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Am I the only old white man who thinks it's not my job to tell young Black people what they should be playing or listening to?

I think a lot of this discussion can be summed up as "Hey you kids stop playing on my lawn." And I've never even heard The Epic, so I'm completely objective.

How does he compare to Aldo Ciccolini? (Who 50 years ago was Satie's greatest champion.) BTW If you like Satie, I just discovered that Rene Claire's "Entr'acte" with music by Satie is on Youtube. For many years I could only find it without music and even attempted to sync it up with a record myself.

The pictured cd includes only the first half of the concert. (As I unfortunately found out after I bought it.) This one contains the whole concert and though I think the first half is the best half it's all good.

Pearl Jam

A couple of years ago Terry Zwigoff told me that Amoeba was offering to digitize his entire 78 collection and put it on line. At the time I wondered why but I just discovered that they sell digital downloads from 78s (not sure that these are from Terry's collection). I presume that the ones they sell are all pd, but who knows. They offer 3 different formats at different prices for those who want higher fidelity. I don 't know how to search them except by title or artist so I don't know how many they offer but if you're in the market for some rare old recording..... (BTW I discovered this when I Googled The Harlem Strut.)

I ordered mine on December 29th and nevertheless got No 00006! (I hope that doesn't mean only 6 people ordered it before me. ) BTW Mosaic says it's everything from the period controlled by Sony and I guess it is, but I have a CBS cd entitled "From Ragtime to Jazz: The complete Piano Solos (1921-39) and it includes The Harlem Strut from 1921 which is not on the Mosaic. Probably because it was recorded for Black Swan which is probably pd rather than owned by Sony. Even that CBS cd's subtitled may be a bit misleading since it doesn't include the flip side of Harlem Strut.

I've been trying to find this for years.

This sounds great. Wish I was there.

I always liked him but wasn't a huge fan. Despite that I did see Ziggy Stardust at The Rainbow in London with Roxy Music as the opening act. I also once saw his mentor Lindsay Kemp perform Wilde's Salome and that was amazing as well as giving insight into Bowie.

Right you are. How weird that the seller is Amazon.

I think they've caught it. It's back to $43.

I saw her do this show and quite liked it. I was in the first row because a friend who had a series ticket couldn't go. Not sure it's jazz but it's definitely entertainment.

Wolfgang's Vault has a few Mingus concerts but this one from The Jazz Workshop in Boston 10/12/72 is particularly interesting because it has a composition I've never seen anywhere else: "Blues for a Saw". (The vault lists it as an "unknown title", I got the name from a listener's comment. The vault also listed Billie's Bounce as unknown.)

And let's not forget Charles Mingus and Art Blakey. Wow. I'd like to hear that. I used to love Sonny Greenwich. IIRC I saw him play at Dunn's Delicatessen in Montreal. (Is that possible?) BTW There was a good obit on NPR this morning: http://www.npr.org/sections/ablogsupreme/2016/01/05/462061538/paul-bley-influential-jazz-pianist-has-died and I just discovered that the written version is different from what you hear when you play it. I always thought the written posts were just transcriptions of the audio. In any case they're both informative.

Did Paul Chambers do this? I remember he did a lot of bowed solos when I would see him live and have a vague memory of him humming along. (After 50 years, many of my memories are vague.)

And let's not forget Charles Mingus and Art Blakey.

The Occupation trilogy by the 2014 Nobel Prize winner. If you get this edition don't read the introduction till after you've read the novels-- too many spoilers.

I have that on cd but doesn't have that great cover.

I'm jealous.

Fats Domino, Chubby Checker, Billy Hart

I agree. There's a huge jump in the quality of his writing with The Deptford Trilogy. I was studying with him at the time of the publication of Fifth Business so I figured I'd better read it. I was shocked at how good it was. At the time he was better known in Canada as a personality than as a writer. His earlier work was considered rather provincial and nothing I had read (which wasn't much) didn't convince me otherwise.

After one listening I'd say a couple of the takes are quite different and they're all good. One might be tempted to ask how many versions of Gloria and Here Comes the Night do we really need but it's interesting to here how they loosen up. ( The original release of Gloria now seems fairly restrained.)

I was taken aback by how good this cd was, but the liner notes made it clear that the recorded Them was usually Van Morrison and a back-up band often made up of studio musicians.

Anyone here know where to find examples of Spanky Alford solos? According to Wikipedia he won 3 Grammy's for jazz guitar. (Does such an award even exist?) Someone posted a sample of him playing what is claimed to be The Lord's Prayer on Facebook but that's all I've been able find except some instructional videos. He played with D'Angelo and other people I don't usually listen to but I really liked the sample I heard. Anyone have some recommendations for me?