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Looks like a small pressing for limited, if any, distribution? ??? IN FINE VOICE AGAIN: PIANO CHOIR - The Washington Post

Some of those David Murray records seem to be making records just to be making records.

Did Rudy's studio have some undeveloped land behind it?

whoa... The Piano Choir Catalog (jazzdisco.org)

Yeah, Evans was excellent.

Raffi was a solid player. Loved him when he was here. But...if PEDs are ok, then they shouldn't be banned. And they are banned, although one has to wonder about the alleged workarounds you keep hearing whispers about. As for the rest of Team Roiders...sorry guys, you choice, your consequence. The tragedy is, who among them really needed that to stand out anyway?

I like Fred McGriff & Albert Belle. No taint of PEDs, and consistently excellent players. And Curt Schilling...controversial, but a helluva pitcher.

Miles had the cachet of having been in Bird's band. He was also a pretty together guy at the time, not yet having gotten hooked on that dope. The stories that I've heard say that Miles actually took the initiative to turn it into a band, to call actual rehearsals, start calling the players, etc. Just basic organizing that it would take to turn a workshop band into an actual band. Here:

Turk Fagarian - Cluckin' !!! (Live at Miss Ina's Red Hatch Inn)

Dexter also recorded "We See".

How about this one? and/or this:

Heads up!

I wish that Sonny had recorded "Frosty The Snowman", something bouncy.

Stelly-Mack Winderham - Dirty Hands At The End Of The Day

The thing is that there's almost certainly no way that Rollins was consciously thinking in the way that Schuller analyzes. But - what Schuller calls out is most definitely there. So if you're a player who reads their own reviews (and Sonny was, as many are), this is the kind of thing that you can't really say "that's not what I'm doing", because it is. But it's not HOW you're getting there. So then, and apparently this happened to Rollins for a while, he got to wondering, ok, how DID I do that? And that, as they say, was "Paradise Lost", a layer of innocence in the creative process lost forever.

I have it in Jazz Panorama, iirc. For the 21st Century, it is here: SonnyRollinsAndChallengeOfThematicImprov.pdf (jazzstudiesonline.org)

The Baron?!?!?!?! How long has he been over there?

So did that Houston Mega-Gambler get the Series thrown? Etc.

Finished Basie Studio Roulette, started Charles Brown Aladdin. Decided to spend the money while I had it and get the remaining Mosaic sets that I KNOW I wanted to have before retirement. Very glad that I got both. On the fence about picking up the Sarah Vaughan Roulette set, I love her, but she made a buttload full of records (not all of them equally compelling) and this set seems to be less that fully essential, thoughts? Actually heard the album with Basie on Spotify and was, uh...underwhelmed. Were they actually in the same room at the same time?

Sonny was in that zone during that time. I can see why the Schuller piece got inside his head like it did. It had to have been a loss of innocence of sorts.

I would also ask by what method is the insertion being attempted? Dragging and dropping may or may not work for everybody? But using the "Other Media" button and the image URL with a valid image extension at the end of the link should, right?

Schuller did more than just "write about it" btw. He did a thorough analysis of it, so thorough that Sonny got creeped out by it, so well did Schuller codify what was an organic thought process of Rollins'. "Thematic improvisation" became forevermore associated with Sonny Rollins, and I don't know if Sonny liked being associated with such a reductive concept, even an essentially accurate one. It's a remarkable piece of writing about a remarkable piece of playing. Not really, which was the point. There were long jams, but they were just that - jams. Gonzalez played a great solo, and he built it well, but, really, he could have started and/or stopped at any point and it still would have been a fine outing You can't really say that about "Blue 7".

There were a lot of long cuts, mostly jams. This was not that.