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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!

Not sure what it is with me and Monk. I like Monk (playing Monk) as far as it goes, but the Monk section of my collection is pretty thin I have to confess. There was a piano-less quartet in Kansas City when I lived there (Ornette-instrumentation, the Gerald Spaits Quartet), and they played Monk (along with Mingus, and some Ornette too) a LOT, and I liked them (their piano-less Monk). But otherwise, I’ve never been super-fond of hearing Monk in clubs. I’d venture that other than Bird tunes, I’ve probably heard Monk played in clubs (in my 17 years KC) more than any other composer - and in both cases, I got a little burned out on both. So yeah, Monk-less Monk usually gets kinda old for me (unless it’s piano-less, or something that brings some kind of new angle to it)... ...and best as I’m recalling, Woody Shaw doing all these Monk tunes didn’t specifically push my “Woody Shaw” buttons anywhere near as much as plenty of other Woody Shaw typically does. But Woody’s other 1987 live album, In My Own Sweet Way, on the other hand, is PRIMO Woody Shaw in my book - and one of Woody’s finest hours, imho. (And Bemsha Swing was from just a year earlier, in 1986.) All imho, of course.

Yes, and no. Too many Monk tunes for my taste. Blasphemy, I suppose, but that’s my take.

Here’s a lovely remembrance of KW, by Brad Goode - contemporaneous around the time of Kenny’s passing, very shorty after. Funny that he seemed to go by Ken in his personal life, but was “Kenny” professionally. Or perhaps I’m reading into how he signed his correspondence with Brad, and Goode’s subsequent references to him in the piece. Don’t miss this... https://jazzontherecord.blogspot.com/2014/09/kenny-wheeler-1930-2014.html?m=1

I suspect 10-20 years from now, this tiny little unassuming newly-discovered clip of Mobley will be one of the very first “visuals” that come to mind practically every time I think of Hank, and some sort of image will surely (unconsciously) spring into my mind’s eye. And fwiw, before less than an hour ago, I suspect the first image of Hank I would have thought of (generally), would have otherwise usually been the modern (CD-era) cover of Slice of the Top (my favorite Hank leader-date). Amazing how powerful the ‘moving image’ is - even one as tiny and otherwise ‘pedestrian’ as this one.

Wow!! Damn!!! Wow!! Damn!!!

I hadn’t seen that specific article (just some short clips in the news, possibly cable news). And I appreciate you (and the other mods) not reflexively deleting the link to the article, even if discussion isn’t possible here. (Tons of news/link aggregation sources that I scan for stuff all the time, but then I miss a day, and easily miss a few good ones.)

*Love* Gary Thomas‘ playing say more often than not, so I’m in. Wish it was on CD, though - is there a CD option I’m overlooking (sure doesn’t look like it). I very seldom buy downloads, but for more Gary Thomas, I might just make an exception.