Brad

I decided to purchase it, despite initial reservations, and while the music is good and a worthwhile purchase, the sound is so so but not surprising and enjoyed reading Rich Alderson’s notes. Elvin, Coltrane and Dolphy sound good enough but I couldn’t hear the piano and bass. Perhaps if I use headphones I will be able to hear them.

Could be in that both have intros by Chick Corea. However, this one is shorter than Reflectory; maybe the author omitted something in this new one. Different titles too.

There is a book about Pepper Adams coming out in September. Ethan Iverson in his Substack page, Transitional Technology, has an excerpt. https://open.substack.com/pub/iverson/p/tt-288-pepper-adams-by-gary-carner?r=b9oem&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post He also has a link to a website about Pepper Adams that looks fantastic. http://www.pepperadams.com

That is a good ‘un.

I have a bunch of extra booklets from Mosaic sales.

The above reminded me of Organissimo’s A Soulful Tribute to the Fab Four. Excellent, excellent album.

Leon Spencer is terrific but that is my least favorite Groove Holmes; it’s ruined by electric bass and electric piano. I would go with After Hours or most any other recording of his.

That would mean taking on a lot of debt. The likelihood of financial success is not high. Sapporo is already entertaining offers for sale of the assets so the employees are going to need come up with financing relatively quickly.

The Criterion Channel is showing at no cost Jon Else’s 1981 documentary, The Day After Trinity, about Oppenheimer. Highly recommended. You can also find it on YouTube.

Fabulous.

Received my copy and sounds rather good.

I think it’s terrific. Highly recommended.

I have picked up a few good things there.

I disagree completely. If you look throughout the threads there is quite active discussion. I thought you were going to quit this Forum. Guess not.

It’s a great thread and some good and varied participants listening to a lot of different jazz, and some non jazz too.

Lon’s thread is very good and not too much drama. There is also a Mosaic thread, although the one here is better. You should check out the baseball and books threads there. Very active.

I agree. Most of the music doesn’t interest me. If they had a box that did, I might consider it. They were having a sale on their Vanguard box last year; I purchased it for $130. Good deal. Must be a slow mover.

True. I find this place a little too caustic at times. It’s not what it used to be when we had a lot more active members, who have become alienated from here.

I actually enjoy the Hoffman Forum more than here.

You should probably frame that review!

The non AAA appears to be causing some discussion on the VMP thread.

Received my tracking too.