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I found this excellent album in a used record store for $2.99. Never knew of it before. Clark and Ben make a nice front line. Recorded June 17, 1963. Clark Terry tp+flh, Ben Webster ts, Roger Kellaway p+celeste, Gene Bertoncini g, Bill Crow b, Dave Bailey dr.

He died in 1974, so I'm not sure what "are late 1970s recordings from New York". Maybe something got lost in translation. A friend told me about a concert he saw, I think at Lehman College in the Bronx, maybe a year before Duke died. Ellington opened for Mandrill (!) (maybe it was Osibisa). Duke comes out and introduces the band, one by one. Then he says "And now, the youngest person in the band, on piano," and he sat down and began playing.

Both of these are on the Savoy LP twofer "Savoy Jam Party."

In the liner notes for the Savoy Fuller/Flanagan date I mentioned above, they interviewed producer Ozzie Cadena: Cadena surmises that Fuller was the "straw boss" of the session, by virtue of the fact that aside from the three standard tunes, all of the compositions are Fuller originals. "Curtis was very aggressive about doing recording dates," says Cadena. "He made a lot of dates and contributed a lot of tunes."

Per The Second Disc, the reissue in January of the first Grateful Dead album will include "an unreleased concert from July 29, 1966 in Vancouver, Canada on Disc 2." See: http://theseconddisc.com/2016/11/start-down-the-golden-road-rhino-reissues-grateful-deads-debut-to-launch-50th-anniversary-campaign/

DULUTH, Minn.—When Steve Goldfine heard that Bob Dylan wouldn’t be in Stockholm to pick up his Nobel Prize Dec. 10, he couldn’t have been less surprised. “It’s no different than he’s been for 60 years,” said Mr. Goldfine, a distant cousin of the rock ’n’ roll troubadour. He remembered Mr. Dylan behaving similarly during a Thanksgiving dinner he shared with Mr. Dylan’s family here in the 1950s. “I don’t believe he came out of the basement. He was playing music in the basement.” Mr. Dylan, the first musician to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, has proven to be quite a headache for the Swedish Academy, which awards the prizes. First, he took several weeks to acknowledge the award, sparking concerns he would be the first laureate in literature since Jean-Paul Sartre in 1964 to reject it. A Nobel Committee member called his behavior “impolite and arrogant” in an interview with a Swedish television station. More here: http://www.wsj.com/articles/bob-dylan-is-blowin-everybody-off-but-minnesotans-dont-mind-1480619528

Dusty Groove currently has a bunch of sealed Beehive LPs at reasonable prices ($4.99 - $6.99). They're listed under used LPs.

I don't think he was in the same league as J.J., but seemed to make a lot of great dates. I saw him once at the Jazz Standard in a group headed by Billy Higgins, with John Ore, James Spaulding, Don Sickler and probably some others. This was around 2000. He wasn't playing on the same level as the others; maybe he was just having an off-night. I remember someone, either here or on the BNBB, saying he only had one lung. But hey, all of those dates from the late-'50's onwards are so special, because they just don't make 'em like that anymore, that I'll still snap up anything I can find. I found this recently on a Savoy reissue LP. Cover says it's a Tommy Flanagan date, but the liner notes say Fuller headed the session: Original cover:

2 weeks ago, I found a used copy of this for $3.99 at Dusty Groove. And none of it is on the Mosaic box:

No, I got it from that Tumblr page (what is Tumblr, anyway?), and I'm on a Mac. I did leave out the step that Jim R mentioned. So my full process was: right click on the question mark, choose Open Image in New Window, which brings you to the Tumblr page. Find the photo and click on it; this brings up the larger image. Right click on the image and choose Copy Image Address (don't copy the URL at the top of the window). Paste it here using Insert other media.

Listening now again to Under A Woodstock Moon (Kokopelli). What a great record. I just get immersed in it. Lushly recorded, great arrangements (including a string quartet on some cuts, arranged by Torrie Zito), and fabulous playing by all concerned, but especially by Mr. Fathead. Try to find this one! I've just acquired my 26th & 27th Fathead records: a used vinyl copy of The Many Facets, and a live date on CD (for some reason listed on Amazon under Tilden Webb):

FYI, the "trick" to show the photo is: If the photo doesn't appear, you probably see instead a small blue box with a question mark. Right-click that question mark, and, in the resulting menu, select "Open Image in New Window." You'll now see the image in a new web browser window. Copy the URL for that window, and paste it here using the "Insert other media" drop-down box.

I'm partial to the 1982 Ronnie Scott's date that resulted in 3 Pablo albums: A London Bridge, Memories of Thelonious Sphere Monk, and Mostly Duke. And while there are no bad Milt Jackson records, I'd nonetheless...sidestep those where he sings, such as 1978's Soul Believer (also Pablo).

I was thinking of getting the set until I compared the discography to what I already owned and found I had most of it. Basically just missing some Allen Eager stuff.

There could be an interesting Mosaic box made from Bags' last records on MusicMasters, Qwest, East-West, Warner Bros., and wherever else. The compositions might be playing it a bit safe, but like Jim says...

Always great. And how appropriate that you posted it now, since Thanksgiving-time was always when TV would show The Wizard Of Oz.

Yes, those are the same 16 tracks that were on this Roulette release; glad you got the corrected pitch:

Two separate recordings of trumpeter Kenny Dorham live at The Half Note in NYC in 1966 and at The Flamboyan in Queens in 1962. Both dates were MC'd by Alan Grant. Joining Kenny on the 1966 date are Sonny Red on alto sax, pianist Cedar Walton, bassist John Ore and drummer Hugh Walker. The 1962 date features Joe Farrell on tenor sax, pianist Walter Bishop Jr. , bassist Larry Gales and drummer Stu Martin. Includes 19 page booklet with an essay by Matt Leskovic with many period photographs.

This is what my phone is suffering from: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3142985/apple-phone/apple-offers-to-repair-iphone-6-plus-devices-with-touch-disease.html

Is there any way of finding out when the first 78s from the Roost session appeared?

Very sad. RIP.

I'll let you know after I finish this restore.

Some people, including me, are experiencing this problem, so you may want to wait - Apple has NOT fixed it yet: http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/13/12904912/apple-ios-10-bricked-itunes-restore-fix-how-to