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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.

As an ex-science nerd, I'm partial to Richard Feynman.

This was on my watch list at Dusty Groove and I got an in-stock notice today. [Edited] Ordered and shipped, seems to have sold out. LP of one of the sessions still available.

Mostly unusual stuff and shots in the dark, but they weren't expensive... (an early Mike Nock recording)

Whoa. Thanks, I didn't know of that one!

I just included this in a DG order (since they had it and I liked samples):

R.I.P. I was given a cassette of one of his solo albums (it might have been Autumn, but I forget) back around 1990. I enjoyed it and frequently played it in the car (until the cassette failed).

Bought this from DG (they did the CD reissue) and it's a really neat album. Mostly straight-ahead, with PL and British musicians incl. David Snell (harp) and Stan Tracey.

I don't have any recordings with him as leader, thanks for the ideas. Only know his work through some of the early Yosuke Yamashita Trio releases, which are of course very good.

PM on Ian Hamer Sextet (w/ Tubby Hayes) Acropolis (2 CDs) (Jasmine Records) - 8 John Hicks Sketches of Tokyo (DIW) - 9 - very light scuffing not affecting play

Thanks. I hestitated at first, but wound up purchasing it a few months after your initial post. Love the album. Only downside...started me on a Japanese jazz kick which has been rather costly (though enjoyable).😁

The Busoni transcriptions.