Joe

Thanks for sharing that!

News that stays news.

Well, hell. Godspeed.

Good to know! Thanks Larry. I recall some, but not all of these details. I can only hope these plans finally do come to fruition.

That Don Joseph Uptown record is still MIA in any digital format. Date: June 2 & 3, 1984 Location: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ Label: Uptown Don Joseph (ldr), Al Cohn (ts), Don Joseph (c), Bill Triglia (p), Red Mitchell (b), Joey Baron (d) a. a-01 Ash Wednesday Blues - 4:54 (Don Joseph) b. a-02 But Beautiful - 9:15 (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) c. a-03 Indian Summer - 6:25 (Victor Herbert, Al Dubin) d. b-01 Stumbling - 5:14 (Zez Confrey) e. b-02 It Might As Well Be Spring - 8:54 (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) f. b-03 When Lights Are Low - 5:58 (Benny Carter, Spencer Williams) All titles on: Uptown LP 12": UP 27.23 — One Of A Kind (1985)

A true gentleman and scholar. His notes to the Herbie Nichols Mosaic set... Goodbye and thanks for all the music.

He lost me when he sacked the original Mothers. Ray Collins and crew helped leaven the more unsavory aspects of Z's satire. Of course, getting pushed off that stage in 1972 was a pretty scarring incident. Still respect him, and there are a few 70s LPs I still find fairly enjoyable (OVER-NITE SENSATION and ZOOT ALLURES).

FYI. CREPUSCULE W/ NELLIE will be entering its second edition, via Civil Coping Mechanisms, in February 2018. New cover, corrected copy, maybe a bonus track or two. Thanks to all the O-board members for their support of this book over the years. http://copingmechanisms.net/portfolio/crepuscule-w-nellie-by-joe-milazzo/

Additional context: having grown up in and worked in academia, it is very rare for faculty to be outright dismissed by an institution of higher learning. IMO, other than politicians, no professional class circles the wagons more effectively than university faculty. Universities also dread negative publicity in the extreme. If Berklee truly did fire Osby et al., then, yeah, chances are very good a thorough investigation was conducted and actual wrong-doing uncovered -- or at least wrong-doing uncovered to the extent that the school felt it needed to act to avoid being dragged into court.

Also, Jimmy Jones.

One of his best, IMO. Montreux seemed to bring something special out of pianists in the 70s, as it was also the setting for Cecil Taylor's SILENT TONGUES. More Hill + Jimmy Vass can be heard on BLUE BLACK, originally issued only in Japan (IIRC) on the East Wind label, but fairly easy to find now. The other East Wind date, NEFERTITI, is also fine: a trio with Richard Davis (reunion!) and Sun Ra associate Roger Blank on drums.

Fascinating!

Laredo, huh? Who knew? Not me.

Jimmy Yancey!

Reminds me of this Velvet Underground rarity... https://www.moma.org/collection/works/21586

Lacy's discography is so vast, and I have many favorites. This one, not often discussed, is among them.

More Moers. With Olu Dara, Frank Lowe and Fred Williams.

Not jazz per se but a beautiful set of recordings nevertheless. "Ted Lucas flirted with fame in the late 60s in the Spike Drivers and Misty Wizards, studied with Ravi Shankar, went home to Detroit and played sitar for Motown, and recorded his album, referred to by family and friends as The OM Record (after Ted's private label name), in Detroit and Nashville." http://www.yogarecords.com/artists/tedlucas/ http://www.tedlucas.net/listen.html

The Acrobat issue does not include all of the tracks available on JASCD 621 (OPUS DE FUNK), JASCD 616 (SHOWCASE) and JASCD 624 (PAL JIMMY)