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At first I thought it was writing...I actually thought it might be a classical album on RCA. But I then enlarged the picture and saw I was off-base. What looked like writing (in the upper center of the cover) now looks like an emblem (something like the Cadillac logo) with some ballroom ceiling lights behind it. It might be a dance/disco album...which would place it a little later than 1973. Maybe something in the Queen mold?

The download of the 4-CD set is available on eMusic for $6.99: https://www.emusic.com/album/95575904/Lucky-Thompson/Complete-Parisian-Small-Group-Sessions-1956-1959

I hear you.

Jim, what are your latest thoughts about the Goodman?

Happy birthday and many more, Sonny. Write those memoirs!

Our thoughts are with you, out there in Florida. We've just lived through a big weather event here in Houston; hope Irma somehow avoids you.

Speaking of... release date September 22:

Release date October 20:

I came across this today, and my reaction was "huh?" You can "borrow" digitized books from archive.org? There are jazz discographies, including the Lord. Anyone know about this? See: https://archive.org/details/longtalldexterdi00sjgr

Dex made a great series of recordings at The Jazzhus Montmartre in July 1967. Some list the recording date as 7/20/67, though one source lists it as 7/20 & 21/67. These tracks are available over 4 CDs: Body And Soul, Both Sides Of Midnight and Take The "A" Train (all Black Lion/1201 Music) and Live At The Jazzhus Montmartre (Jazz Colours). Does anyone know the exact recording sequence of these tracks? Was also wondering how many sets these were, and whether they were spread out over two days. Many thanks in advance.

Re The New Yorker cover: Meh. BFD. TNY likes Texas when it reflects TNY's obsessions with race. All other times, it sees us as misbegotten idiots. Consider this long piece, which it published less than two months ago. If you think TNY (or anyone in the Northeast) has got your Texas back, you are sadly mistaken. "But a recurrent crop of crackpots and ideologues has fed the state’s reputation for aggressive know-nothingism and proudly retrograde politics"..."One can drive across it and be in two different states at the same time: FM Texas and AM Texas. FM Texas is the silky voice of city dwellers, the kingdom of NPR. It is progressive, blue, reasonable, secular, and smug—almost like California. AM Texas speaks to the suburbs and the rural areas: Trumpland. It’s endless bluster and endless ads. Paranoia and piety are the main items on the menu." http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/10/americas-future-is-texas

Now I remember. "And The Big Brass" on CD also contains 4 tracks with MJQ at Music Inn; "Brass/Trio" on CD only has the 8 original tracks. Also, the order of the tracks on the two releases is different; no clue why.

I know this was rereleased as Brass And Trio. Where did the trio tracks come from?

Paul Bley, Nana Vasconcelos, Kenny Wheeler, Paul Motian, based on a quick web search.

Has ECM ever released a recording by an artist posthumously?

I don't yet see the Concord download listed on Amazon.

We drove around Meyerland, the neighborhood by Brays Bayou. While the water has receded, you could see watermarks on the fronts of the houses showing how high the waters had risen. 5 - 6 feet was not uncommon. Truly disconcerting. These were people who already had their houses gutted in prior storms. Mattresses and sofas are beginning to be piled up on the curbside. We got an email that garbage pickup has been suspended because the landfills are flooded.

Nope; it's full of asbestos.

This photo was taken around 2 miles from my house. This area (involving 610 and Brays Bayou) floods regularly, and was hit hard in the last two tropical storms. Some of it may be due to design problems, and I know engineers have been working to widen the Brays, but this was a storm of historic proportions. And I am so tired of this shit talk against Trump, Abbott and Republicans in general. I like Trump and I like Abbott, just as I like Sylvester Turner, the Democrat mayor of Houston. I've lobbied long and hard here for a ban against political talk. Does a thread about a hurricane have to devolve into shit talk about the First Lady's shoes?

Kenny & Ziggy's is open!

To all those who asked: we are OK. The waters have receded on our street, and our house remained dry. There will be some more rain today, but won't be consequential here. The storm has shifted to the north and east, so Louisiana's gonna get some heavy rainfall today, but the power of the storm has weakened. There's a chance it will strengthen as it goes over the Gulf again, but doesn't seem likely.

Water from Addicks Reservoir flows directly into Buffalo Bayou. This release from the dam is to prevent BB from further flooding.

It does not. Per a report I just saw on TV, the dams were built to a) collect water flowing from the brays, and b) to protect downtown Houston. The problem they're facing now is that so much water is flowing into the dams that too much water may then flow to downtown; it needs to be more controlled. That's why they're releasing water from the dams in directions opposite to downtown.

I live in the Houston area. The tropical storm is not moving, and continues to dump tons of rain on us (650 billion gallons so far during this storm). Watching the water creep up our driveway, but thankfully the house is still dry.

No, not really. You have to consider the sources and see whether you consider them realistic. For instance, we don't claim that von Schuttenbach has any firsthand knowledge of these incidents, as she never spoke to Hipp or Feather. But she says "she interviewed musicians who knew Hipp." Right now, we don't know who these musicians were. When she names them and publishes transcripts of these interviews, we would then have a clearer picture and perhaps an ability to judge what happened. I read Ira Gitler's book "From Swing To Bop," which had lengthy interviews with those who participated in the era. I judged, both from the people who were interviewed and the way their voices sounded from the transcripts, that they were believable. On the other hand, I saw the Ken Burns Jazz series, in which Wynton Marsalis claimed to know what Louis Armstrong thought and how he came to his innovations; given Marsalis's age, I did not find him believable (even if what he was saying about Louis was true; he would have gotten that knowledge from other sources). Right now, if these allegations just come from von Schuttenbach, then to us they're hearsay, because you're left with believing her or not. And based on what? She says she "found evidence;" how do you know that's true? And a master's thesis needs to go through university review; how do we now know what their critique will consist of? I'm making these points (at far further length than I originally intended) because I strongly believe in the concept of innocent until proven guilty, and I don't like gossip.