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Agreed. But we can try to quantify it...To the National Weather Service, for instance, "likely" means 60% or 70% probability and "chance" means 30%, 40% or 50% (they go in steps of 10%). So "perhaps likely" might be 40% times 65%, or 26% probability. For what that's worth.

Thanks, some good music on the selections. I was pretty much clueless on everything and never posted, sorry. It was a busy month at work...Spent a lot of time on early piano tracks and wound up stopping at #10. So never got to #12, the only one in my collection.

OMG, that cover looks kinda Sun Ra Arkestra-ish...

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When I lived in NYC and environs I heard many comments / jokes to the effect that numerous off-off-Broadway "starving actors" and playwrights were actually "trust fund babies". I've always assumed it's not uncommon in the arts. To the extent I "judge" such people, it's on the basis of my opinion about their art. However, one of the reasons I'm skeptical about Fluxus is that some Fluxus musical works struck me as kinda self-indulgent (e.g. Dick Higgins firing a gun through a sheaf of music paper and playing the resultant notes), and I suspected many in the movement of being wealthy kids acting out. But the linked article profiled George Maciunas and mentioned that he had no money, so my suspicions may have been unwarranted. Nevertheless, I'm not yet sufficiently motivated to read histories of Fluxus.

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Thanks, interesting article. I'd always dismissed Ono as a "Fluxus" artist, a movement for which I don't have much time, but the actual history seems more complicated and more to her credit.

Thanks. I had a feeling my source (clerk at another shop) might have been inaccurate. Still happy about the local connection.

I made one of my infrequent trips to Kingston today (for work) and heard that "the guy who put together the book" (Chris?) runs (owns?) a record shop there. Appropriately named Rocket Number Nine. I would have visited on general principles (though I no longer own a turntable or do vinyl), but the shop is closed Wednesdays. Never heard of the place until yesterday, but have long been a customer of the other nearby establishment (which fairly recently moved to Kingston). Now I'm definitely in for the book.

I just wasted some time on Google. As far as I can tell, Appel is everyone's source on this.

I've read this anecdote before, but forget where...first guess is Ross Russell's Bird Lives, but I can't verify (read a library copy way back when). Alex Ross gave it in his book The Rest is Noise, but his wording was "[after Bird quoted some Firebird motifs]...Stravinsky was so delighted that he spilled his Scotch in ecstasy."

Disc 5 of Sun Ra: The Eternal Myth Revealed Vol. 1 (Transparency) has 4 rehearsal tracks: 2 from 1950 with Ra and Jenkins, 2 from 1951 with Ra, Jenkins, Leo Blevins and Wilbur Ware.

+1. No interest in a Cohen album, let alone box set. FWIW, YMMV, of course. Back on topic, I don't regret any jazz box set acquisitions. I do regret the 2 classical mega-boxes I purchased: Sony Vivarte 1 and HM Lumieres. The content of both is outstanding, but it turns out that many discs go unplayed, and the physical boxes just feel like overkill (especially Vivarte, which is 60 single discs; Lumieres has a number of opera/vocal sets).

I'm not a TV watcher, but have read many of the Bosch novels and recall Frank Morgan. So the screenwriters may have been faithful to the books. Full list from Michael Connelly novels at https://www.michaelconnelly.com/extras/music/ Bosch novels mostly jazz, others more diverse music.

I have the exact same impression (based on much reading and limited oral anecdotes), but can't say anything stronger. Have lived in NY State since 1978 but grew up in Chicago area, so no personal experience to speak of.

Emphasis on past tense. Probably were nice places, but their heyday was at least circa 50-70 years ago, they went into inexorable decline thereafter and have all been closed since the early 2010s afaik. Catskills Borscht Belt resorts were really big summer vacation destinations for NYC residents in those days.

RIP. Saw him live once (w. Roni Ben-Hur) and own many recordings, most with Barry Harris.

I just placed my periodic DG order (Lawrence of Newark got restocked), but Roots had "Just Sold Out", so it'll have to wait.

Yes. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/don-ferrara-mn0000642029/biography

Interesting. I just spun Geo. Wallington's Jazz For the Carriage Trade (Prestige, 1956), also with Woods and Byrd. Here too, Woods sounds much more fluid than Byrd on the boppish numbers. And in keeping with Bill's post, Byrd sounds a bit pinched and strained on high notes. That said, I've always enjoyed Byrd's Blue Note recordings. Perhaps I haven't listened very critically to the earlier ones.

Couldn't find much comedy on discogs. (recorded live at Kutsher's) Non-jazz: and a few tracks live at Kutsher's from this

Not jazz and likely difficult to find, but some rather surprising stuff was recorded at Kutsher's in 2008 and 2010. https://www.discogs.com/label/626665-Kutshers-Country-Club

I hear you. But the past few years have seen a tremendous boom in all kinds of extravagant high-end merchandise. In a world where people shell out buttloads of dosh for NFTs, pricey limited-edition vinyls seem downright reasonable ...at least you can throw them on your ($20,000) turntable (though that might hurt resale value ) and hear good tunes. If the economy goes into recession, some of these (arguable) "excesses" are likely to fade away.

Very true. (Off-topic) That's not unusual for Hollywood. For instance, Winston Groom's novel Forrest Gump (which I read long before the movie was made) is much darker than the Hollywood adaptation.