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Bigger than Bowie. A real loss but we knew it was coming. No one gets to live forever and he lived a long and storied life. He practically invented a genre of music. How many people get to say that?

And people thought paying $50 for a 45 RPM Pressing of a (Blue Note) album was silly!

I might as well pile on and say yes to the dvd or bluray. It was a very visual festival and one needs to see Jimi and Pete and Janis and all the rest as much as hear them.

Omar Sosa! I have a special place in my heart for him. I don't have this title you mention but a few others where he duos with percussionists. Is that the situation here or does Paulo play a different instrument? Omar used to play at a local club regularly in the late 1990s when he lived in the SF Bay Area. One particular night was transcenent. It inspired a friend to right a poem and we learned that Omar broke the piano that night do to his hard playing. No one was holding out that night.

Yes, Galveston was a hopping town, especially before the big hurricane in the early 1900s. I forget the exact date but it practically wiped the city off the map. When I lived there in the early 1980s I used to frequent an Italian restaurant owned and operated by a woman who used to run a brothel during the wild and wooly days of the 1950s/60s. The gambling rooms/bars were out at the end of piers so if the cops came to bust them the house would get the signal from employees stationed at the entrance to the pier and trapdoors would open and the evidence went into the Gulf. She had some great stories. Wasn't it called The Wallstreet Of The West back in the day?

Legendary and rightly so. R.I.P.

Of these Verve titles the only one I have is Night Song which I found a few years ago on vinyl. It sounds like I got lucky. Didn't know it was a tough one to find. I've usually avoided orchestral jazz albums though there have been exceptions.

Is there an online place that can help "date" a pressing? Where is the LC code located? I feel like I've seen it before but I'm not home so I can't look at my lps at the moment.

Yes, that is an older recording. They have lots of releases on Bandcamp.

I too have read De Valk's book and really enjoyed it and the annoted discography was helpful. It led me on a quest for the Tokyo dates from 1987 which I finally took possession of a month ago. It is some of the best I've heard from Baker committed to tape.

Paul Bley Qt. (ECM) Polydor pressing. w/Bill Frisell, John Surman and Paul Motian.

Excellent!,

Homage to Erik Satie - Maurice Abravanel conducting The Utah Symphony (Cardinal/Vanguard) 2 lp set.

Another favorite not mentioned is Harper's Love On The Sudan on the Denon label from 1977.

Are they coming further south?

Congrats on the new cartridge. It's good to stretch a little if your finances can swing it. You will frequently thank yourself once the music starts.

It sounds like I need to get a copy of Amandala. I dig the atmosphere on Siesta too. That's where it might make me leave the room for some artists. Here, it helps create an atmosphere that I like. Whether it's due to a passage in tme or I'm hearing it from a different perspective than where I was when this was new. Or none of the above.

I didn't know he had both lungs transplanted. That bought him twelve more years, worth it, it seems. A giant among men in the British Folk genre no doubt. He's left plenty of wonderful music for us to hear whenever we want to be reminded of his brilliant talent.

I still don't have volume three. It never showed up or if it did only at release time because I haven't seen a copy since then. I vaguely remember seeing all three but wanted to check sound quality before getting all of them. As we all know the sound is fine. i think I did see that Omnivore is still selling it so I might as well complete that threesome. Ooh, kinky.

I don't know if this has been mentioned yet but Lost At Dunn's Lake by James Johnson and Stephen Phillips is a classic along Eno's On Land. Like that iconic title they use some nature sounds with their electronics. I haven't checked much of johnson's work but he has a lot on bandcamp.

The version of My Funny Valentine on the live in Tokyo dates from 1987 is one of the best I've heard. I hesitate to call it the best since he did play and record it so much but between his gorgeous vocal and the musical support he had it is certainly in my top three.

You're welcome! Yes, it is a two disc set with one disc being a dvd with video content. I only watched it once or twice back when I got it a couple of years ago so I'm very sketchy on the content. This group of musicians (SOTL and spinoffs) are making my favorite ambient music outside of Eno. What impresses me is how much they use acoustic instruments instead of synths to get some of their textures.

I didn't mean to imply that Chet rarely played well or didn't have many good recordings. I can see why one would think that the way I worded it. He has a very good band with him on these Tokyo recordings and Chet was focused because he had someone at his side the entire time. The book that referred these albums for me was by j. de valk and titled chet baker his life and music (no caps). His voice in particular is really strong here, not as vulnerable and fragile sounding as it usually did. I like that voice too but this is different.

The second WVFTS album is excellent as well. There's also Dead Texan but I forget the relationship to SOTL but one of the main guys is in it. There is a Brian McBride album also.

I've been wanting the live Tokyo recordings for a while and finally found and pulled the trigger on both volumes together in a clamshell. He and the band are amazing on this. His singing and playing are about as good as I've heard by him. Really worth hearing if you have any doubts to his greatness.