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I loved #3. From the preceding discussion I can't imagine I own it, but I intend to research it out of curiosity.

Thanks. It was a fun BFT to listen to. Definitely want to give some of those albums a spin (or several). Already reviewed the Belgrave, which I own but couldn't ID. Mingus Dynasty (same situation) will be next. 😉

+1. I already had a copy of Algonquin, but haven't digested the other 2 albums.

I wish Bill Evans had recorded more with PJJ.

It might be Mulligan himself on piano, see this page.

Damn, that's strange. I quickly checked discogs, and the release pictured seems to be a PD collection of Pacific Jazz releases from 1952-53. None of those Pacific Jazz records credit a pianist, AFAICT all bari-drums-bass-trumpet quartet. But I must have missed something.

After spinning the "Special Edition" box I'm listening to some more offbeat recordings with Jack: The duet with Foday Musa Suso Bill Evans Trio At the Montreux Jazz Festival Nick Brignola On a Different Level (my favorite Brignola album)

Yes! And especially with Jaki Byard on piano. There was a fairly recent thread (which is slightly off the current topic) here

Hamid Drake and William Parker in the drums/bass category.

Is "ballpark organist" a genre? I grew up in the Chicago area...Nancy Faust, who played at Comiskey Park for decades and Chicago Stadium for a few years, was a big deal. https://chicagoreader.com/music/the-secret-history-of-chicago-music/nancy-faust-organist-white-sox-comiskey/

Thanks. Hard to explain the blunder, as I had the CD liner notes right in front of me.

Sorry, I misrecalled the liner note author Bob Blumenthal...I play chess and must have subliminally mixed him up with the "Blumenfeld Counter Gambit". 🤪

I discovered the "roller-rink" organist trope via Bob Blumenthal's updated (2004) liner notes to the RVG CD of Heavy Soul. Freddie Roach (1931-1980), with a more subdued (detractors might say roller-rink) sound than most organists of the period, might be an acquired taste, but for this listener it is a taste worth acquiring...

+1 to all sentiments. Too sad to say anything else.

Me too (in principle), but I am not telegenic and would completely lack screen presence, propelling the film into farcical / disaster territory. 😁 I think O'Connor's performance has gotten positive reviews. Cinema / theatre stars have a certain presence not common in the general population.

and a couple of discs from

Saw this new release Not really recommended, though it has a decent jazz score by Rob Mazurek. Billed as "moody", but IMO unfolds at a glacial pace, and the protagonist (who is onscreen almost the whole time) is a puzzling nondescript cipher who evokes no sympathy and I found of negligible interest. Josh O'Connor, who plays him, does a good job.

As far as I can tell (I ordered one in a test cart), USA is not on the list of countries they ship to (presumably due to tariff issues), so many (most?) of us on the forum are SOL.

I only noticed this a few days ago. JIB Bandcamp showed CD sold out. DG had CD for preorder but I dithered, it arrived within a day or two and showed "Just Sold Out" almost immediately. Moral: I should follow the JIB Bandcamp page.

Weird because Blue Note, who I wouldn't expect to be the cheapest, still shows the CD for preorder at $19.98.

https://jazzinbritain1.bandcamp.com/album/in-concerts

"The Bastards" have the vinyl and CD available for preorder.

This. Also, and this is just personal taste, many of his announcements, press releases, etc. display an overweening ego which irritates me and seems inconsistent with the QC issues.

Thanks, I'll try to buy direct if paperback available. I try to avoid Amazon if economically feasible. University Press distribution is weird. I see occasional U. Press titles on the shelves at that same shop, but apparently small special orders are too expensive. Then again, the last U P title I remember actually buying there was Krin Gabbard's book on Mingus, which would have been 8 or 9 years ago, so the situation may have changed.

That was Randy's hint I followed up on. He said a current BFT participant had included a track from the same album on a BFT "from a previous decade". I randomly looked at some old Reveal threads from thread participants and lucked out on about the fifth one I checked, using "1980s" recording date as an added criterion. It was from one of yours, but I didn't write down the BFT # or date. 😉