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Then, excellent find.

That must be an interesting boxset. When was it released? Is it still available?

Some while ago I was listening to this and now to to this So Quebec from the beginnings of BN and the early sixties, I think. And he performs in both with the same emotion and forcefulness.

Yes. I saw it in the news this midday, although with no volume, but I could still detect they were talking about Morricone. Let's see what they say this evening, my usual TV news time.

No it didn't happen here in Europe. But today and for the last days I've observed that your site is a bit slow in loading. But it loads eventually.

I ended up again with one of my favourite Mosaics, and rediscovered what I believe was his best band. The trio with Eddie Costa (p) and Vinnie Burke (b), on The swinging guitar of Tal Farlow, which I think I also have as a digipack.

Thanks. That's the kind of input I needed.

Louie Vega, that's one half of Masters at Work.

That's the same thoughts/questions I'm harboring right now.

A terrific Clifford Jordan date. With Art Farmer, Sonny Clark, George Tucker and Louis Hayes.

Seek out Edu da Gaita, a tremendous harmonica player. And also Brazilian, by the way. This album is specially good. But this is from the late 50s, I'm afraid.

I've got this as an mp3, so i'll probably buy it, if there is a CD. I hadn't read this. So will it be a Resonance release?

That is one of those incredible Roques covers someone mentioned here.

I liked Stool Pigeon and Kid Creole a lot around the time. Start of the 80s. and this is one of my all time faves

What a nice set. Guitar, organ and Ike Quebec. Great! Well at least the first 8 tracks. But it's all organ combo with guitar. Different players, but it's all the same.

Yes, that's very probable. I knew it had somethnig to do with his collection, but I wondered about the brownstone/brownswood dichotomy. That's very convenient for him then.

That one showed up yesterday, and yes it was from the UK. I think it's from Brownswood, Gilles Peterson's label, because though it's still unopened it shows a "If undeliverable return to Brownswood" message. Brownswood, called after the Brownstone house that houses a part of his collection, was formed in the mid 2000s and launched the many neosoul Brownswood Bubblers compilations with the best of each year. The first was launched in 2007 and I think they still exist today. At least they existed in 2010-12. And I now see his new reissue label is called Arc, which must have reissued the Shirley Scott. But his main label still is Brownswood. He had other ones before, like Talkin Loud in the acid jazz days.

I've always enjoyed Gioia. Wether on West Coast Jazz, the History of Jazz, or the Blues (and I still have an unread book about Standards). But this is something else. Here he reflects on the subversive role of music before being assimilated into the mainstream and becoming recognized. I quote from the introduction: "When we celebrate the songs of previous eras, the repectable music of cultural elites gets almost all the attention, while the subversive efforts of outsiders and rebels fall from view. The history books downplay or hide essential elements of music that are considered disreputable or irrational (...). They whitewash key elements of a four thousand-year history of disruptors and insurgents creating musical revolutions, instead celebrating assimilators within the mainstream power structure who borrowed these innovations while diluting their impact and disguising their sources. (...). The real history of music is not respectable. Far from it. Neither is it boring". A bold mission statement.

The other day I saw those pictures of Mobley in a yellow turtleneck sweater. They were from the session for Reach Out, from 1968. Material that is included in the new Mobley Mosaic.

Yes, that's true. And it's a very early BN.

With Charlie Christian!

Axelrod? But what has Axelrod to do with it?