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I don't have much, but I really love his debut leader-date (an unconventional piano trio album), from 1964 -- called Dream Talk. https://www.discogs.com/Wolfgang-Dauner-Trio-Dream-Talk/master/232003 All originals, save for a mighty tasty version of "Bird Talk" by Ornette. Here are three tracks from the album... You can hear the entire album from this YouTube playlist, followed by a couple stand-out tracks embedded below... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nMFKPSTvSn0FOU6KoWzbN_aHN3rRlgWPk And here's the Ornette tune.

Seeing about 10 listed here (link below), the earliest being from 1986, then two from the 90's, and the rest from after 2000. https://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/books/ But I would have expected a small handful of earlier books too, no? - hard to believe the very first book on Pops coming from the late 80's. Overall, I think I would have expected something more like maybe 15 total? - not just 10. I'm sure there are at least 10 books on Miles Davis (if not slightly more even), so perhaps there's more about Miles than Armstrong.

Trane, Miles, and Bird probably in that same (next) tier.

Armstrong and Ellington, would be my guess.

Saw this on the Hoffman forums, and it's so true! (from Bob Mould/Superchunk drummer Jon Wurster)

Well, look what I found... ...and my curiosity is officially sated (and this is probably about what I was expecting -- i.e. something sorta like "Rampage" above).

I can't wait to get impacted by the new track!! All kidding aside, I am genuinely semi-curious to hear the new "Hail To The Real Chief", with my expectations kept very firmly in check. And I'm reminded of this Miles curiosity, by Marcus Miller (circa 1993), which does have some real Miles included as well, ex post facto (though from exactly when, I don't know that I've ever heard/read). Does anybody know anything more about this track "Rampage"? - other than what's listed in this Discogs breakdown (see track #3)... https://www.discogs.com/Marcus-Miller-The-Sun-Dont-Lie/release/458114 Rampage

I had no idea either. Apparently a 3.5 year battle with cancer, not publicly known it seems.

Just seeing that Neil Peart, the drummer for Rush (and main lyricist), has died at 67. https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/neil-peart-obit-1.5422806 Surely one of the 10 best "Rock" drummers of all time. I'm sorry to say I never saw Rush live in concert, but I've been a growing fan over the last 20 years. A masterful drummer, in his idiom, and from the one Rush documentary I saw late one night on cable several years ago, seemingly a quiet and thoughtful guy. RIP.

From the article, and rather shocking I think too... How did this culture of fear drift into the recording studio? The answer is twofold. While copyright laws used to protect only lyrics and melodies (a prime example is the Chiffons’ successful suit against George Harrison in 1976 for the strong compositional similarities between his “My Sweet Lord” and their “He’s So Fine”), the “Blurred Lines” case raised the stakes by suggesting that the far more abstract qualities of rhythm, tempo, and even the general feel of a song are also eligible for protection — and thus that a song can be sued for feeling like an earlier one. Sure enough, a jury in 2019 ruled that Katy Perry owed millions for ostensibly copying the beat of her hit “Dark Horse” from a little-known song by Christian rapper Flame, stunning both the music business and the legal community. “They’re trying to own basic building blocks of music, the alphabet of music that should be available to everyone,” Perry’s lawyer Christine Lepera warned in the case’s closing arguments.

I'm just generally shocked at the number of "discs only" sets that appear on eBay. *AND* the number of "booklet only, no discs!" auctions too. How is it that SO damn many discs and booklets get separated like that?? I mean, I don't keep my discs in the original boxes, but all the boxes (and booklets) are together in an oversized milk crate, and my wife knows that the discs are all intermixed with my other CD's -- and they're the only ones in the black jewel boxes. It would take about 20 minutes tops to rematch them all up again. Maybe if strangers were packing up all my earthly possessions, maybe they might not have any idea, but still, you'd have to think that if you found that many empty boxes, that maybe what goes in them would be around somewhere close too. Not that I can't see it happening at all, but given the number of "discs only" and "booklet only" sales on eBay, it seems to be incredibly common, and bafflingly so.

You know, Jim, I pretty much said the same thing. And I consistently don't go to movies that go a few places that I just don't want to go. But the jazz fan in me said I probably ought to go, and so I did. I'd seen the trailer only (I'm sure I must have?), but not any actual clips. But I'm sure if I'd seen any sort of long/longer trailer, I would have had a tougher time deciding to go anyway (and yet, because of the jazz angle, I felt like I 'ought' to go). You probably made the better call. In retrospect, I think I'd rather I'd taken a pass on seeing it. No big deal either way, but the movie annoyed the shit of me for a good week after I'd seen it, and on balance, I might have rather not had to mess with it. I worked with a few Type A asshole types in some previous jobs, and I do NOT mix well with those people. Like "bad for my health" don't mix. And I try to avoid movies where I'm likely to have to spend the whole movie empathizing with somebody in the very kind of environment I despise being trapped in most (cuz I've been there, a tiny little bit (work-wise, early on), and I just can't function in that kinda shit). For the record, I never had it THAT bad. And my going on (and on?) about it here is more a reflection on my inability to deal with people like that, then any really abusive situations I was ever in. The last time I had to deal with real bullies was back when I was 13 or 14, at this one college-prep school with a shit-ton of entitled assholes (8th & 9th grade), and the experience -- even though I didn't have it as bad as some -- really left an impression on me, even all these years later.

Not looking to see what I probably said earlier in this very thread about the movie, but my wife and I saw it in a theater when I first came out, and while I most definitely appreciated the movie in terms of acting, and direction, and most of the cinema 'craft' aspects of the film -- quite frankly, I really *hated* the manipulative and overly competitive nature of practically everything as depicted in the movie. So much so, that I would go so far as to use a term I don't think I've ever used before: I felt "triggered" by the whole thing. Not because I've ever been abused like that, but my deepest fears include being belittled like that incessantly, and as a kid I was bullied and teased a lot. No where near as much as many others, but I hated it, and watching this movie brought back lots of bad and visceral feelings -- both as I was watching it, and off and off for a day or two after I'd long left the theater. I'm sure there are people who are manipulated into (trying to) perform better in all sorts of contexts (in real life). Most probably not as horrifically as depicted in this movie, but some as bad (or worse, I'm sure). In any case, the whole experience left an incredibly bad taste in my mouth, and I would never recommend this movie to anyone who had any interest in it because of the music (or it being a music story). Shame too, because the two lead actors were outstanding, and J.K. Simmons is someone I've really enjoyed in plenty of other contexts -- a lot, in fact.

The recent 2013 Japanese SHM-CD issue of Out to Lunch -- the one with the extra 14-minutes of bonus tracks (alts of "Hat and Beard" and "Something Sweet...") -- also sounds pretty phenomenal. And I say that as someone who's NOT much of an audiophile, but the sound-quality improvement over my RVG was like night and day better (something I rarely notice that much). https://www.discogs.com/Eric-Dolphy-Out-To-Lunch/release/8645147 I would assume this even more recent 2019 Japanese reissue would sound the same? (which also has the bonus tracks)... https://www.discogs.com/Eric-Dolphy-Out-To-Lunch-2/release/13735106 I haven't upgraded to very many of those 2013-era SHM-CD's out of Japan -- just a few that had new extra material (Unity being the other most significant one, in terms of bonus tracks, and Mode For Joe had one incredibly sweet bonus track that hadn't ever been released before, and the Shorter title I'm forgetting). But in every case, the sound-quality of those releases has been really stellar (again, something I rarely notice all that much).

I also picked up this Impulse 2-on-1 disc too (from Dusty Groove), which was also in yesterday's mail (but I haven't had the chance to spin it yet) -- looking forward!

BTW, yesterday we got half a snow-day here in DC, and as I was heading home on the subway I checked out your blog, and of all things -- my most recent order from Dusty Groove was waiting for me at the front desk our apartment building as I walked in the door, COMPLETELY with Ahmad Jamal's The Awakening!! -- which I had ordered back on Dec 28th, an album I'd been thinking about getting for a year or two. My wife had had half-a-day at work too, so I spun The Awakening for both of us when I got home, and it's really a nice, and often understated outing. I used to have whatever that ubiquitous live album of Jama's was from 1985 (the one with "Footprints"), but I let go of it 25 years ago when no piano trio album of any sort was gonna float my boat (back then). So this is my first foray back into anything by Jamal. Talk about perfect timing!! -- your blog-post 'album of the day', and it arrived on my doorstep less than an hour later.

Oh my gosh, the Zeitlin Select is really fantastic, and frankly - all the previously unreleased material is incredibly interesting, and (most of it) is a bit more 'out there' than what was released from each session. Zeitlin was involved in picking out what else to include in the set, and (iirc) there's nearly an entire album's worth of extra tunes (none of them just 'alternates'), most of them pretty energetic and almost percussive (thinking of the piano as a percussion instrument). Some of it borders on the kind of stuff Herbie was doing behind Wayne on The All Seeing Eye, for instance (not that Denny's approach and touch are that similar to Herbie's - but just in terms of general feel). I could easily assemble a whole new album primarily from the previously-unreleased material, and it'd be tempting to say it could be one of my top-20 piano trio albums of all time (just from the newly released stuff).

Whiplash (as reviewed by a jazz musician)

It's a legit reissue, if you can believe it (isn't it??)... http://www.harmonies.com/dusko_goykovich/index.html The liners have a post-script by the original producer, some (almost) 50 years later. I did my homework on this release, and the liners were available on-line and everything. http://harmonies.com/dusko_goykovich/15043-2_swinging_macedonia.pdf Everything, except the part about it being a CDR.

And adding to the confusion, some CDR releases of back-catalog items aren't even manufactured "on-demand" (or so I'm surmising). I ordered this title off Amazon about 6 months ago, and it came sealed (not shrunk-wrap, but the nicer kind of clear cellophane, with the small folds on the ends, iirc), and it turned out to be a CDR (though the new packaging and inserts was actually reasonably good). https://www.amazon.com/Swinging-Macedonia-Dusko-Goykovich/dp/B00DZX3D6M No indication it was a CDR in the Amazon listing, and I strongly suspect the manufacturer ships them to Amazon that way (sealed), so Amazon would have no way of knowing. Admittedly, though, I'm not really sure. Annoyed me most definitely, but not much else you can do, I realize.

Entirely agree! It was just the "70's" angle of the article that I thought was too relevant to the general discussion here, not to include a link to it here... ...if for no other reason, than to highlight the contrast with the "positive" approach you're taking. (Also, to be honest, I haven't had the chance to read the article beyond skimming the first 2-3 paragraphs is all.) I'm sure when the year is up, fully half of your choices (covered in your blog) will either be albums entirely unfamiliar to me (completely!) -- or at least albums by artists I know at least somewhat, but specific LP's I've never actually heard myself.

More food for thought... Jazz Wars in the ’70s “Maybe the best that can be said of jazz in the ’70s is that it didn’t just survive. It established its own precedents and raised important questions about an art that was finally pushed beyond its golden age.” by GARY GIDDINS DECEMBER 11, 2019 https://www.villagevoice.com/2019/12/11/jazz-wars-in-the-70s/

At least a weekly bump, with that week's titles listed would certainly be warented, and more than welcome!!

Primarily the difference is audio-quality, though the quality of the performances (in at least 3 cases) seems about as top-notch as I can ever recall hearing from Woody on any live recordings (though admittedly, I have not done A/B "performance" quality comparisons, and I haven't listened to the High Notes nearly as much in the last couple years, as I have most of these new releases). I can personally vouch for the top-notch sound quality and performance quality of... Quartet – Bremen 1983 (which I've loved (on CDR) for close to 15 years, and I was overjoyed when it finally got issued legitimately) Quintet Vol 1 – At Onkel PO's Carnegie Hall Hamburg *1982* (I don't have the "1979" one yet, which is ALSO called "Vol 1", confusingly) -- which is just devastatingly good in every way imaginable, SQ, performance, group interplay, you name it. Maybe THE best live jazz document I've ever heard, by any artist. Quintet – Basel 1980 (although Carter Jefferson plays soprano on 2-3 tunes, if that's an issue for some) Now I would *NOT* call the "Quintet Tokyo '81" disc the best sound quality ever. It's well recorded enough, but the room was quite "boomy" and sounds like it was in a hall with quite a bit more "echo" than one typically hears. (Good performances though.) And for the record, I do have that one. I think(?) that's it for the non-"High Note" Woody discs I've bought in the last 18 months, but I think(?) I'm missing a couple more. But I'm starting to lose track, and I really need to review what's out there that I haven't gotten yet. There's also the Louis Hayes "Onkel PO's" date from 1976 (that I don't have yet), and Vol. 2 of the Louis Hayes on High Note (which I also don't have yet). But I *do* have Vol 1 of the Louis Hayes on High Note (I'm pretty sure, but I've misplaced it around here). But this is all getting pretty complicated, and I think(?) there may be one other semi-recent release with Woody that I'm forgetting. Bremen '83 and Hamburg '82 (Onkel PO's) are both among the most exciting Woody Shaw documents I've ever heard, and I've got about 85% of everything that's ever been released that he's on (sideman appearances, included). Those two are "must haves" in my book.