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This album really holds up

Saw the Davis, Shaw, Waits Quartet last year and they were excellent. They're all excellent musicians, so I wouldn't expect anything less. [Photo from Big Ears 2024]

Remastered 2CD+2Blu-Ray Expanded Edition Boxset. Always been a BIG fan of this album and am looking forward to the extra tracks and videos.

I was born in 1953 and remember my parents had an album or two of his. They liked him. Don't know how popular he was overall, but I think I remember seeing him on Ed Sullivan.

When I saw the obit I was shocked that he was still alive in 2025. Had no idea.

There's a nice Thiebaud retrospective exhibit at the Legion of Honor Museum in SF Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art

I saw him a number of times in the 70s at the Keystone Korner. Needless to say, he was a regular as both a leader and band member. Then I started seeing him again at SFJAZZ over the past 20 years or so. Again as a leader and with other artists. He was also a founding member of the SFJAZZ Collective. His final few years were sad because he had to use oxygen to overcome difficulties with emphysema. But he still continued to play for a while and never let that handicap slow him down.

Nice to see this thread. It will be a good reference next time I jump into the CF sale bin.

What do people think about Clean Feed Records? I discovered that they frequently have sales of catalog albums for €4.90/ea and have been buying a lot of them up. They have a fair amount of albums with artists I'm familiar with like Kris Davis, Tony Malaby, Peter Evans, Evan Parker, Eric Revis and others. But there are also a lot of Europeans who I don't know. Any recommendations, suggestions?

That's a good one. Happy to have that in Mosaic's "The Complete Clifford Jordan Strata-East Sessions" box.

I never expected that either. Glad that Org member David Weiss was on board as one of the producers of that set.

Would really LIKE to hear this album, but until now it's only been available on vinyl. Today he announced that there will be a 2CD set and a digital version coming out later this year, and his site was open for pre-orders. So I went to order the CD set and it was already SOLD OUT - for a Pre-Order! What's up with that? Did they only have like 100 available or something? Makes no sense.

Saw a nice interview with Ravi Coltrane at SFJAZZ tonight. I've seen him interviewed before. He's always interesting and very articulate. Same goes for tonight.

😆 It could be a problem with the actual printing of the booklet, too

I'm listening to these guys for the first time in a LONG time. I forgot how great their song are. On one hand they're LA Punk 80s-90s, but on the other they're talented musicians with extremely well rehearsed vocal harmonies. On top of that, their singer, Greg Gaffin has a (copied from Wikipedia): "BA Biology, BS Geology and master's in Geology at UCLA. In 2003 he went on to earn his PhD in Zoology from Cornell University" Now playing:

We finally cut the cable (Xfinity) early this year and switched to YouTubeTV for a fraction of the cost. Not only that, they carry more channels that we actually watch than the cable company (who BTW kept raising prices and taking away channels). I actually think the picture is better, too.

I'm happy to have all these Pacific Jazz sides

Loud Family "Interbabe Concern"

Saw her about a year and a half ago at Big Ears. Really good show!

McLaughlin and Cobham afternoon jam on the terrace at Montreux Jazz 1978

Tyshawn is the BEST. I've been able to see him quite a few times in the last several years.

Nice photo! Perfect ... actually 👏 I think Beat is playing in San Jose or somewhere like that later this year. Probably won't make that show.

Watched this interview with the members of Beat - a band that's playing mid-80s King Crimson albums. With Belew and Levin (who were in that version of KC) plus Steve Vai and Danny Carey from the band, Tool. Very interesting conversation about the current band and also Belew/Levin's experiences in the original band with Fripp and Bruford. I need to listen to Discipline, Beat and Three of a Perfect Pair