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I noticed that too. Doesn't sound scholarly at all!

Oh no! I'm sorry to hear that. I have a vinyl rip of the album that I've listened to for years. The session sounds like it was recorded in a large hall with no one ever getting very close to a mike. Tchicai's alto comes through cleanly but still recessed. The percussion sound is often muddy. Lower horns are also recessed but still fairly clear. It's definitely an album that takes some adjusting to — both musically and sonically. Maybe after a few more spins your ears will begin to "accept" the album's recessed quality (e.g. "Why did you have to record on the other side of the airplane hangar, John?"), and then the album will be more enjoyable. But, I understand, first impressions count for a lot.

In that case, let's hope there are 1966/67 Coltrane reels NOT where they should be!

Off the top of my head ... it would make Patterns, Spiral, Medina, and Total Eclipse available to a wider audience. Not a bad thing. Could even be interpreted as humanitarian! Now that you mention it, I seem to recall reading that here. But I would've never guessed that Mosaic would release a Henderson Blue Note set ...

True. But the Costlane version is vegan. As long as you know.

The YouTube teaser is quite effective. Dig all those photos of Lee at the beach!

I'm guessing they do, only because I vaguely remember, back in the BNBB days, Cuscuna entertaining its release during the Connoisseur days. (I hope my brain is not playfully making that up.)

First you have to find the Cost Lane (8 items or fewer) at Costco. They don't make it easy.

2026 is slowly approaching. The Coltrane Centennial. Ravi has 4.5 years to scour the attic and look under the bed for mislabeled reel-to-reels! Careful, those contain the September 1965 Village Gate recordings with Carlos Ward!

Please — that's Alive Costlane! (But at least you got her first name right.)

Likely so. Maybe that's why it hasn't seen any type of release. There was mention of this session earlier on the Stevie Hoffman forum.

If Mosaic is going to release a Joe Henderson set, would it also make sense to release a Wayne Shorter (Blue Note) set? How many discs would that be? The included sessions (1964-1970) would be: • Night Dreamer • Juju • Speak No Evil • The Soothsayer • Etcetera • The All Seeing Eye • Adam's Apple • Schizophrenia • Super Nova • Moto Gross Feio • Odyssey of Iska • unreleased 1970 quintet session In addition to the unreleased session, a number of alternate takes (some already released in Japan) could be made available. The personnel on the unreleased session is: Wayne Shorter: tenor saxophone Barbara Burton: vibes, bells, percussion McCoy Tyner: piano Miroslav Vitous: bass Alphonse Mouzon: drums recorded October 13, 1970 A&R Studios, NYC

You can listen to Turiya Sings here.

Good to know. I have the Muzak edition, and contemplated the ezz-thetics edition (in order to have the ESP session it's paired with). The other Brown ezz-thetics disc (with tracks from Juba Lee and the ESP session with Alan Shorter) sounds really good to my ears.

Google Translate says: Contains 3 sessions: • March 26, 1969 in KRO Studio 1 in Hilversum • A live concert of November 28, 1969 in the RAI Congress Center in Amsterdam • Two bonus tracks from March 25, 1969 in VARA Studio 8: the Bill Evans Trio with the Metropole Orchestra conducted by Dolf van der Linden. CD1 & CD2, 1-3: Recorded live at VARA Studio, Hilversum, Holland, March 26, 1969. CD2, 4-10: RAI-building, Amsterdam, Holland, November 28, 1969. *bonus tracks (CD2, 11-12): Same personnel but add the Metropole Orkestra under the direction of Dolf van der Linden. Arrangements by Claus Ogerman. NRU Studio, Hilversum, Holland, March 25, 1969. A co-production of Elemental Music, Zev Feldman & Frank Jochemsen in collaboration with the Dutch Jazz Archive. Double album in luxury digipack with many photos by Nico van der Stam and from the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. With liner notes by Bert Vuijsje, memories of pianist Jan Huydts and interviews with bassist Eddie Gomez, drummer Marty Morell and pianist Vijay Iyer. Live In Holland, 1969

That's what that percussion instrument is! I couldn't quite put my finger on it.

Turiya Sings

Weird that CD Japan now lists the latest batch, but still not the batch with Curson, Bley, Redman, and Dollar Brand. Oh — I picked up Tears For Dolphy. Sound is better than I expected.

Seeing reissue on compact disc for the first time. UCCI 1050. (CD Japan lists it as "Turiya Singles," which makes it sound like Alice cut some 45's for radio play!) I've never heard the album. Google Translate has this to say about it: Impulse Records, a prestigious jazz label that has produced many artists who have had a lot of influence on the history of music, such as Charlene Mingus, Sonny Rollins, and Quince Jones, will celebrate its 60th anniversary. To commemorate the Anniversary Year, the 1982 spiritual masterpiece "Turya Things" by piano, organ and harpist Alice Coltrane, one of the label's leading artists, has been released on CD for the first time. The original was a sound source that was distributed only on a cassette called AVATAR BOOK INSTITUTE (ABI-100) in 1982, and it has a very simple organization of organ, synthesizer, and vocals that sets it apart from other sound sources of Alice Costlane. Kirtan refers to meditation performed in the name of God, also known as "singing yoga." As the name suggests, it is a pioneering content of healing music that immerses you in your heart.

I watched that video last night. Max and Billy in matching black turtlenecks! I'm jealous! ============== Max, to my ears, is one of the most horn-like drummers in jazz. While he can definitely support a band as the "drummer," I think his natural tendency is to play up-front with the horns, almost as if the bass is the sole "rhythm" section, and Max is one of the horns (in this case with Bridgewater and Harper). It reminds me of a comment Joe Henderson made about Roach (— something to the effect of): "I really like Max's playing, but I don't know if I could play with him." I'm not exactly sure what Henderson meant there, but I feel like I understand it.

Just realized I didn't post any link to a documentary. Here it is. Simmons was indeed a last man standing.

Also not on Prestige, but good for after hours ruminations ...

Cecil Bridgewater's brother, Ron Bridgewater, played tenor saxophone. Didn't know that.