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That's cruelly funny, because I have each as single LOs in double LP sets. So the way to solve that is to combine the both into a new double CD packet. Let nature find its own symmetry. You could even use the IG cover photo!

It was a gig that got recorded. Possibly not the only one, and possibly not the best one, recorded or otherwise. Coltrane of the date, yes, but there were already even newer things going on in NYC. It takes everybody time to catch up to things they didn't think up, because these damn instruments don't play themself and it takes work to get them to do things you yourself didn't find. Nobody bothers to look at that part, how real music takes work and work takes time. Short cuts don't last. What I love about Joe Henderson is precisely that he is NOT an out player as much as he is not really an in player either. In terms of the instrument, he's a NextGen Lester Young (via Warne Marsh and Larry Teal) guy, the type of player who will find the sounds to play to make his music when the notes alone won't suffice. Past that, right on 💗

Yeah, the 1950 Juilliard was the first-ever recording of the full cycle. The Pearl release has now been superceded by the Sony Classical box of early JSQ records, but major props to them for keeping those records alive. Pearl is a cool label. I really enjoy listening to real-time(ish) recordings of new music. People were still grappling with interpretations and sometimes the notes themselves Check this out:

The first one was quite great. Many of Masters' records are. So yeah, getting this one too! What would have been great is if Billy had hooked up for the Ryan Truesdell things. What, no Bandcamp link? Oh, there's two records! Both, then.

Remember the poster here 7:4! He was a microtonal composer himself and swore by this guy. I have yet to go there (yet) but it sounds like it's just a matter of time. I need more time...

Blakey did not have a real band in those days. He was working with essentially pickup bands, and as I understand it, Woody was the guy who took care of the hiring. Club bookings as available, occasional foreign mini-tours, nothing resembling a full itinerary. I could see a scenario where one could make one gig but not the other, and)or vice-versa. So not really anybody subbing, just people making individual dates. But it does look like Garnett became first call for what gigs there were, because he shows up on the 1970 Japanese date with Joanne Brackeen. I'm very much under the impression that Art Blakey was ..full of surprises, if you know what I mean.

Does he do the same type thing for historical recordings? Like what groups had recorded ANY of them before Juilliard did the first complete cycle in 1950? Google does not yet seem to comprehend my question on the way I'm asking, but it did tell me that the first recording of ANY of them was done by the Amar-Hindemith Quartet, of #2, and ok, cool, this exists (and has been ordered). Now what else is there from these early days?

I do agree that Sun Ra LLC would be disinclined towards playing ball, but if I was going to throw something up against the wall...it would be that all the Chicago records put together like this, with players like Art Hoyle, James Spaulding, Julian Preister, Charles Davis, Pat Patrick, etc. in largely inside-ish setting would incentive buyers who would otherwise not go near a Saturn record. Otoh - I don't know if that's so off-brand for them that they would just laugh everybody out of the room. Anyway...The Bill Barron Mosaic has SUCH a nice ring to it!!!!!🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄 I admit that they were sort of a shock to the system back in the day, but as time passed and the arc went yet another way, I grew fond of most of them. So count me in!

"Albums" is not the point here, because other than the two Transition dates, this stuff was spread out over a bunch of different albums, none of which were interested in chronological groupings. My final products are on CD-Rs all over the place, in one big mess, but I can find, right now, a full 6 discs of material and have every indication that there's at least 2-3 more. That's just Ra "jazz" cuts, not including sideman and doo-wop and other sessions. If you add those, you hit anywhere from 8-10 total.

You'd be surprised at what is today's "classical"....

Check this out! https://ionarts.blogspot.com/2023/01/a-survey-of-bartok-string-quartet-cycles.html?m=1 Could be useful!

Vegh, for sure. And not just for Bartok! Takács Quarter is another great one

Yeah HPB is only an option if you're just looking to dump, period. And then, take store credit over cash offer.

The Copland piece sounds better to me in daylight...up to a point. But those syncopations cumulatively strike me as a sourcebook for too many Broadway shows...

RIP! No downloading required if you already have the albums! https://campber.people.clemson.edu/sunra.html This (and the records) are all you need to do it Oh, that and time. Getting that whole "Marathon In Milwaukee" session was a bit of a lift. But not really difficult, just time heavy

I do too. Just make sure that you have access to a version of the Robert Campbell discography and the Sun Ra—The Eternal Myth Revealed Vol. 1: 1914-1959 set to get everything. Grouping by session is quite useful imo because God knows that's not how they were ever released. Same thing with further grouping by recording order, as much as possible You don't lose anything by not doing this, but you might gain, depending on your own personal wiring.

I was also in high school when I first heard that one, on the radio,, "Naima". I was enthralled! I heard people singing, babies crying, all sorts of human sounds. I was enthralled! Hendrix had gotten me well-acclimated to sounds as sounds. But again, it was all done by a saxophone, using things of which the saxophone can do using legitimate (if not originally intended) means.

Strip clubs AND Jay and The Americans? Now THAT'S working!!!!

I ended up with 6? 8? 10? Let me check tomorrow to be sure It's not albums as much as it is sessions

I will look for that. I also keep an open ticket for Powell the composer. Thanks!

I remain largely a non-fan of Copland, but this Ellis Kohs guy has written something here that has a lot of weight and is executed here with a bit of grace. Good to have some more of the Modern American Music Series. There are more to come. Maybe Juilliard was Columbia's house quartet for projects such as this? Good times!

Indifferent to the music, still excited by the dancing.

It's been a long time, but the first time I heard Last Sessions (Vol 1) I was not sure it was actually Elmo Hope. Very dark, very percussive, not the Uber Bebop of his earlier work. It reminded me of ..Hassan. Eventually the smoke cleared and I realized that neither the piano nor Elmo were in the best of repair. But that's really neither here nor there. Strong is strong no matter how it gets made. Anybody check out Frank Hewitt?

In the case of Hill and Rivers it seemed like he was trying to get them money when they maybe really needed it. Businessman AND benefactor. A noble effort imo. Plus we the consumer benefitted as well