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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)

CDJapan has a service they provide (or a 3rd party they partner with - not sure which it is), that will find things that they (CDJapan) doesn't have in stock themselves -- stuff that's out of print -- and they'll order it on your behalf, and send it to you (or have it sent to you). I've never used it, but I think you find the item in CDJapan's database, and then go through some sort of alternate-ordering process, and they'll find it for you (if they can), and of course charge a mark-up. Of course, what I don't know is whether they actually have the item sent to them - and then they resend it to you. Or whether they have the other party (the one with the actual item) send it directly to you (which, in this case, wouldn't work). Also, I don't think you get to specify where they source it from -- they just try and find it (probably as cheaply as they can), and then they make it happen. CLEARLY I'm not up on all the details -- but I just (barely) know the service exists. EDIT: It's not as simple as the service once was, but here are the details... https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/guide/help/special_request/about_proxy_shopping

Oh my gosh, Ted Curson's Pop Wine is just the best!! Quite a few Ted Curson albums I really love (both 'by' and just 'with') -- but Pop Wine is probably my all-time favorite of anything with or by him. The feel is different, but I rank Pop Wine right up there with any of Charles Tolliver's 70's quartet leader-dates -- which is high praise.

Is there a thread for album covers with donkeys? - in the spirit of equal time, and all.

I too am shocked the Select series (aparently?) didn’t sell enough to be viable - or was it the added cost of color packaging/booklets?? In any case, I bought like 18-20 Selects, and would’ve *gladly* bought more, of artists I was interested enough in. I could easily name 6-8 Selects that are like desert island material to me. And I even bought ‘safety’ copy of the Hill BN select (no surprise to all of you). The 3rd ‘messy’ disc of the Hill BN Select, the one with Sam Rivers on both sessions, and Woody Shaw on the first - are a long my all-time favorite BN sessions ever (even as crazy as both those dates are). Woody Shaw plays like there’s no tomorrow on the Halloween ‘67 date (if I remember the recording date right). Crazy stuff!!

Lovely to hear! Genuinely.

Geez, I haven't seen Green Acres in probably 35 years (not since I was a teenager), save for 1-2 episodes with my grandmother maybe, when I was in college (which I couldn't swear to). I'll have to take a look at this clip later. Had no idea.

The only reason I think CD's looks better (than CDs), is because CD is a acronym. In other words, "CD" itself isn't a 'word' as such (to my way of thinking). So while I fully admit CD's doesn't look quite right, neither does CDs -- and for whatever reason, the former looks slightly better (to me) than the latter. Now would I pluralize UFO as UFO's? Maybe. Or is it UFOs? Same thing -- neither one looks right to me. Pluralizing an acronym is certainly something I do all the time, but more so in verbal communication. Still, on-line communication like this is WAY more 'verbal' than it is any sort of even semi-formal writing. In essence, all this Forum stuff is more like written verbal communication, stylistically speaking. So how to you write stuff that you wouldn't put in writing in most other contexts? Of course with text-messaging, and twitter, all kinds of norms for even "written verbal" communication are changing all the time.

Much as a I love Woody Shaw (and Bobby Hutcherson), I've never thought that Bobby's live at Montreux album was AS good as it should have been. It's pretty darn good, definitely, but I still have always felt like it could/should have been better. Haven't listened to it in years, so I should see if I still feel the same way. THAT SAID, San Francisco never hit me right, and I've always chalked that up to Joe Sample's inclusion on the date. I always wanted to like San Francisco better, but try as I might, I just never connected with it anywhere near as well as every single Hutcherson leader-date that preceded it, and more than half the Hutch dates in his 70's Mosaic Select too (I think that had 4 albums).

How have none of these been posted yet?

Perhaps CDs is more correct, but it looks “more wrong” than CD’s

I was pleased and a slightly surprised to have also gotten a push msg from NPR on my phone yesterday around Noon.

Some quick googling, and I’m seeing he played in St. Louis at Just Jazz in 1993 (and again in 1995). I think I probably saw him in ‘93... Here’s part of the review from the STL Post Dispatch... https://www.questia.com/newspaper/1P2-32830854/roditi-brazilian-feeling-in-samba-pop

Gosh. I think(?) I saw him live once too -- many, MANY years ago, back when I was in college. SUPER early in my jazz listening, like when I was a Junior year in college maybe. Would have been in St. Louis, at a club called Just Jazz (iirc), maybe around 1989-92? I'm gonna guess 1991, but I really can't remember. If it weren't for his rotary-valve trumpet -- which I half-remember seeing 'somebody' play live at some concert I went to (super-early, at one of the first 3-4 jazz clubs I ever went to -- I'm not 100% sure I would remember having seen him. NOT because he wasn't good, but just cuz I was so incredibly green. In any case, RIP. I'll try and Google around and see if I can find any evidence of him having played in St. Louis around that time -- at what I'm almost positive was Just Jazz (could swear that was the name of the club, down around 9th and Missouri I want to say, in Downtown STL). I only remember that as being the address, and my memory of the streets of St. Louis is so vague now, I couldn't even begin to tell you if that's right.