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  6. 42 Mosaic Boxes at Bob's Blues & Jazz Mart

    in Offering and Looking For...

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    21 hours ago, T.D. said:

    Agreed.

    Honestly, IMO most of Mosaic's communications and actions over the past 3 or so years have pretty much screamed "Liquidation!" So I expect basically nothing and regard any further releases as gravy, pleasant surprises, whatever.

    After extended fence-sitting I went for the J. J. Johnson, one I'd long considered but held out on. No doubt heresy, but I've been in a downsizing mode (getting old, etc.) and Mosaic's bulky format appeals less and less.

     

    I don't know about that. A new Armstrong set, a Lou Donaldson set, a Black and White Label set, and a possible Lee Morgan Blue Note 60s set? Seems to me they're fairly lively.

     

     

     

    gregmo

  11. Life in Eb The Phil Woods Autobiography

    in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...

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    21 hours ago, bresna said:

    So I finished the book last night. A bit of a bummer by the end, with Phil talking about his drug and alcohol addictions and how it ran in his family and ended up with his daughter dying from it. He seemed  proud that he had a good relationship with 2 of his kids when he had 2 others wouldn't even talk to him for 20 over years. All in all, by the end of the book, I didn't think that highly of Phil the person as much as Phil the musician. By his own words, he described a guy who was a bit of a dink to anyone who wasn't on the bandstand with him... except Jill.

    Also, it was weird when the book ended and my Kindle said the book was only 68% complete. So one third of the book is a few nice reminisces (Brian Lynch & a Billy Joel interview), a discography & an index.

    And by the way - if Phil's description was accurate, Al Haig was one weird dude.

    Woods isn't the only one to offer that kind of view of Haig. As fine a pianist as he was, he seems to have been a...singularly imperfect...human being.

     

     

    gregmo

  17. So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

    in Miscellaneous Music

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    On 2/20/2021 at 8:31 AM, ghost of miles said:

    Did you order through CityHall, or some other source? 
     

    Right now:

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    Sorry, just saw this. Got all three volumes of the Bob Cats recordings from Amazon and Ebay sellers. As for the LP--I've had it for far longer than I care to remember!

    Listening to volume 2 of the Complete Bob Cats now:

     

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  24. RIP Chick Corea

    in Artists

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    I have to confess that the Scientology thing put me off a little, but not nearly so much as the fusion stuff!  Didn't his attachment to Scientology keep him from being able to perform in Germany?? That rings the oldest and dimmest of bells, somehow. Anyway, he was a fine pianist, and I liked him in an acoustic context.

     

     

     

    gregmo

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