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Listening to a new duo album from Robert Mitchell and Corey Mwamba

I haven't heard this one, but it's been on my list to catch up with. There are a lot of interesting Albany albums, but not ones I play as regularly as The Right Combination. This description is intriguing, though, might try looking for it this week just to hear the "Woody 'n You."

That Clifford Brown set is a good one, and it'll be nice to hear a Tone Poet edition. It's really nice to see Carmell Jones getting the treatment, this ought to bring some new fans.

Given the age and context of the recording, I'm not sure what people expected from audio quality. It's about what I thought it would sound like, better in some places. We knew these weren't soundboard recordings. In many ways (whole songs, all players featured) these beat out the Benedetti tapes. The rawness of the longer tracks, in particular, is just fantastic.

I was excited when I heard there would be a new O'Day book, but I'm a little less thrilled about it being Gavin. I want more from books on these musicians, some writing that really digs into how and why they stood out, not only replaying the worst parts of their lives. Yes, yes that's part of their biographies, but so is their art.

This opens the possibility, and Harrod of course would know best, of masters and alt. edits, which are probably long gone of course, but I remain curious anyway.

I’m looking forward to digging in, blind spots and all.

Came here looking for some words on Max Harrison, as I've read only some and have a used copy of A Jazz Retrospect incoming. Reading Larry's article, I just wanted to add one thing possibly worth noting about Montrose is, different from the others named, including Bob Gordon (he and Gordon fare quite well rounding out the sax line on Niehaus's debut), from what I understand his heroin addiction contributed to him landing in Las Vegas. Montrose's early recordings are very interesting from the composition/arrangement perspective, but per the names mentioned, I personally don't rate him at the level of Perkins or Shank. Shank's playing, though, continued to get more interesting over time.

Thanks, Mark. And I assume (read: hope) there was work done to clean up the audio, which since I haven't heard the teaser I can't judge for myself at this point. I assume some of those tapes would be fairly rough quality.