ghost of miles

Forthcoming release from Jazz Detective--here's the press release: A truly sensational find from the great producer Zev Feldman, Atlantis Lullaby: The Concert in Avignon features the legendary saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef with pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Bob Cunningham and drummer Albert "Tootie” Heath, captured at the Cloître des Célestins in Avignon, France on July 19, 1972. This 2 LP official release from Elemental Music in cooperation with the Yusef Lateef Estate and INA France, is out on Record Store Day, April 20, 2024 with the 2-CD set, streaming and downloads to follow on April 26. Transferred from the original tape reels, this recording was originally captured for an ORTF Radio broadcast restored and mastered by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab. The limited-edition 180-gram 2-LP edition (and deluxe CD) includes an extensive insert with rare photographs, newly-commissioned liner notes by Shannon Effinger, and interviews and testimonials from Kenny Barron, Albert “Tootie” Heath, Adam Rudolph, Reggie Workman, Joe Lovano, Tia Fuller, Bennie Maupin, James Carter and Sonny Rollins. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

Definitely picking this one up! Jazz Detective is dropping several new releases around RSD, including a 3-CD Art Tatum trio set at Chicago's Blue Note in 1953, and a 1972 studio date featuring Chet Baker and Jack Sheldon. Apparently some Sun Ra, Yusef Lateef, and Mal Waldron/Steve Lacy material is imminent as well.

Revisiting this lovely album:

The prelude to A Love Supreme: …I appreciate this one more and more as time goes on. Have played selections from that one frequently on my afternoon show!

Listening right now to disc 8, which begins with the January 1945 session with Dizzy. What a godsend this set is, even without the material alluded to above…. I might try to pull as many of those sides as I can from other CD/LP sources that I have and create a supplemental to the Mosaic set.

This recent tribute to pianist Mel Powell, who enjoyed a brilliant jazz career in the 1940s before working primarily in an academic classical realm for the rest of his life, is now up for online listening: Jazz Mission: Mel Powell in the 1940s ... Powell also made several fine jazz albums for the Vanguard label in the mid-1950s that may be the subject of a future program. The 1940s offered so much musical ground to cover that I decided to stick to that particular decade for this episode.

The speculative CW seems to be that SF’s defensive unit was gassed by the end of regulation and that they may have wanted to give those guys a breather, instead of them having to come right back out again at the start of OT.

Really a shame that licensing issues have apparently precluded Mosaic’s ever doing a 1940s Mary Lou Williams set:

Former Mets GM Billy Eppler suspended for fabricating injuries

Funny, I was just wondering that myself earlier today and checked his profile. He hasn't logged in since 2014.

Time for jazz!

According to my Blue Note wristwatch, it's been 11:29:15 for about the past 20 years now!

Andre 3000 at the Blue Note

I thought I had those Missourians sides on CD… but apparently not? Has Frog or Jazz Oracle or Retrieval or some such ever tackled that material?

Same! So much stuff I’ve gotten into over the years that my younger, snottier self passed over without a thought. (Though like others I was also operating on a pretty lean budget and couldn’t afford to be snapping up every box set or reissue that came out.) That 1995 Andrew Hill Blue Note set has a special place in my heart as my first Mosaic (and one that I *still* listen to every several years), as does the McLean 1964-66, which I got shortly thereafter. I think all that I had by either artist at the time were their early entries in the Connoisseur series (Judgment for Hill and Destination Out for McLean, iirc). I still have the Blue Note wristwatch that you got if you sent in OBIs for 10 of the first 12 Connoisseurs!

I have those two JSP boxes as well... this thread may well inspire me to revisit.

Some fine Conte Candoli, among others, to be heard here. A fair amount of Bob Cooper tunes and/or arrangements as well:

An underrated Kerouac, trippy and steeped in his childhood:

Hard pass on a high-priced vinyl-only set. I'd be all in on a legit CD release. Grateful that the new Phil Ranelin set came out on CD--a grand total of $21 at my local record store, including tax. The vinyl version would have run me $125 (and I wouldn't have bought it). It's insane, ridiculous, and a few other adjectives as well.

Disc 7, which is the 1995 Columbia album Makin’ a Move. I’m sure Threadgill-Ellington comparisons are a dime a dozen and beside the point, but if somebody told me to name someone whose artistic/compositional achievements over the past 50 years occupy a realm of significance similar to Ellington’s, Threadgill would come to mind.