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I saw those items but they're labelled as "Entrees" so for me as a foreigner that sounds as if it's not a proper meal... I do agree that the prices are less outrageous than I expected from the posts above... What I do find suspect is +4% if you don't pay cash... But again, that may be cultures clashing....

https://smokejazz.com/food-menu/ No vegetarian main courses it seems but you will find ways to spend your money without buying meat

the reference librarian apparently also fixed the other show that seemed to be restricted, a Mickey Bass Quartet with Carter Jefferson, John Hicks and Michael Carvin... https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/133112

Wow thank you so much, playing it right now!!

Thanks for all those tips, Dan, it's super helpful... Any idea what the problem with this entry is? https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/133113 the lineup of Charles Sullivan (tp), Bill Saxton (ts, leader), John Patton (org) and Eddie Gladden (dr) sounds pretty amazing but I can't seem to play it...

Ron Horton - A Prayer for Andrew an Andrew Hill tribute recorded 2016 with Frank Kimbrough at the piano and a similar sextet lineup as on Andrew Hill's Dusk (with Horton on trumpet and also Marty Ehrlich on alto) playing some Hill compositions and dedications

I am just trying to wrap my head around the new Louis Cole album Nothing, featuring the Metropole Orkest... Big tent but also a very large ensemble

It's a bit of a consolation that even Irene S. had that spelling problem with her last name (which she shares with me, it's a constant annoyance). Thanks for nothing, Albert ... (Albert S., not M.)

as a kid, I would spend hours at one of the local bookstores which had a row of 10 or so CD players where you could sample everything... nowadays, here in Amsterdam, most of the used-LP stores I go to regularly have one or two self-service record players... with used vinyl it's key to have a chance to decide for yourself whether the scratches affect your enjoyment of the music or not... Some also have a system where you need to convince the owner to play something for you over the shop system (and in one shop, the owner sometimes decides to punish clients with his choice of what to play next, e.g. Hans Werner Henze at very high volume)

Wow, thanks for posting!

I saw him last week at the Bimhuis in Amsterdam in Sylvie Courvoisier's band and - in an age where the comparative fitness of American senior citizens is a politically charged topic - he seemed totally up to the task even though the somewhat older bandmate Wadada Leo Smith impressed me more. That show was in support of Courvoisier's Chimaera album, a fine record, but if you look at discogs, you'll find plenty of more recent recordings as well...

I like it a lot, probably more than his previous albums... now getting started on this one

I like the Bzhezhinska/Kofi album quite a bit, both the cover and the music... the basic idea is to do a tribute to Alice and John Coltrane (and Pharoah Sanders) with just tenor, harp and a bit of percussion.... which works very well imho

The new Tony Kofi album, a tribute to Alice, John and Pharoah with only harp (the co-leader), tenor sax and percussion

It was really nice to meet Pim, and also a great concert - Wadada Leo Smith, Fennesz and Nate Wooley are a pretty unique frontline

Yes, that's an exciting lineup, I'll be there too...

Ah, sorry, I was in a rush yesterday ... Pretty sure it was 1956... But the article may welll have had a delay...

Looking through the Coltrane reference, the gig I meant was probably in Quebec in mid-April so the Jazz Podium article may have been a little bit after that

many years ago, I had your photocopies which I then handed over to King Ubu... that's why I know of the article... it definitely is from the second half of the fifties, some German abroad reviewing a Canadian gig of the Miles Davis quintet with Coltrane and Philly Joe Jones (and probably also Garland and Chambers - but Jones I definitely remember and that should help with the dating). Will have a look at the Coltrane reference to see for more precise times when I'm home...

Smalls Records had some covers that fit at least to a certain extent

One article you really might want to have is a Jazz Podium review (in German) of Miles in Toronto, maybe Big Beat Steve can help out... ?! I mostly remember the comments about that great Basie drummer Jo Jones being in really bad physical shape but the whole article is worth reading

I guess a thread like this one here will also attract posts mostly from those who are most affected who all sit in the same age bracket... If I think back to almost 20 years ago when I joined, quite a few of the older posters have left us or have become more silent by now... And those were all too old to be called boomers... I just turned 43, how young can you be after almost 20 years... My main worry these days is storage space for a collection that's still growing...

that Gregory Groover Jr album looks interesting with Matthew Stevens, Joel Ross and Marcus Gilmore... no idea about the release date either but it's on spotify

I have one 33rpm 7'', Jimmy Knepper with Joe Maini and Bill Triglia on Danish Debut...

I only watched bits and pieces of the movie, and one moment that I noticed was one of the two guys from the club saying that he thought Dolphy might be on drugs from the way he was moving, the glassy eyes... And I wouldn't just want to call that racist stereotype - after all, I suppose those nights when the American guest stars didn't deliver on stage due to intoxication just happened from time to time.... It's easy to imagine that those who brought him to the hospital said "and by the way, we suspect it could be a drug overdose" with only good intentions... We have all read books about how Dolphy would never even touch a glass of wine - but those books weren't around back in the day