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Yeah, I didn't hold onto the singles - don't think they're as good as that first LP, to be honest. Side two of the Cros kicks ass. Now: Various Artists - The Other Side of Blue Note 1500 Series - (Toshiba/Blue Note, JP) wrapping up LP 1 of this fine 3 LP compilation, probably rendered useless by all the nice augmented CDs we've got now, but it's still an excellent overview of 1950s Blue Note material, all of it left off of the original titles.

The Spinanes - Manos - (Sub Pop, US orig)

David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name - (Atlantic, US orig)

This is a cool date and hard to find. Got mine from Bobby years ago and it comes highly recommended.

Belated happiest of birthdays to you, sir! Hopefully we can entice you over to New York one of these days!

Hal Stein/Warren Fitzgerald - s/t - (Progressive, Overseas JP reissue)

The Roots of Madness - The Girl in the Chair - (Dogmouth, US orig)

Indeed. I don't know why I thought the band with Moncur didn't play in NY. Maybe clubs in Brooklyn weren't subject to the same laws? I suppose Newark would've been off the hook.

Good one.

Taborn is excellent.

He didn't have his cabaret card then, if I'm not mistaken, so it may have been tough to catch him playing here at that time. He got it back a few years later.

Indeed. Heikki Sarmanto is another.

Yeah, when I was talking to him after a gig, he felt pretty pissed about what I'll paraphrase as a "continued sharecropper tradition" in certain better-known NYC venues. Not naming names, nor am I handling business, so I can only give the gist of what he was saying. He remained very humble at the same time, because when I interviewed him, what came through was how lucky and proud he felt to be able to make the music he made with the people he learned from, and that he was able to transmit this experience to younger people (not that that wasn't without its challenges, too).

Thanks for this. Interviewed him not too long before he passed and had a great time speaking with him. Fascinating and kind person, yet I don't think he felt like he was respected - especially by venues in NYC, where he was playing with Moncur, Hutcherson and Rene when the interview took place.

There's also a nice 35 minute Archie Shepp quartet video from 1973 that the YouTube poster has put up. It's really something.

I believe that is correct.

Edit to add: really enjoying this footage right now.

ah, I didn't have time to give it a look. I don't recall them being on the 'first tier' of AEC records that I'd pull out, but they're good to have I suppose. Any document should be worthwhile.

I know what Allen means. Yes, the duets with Jeanne Lee are pretty wonderful.

I don't mind quality packing, ever. A friend of mine had some rare record delivered in a small, handmade wooden crate. Shipping cost was the same.

Did someone say something about Mal Waldron? He's great. This Oscar Peterson character, well... I don't get the attraction beyond a surface level.

Yes.

Digipaks are really the bane of my existence these days. They easily wear on the corners, get gouged in the mail, and the trays come unglued or splinter. Barf.

Bummer. I think he was between Al Kiger and Don Ellis in terms of working with the Sextet concept when Bill might've come on board.

It's been ages since I dug these LPs out, but one (probably the 1970 date) features Fontella Bass.