RSD April 2026

[rostasi]

https://substack.com/home/post/p-194528027

[Kevin Bresnahan]

I'm up for the Henderson date on CD. My days of buying new vinyl when there's a CD option are slowly going away. I already have too many LPs that I don't have room for.

[clifford_thornton]

shop here sold out of the Cecil before I could get over there... drat. If anyone has a line on a copy I would be appreciative!

[Ken Dryden]

I've enjoyed the Yusef Lateef, Mal Waldron, Ahmad Jamal, Bill Evans, Michel Petrucciani immensely. I have been impressed with disc 1 of the Henderson, I haven't yet played the Cecil Taylor set.

[AllenLowe]

On 2/4/2026 at 2:43 PM, clifford_thornton said:

The Annie Ross is pretty cool. 

Looks like the Cecil is from Paris and not Maeght (as I'd been told) and I will definitely pick it up despite my aversion to the liner note author.

I won't mention any names but Phil Freeman is a know-nothing, with a vengeance.

[Rabshakeh]

10 hours ago, AllenLowe said:

I won't mention any names but Phil Freeman is a know-nothing, with a vengeance.

He's a classic jazz entrepreneur/critic. I don't mean that in a positive way. But I don't dislike him like you do. I would follow one of his recommendations over a recommendation from someone like Chinen. I think his special skill is at least finding out when music has a pulse, which is pretty rare for younger professional jazz critics these days.

[mjazzg]

I thought his Cecil book was really disappointing. Very little insight into the man and it became a simple chronological description of the gigs played.

I believe there's another bio on the horizon which will hopefully do Taylor justice.

As for RSD itself, well the first Little Feat album is one I'm very happy to be reacquainted with.

[Eric B]

Thrilled to have found a copy of Buster Williams’s “Pinnacle” at my local. This is the one Mwandishi-adjacent LP that I could never track down. 
 

Agree Phil Freeman sucks big time. Sophomoric grouches singularly enthusiastic about “out” music are my least favorite jazz-guy archetype.