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Just checked it out via inter-library loan (I belong to a good network). Should get it next week.

for Gnu High. As leader, I still have 3 of Jarrett's old Euro Quartet albums: Belonging, My Song and Personal Mountains. Don't listen that often, but they've have survived many culls. Once had both Köln Concert and La Scala, enjoyed them at first but it faded, eventually culled. Considered some Standards Trio albums but never spent the money. The Lou Harrison looks interesting. I'd also like to hear Jarrett's recording of the Hovhaness Piano Concerto. Never bought his recordings of "standard" classical repertoire (Bach, DSCH, Handel, Mozart) because there are so many good competing versions. Back on topic, my collection of Paul Bley recordings is slowly growing, while the Jarrett collection is static.

Thanks, it was an excellent BFT but I only had time for cursory listens. I always suspect Khan Jamal on vibes tracks, but never heard that particular album and drew a blank on #1. Kind of red-faced on #2 and (especially) #6, as I own both albums and am an Elmo Hope enthusiast. I suspected Friesen on the bass solo but never got around to pulling the CD off the shelf. Guessed Mal by process of elimination on #11, but had never heard that version. Will go back and listen in detail.

I like EH a lot. Enough that this thread made me pore through discographies to check what recordings I'm missing.

Stumbled upon this and have watched several times. Seems like excellent playing to me, though there's no shortage of alternatives. Am going to listen to more of Ehnes.

DG's offerings are sporadic, but I've found their prices pretty darned good. Now that DG allows preorders, I'm going to take them more seriously. Waiting for "in-stock" e-mails was not very reliable - product would often be sold out.

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220721-the-worlds-largest-crystal-cave An abandoned mine in Spain hides a sparkling treasure – the world's largest geode, a natural crystal phenomenon that has stunned scientists. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62292511 Japanese police are turning to tranquiliser guns in an attempt to stem the tide of wild monkey attacks that have been terrorising residents.

Absolutely. Stopped around 20 years ago. I still remember one of their big columnists (Jonathan something?) constantly singing the praises of "Shun Mook resonators". Thought I'd slipped through a wormhole to some kind of alternate universe.

Looks like they (and most similar outlets) use digital direct-to-garment ("DTG") printing. Send 'em an image file and ask. If they don't care about licensing (as suggested above), they might put it on any color shirt they stock.

That Aussie outfit has the best selection of jazz album T-shirts I've seen. Trouble is, I'm a former distance runner, kept all my old race T-shirts and haven't gained significant weight. Have burned through quite a few, but still have a large stockpile of wearable Ts, tough to justify significant $ for more. The Aussies do have a bunch of tempting offerings, though.

Richly deserved IMO. And a lot of it's dirty kleptocrat money he acquired by making F1 one of the world headquarters of sportswashing (granted the IOC, FIFA, etc. are right up there).

You can get around it by erasing your whole browser cache, including cookies, but that can be inconvenient. I use a "burner" browser (Edge) that I open only to access sites with limited stories/month access; I erase the Edge cache frequently. I was able to read the story that way (in Chrome I'm paywalled).

1. I believe so. 2. Some motorsport enthusiasts follow both F1 and Nascar. I never followed Nascar, so can't directly compare the demographics. I get the feeling the F1 fan base is rather more cosmopolitan, for want of a better word.

When I was a kid, the 1966 film Grand Prix w. James Garner was huge. I was heavily into F1 in the late '90s and very early oughts, used to drive up to the Montreal GP every year. Enjoyed the races, and Montreal is a nice place to visit. The bewildering annual technical rule changes gradually turned me off. Plus, there aren't many competitive teams; the same few win all the races every year. Not to bring politics into it (mods delete if desired), but a couple more turn-offs for me: 1) Bernie Ecclestone and Max Mosley, who ran F1 like a fiefdom when I was heavily interested, turned out to be seriously sleazy characters. 2) As far as I can tell, F1 is the world headquarters of "sportswashing". Just run through all the exotic and far-away race venues.

Passing on Hubbard. Will definitely purchase the Bill Barron in the (exceedingly unlikely ) event it's released.

Ogun reissue w. Oh! for the Edge

A very reasonable speculation, I didn't mean to badmouth it. I've been searching for documentation, but AFAIK that hasn't yet appeared (at least in "widely available sources"). I read Sites's excellent book Sun Ra in Chicago, but only via interlibrary loan checkout, don't own it. Don't recall any detailed Andrew Hill info there, but haven't been able to check the index. Whoa...big discovery!...I was able to find via Google Books, from p. 81 of Sites [bold added]: "Pianist Andrew Hill, who came of age in this scene and played with Blount, later called it 'a time before the music got separated'..." That seems to be the only significant Hill reference in Sites, however.

Agreed on Ra-ish sounding. I think Jim speculated about talk/collaboration. I was sufficiently interested to pull out my copy of Szwed's bio and go through the Hill references in the index. But all I found was one mention of Andrew Hill being among "younger musicians [who] were often in Sonny's audiences now [c. 1959]".

One more thing: don't go hand-fishing for catfish in a remote area with a drug-addled psychotic. Proved far more hazardous than the fish.

I'm old and white but I ain't fat. Haven't yet seen any Uniqlo jazz t-shirts in the flesh, but would probably accost any wearer I encounter, regardless of age.

Thanks for the tech info (snipped). Braxton has been releasing a significant amount of physical material, music and video, on Blu-Ray discs. For instance this one, which is iirc 4 to 5 CDs equivalent on 1 Blu-Ray disc.

I have some classical CDs, all in box set reissues, that run slightly over 80 minutes. Never before heard of one as long as 83 min. My player gets sketchy on super-long CDs and sometimes has trouble reading them.

RIP. Sad, I was aware of her struggle with Parkinson's.

Thanks, very helpful. The 1201 Music website shows a lot of interesting DL releases with sketchy (or no) discographical information: https://1201music.com/black-lion-jazz-greats-24-bit-remastered/