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Randall Kline of SFJAZZ Named First Recipient of the Bruce Lundvall Visionary Award

Amazon has a pre-sale price on the CD set of $50.98, so not a huge discount from PopMarket on this one.

Thursday at the Fillmore: Drive-By Truckers, Sturgill Simpson

Good deal on those Ella sets! I have the original 4CD set and it was a lot more than $11.40!

Amazing how many of those names from 2003 are now gone. I would guess at least half of them.

I see them every time they come through the Bay Area (Yoshi's, SFJAZZ ... whatever) and have never been disappointed. BTW, a couple of interesting shots (among others) of Billy Harper with Lee Morgan on that site.

Here's the latest on this HOAX. No, Robert Plant did not rip up an $800 million offer to reunite Led Zeppelin

The Cookers launched a new website that includes a Gallery with some VERY cool archival shots of some of the members - HERE.

Seeing the Andrian Belew Power Trio tomorrow night. I hope it's good and not just a 'shred-fest'.

Not AGAIN!

IIRC, the Beatles turned down huge chunks of change when they were all still alive, too. Sometimes it just doesn't make artistic sense to revisit your past - for any amount of money. Especially if you don't "need" the money.

Just to second these two recommendations. The Mosaic set is OOP, but can usually be found for a reasonable price on ebay, and "Mean What You Say" is still in print.

Bobby is scheduled to play at The Addition (formerly Yoshi's SF) on Jan 23, 24. I hope he's feeling better and able to make it.

Curtis Amy Select, disk 2

[Here's the email - and actually, I don't think the name(s) will change] Starting Nov 6th, Your Membership Will Pay For Itself! Dear Concert Vault Member, On Thursday, November 6th, we will be replacing the Concert Vault Store with full access to Wolfgang's Vault, hailed as the greatest online collection of music merchandise and memorabilia in the world. On that date we will begin awarding a store credit equal in value to the cost of your membership every time it renews. Now your membership pays for itself! Your store credit remains available as long as your Concert Vault membership is active. It can be applied toward the purchase of any item in the Wolfgang's Vault store, where you will find everything that was available in the Concert Vault store plus tens of thousands of additional items. You will use the same email address to make purchases at Wolfgang's Vault as you have in Concert Vault and its store, and your store credits will be applied to your purchases automatically. When we make this change you will no longer receive a 10% discount on merchandise purchases - but until then please continue to enjoy your 10% discount on all merchandise in the CV Store. Thank you so much for your continued membership and support. Cheers, Concert Vault (Store credit will equal cost of membership and can be used on any single or combination of items in the Wolfgang’s Vault store. Additional store credit will be added at every membership renewal. Store credit can only be redeemed with an active membership. Store credit cannot be applied to membership or download purchases. Concert Vault reserves the right to change the terms and conditions of its membership benefits including the value and frequency of store credit.)

I agree - it was not very clear. It seemed to me that it was about the merch, not the downloads...........and maybe getting rid of the "Concert Vault" name, too.

The first real rain in MONTHS! Just in time for the Giants' World Series parade. Oh, well ... we need it.

He's been using oxygen for a few years at least. I saw him in the audience for the Cookers at SFJAZZ a few weeks ago, and he looked pretty frail.

I just saw Ronnie Cuber with the Mingus Big Band last week. Excellent, as usual.

Mingus Big Band - although I don't know if they qualify as "modern" or not.

Living in SF, I've seen those cars several times. You can't MISS them, that's for sure!

Because they were behind you? How is Cafe Oto? I might try to get there on Sunday for EP if I can squeeze it in.

Today I played disks from a couple of sets that I really haven't listened to much: Anita O'Day and Jack Teagarden.