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OT, but Joe McPhee was in the audience at the last Lace Mill concert Aug. 10.

Wouldn't surprise me. 😉 I think there have been rumblings on the forum.

Big regret: I was in school in the Albany area 1978-83. Often heard about Brignola (and J. R. Monterose) club dates in Albany. Considered going, but never did because I wasn't yet such a jazz enthusiast at that time. 😢

You're right, of course. It's just that a lot of his Internet statements seem to rub me the wrong way.

The more I hear from this Zev guy the less I like him. By no means a new trend. I now avoid his projects unless I find one absolutely compelling.

RIP, sad loss. I think I first heard him on a Taj Mahal album. Ain't gwine whistle Dixie (any mo') (live) has long been a favorite tune.

Unreleased alternate take from Another Timbre website

I heard this on the radio today. Must have heard it "in real time" (in the '70s), but it didn't register then. Today I was stunned by the free jazz-like piano. Looked up Mike Garson on wiki, and of course the solos are well-known 🤣: Garson provided the piano and keyboard backing on the later Ziggy Stardust tour of 1972–73 and his contribution to the song "Aladdin Sane" (1973) gave the song an avant-garde jazz feel with lengthy and sometimes atonal piano solos. 'I had told Bowie about the avant garde thing. When I was recording the "Aladdin Sane" track for Bowie, it was just two chords, an A and a G chord, and the band was playing very simple English rock and roll. And Bowie said: 'play a solo on this.' I had just met him, so I played a blues solo, but then he said: 'No, that's not what I want.' And then I played a Latin solo. Again, Bowie said: 'No no, that's not what I want.' He then continued: 'You told me you play that avant garde music. Play that stuff!' And I said: 'Are you sure? 'Cause you might not be working anymore!'. So I did the solo that everybody knows today, in one take. And to this day, I still receive emails about it. Every day. I always tell people that Bowie is the best producer I ever met, because he lets me do my thing.'

RIP, big loss. Great director. Sadly I never saw any of his NYC productions live (wasn't yet into BAM aesthetics when I lived in Brooklyn long ago). Must have been interesting to work with him. Scanning his website, Wilson's work seems to have been better received in Europe than in the USA.

Pianist on #7 sounds like Stanley Cowell. At work so can't go any further right now. Good program with a lot of tunes (but not necessarily performers) I recognize.

+1

Thanks for posting that. Personnel renders it a must-hear but I hadn't looked for samples.

This has a forthcoming (apparently the first) reissue: 'Original' was the second release by Cadillac Records in 1973 and came about through the involvement of Mike Westbrook with the label - Mike Osborne was of course the fiery alto player in Mike's groundbreaking Concert Band and came to Cadillac with a duo recording with legendary pianist Stan Tracey. Cadillac founder John Jack naturally snapped it up! Reissued for the very first time, remastered from the original tapes and available digitally. Mike Osborne: saxophone Stan Tracey: piano Recorded April 1972, Surrey Hall, Stockwell, London

Japanese reissues: The latter is film music from a weird Japanese movie Ke No Haeta Kenju. There are nice jazz tracks with Seiichi Nakamura (reeds) and Takeo Moriyama (d), strangely mixed in with Bach harpsichord numbers from some unknown recording (I can't tell which because all the documentation is in Japanese).

Thanks. This was a great program and fun BFT. Sorry I didn't have a lot of time to devote this month. I own 4 of the albums but only managed to ID the Bud and Carl Perkins. I initially swore I owned #1, but running down the list of candidates realized I don't. I'd never heard Mal 4 and couldn't imagine the pianist was Mal! In recent years I've listened to oodles of his later recordings and no longer associate him with bop. Lots of listening ideas.

+1 I was born in 1957 and don't recall him as being extremely popular. Always figured I came of age after his peak. Might also have been a regional component: I grew up around Chicago and got the impression Lehrer was bigger on the East Coast (esp. DC to NYC).

This link might be viewable in an "incognito" or "private" tab, but I'm sure there are other stories. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-27/tom-lehrer-harvard-s-satiric-melodic-mathematician-dies-at-97

The bookshop sold its copy of the recent (Grasse) book, so I can't research further.

On Verve, which is kind of surprising.

Thanks. Also some website/blog reviews I saw. Next time in the shop I'll leaf through the book (I'm a fast reader) and check...no time today. OTOH, I suspect that Dolphy bio material is really scarce, rendering a detailed biography a la Szwed (for instance) unlikely. By way of comparison, I sprang for Combs's Dameronia, which had the same shortcomings. Tadd was both secretive and prone to dissembling / dissimulation, so there wasn't much to go by. [Sadly, I never managed to get a hold of Ian MacDonald's Dameron book.]

Anyone read the Grasse biography? I just saw it on a bookstore. Wavering on whether to buy, in the process of looking for reviews. Looks like it's a near exhaustive discussion of recordings, but not really a bio. In which case I'll likely pass and hope for interlibrary loan availability.

This is a really good album! Just had a reissue, but I already own so many Yamashita Trio albums that I passed...have to draw the line somewhere...🙁