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Wow. I'd love to hear this.

Good luck. I find that the Fontana LPs are much easier to find than those CDs! It is an excellent album; I have the UK pressing from the late '60s with the "Jazz Life" cover art.

The best one's I ever heard on Inner City were the Art Farmer East Winds ('To Duke With Love' and 'The Summer Knows' - still have them). Although I'm sure that the original East Winds would sound superlative. Yeah, the East Winds I have sound wonderful (Japanese pressings).

Yeah; I've got a Japanese Victor of Dexter's The Apartment, which sounds excellent. IC pressings aren't usually that great, but the couple I have held onto (one Dickerson and one Cecil, from SteepleChase and Enja respectively) are fine. Come to think of it, Audio Fidelity Enjas and Strata-Easts are fairly lame. But what can you do?

Wow, good to hear he's still with us.

His estate and/or heirs...

Takehiro Honda/Gerd Dudek - Flying to the Sky - (Trio)

Pepper Adams - Critics' Choice - (World Pacific, stereo)

I know what you mean. I came to jazz & improvised music being burned out on rock music, so the last things I wanted to hear were guitars and vocals. Now, of course, that's far from the case.

Back on topic for the NYAQ, here is what I've gleaned from some communication with the label:

Huh. That whistle/tenor duet is fascinating. I'm also digging the jump of "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!"

Great vid of the Levis with Derek Bailey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm2hAFAZayk.

WHOA! This is terrible news! Fucking a. RIP doesn't even cut it.

Dennis Budimir - A Second Coming - (Revelation)

Byrd certainly had his influences -- who does not? -- but he was not a copycat. One recognized his voice as his from the first. That Blue Note book was a piece of trash in my opinion.

Tim Buckley - Starsailor - (Straight)

Cecil: "The Second Act of A" covers 2 1/2 LPs (plus an encore) and "One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye" covers three full LPs. Agreed, those are all wonderful. "If I picked a man's pocket and bought you flowers, would that make me a thief?" Priceless Chicago Beauchamp.

Right, I'm curious about it too. There were several sources that I heard it from that I generally trust, so I echoed what aloc said and assumed (given his current health issues) that it was entirely possible this was true.

I'm actually sort of curious what sparked the original rumor - was there an incident? A scare?

So glad this isn't the case. I hope things improve for him health-wise.

Enough musicians seem to be posting this that I suspect it is true. He had been waiting on a kidney transplant, no?

I've heard that he's gone as well via Facebook though nothing official yet. Sad to know this if true - he was a true original.

Dang - RIP.