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This one (Yamashita Trio + Schoof) got my attention, but not readily available so it's on the wish list.

Don't know, but IMO highly probable that it's a Euro-PD label. Also possibly CD-R instead of CD, if that matters.

I received it today, just cued up disc 4, enjoying it so far. Can't attest to stereo vs. mono, defer to the label. One peculiarity: the non-playing sides of the CDs are solid black, no printing whatsoever, thus no indication of the disc number (1-6). I use a CD changer, and this means I have to be particularly mindful of the order in which I insert and remove discs. 🧐

I also like it. I sometimes attend concerts of Indian / Pakistani music, and these sitar / tabla players are seriously good.

Bought this obscure disc because it was cheap, but it proved to be a sleeper and I really like it. Mix of piano trio and quintet (w. tenor, trumpet). Straight-ahead, he's obviously influenced by Bill Evans but for whatever reason it all works for me.

Confident that I will, based on the samples I heard and the (almost shockingly, when I reviewed last night) many recordings I own and enjoy on which Skidmore plays!

Thanks, I went for it. Fortunately a US dealer (Squidco) had the set in stock, so I could order w. reasonable shipping cost.

In the World was included in the Mosaic Strata-East box. I'll see what the booklet says. [Added] That Mosaic booklet does not speak (either yes or no) to the issue of needle drops. Nor does the website, https://www.mosaicrecords.com/clifford-jordan-strata-east-albums/ . But I always had the impression Mosaic generally doesn't do needle drops apart from old 78 reissues.

1970s Yugoslavian (maybe today it'd be Serbian?) jazz-funk. Got this on a whim (it's on bandcamp) and having fun. Listening through a second time.

Agreed, looks that way. $18 w. free shipping, 30% off if you can find 2 others to order. Note: on the Mapleshade website, this is under "Jazz" and the new Clifford Jordan discussed elsewhere is under "Other Labels' CDs"

Thanks, no hurry, Roger. Discogs has posted track listings with recording dates and venues for all 6 discs: 1 recorded 1961-69, don't expect much in the way of sound quality here; 2 rec 1971-77; 3 rec 1981-89; 4 rec 1980 (1 track), 1991-97; 5 rec 2000-2011; 6 rec 2019. I'm more concerned with general sound quality (noise, risk of some instruments being off-mic) than with stereo/mono. The relatively recent recording dates of discs 3-6 give me cause for optimism. I've only been able to listen to four brief samples online. The sample from disc 1 doesn't sound great, but the other three are fine by my standards.

If I feel like making the drive Sunday (not certain)... Mat Walerian (clarinet), Mat Maneri (viola), Michael Bisio (bass), Kingston NY.

Damn. Thanks, need to acquire this...having been impressed by "her participation in The Descendants of Mike and Phoebe".

Those footnotes are from a different chapter. I was referring to the ones from Chapter 23, The Bridge. The references in footnote 64 are Stanley Crouch, "The Colossus", New Yorker, May 9, 2005, pp. 64-71, and George W. Goodman, "Sonny Rollins at Sixty-Eight", Atlantic, July 1999. The reference in footnote 66 is basically the UCLA link (with material by Alex W. Rodriguez) I posted above.

Google summons up some more info: https://ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu/content/interview-sonny-rollins-musical-and-spiritual-autodidact (Rosicrucianism was a big influence at one stage, apparently no longer so) [Edit: the above link is actually the source referenced in footnote 66...in the meantime I located the .pdf of footnotes, which btw is at https://www.dropbox.com/s/c81oc536t1g6p8m/SaxophoneColos_HCnotesF1.pdf?dl=0 ]

Roger, please post your findings here. I'm interested in the set, by no means a stickler for stereo but it'd be good to know.

The Rosicrucian thing is treated in Levy's book, pp. 347-8 (maybe elsewhere as well). p. 347: Sonny and Trane "swapped books on Sufism, Buddhism and Rosicrucianism". p. 348 (top): "Sonny joined the Rosicrucians..." followed by a full-page discussion. Footnotes 64 and 66 respectively. I'm too lazy to look those (underlying sources) up. [Added] I can't find the footnotes (which are omitted from the physical book) online! Book gives a link https://hach.co/saxcolossus but I see no footnotes there.

Agreed. After enjoying W C J, I read one other book by Gioia that I didn't care for (can't immediately recall the title, which says something). So agreed here too.

According to Wiki, "The LaViolette Collection — which included his own recordings, books, scores, photographs and personal papers — is archived at The Los Angeles Jazz Institute, California State University, Long Beach.[9]" Certainly an obvious place to start. Question is, how much of that material deals with his affilation with WCJ. I'd really prefer some interviewable sources when it comes to that affiliation. Agreed on Gioia: I'd have ventured his name years ago, but something has changed and now I'm doubtful... Plenty of academic types could do it. William Sites's book on Ra kicked ass and he's not even a "music guy": William Sites is associate professor in Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice at the University of Chicago.

I think there are authors who could write creditable books, but there's a question of how many good sources to interview are still alive. Maybe if Steve Swallow would cooperate...

Thanks, CDs received remarkably quickly...mail from NYC to me (upstate, 3 hours or a shade further by car) sometimes arrives the day after posting.