jazzbo

Hmmmm . . . . doesn't seem that way to me. I mean sad, yes, in that he's not around. But not ancient. Maybe because I'm just a few steps away from ancient!

The Jacquet was available on cd. . . as well as the Ellis and the Burrell.

with Kirsten Nefer right before the end.

The Commodore booklets are GREAT. . . a fascinating interview with Gabler in these (which it turns out is also reprinted in a book entitled "The Jazz Reader" that came out some years ago.) I managed to buy each booklet from Mosaic for ten dollars each, and also the separate complete discography (which you really don't need as it mainly lists the myriad ways in which all these sessions were issued and reissued and re-reissued over the years--the booklets to the set will give you all the track and personnel details you'll need). Commodore has some fantastic music in its grooves. The best of the material really has come out on cd over the years. . .but there is much that is fascinating that hasn't. It's not hardbop or even bebop. . . . I know that there are some who are not into the earlier styles that wouldn't want to pay the big dollars for this. But if you can enjoy Morton, Holiday, Teagarden, Page, Powell, Russell, Peck Kelly and so many others, this was a topnotch label!

Elis, always a pleasure to see your lovely avatar. I'm not sure of his actual age, but maybe fitting into this category is. . . Pancho Sanchez? One superb percussionist!

New news: another digital download available, this time a 1968 show. Also available now for downloading: the So Many Rods box set!

That "preorder" now has been there on the site all the time. I opened my order up and removed the Jelly Roll Morton set I had ordered along with it, and the preorder price remained and it sits there ready to go as far as I can tell. I'm anticipating that when it is available to ship I will be billed the low price.

I saw WR about five times from 1973 to 1985. Each show was great! I actually have to say I enjoyed the NonJaco shows the best; they were less "big rock concert" like. On record, I love the earliest stuff through when Jaco first entered the band, these are the best RECORDS. They didn't make better records after that but what I heard live and in person was very good. I do like some of the final lps too, like Domino Theory. . . that is quite a record.

Yeah, any more news when this will be out? Here it is seven months later and we have to ask the question again!

js, that's fine. I honestly hadn't heard about those charges of discrimination etc. I just saw them helping out on the spot (on two spots) with big hands and hearts and efficiency, and I contributed hoping to help them to do that. I've big concerns about the Red Cross, but I think had I witnessed them in action in such a situation I would have donated to them as well. The Capitol Area Food Bank here is a great outfit that I have been donating to for years and years. When I first came to Austin the famine in Ethiopia had really turned fierce. Having lived there years before it was really bothering me. Even our church personnel had been kicked out of the country. I looked all around for a way to contribute. In this area they were the only outfit that both seemed to know of the problem and to be helping by sending food. I have been supporting them ever since.

Yes, he always let fine women with great taste drape him in finery!

First post, right here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...opic=21336&st=0

Sounds pretty damned good on my copy. . . . Hmmm.