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Was that the label The Tubes recorded on after reconsidering things?

There's United Artist and then there's United Artists.

Jo Jones' commentary of the Glenn Harman date. Lee Castle was on trumpet, apparently a last-minute sub Buck Clayton, because... Buck got a streetcar and followed some chick to the stockyards to get a piece of tail. 'Start without me'. We used the first trumpet player from Tommy Dorsey's band. He'd been out all night and turned up drunk and with a split lip. Some chick's husband had come in, hit him across the hand with a .45 and he jumped from a second floor window. So he was pretty mussed up. Played OK, though. A splendid presentation, properly consumed by, for, and within itself.

I'd get it just for the liner notes, which include priceless running commentary by Jo Jones. The set might appear "hodgepodge" but the liners give the presentation a narrative, which is a lovely one. I got mine free for pledging to KERA-FM's very first pledge drive, back in early 1974(?), and have no want to toss it. Can't say that there's not better sources for the music, but as a presentation. it's still superb.

Those Proper boxes are fucking clownshows. Who "touts" them? I mean, they're good cheap mixtapes, but as serious library additions, HA!

I'm seeing Charles McPherson's Today's Man and thinking wtf took so long? The Shelley Manne side...not required by any means, but another document of the second wave of "West Coast Jazz" that sprung out and around the orbit of Don Ellis, kept widening, and contained a lot of players that made a lot more records than has yet to be formally recognized, perhaps not many great, bot a lot of them, including this one, interesting, at least. You can call it "trendy" and not be wrong, but then again, most things are. Stipulated, now let's move on. Jeff Castleman on bass, btw.

1973: Most important meal of the day! Last Trip To Paris is intense...Duke no doubt hears death's footsteps, there's all kind of new people in the band, probably brought in by Mercer(?), Duke's halfway trying to write for them and halfway just pedaling down hard just to keep the whole damn thing going, even as we can all (including him) know that that's impossible. Money Johnson sings "Hello Dolly", you get Rocky White, Anita Moore, and Percy Marion, the whole thing sounds like life about to slip on death's banana peel, and it is totally compelling music. Totally. Not for the feint of heart, and especially not for those who are not invested in Duke Ellington As Supranatural Eternal Life Force, but oh well about that.

What about the band with Jimmy Heath, wasn't he in there for a quick minute post-Mobley?

I think him and Lion created the sound. The musicians created the music. Remember, these are records we're talking about. At least one degre3e of separation from the music by definition, often more than one. Does Elvin Campbell sound black?

Raw: + uber-raw: whether or not they're "good" is totally beside that particular point. If you have to wonder, don't bother.

Does Rudy Van Gelder sound white!?!?!?!?!?!

I like them all. Even the "rancid" reprise stuff, if only because one of the infinitely infinite number of great things about Ellington is that there are always layers, and seldom are there more layers that when he does pop songs. Seriously, Ellington is a world, a whole world. No matter where you go, there you are, so you might as well go to all of it, or as much as possible. Even to Yale Concert, which I am mostly "cool" on, except for "The Little Purple Flower", which, hey...there it is. I like them all. Literally. Also...you could break it down further to "Post 1960" and "Post 1970", the latter category is where things start getting...raw. All kinds of raw.

This is the first I've heard of Kenny Cox being white? Not that it matters?

I don't know of any overlap between Wergo and Time/Mainstream LPs. Wergo CDs of Time LPs, yes, but is it a complete coverage of the series? Are the Berberian & Gazzelloni albums there? I see Wergo LPs by both artists, but those are indeed different programs altogether.

Well, of COURSE there is! http://www.plosin.com/milesahead/Disco.aspx?id=Transition I think I only lisened to it once due to tape flutter or something. That and it's essentially the same shit as all the other such gigs. oh wait, it IS the same as the other such gigs, no wonder. But also no wonder, that band did not present an infinite variety of expressions, if you know what I mean.

Wergo is where you go now to get CDs of the Earle Brown-produced/curated/whatever Time 2000 series. Not sure if they have all of it, though...like the Gazzelloni, do they have that one? Did anybody get that to CD? Or the Cathy Berberian? I treasure my OG Time Cathy Berberian Time LP. Got it in the mid-70s, sold it in the late-70s (at the height of my Jazz Militancy), started regretted parting with it in the late-80s finally got another one a few years ago. Never getting rid of it again, learned my lesson.

S.O.S. Texas Rangers plan on six man rotation https://www.lonestarball.com/2018/2/15/17016772/texas-rangers-plan-on-six-man-rotation

The last few years have seen relatively large numbers of vintage OG DGs turning up in HPs around here. I assume that most of them were bought here as imported items. My memory is that the local stores that represented well with the classical had no qualms about importing, it seemed really common practice. And who was it, Westminster, or somebody, that provided stateside issuances of who, Vox? Something like that, my aim is true here, even if my hands are shaky.

No price change between amazons and the thing is supposed to ship tomorrow, so barring any tricks or gimmicks, I'm getting mine from France for about half of what I'd have paid id ordered from America.