Kelley's (quite expensive) history arrived with substantial damage. Luckily I had not yet paid the Dutch online retailer and was able to return the item free of charge. Why do these retailers even ship a damaged book from their warehouse to begin with? Time-wasters.
That's not the norm for Jazz Messengers Mosaic sets. I have never received an unnumbered set from them. I bet more people who ordered the Johnson at the last moment directly from Mosaic received unnumbered books.
An excellent haul today:
Muhal Richard Abrams Sightsong
Muhal Richard Abrams 1-OQA+19
Art Ensemble Of Chicago Bap-Tizum
Art Ensemble Of Chicago Fanfare For The Warriors
Anthony Braxton News From The 70s
Roscoe Mitchell Sound
Roscoe Mitchell Sustain And Run Ao Vivo Jazz Na Fábrica
After enjoying rereading Robin D.G. Kelley's Thelonious Monk biography, I thought it time to read some of his other books starting with To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans which he edited and wrote the final chapter(s) for. Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination also seems worth reading.
Last I checked they were in stock
https://www.jazzmessengers.com/en/76839/henry-threadgill/14-or-15-kestra-agg-dirt-and-more-dirt?search_query=threadgill&results=18
https://www.jazzmessengers.com/en/76838/henry-threadgill/double-up-plays-double-up-plus?search_query=threadgill&results=18
Jazz Messengers has stock. It didn't seem a good idea to wait given the stellar review over at The Free Jazz Collective and the CD being limited to 1000 copies.
When I started listening to Coltrane, I preferred other versions of My Favorite Things, but since getting the ORG Music Hybrid SACD mastered by Bernie Grundman, I play it quite often. Like right now.