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Just watching this doc again today (actually just have it on to listen to, while working on other stuff from home). For the first time, via what PBS broadcasted. I'd previously seen the doc in a theater here in DC like 6-8 months ago (with no censored language). And seeing the comment above, I thought "well, yeah, it's PBS and broadcast TV, so of course they're gonna have to censor stuff" - and I thought, no biggie. But man, they could have done a MUCH more artful job of eliminating the offending language, than all those loud, high-pitched BLEEPS. I don't mind the censorship, but why couldn't the documentarians have muted the interview/speech part of the audio track (leaving the underlying music), so the 'bothersome' words were just gone. I'm *sure* they had designs on this doc being broadcast on PBS as part of a series like this, either American Masters, or the Trane doc aired as an Independent Lens doc. In any case, the filmmakers HAD to have known this would be on broadcast TV. Hell, it had to have been their *AIM* - to get picked up by PBS. So to serve this up to PBS with all those goddamn BLEEPS, instead of more artfully taking out the language, is just a minor bit of malpractice, far as I'm concerned. Shameful. Not the censorship, but the WAY it was done. If this gets released on DVD/Blu-Ray through PBS (under some "American Masters" series release), I sure as hell hope it doesn't have those BLEEPS.

I am supposed to go visit my Dad in St. Louis the end of this month, but I’m about 95% sure I’m going to postpone the trip until May or June. The next 2 weeks and beyond are really going to reveal the depth of the situation here in the US (however deep it goes). Not trying to be doomsday-ist about things, but I think the cat’s probably more than out of the bag here than most people realize yet. I hope I’m wrong. My Dad is 92, and generally in good health (or at least none of his ongoing medical issues would predispose him to Covid19 hitting him especially hard). But at 92, who knows? Certainly at 92, this thing is going to hit my Dad’s age cohort hard; harder than any other generation.

Set up an automated search on eBay, and it'll alert you whenever a new copy is being sold. Bet you'll snag a decently priced on inside ot 10 weeks.

I should listen to the Miles & Stitt 1960 recordings again, specifically for Kelly. I think Miles’ playing is a lot more fiery (with Stitt), than earlier with Trane - probably because Miles didn’t need/want two fireballs going at the same time (but I often wished Miles had played more aggressively w/ Trane).

Most influential jazz pianist since Bill Evans?

I must regularly watch a good smattering of YouTube videos that demonstrate things, and explain them -- because I'm forever seeing such things in the suggestions YouTube's algorithms serve up for me from my viewing habits. I'm guessing some of that comes from the various Reddit sub-forums that I subscribe to (especially /r/mechanical_gifs - which often have better related YouTube videos in the comments -- and also /r/TIL - which stands for "Today I Learned"). And gosh knows there's plenty of music-related 'explainer' videos I stumble on a lot (and usually watch). In any case, here's a wild one to kick off this thread. Feel free to post any sort of "explanation/demonstration" video you like here -- good, or bad -- and of course, let's discuss... Decoding the (Swindon) Magic Roundabout (actual discussion specifically of the certifiably insane Swindon Roundabout starts at the 6:00 minute mark, exactly)

Wow, I'm just now seeing this news for the first time - but had just given this album a spin just this morning before lunch. Fly With The Wind (Milestone, 1976). Fly with the wind, indeed! - and RIP.

Looks like it to me -- note the 'original recording' credit, and also the copyright specifically mentions 'under exclusive licence...'

A bit more about that Elvin thing, haven't had time to read it, posting it before I lose track of the link... https://intothemild.com/2015/03/23/zachariah/

What’s that weird ‘Western’ circa 1969(?) that Elvin was in? And what’s the story behind that cameo?

I sort of vaguely remember it the same way you do (T.D.), i.e. "why I **DON'T** play ballads any more"... It's a bit of a paraphrase (maybe), but this source (and this other one too), has the quote as... “You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.” The exchange (specifically with Jarrett) is also quoted similarly in this issue of Billboard magazine in 2001 -- HERE -- on page 52, center column, about the 3rd full paragraph down below the picture).

Given that it's free for iPhone, wouldn't it probably also be free on Android too? Have to admit, though, I have absolutely no idea. Are there many apps that are free on one platform, but a cost on others?? Either way, Jim, you of all people would love having Shazam at your beck and call to ID artists and tunes, I'm quite sure!! Of course the only trouble, in your case, might be the amount of stuff you might like it to ID, that's too obscure for it to pick up on / that isn't in its database. But in theory, Shazam is made for people like you, who like to listen to all kinds of stuff 'out in the wild'. Wonder how it does on Tejano, or Indian pop music and the like, or jump blues, or western swing, or any of dozens of other less mainstream genres (less mainstream, at least in certain circles that is).

You know, I think it's kind of hard to imagine Dolphy even on a regular bass flute (just one octave below a regular). His flute tone was SO perfect and sweet, and his technique was practically flawless -- almost up there with James Galway really (to my ears). That said, I would have loved to have heard Dolphy on a regular bass flute.

I use it from time to time, and it really is amazing. Even in not perfectly quiet public settings, more often than not it picks up enough to figure out the right tune. Haven't used it for jazz as much, but I can confirm that it does work. Also useful if you hear a tune (familiar, or otherwise) used in advertising, as long as it's the 'original' and not some awful advert-unique remake. I only use it 25=35 times per year, I'd bet -- but you never know when you need it, so it's good to have downloaded so you can quickly grab a sample of something playing 'out in the wild' before the tune is over. Haven't had much cause to use it for classical music, so I don't know how well it works for that. I would imagine(?) it tends to pick up on percussive patterns as one of the more significant attributes of a song (so I'm wildly guessing that classical music would be harder to get a positive match on), but I really don't know. Pretty easy to pop stuff on the stereo at home, and do some tests -- just something I've never tried before. Certainly a marvelous tool, when you need/want it.

Saw/heard Charles Tolliver in Baltimore last night (went up with Bertrand) — what a concert!! — and we talked with Charles after. He confirmed this 1981 Maiden Voyage show is what’s being released (which I now see a new date for on Dusty Groove, as *May 1st* (no longer March 1st). He also said there was more material being released from that same show beyond whatever already circulates — so that sounds like maybe one(?) really long CD (I forgot to ask if it was one or two discs). Charles sounded really great last night as the night went on, 2nd set especially. Both sets included new Tolliver tunes too, which we’ll all hopefully get to hear at some point. Here’s the band last night... Charles Tolliver, trumpet Buster Williams, bass Lenny White, drums Keith Brown, piano Bruce Edwards, guitar Bruce Edwards, I didn’t realize until the pre-concert intro of the band by the venue host, played with Sun Ra(!) in the 80’s (he’s all over the A&M album Blue Delight, for instance, also Live At Pitt-Inn too), and continued with the Marshall Allen led Arkestra (so it turns out I'd already heard him 2-3 times before last night). I’ve always loved his guitar color with the Arkestra, since you don’t typically think of guitar when you think of Sun Ra — but I’ve always thought he fits in beautifully with all those great original Ra-penned tunes (actual TUNES) that Ra was performing more in the 80’s, “Interstellar Low Ways” for instance. Anyway, a GREAT night, and my first time ever hearing Tolliver live after 20+ years of loving his music. He never came to Kansas City (or St. Louis) in all that time, and I’ve never gotten up to NYC to hear him I’m a little ashamed to say (I’ve only gotten up to NYC once since I moved to DC in 2011). PS: Charles looked great for being 77 (didn't look a day over 70), and I see he has a birthday coming up THIS week (on Friday, March 6), so he's really practically 78. Seemed to be getting around great, and was on his feet the entire concert and for a time after.

So glad to hear the positive report. Continued progress!

Good article I just stumbled on... https://recordcollectormag.com/articles/loves-obi

Goodness, gracious! -- that Attila Zoller & Masahiko Sato MPS album is just divine! Spinning the whole thing now through YouTube (and what a damn shame it's never been on CD, apparently, at least according to Discogs). I'm totally smitten. Sato is a name I've run across a number of times, and I have a fair smattering of Japanese jazz, but as best I'm seeing - I don't seem to have anything else with him (and nothing by him). An aside: here's another Japanese musician whose name I'll try and cram in my cranium somehow (I have to confess I have a really tough time keeping track of who's who -- and I suppose I ought to develop some kind of cheat-sheet with a couple dozen names, their main axe, and maybe one key recording each is on (or lead) -- so I can begin to try and keep track of more of their names in my head). Here's a playlist of that entire Zoller/Sato album you posted. What a winner! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mLmRX2y5-ZBOsX9-KNV8pwBLq6dyydjVA

My wife and I saw this in a theater here in DC when it first came out (not even on a documentary film fest or anything - it just ran here for a week). Very enjoyable, and highly recommended viewing. Even my wife liked it!

Stumbled on this entirely by accident, going down an unrelated rabbit hole on Discogs... Peter Herbolzheimer Rhythm Combination & Brass - "Wade in water" [Jazz-Funk, MPS, 1972]

Oh yeah, the Boston one for me too (once), circa 1998 maybe?

I never lived in a city with a Tower (or any closer than 3 hrs drive from one, though that was before I ever owned a car, in college). But whenever I did get up to Chicago (from Galesburg, IL - where I went to college) — maybe once or twice a year tops — I was totally in heaven. And this was at the many-multi-story old Loop location (about a block off of Michigan Ave, iirc), before it closed and moved a little north is the Loop, iirc (I did get to that location a few times a well, later). Literally 5x bigger than any CD store I’d ever set foot in (the multi-story location), and 3x deeper inventory than I could ever imagine. I later (once each) visited Tower locations in NYC, London, and Toronto. And maybe Seattle(?), can’t remember. Austin too, a couple times (iirc). Maybe one of the big university towns in Illinois? - was there ever a Tower in Champaign-Urbana? - can’t remember. Most all the Chicago visits were circa 1988-1998. And most all the others were after I moved to Kansas City, circa 1994-2003 or so (London was on my honeymoon in 2001), and we went to Glasgow too, was there a Tower there too? - I can’t remember.

I think I’ve seen the group 3x since I moved to DC almost 9 years ago, and always pretty uniformly excellent each time. Billy in particular has always seemed as good as ever, along with one other time I also saw Billy (sans Cookers) here within the last year, and he played as well as any tenor player I’ve ever heard, two long sets.

FWIW, Dusty just got in a copy (copies?) of the 1968 "All-Stars" (Paper Man) CD sometime in the last few hours. Copies direct from Mosaic were (and still are) $17 each (plus shipping) -- but are only $14 each from Dusty (plus shipping).

Max Roach - Lift Every Voice and Sing (Atlantic, 1971) -- with a gospel choir, and no less than Billy Harper "Motherless Child" (Traditional) - 7:21 "Garden of Prayer" (Patricia Curtis, Max Roach) - 2:47 "Troubled Waters" (Traditional) - 7:00 "Let Thy People Go" (Traditional) - 6:50 "Were You There When They Crucified My Lord" (Traditional) - 5:48 "Joshua" (Traditional) - 7:12 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_Every_Voice_and_Sing_(album)