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Track 5 is "Organology" by Trudy Pitts, from her Prestige album These Blues Of Mine.

It was originally on Warner Bros.'s Loma imprint. "The Ike & Tina Turner Show, Volume II": Recorded in Dallas! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live!_The_Ike_%26_Tina_Turner_Show

Bob Dylan Just Released the Ultra-Rare 1970 ‘George Harrison Sessions’ Without Warning

Very sad. I saw a great band there led by Billy Higgins, with James Spaulding, Curtis Fuller, Don Sickler and John Ore (I forgot who was on piano). It was actually comfortable to sit there, as opposed to the Blue Note.

I'd sometimes go to the Sam Goody in Kings Plaza. I really disliked how they defaced the back cover by doing what you said. I once asked a cashier not to do it, but she said if she didn't, I couldn't return it. It was a great time for albums. There were record stores throughout Brooklyn, and cutout racks in the weirdest places: Woolworth's, drug stores, clothing stores, you name it. My favorite record store was a place on Flatbush Avenue named (IIRC) Jamie's. I rarely had to venture outside Brooklyn to buy albums. One notable exception was for my 15th birthday, I went to King Karol on 42nd St. and 10th Ave. in Manhattan to buy Trout Mask Replica and Uncle Meat, because no place in Brooklyn stocked them. The Harmony records were not mixed in with the full-priced LPs, or even with the cutouts. They had their own little stand - record bins made of cardboard. 15 to 20 copies of each title, probably 30 different titles, mostly MOR (Percy Faith, Doris Day, old country singers and the like). But I did find these two gems. Super super cheap, probably $1.49 each.

Around 15 or so. Discogs shows the release date for both as 1969, but who know when during the year. I probably bought them around 1970. I do remember where I bought them: Korvettes in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. I either rode my bike there or took the bus. And even back then, I was pissed that they didn't come with inner sleeves.

Easy to do with Photoshop, not so easy to do back in the day. We don't think of cheapo record labels as having great covers, but another Harmony album I bought the same day has a great cover by John Van Hamersveld:

Thank you so much, jazztrain! You are truly "Master of the Groove!"

On Dusty Groove, I found a sealed copy of the first Louis Armstrong album I ever owned: Being on CBS's cheapo Harmony label, it came with no inner sleeve. Sound quality is actually pretty good; to achieve "Electronically re-recorded to simulate stereo," I think all they did was make one channel louder than the other. Would anyone have discographical info for this? It notes that Basin Street Blues and St. James Infirmary have Earl Hines on piano, so I'm guessing those are Okehs. There's a live Tiger Rag that I'm guessing is from the 1956 Chicago concert. If anyone can fill in the gaps, I'd appreciate it. Tracklist: A1 Tiger Rag A2 Honeysuckle Rose A3 Muskrat Ramble A4 Tin Roof Blues A5 Shine B1 Basin Street Blues B2 Body And Soul B3 Twelfth Street Rag B4 St. James Infirmary

Years ago, we posted work of a guy who "redid" ECM covers in Blue Note style. It was a hoot; wish we could still find them. It'd also be fun to do Blue Note covers in ECM style. Welcome!

I'm listening now to disc 7, and I must say a word about the great transferring. Allen has done wonders with the sound restoration. It gets better as the box proceeds; disc #1 sounds pretty raw, but I think a lot of it was transferred from cylinders. Good work!

Music Legends Eric Clapton, Van Morrison Team for Anti-Lockdown Single ‘Stand and Deliver’

A great interview. Hearing Beirach talk in his Brooklyn accent (Wikipedia says he was born in “NYC,” but it sure sounds to me like Brooklyn) crystallized a perception I have about ECM: they drain the personalities out of the musicians. It’s interesting that Eicher can’t relate to gutbucket blues. It’s like sweat and passion, or at least American sweat and passion, are alien to him. His perspective is more of the museum curator, or of the classical music aesthete. He may want us to expand our perception of other musical cultures, but he can’t extend himself to feel R&B. While ECM covers are often beautiful, what they rarely have are photos of the musicians. This upcoming Dino Saluzzi album is an exception: The photo humanizes the album - it shows us the real person making the music. Maybe, in the end, that's what ECM needs: less chilly distance, more real-person stuff.

Thanks for posting that. A very interesting article could (and should) be written about Miles's relationship with Chicago - how it influenced him, who he drew from there. The Jack Chambers bio of Miles mentioned quite a few things, such as he always played Chicago around Christmastime so he could visit his sister who lived there.

Just received the Hunter/Fortune. Interestingly, it's the Real Gone Music/Dusty Groove release.

It’s obvious that Mosaic needs a sugar daddy (or mommy). The sales on occasional releases won’t help them stay afloat.

Disc #3 of Craft's The Complete Cuban Jam Sessions would not play on any of my machines after a few minutes. There was no visible gouge or other identifiable defect. Because it would not play on any computer's CD drive, I couldn't make a copy of it. I wound up downloading that disc on mp3 from Amazon.

OK, fascinating, thanks Dave.

We love Thanksgiving. This year, it'll be just the 3 of us plus a cousin from Austin, but I bought a 16-lb turkey from Costco. The plan is: debone the turkey into 4 quadrants (see: https://www.chefsteps.com/activities/turkey-butchery-how-to-separate-breasts-thighs). Cook 1 or 2 quadrants with some combination of sous vide and oven (with quinoa stuffing underneath), 1 or 2 quadrants on the smoker, and 1 in the deep fryer. My wife makes great cranberry sauce using fresh cranberries. We'll have baked potatoes and baked sweet potatoes, maybe some leafy vegetable, maybe start with some chicken soup. End with chocolate pecan pie (filling is homemade, pie shell is store-bought). Since this is an absurd amount of food, we may prepare care packages for friends who are too scared to socialize.

I was never a big Betty Carter fan. I think she's a specialized taste, and a box would not necessarily sell well. A Select is a different story, but, ah well.

Try copying it to a blank CD, using your computer.

Also, if the music files reside on your external hard drive, does it need to be a NAS (Network Attached Storage) EHD, or will any EHD work?

Interesting. The article mentions a few times "your server" (as in "Plex has a feature it calls Sync, which allows you to save things to your remote device and your plays, skips, ratings, etc., get synced with your server when you get a data connection back") or "self-hosting your music library" (as in "It should be mentioned that there are other options out there for self-hosting your music library. I chose Plex because I already use it for other forms of media, but if you’re starting fresh you can go with other platforms..."). Are they referring to a virtual drive on Plex's (or a competitor's) server, or do your music files reside on a hard drive you own?

I bought it this afternoon @ $6.70. It's all about the algorithm; my purchase probably bumped the price up.

Do a search for "Wounded Bird" on Amazon (and on Dusty Groove) and you'll find many interesting things. Have we ever discussed Robin Kenyatta?