Brad

Marc Myers, in his Monday edition of JazzWax, has provided a link and password to the above documentary. The password is good until New Year’s Day. The article also contains links for donating for watching the film and buying a DVD. Jazz Documentary: Killer B3 (2013)

I liked the Gitler books. Jeff Gold’s book, Sittin’ In, gives a flavor of what the club scene was like. The book was extensively discussed here. I liked the book.

Eight or nine times is a lot.

I have those. Probably time for a re-listen.

Merry Christmas to all. Hope it was a happy one.

And I want to read the LaBarbera book next!

The link is to all Hipp items on eBay, not just the paintings, which I see. Here is a link to one of them https://www.ebay.com/itm/Ink-Watercolor-Drawing-Horace-Silver-by-Painter-Jazz-Pianist-Jutta-Hipp-Signed-/284581512364?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m2548.l6249&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0 If you scroll down and click on the seller’s other auctions you can see the other paintings he’s selling.

Currently reading Mark Stryker’s book.

I haven’t played a lot of his music lately. If I’m reaching for some soul jazz, it’s more likely to be Lonnie Smith, Brother Jack or Groove Holmes. That being said I played Six Views of the Blues lately.

Ted Gioia published this story yesterday on his Substack blog. The Final Days of Bill Evans

I listened to this one awhile ago.

Did you bid on anything. Some of them went for high prices.

Oddly enough I’ve never heard this album before and just now played a few cuts on YouTube. Liked it although maybe not enough to probably buy a copy.

Was one planned? I heard there might be an 18 hour Blue Ray version, sometime next year, I suppose.

Here’s Rudolph by another Alvin.

Thanks. It doesn’t necessarily have to be organ. Have you listened to the Duke Pearson one?

Never really listened to jazz versions of Xmas music although I had been thinking of buying Don Patterson’s Holiday Soul.

The cases are declining in S Africa. Let’s be optimistic.

It’s hard to understand their thinking. Yes, it’s commerce but is that an evil concept. At least the albums are being made (although I’m sure there must be copies on Discogs). With the TPs they’ve established a name where it sells to a wide audience. I would have preferred to see the albums released individually but this way the set is guaranteed to sell. It won’t surprise me if some buyers break up the set and sell the individual records at a premium.

It’s a Tone Poet set. No CDs, no downloads.

In the US, we see this taken to the extreme. Instead of people acting for the common good, they act for themselves. “My body, my rights.” Really? What happened to everyone working together for the common good? I doubt even the founders would have agreed with this concept of freedom. That’s not freedom, that’s anarchy, nihilism run amok. The concept of working together seems to have gone the way of the Dodo bird. There is science — facts — and nothing else. It’s indisputable that unless the world gets vaccinated, mutations will continue to develop and each succeeding one seems more infectious than the prior one.

Couldn’t agree anymore. Omicron is running rampant through this state but everywhere I go the number of people masked up are in the extreme minority.