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This one looks good too. Same day as the Ellery Eskelin.

Sun's out in Midtown Manhattan...wait, spoke to soon...hold on, it's back...er wait... Well, the snow's melting a bit, though more's coming. A fine time to be on crutches, with the better part of a mile between work and hotel. What, me complain?

Confession: After picking this up (remember, I was young) and being captivated by the Getz/Wardell mislabel/deceipt/confusion, I started picking up all the Crown/Modern/United/United Superior issues of Gene Norman concert material. I probably accumulated 100 different titles/covers. Yes, a half century ago, I was Chewy.

This was the first jazz album I ever bought. Mine was on Crown, I'm pretty sure. Maybe it was Modern. It was about a dime. I'd heard of Getz. Little did I know that the tenor player on much of the LP wasn't Getz, but a tenor player I grew to prefer: Wardell Gray. I enjoyed unraveling the convoluted thread the was the discography of this album. (No liner notes on the original.) And now it's back, OBI and all. http://cgi.ebay.com/STAN-GETZ-GROOVIN-HIGH-JAPAN-/260731126410?pt=Music_CDs&hash=item3cb4c9428a

Death of the Cool.

Thanks. This is n my shortlist. A bit more of a groove on One Great Day would have suited me fine.

Any comparison to "One Great Day" (Hatology) with Andrea Parkins on accordion?

Wayne Shorter Quartet at Town Hall - 123 West 43rd - February 9, 8:00PM absolutelylive.net

I'm back in New York through the 20th. My month here in November was so busy, I never made it to any concerts...any shops...or any restaurants. Nada. Even missed the Arkestra. I've committed to myself to do better this time. I'm monitoring the usual suspects (the big clubs, gothamjazz.com, AllAboutJazz, VVoice, et cetera). Clue me in to anything unusual that I might miss. Knowing myself, I'm more likely to make the time for something one-of-a-kind than Nicholas Payton at Birdland or Chris Potter or Regina Carter, or even Wayne Shorter. George Coleman is tempting. Any borough. I'm empowered by subway mobility.

Great band. Important music from an underdocumeted era.

They really should make (keep) back issues available. The material is timeless. And I imagine this would be nearly pure profit.

Maybe they'll start a reissue (back issue) program.

Bummer. I'd let my subscription lapse some time ago, but still picked up from the newsstand most issues. There really isn't anything that compares. Signal to Noise may be about as close as I know of.

Including the risk of heartbreak? Wish I could get that in my relationships...and my job.

Hmmmm. He just pulled another ten out of his "hat"? Seems rather fishy.

So, is this Webvan II?

I used to get groceries shipped to my various PO Boxes on a schedule. Saved a few bucks with the scheduled-orders discount and avoided hauling bulky items place to place. I can't see the Financial Times article without registering, but it sounds like they're moving past the old non-perishable items(?) by mail.

IIRC, the Jazz and Death (Frederick Spencer) book spends about 8 pages on Gray's demise, including a summary of the police investigation and autopsy report. I think the material is in the Trauma chapter, as opposed to Drugs or Homicide...though there was also speculation that Gray was mistaken for Sonny Stitt who had some bad dealing with drug dealers. Anyway, the book material is interesting; I wish I had it at-hand.

I think that what I came across was some sort of discontinuation/closeout. All gone, last time I passed through that neck of the woods.

I'd picked up (and have since "passed on") several dozen 9Winds CDs from a 99 cent bin. Never saw this one. Some 9WInds "regulars"...plus John Carter!

As much as I love Wardell, I tend to believe the junkie stories. His playing changed markedly in the last years, with greatly reduced mental and physical facility, IMO (obviously not proof of anything). And, as I recall from the Ravett film, Clark Terry alludes to Wardell using. (If I'm wrong about this latter point - it's been years since I've seen the film - my apologies.) In what might be a rare display of discretion on my part, I never asked his widow before she passed. ("One of his widows/ex-wives", I suppose...)

Thanks. I'd no idea of the Lin Halliday connection (no pun intended). All my Halliday recordings are of relatively recent vintage, under his name or that of Cecil Payne. I assume he and Clark never recorded together. About the Jazz Loft book: "The book is loaded with gorgeous black-and-white photos by Smith, both of musicians playing inside and of street scenes shot through loft windows. There are elaborate descriptions of what ended up on the 1,740 reels of audio tape from the Smith collection—from radio and TV broadcasts to transcriptions of conversations, including a particularly chilling one where saxophonist and Chicago fixture Lin Halliday tries to keep brilliant pianist Sonny Clark upright and awake after they shoot heroin together. " taken from a Chicago Reader review. http://www.chicagoreader.com/TheBlog/archives/2010/07/15/the-jazz-loft-project-in-chicago

Link? Am I missing it? (I know I have browser problems.)

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Well, here's to recycling, 2011.