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Thanks for the heads-up... news to me as well. I bought it at Landlocked the other day but haven't cracked it open yet.

Thanks for the heads-up!

If you come across this Waller box-set at a reasonable price, it's well worth snagging too. An excellent booklet by Dan Morgenstern: Fats Waller: If You Got To Ask You Ain't Got It

PM on the way regarding Louis Armstrong and Billy Cobham.

Something that Aaron Judge is making into a bit of a tradition:

Saturday, January 26, 2019: Wadada Leo Smith's "America's National Parks" live at Jazz at Lincoln Center

Saw the very same group at the Village Vanguard just a couple of weeks ago. Joey Baron was tremendous, and I was also impressed by Lawrence Fields on piano. The new CD (Scandal, out on Douglas' Greenleaf label) is my favorite of the group's releases so far.

Good one, Paul! Right now:

I've been on a bit of a Mary Lou Williams kick of late and listened this afternoon to the album she recorded at the Cookery in the 1970s:

I keep coming back to this one:

I tend to break out into hives myself. OTOH the rest of the bullpen has been on fire for the last month or so. Speaking of being on fire, the Astros have certainly been playing up to and perhaps beyond their 2017 form of late. Mighty glad at least that they didn’t manage to snag Kelvin Herrera from the Royals.

Thanks much for the feedback on this set—really looking forward to hearing it.

Here's a web-post from the Netherland Club with a number of photos from the plaque-unveiling event at the former site of Cafe Society last week: Unveiling of the plaque at Cafe Society

I've been greatly enjoying the Woods-Lew Tabackin CD and decided to go for the Woods Mosaic without a whole lot of contemplation--paid $120 (including shipping) for a like-new set with still-sealed CDs on eBay, which may be a bit much in this era of deflating Mosaic prices, but happy to have it on the way nonetheless. Others here have a take on this set? I've heard several mixed opinions over the years.

Larry, do you have the 3-CD Waller box set If You Got To Ask, You Ain't Got It? Dan did outstanding notes for that collection.

Great comeback by the Yankees last night--very happy to see Giancarlo Stanton be the hero at Yankee Stadium: https://www.mlb.com/news/giancarlo-stantons-homer-seals-yankees-win/c-282213260

I haven't heard that recording yet--the immediate chronology of Cafe Society after Barney Josephson gets out of the game in 1949 is rather mysterious to me. I know that Josephson generally didn't book bebop groups at either Cafe Society Downtown or Uptown, and in his memoir he says he "shuttered" Cafe Society Downtown in early 1949 (after enduring a lot of attacks from media figures like Walter Winchell and Westbrook Pegler for his leftwing connections). But somebody must have been operating it into the next year, if Parker was recorded there in mid-1950. Getting to stand in that space and play Billie Holiday's recording of "Strange Fruit" for a small audience with all of the lights turned off (we projected the famous photo from the Commodore recording session on a small screen while the music played) was quite a thrill, btw. There's an interesting post-Cafe Society history associated with that basement as well; in the 1970s it was the site of the Ridiculous Theater Company, which the manager of the current theatrical company occupying the space (Axis) told me warrants a chapter in the annals of queer theater.

Wish I could've stuck around last weekend to see Ron Carter and Ethan Iverson there. (I was still in town that Friday evening, but already committed to attending a Yankees game that night. I did get to see Dave Douglas and Joe Lovano at the Village Vanguard on Thursday, though.)

Upping this today in honor of what would have been Eric Dolphy's 90th birthday: Dolphy '64

A writer and baseball-fan friend of mine told me something several weeks ago that I found hard to believe: the 2018 collective MLB batting average so far, he said, was on pace to be the lowest since 1968. 1968! Year of Bob Gibson etc., as we've noted above. I finally found an online reference source, and while said collective MLB batting average must have moved up since our conversation, it's still on pace to be the lowest since 1972, when the collective MLB batting average was .244: MLB overall batting average and other hitting stats, season-by-season

Yes, "radio consultants and ratings" have come to play far too prominent a role in public radio. I'm not averse to attempting to reflect what a majority of the audience wants for overall content, but to ditch a popular jazz-specialty show when the overwhelmingly vast amount of programming on the station is already news/talk is appalling. It's less and less public radio and more commercial-radio-for-'smart'-people. This isn't the case at every station, but it's definitely the prevailing attitude and has been for some time now. It's one thing to move jazz out of day-parts and heavily-listened-to hours, another thing to eradicate it altogether.

I'm a CD rather than vinyl buyer and have had really good experience during recent trips to New York City checking out the Jazz Record Center (236 W. 26th St) and the Downtown Music Gallery (13 Monroe St).