem to stern in plywood. Even the interior windows of the Target (inside our urban mini-mall retail, called DC-Usa). Caught me by surprise, more than slightly too. BTW/FYI, we live in the (now) densest zip-code in all of Washington DC (population density). But an area that was well more than half “fully destroyed” in the aftermath of the 1968 riots here in Washington (second only to the U Street area, exactly one mile north of us). We’ve not seen any unrest at all in our neighborhood, but there were some peaceful protesters down at 14th and U (a mile down the hill, south). Other than just the one Police Car that was torched overnight Sun or Mon (I forget which) less than a mile south of here. Which I consider to be very isolated (far as I know), in terms of stuff of any sort happening up here. We do still have Helicopters overhead at night, but nothing like the military helicopters buzzing protesters Herr in DC - barely 20-25 feet over their heads here (in Dupont Circle, Downtown, and closer to the White House). Not sure what else to say, without getting into politics.

Shit, he’s from the town of 30K where I went to college. Small world. Correction: at the moment, small fucked up world. Curfew here in DC from 7pm-6am today, tomorrow, probably for several more days, maybe a week or more, who knows. Had helicopters with spotlights flying over our neighborhood off and on all evening. We live 2.5 miles north of the White House, as the crow flies. An easy 45 minute hike. We saw the whole shit-show unfold (the one at 6:30pm yesterday) on local live TV, with all the same local TV reporters who do live remotes all over town every day, including after the World Series win, and Stanley Cup, and every little local story like every local TV news crew all across the US. Local reporter said on-air he saw (and got video of) William Bar talking to troops about 60 seconds before all hell broke loose. Honestly, it felt like Kent State p2, as we were watching it all on live TV. Local anchors with 30 years of DC-specific experience, the best in the biz, were utterly dumbfounded at the events as they unfolded. It was interesting listening to them try to hold their tongues in their reporting in real-time (searching for words) as they got the press-pool-feed from the White House of the march to the church (which had no audio feed to broadcast, was video only). History in the making. EDIT: just heard on a local NPR cut-in that a police car set was on fire overnight less than a mile south of where we live, but it was a very isolated incident (no other damage in our neighborhood, at least none that I’ve heard about).

We’d better cap it at 15, or 20 tops.

I’ve been searching for ‘Lito’ (specifically on CD) for a good 15 years! - which I first learned of because of Woody Shaw being on that date (a piano-less quartet). Never have found one, I’m afraid (I do have a burn of it, somewhere).

Yes, happy birthday!! 🎈🎂🎁 If only I still had that crazy “Happy Birthday from Joel and the cats” image I found online 15+ years ago - which I always used to post to these threads... ...despite me neither being a “Joel” - nor were those my cats.

Eagerly awaiting feedback on DISC #6 - the one sans guitar, but with valve trombone instead. I sure wish they had a sample track from that disk to hear (on the Mosaic site).

Is there a (free) streaming clip of the exact scene with Mobley, at the light levels the film is more normally shown at? Like what did it look like before it was brightened so considerably. Great find! Such a small thing, but so surprisingly exciting too!