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FYI, I tried 4 of the audio-only links, but all that came up was "video not found." The audio would not play. Thanks for posting, though.

Are there any others besides the Coltrane and Mingus?

Release date October 28 (27 discs!):

Found this interesting release on eMusic: Giant Steps in mono, from Rhino Atlantic. Hope this is a good trend. $4.54 for members.

I agree with a lot of this. I bought Starsailor the week it came out, and found it cold, off-putting, and pretty disappointing. His first two albums are too pretty, folk-psychedelia, and sound like the work of a young man. His work deepened with Happy Sad, and not just lyrically; the music deepened too, and I love the vibes and Lee Underwood on guitar. I heard Greetings From L.A. as an authentic attempt to play to his strengths (his soulful voice) in a more-commercial R&B setting, and, as a songwriter, to encompass his obvious preoccupations of the time (mostly sado-masochistic sex, apparently). Sefronia and Look At The Fool tone down the sex but keep the mournful R&B. I guess he kept hoping to catch fire, but there wasn't a ready audience for it. With hindsight, he was the type of artist who needed a manager with a firmer hand, who could give realistic feedback and help control the experimentation without alienating his older audience.

What were the 3 tracks? I found 2 tracks (Afternoon In Paris and Tricotism) on a different Burrell Chess two-fer (which I bought as a cut-out cassette):

Per Wikipedia, "In 1971 Chess Records was purchased by General Recorded Tape, aka GRT Corporation, which consolidated both the Chess and Cadet labels into a single labeling number sequence." A list of their releases can be found here. IIRC, GRT made the cassettes used by labels to release prerecorded cassettes; guess this was their attempt at diversification.

There was a two-fer issued with the same name: Oh, I wasn't aware of any Argo vinyl twofers! Never saw one so far! It was a series issued when Argo/Chess was owned by some faceless corporation in the mid-70's. I had this one, I think as a French import:

The Horowitz Carnegie box is down to $62.10 + shipping from an Amazon reseller.

4 Men With Beards is a legitimate reissue label. I have their release of Beefheart's Decals album. They've also put out Blue Afternoon on vinyl. The original vinyl release of Starsailor had a very odd sound quality.

Anyone see this movie?

On iTunes trailers, I noticed a trailer for a new documentary on Clark Terry, called "Keep On Keepin' On." Documentary in theaters 9/19. The trailer's pretty moving.

Tim was one of my favorites back in the day. I first saw him opening for Zappa's Grand Wazoo at the Felt Forum, NYC, in 1972; I saw him twice in Central Park in 1973 and 1974; and I saw him at Max's Kansas City a few weeks before he died in 1975. His voice was just this enormous presence; it filled the room. I've always loved Blue Afternoon the best, followed by Happy Sad and Lorca. Would love to see a discography of those sessions. BTW, Starsailor is available as a legitimate download from eMusic.

There was a two-fer issued with the same name:

Confused?.... moi......... Zoot Sims Quartet Zoot Sims (tenor,alto saxophone) John Williams (piano) Knobby Totah (bass) Gus Johnson (drums) Chicago, IL, October 12, 1956 9:20 Special Argo LP 608; Chess 2ACMJ 405 The Man I Love - 55th And State - Blue Room - Gus's Blues - That Old Feeling - Bohemia After Dark - Woody'n You - * Argo LP 608 Zoot Sims - Zoot * Chess 2ACMJ 405 Sonny Stitt/Zoot Sims - Interaction Zoot Sims Quintet Nick Travis (trumpet) Zoot Sims (tenor,alto saxophone) George Handy (piano, arranger) Wilbur Ware (bass) Osie Johnson (drums) Reeves Sound Studios, NYC, December 13 & 18, 1956 Why Cry Riverside REP 120, RLP 12-228 Echoes Of You - Swim Jim Riverside RLP 12-228 Here And Now - Fools Rush In Riverside RLP 12-228, RLP 12-244 Osmosis Riverside RLP 12-228 Taking A Chance On Love - * Riverside RLP 12-228; Original Jazz Classics OJC 228, OJCCD 228-2 Zoot Sims - Zoot! = Jazzland JLP 2 Zoot Sims Quintet * Riverside RLP 12-244 Various Artists - Jazz For Lovers * Riverside REP 120 Zoot Sims Quintet

Sad that none of these are coming anywhere near Houston.

Amazon doesn't have any smaller covers (the ones they show on the product page aren't conventional jpg's, and won't appear here), and Amazon is where I see this new release info. Sorry it's causing problems for you.

What more can one say? He was 96.

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According to the Albert Ayler site, the alternate Spirits is not part of it. http://www.ayler.co.uk/html/what_s_new.html: "Speaking of which, ESP do have one 'unreleased' track, courtesy of Martin Davidson. It's the alternate 'Spirits' which did appear on some early editions of Spiritual Unity. There's more information about it on the Spiritual Unity page, but apparently ESP didn't have a copy of the fifth track until recently, when Martin Davidson (of the Emanem label) sent them one, and ESP told him that their next issue of Spiritual Unity will contain all five tracks from the session...." Now available as preorder from Amazon; release date August 26: Spiritual Unity, recorded on July 10, 1964, is the album that made Albert Ayler and ESP-Disk famous. Ayler's sound was unprecedented, much rawer than any other jazz of the time. The 50th Anniversary Expanded Edition includes as a bonus the track ""Vibrations,"" which was briefly and accidentally substituted for ""Spirits"" on an early vinyl edition. It is the first time both ""Spirits"" and ""Vibrations"" have been on an edition of Spiritual Unity.

We all felt our Houston pride as Moran spoke and played, but, for me at least, that pride turned into a question as I walked away from the park, into downtown—with nary a jazz club in sight. If Houston produces so many truly world-class talents, and has by all accounts some of the best jazz education in the country, then why is it so hard to find the music here? Where is the Houston jazz scene that is actually in Houston? Does it really even exist? Full article here: Houstonia

I heard most of these when they were released. Homecoming has long tracks (10 - 12 minutes on average) with lots of Woody Shaw, so if you like Woody, you'll like this. The Carnegie Hall tracks are really good (tho imho George Cables's solos could've used some editing), and the duets with Johnny Griffin burn. I also like the duets with Eddie Jefferson. Lots of good Dexter quartet tracks. Really, you can't go wrong.