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Avid just came out with a two-CD set that includes Just You Just Me, All Of Me, Songs From The Heart, And I Thought About You, and the vocals with Andrew Hill.

He's on two tracks (Patanjali and Don't Stop The Carnival) on Road Shows, Vol. 3, and one track (Professor Paul) on Holding The Stage (Road Shows, Vol. 4).

Listening now to Jimmy Cobb's Only For The Pure At Heart. Bernstein is a standout. I definitely hear Grant Green in him, with Jim Hall's rounded tone. The guy swings.

Do you want something for outer sleeves (to encompass the entire cover), or just for the discs themselves?

Interesting article from the April edition of Stereophile: https://www.stereophile.com/content/from-congo-square-times-square-short-history-drums-jazz

Thankfully, the later pressings replaced the 3" disc with a regular-sized one.

I think I have enough Mingus. He really needed a good editor. One reason that Ah Um and Dynasty made such an impact is because Teo wasn't afraid to shorten and tighten up the tunes. Mingus may have been "great" (whatever that means), but he really wasn't 35 minutes a tune great. This is from an Amazon review: "There's nine performances of tunes like (the 35 minute) "Fables Of Faustus", and (the 30 + minute) "Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress Then Silk Blues", or (the 19 + minute) "Noddin' Ya Head Blues", plus other good arrangements of Mingus' compositions. "Mind Readers' (sic) Convention In Milano (AKA Number 29)", at just under 30 minutes, is also a great example of Mingus and this band." Sorry, but that's way too long.

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/s-neil-fujita

If anyone's interested, there's a copy available at Dusty Groove.

RIP. Phaedra is wonderful music.

Just got an email for the next GarciaLive release (vol. 18, 11/2/74). Garcia and Saunders doing Freedom Jazz Dance?!? I'm intrigued how it sounds. Paul Humphrey on drums! It's also interesting that this is just two weeks after GD went on hiatus.

Thanks. It looks good! All BN tunes except for Stanley The Steamer (Bethlehem).

They're on this:

What are the titles on the CD, and how long is it? Dusty Groove now shows the release date as May 25.

Williams also played on this Public Image Ltd. album:

Reissue date July 8: For the first time on CD and digitally Tony Williams' 1980 "Play Or Die" album is available again. It was a limited edition LP of only 500 vinyl copies when it was originally released. Tony Williams certainly counts among those unique drummers in the history of Jazz, whose work has had a lasting influence on styles and still does. At the tender age of 16, saxophonist Jackie McLean brought him to his band in New York. He also made his first recording with McLean. Soon after, aged 17, Williams was already making a splash in the second Miles Davis Quintet. Almost twenty years later, in 1980, on May 30 and 31, Tony Williams went to the Zuckerfabrik recording studio in Stuttgart/Germany, together with Tom Grant (keyboards, synthesizer, he joined this band on the recommendation of Jeff Lorber) and Patrick O'Hearn (bass, synthesizer, he joined this band on the recommendation of Tom Grant). In the 1970s and early 1980s, this studio was an illustrious address for audio productions of all kinds. Larry Coryell, Wolfgang Dauner, Stephane Grappeli, Elvin Jones, Martin Kolbe + Ralf Illenberger, Volker Kriegel, Alphonse Mouzon, John Scofield and the United Jazz+Rock Ensemble recorded there, to name just a few. Tony Williams and Peter Schnyder produced this recording in tandem. The album was recorded in just two days and mixed right there in the studio. This timeless album, released in an edition of only 500 copies, was hardly promoted at the time and may therefore have remained unknown to one or the other. All the better that now for the first time since the release of the Vinyl it is also available on CD, with a significantly improved sound. TRACK LIST: The Big Man Beach Ball Tango Jam Tune Para Oriente There Comes A Time (Lawra) A very special LP of this recording will be released later this year!

I owned them both on a Fantasy twofer "Reincarnation of a Lovebird." Strangely, the version there of "Love is a Dangerous Necessity" faded out 30 seconds early.

Listening now to Johnny Hartman's The Voice That Is!, I see he's accompanied by Hank Jones, piano, Barry Galbraith, guitar, Richard Davis, bass, and Osie Johnson, drums; recorded in 1964. It seems to me this group played often together. No idea if they ever played live; perhaps more like session guys who were personally compatible and were able to be hired as a group. Does this qualify?

Release date November 1: The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One—and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a master class on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyzes what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song, and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal. These essays are written in Dylan’s unique prose. They are mysterious and mercurial, poignant and profound, and often laugh-out-loud funny. And while they are ostensibly about music, they are really meditations and reflections on the human condition. Running throughout the book are nearly 150 carefully curated photos as well as a series of dream-like riffs that, taken together, resemble an epic poem and add to the work’s transcendence. In 2020, with the release of his outstanding album Rough and Rowdy Ways, Dylan became the first artist to have an album hit the Billboard Top 40 in each decade since the 1960s. The Philosophy of Modern Song contains much of what he has learned about his craft in all those years, and like everything that Dylan does, it is a momentous artistic achievement.

Here's the AP obituary: https://nypost.com/2022/04/16/art-rupe-pioneering-record-executive-dead-at-104/

Charnett Moffett, a bassist and composer whose virtuosity on both electric (often fretless) and acoustic instruments was matched by his versatility, died April 11 at Stanford University Medical Center in Stanford, Calif. The cause was a heart attack. Moffett’s death was confirmed by his publicist, Lydia Liebman, who issued an official announcement on April 13. https://jazztimes.com/features/tributes-and-obituaries/charnett-moffett-1967-2022/?fbclid=IwAR3SJxk_030Eb0AI-sW_ox63SDwis_lTkbV1PvpTP536B4gImLcyCzj6goA

https://twitter.com/mannyfidel/status/1513966261469863939?s=20&t=GI2cwCoAwjFe7dqOEljf1Q This is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time.

GA, no problem at all. More info is better than less, and your enthusiasm is always appreciated!

Which makes the additional alternates intriguing. From where were they sourced?

It would probably sound better in mono. The package looks nice: https://www.amazon.com/Blakeys-Jazz-Messengers-Thelonious-Monk/dp/B09XBHR9VR/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1TD1CMBTPYEAT&keywords=Blakey+monk&qid=1649728458&s=music&sprefix=blakey+monk%2Cpopular%2C97&sr=1-1