T.D.

Lawrence of Newark sold out quickly, before I could reply to the "just arrived" e-mail. Now that DG is doing pre-orders, I'll start going that route. Have missed out on too many new arrivals.

See https://www.discogs.com/artist/2308904-Jim-Flora

Agreed. Read it in French as part of a high school course (I forget which year, either soph. or sr.). The simple writing style is probably why it got assigned. But had to rely heavily on a dictionary.

+1

Amazing how the original rant was covered up. I never heard about it until a few years ago. But I was never a Clapton fan anyway. I'm slightly younger, but by the late '70s had seen a whole lot of more impressive guitarists in Chicago. Agreed on both points.

Mosaic charges PayPal orders when they are placed, credit card orders when shipped (or nowadays, perhaps when transferred to the "shipping partner"). Before they farmed out the shipping, iirc the policy was clearly stated on the Mosaic website, but the site's changed over the years.

I can't recommend one definitive album, but that one would be on my shortlist. There are a whole lot of '70s live recordings, many are far from indispensable, but Brotherman in the Fatherland is really something.

I have the excellent CD that came with the book. Will order this for the extra material. I'd rather purchase from someone other than Amazon, will give Bertrand some time to offer it through the Dark Tree site.

Thanks, nice article. I have the Soprano Sax album. And I had to look up a word (daedal) in the dictionary! That rarely happens with Internet writing. Well done.

As far as I can tell. The twofer reissue on Collectables as well.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-61415333 (with short video clip) A new composition for 50 years of the Rothko Chapel Tyshawn Sorey is a musician, performer, and composer who won a "MacArthur Genius" Fellowship in 2017 for his work. His style straddles the world of jazz, improvisation and classical music. He received a commission from Susan Rothenberg and DACAMERA of Houston to create a piece of music for the 50th Anniversary of the Rothko Chapel. The music that Sorey composed is a meditative work, a reflection of the non-denominational chapel and the 14 paintings on the octagonal walls by the artist, Mark Rothko. The chapel is located in Houston, Texas, and is a popular public art space. The BBC recently sat down with Sorey at the University of Pennsylvania - where he currently teaches - to discuss his latest composition, "Monochromatic Light (Afterlife)". This work will be staged at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City this autumn.

Absolutely. As they used to say (maybe still do?) on Usenet, Plonk.

I noticed that Zeitlin release on DG's "Coming Soon" page...Passed on purchase but will try to listen (at least partway through) online.

Not only that, but the feature "bossa nova" tune is misspelled, should be Tres Palabras! There are so many howling errors in jazz covers and booklets that this thread is like shooting fish in the proverbial barrel.

eBay? I see Japanese sellers offering them with free shipping. For instance, https://www.ebay.com/p/2255633232 [Added] Sleeves in the link don't seem to be resealable, presumably those are somewhere on eBay as well. Can't vouch for attractiveness of price.

Nice selection of tunes. Should have noticed Roland Hanna, but I don't have Perugia. Others got there first on Barry Harris. I thought of Julius Hemphill for #6 and did some research last night, but couldn't find any likely albums (incl. Raw Materials and Residuals) that include a trombonist.

I meant in the prior post that "(bebop) ghost" was likely used pejoratively by certain people "at the time" (in Jim's words). Not that Jim was using it in that way.

I think "bebop ghost" was likely meant pejoratively. For instance, in the liner notes (by Ira Gitler) to the "Live at the Five Spot" album an anonymous "foreign pianist" is quoted describing the group "contemptuously" as "ghosts".

There've been a heckuva lot of Mingus releases over the past few years.

https://www.discogs.com/artist/2186959-S-Neil-Fujita

Damn, back in the '80s I lived 2 blocks from the Brooklyn venue (Roulette). Needless to say, the neighborhood was different and Roulette didn't yet exist.

64, no underlying conditions, got 4th Pfizer shot (2nd booster) just under 2 weeks ago.

Definitely McPherson. I think Lonnie Hillyer has one trumpet part (looks like him around 18:45).

RIP, big loss, sad. I was for a long time a big hockey fan*, and played the sport up to age 40 @ rec league level. Lafleur was a true legend ("iconic" can be used without resort to cliche), and the 1970s-era Hab multi-Cup winners awesome. Sadly, we also recently lost Mike Bossy, perhaps the best pure goal-scorer I ever saw, who had to retire prematurely because of a back injury (truncating his career stat totals). Weird memory: Lafleur was one of the few players "grandfathered in" to play sans helmet after the LNH made helmets mandatory. I thought for a while he was the last helmetless player, but on second thought no...surely others (e.g. Al Secord? Doug Wilson? Craig MacTavish?) played longer. *The strike-cancelled 2004-5 season made me realize that I could live without following the LNH.

Just found out about this. Expect to go.