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It isn’t clear those LP’s are legit, and they’re definitely not complete. This double-cd is definitely legit, and has both Jordan sessions complete. https://www.discogs.com/release/5725923-Joe-Henderson-Carmell-Jones-Clifford-Jordan-The-Erich-Kleinschuster-Sextet-Volume-1-196869

Bet that’s probably not including those two excellent Kleinschuster sessions — which are among the best Jordan things I’ve ever heard. I don’t suppose the liners on this new one list all 27 dates by name, do they? — a full discography would be nice (even if it wasn’t a true sessionography).

Late in my junior year of high school (in 1986), I won free tickets on the radio being the first caller to correctly identify what song the lyric “Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful” came from. It was from KSHE-95 in St. Louis, and the concert was America, with Graham Nash as the opener (just him, backed by some other trio — so Nash as a solo act, but not playing solo) — at The Fox Theatre in STL. Liked Nash better — but not a half-bad concert, I remember thinking at the time — considering what I paid for it.

Not necessarily.

The full-length track that was exclusive to that NPR story is now live on YouTube too…

Can someone get this, so I'm not tempted to? Please! She's been on my list of names I need to explore, and I'm just spinning this off YouTube as I type this (only 4 minutes into the first track), and it's marvelous!!

Very nearly my story -- except I was 26 when I bought my first Mosaic (in 1995). And I seem to remember wanting to get the Andrew Hill 63-69 box too (or maybe even as my very first, lone Mosaic purchase)... ...but I chickened out and decided on just the Don Cherry BN box instead (which was only 2 discs, and a LOT cheaper). But I think(?) my very next purchase was the Andrew Hill, probably not more than 6 months later. I still have all the paperwork from Mosaic in their boxes, so I could find out if I took a look -- maybe I will. BTW, as much as a Hill nut as I am now (and have been for 20+ years) -- when I bought the big Hill box, I really only bought it on the strength of all the sidemen (so many names that were already important to me). But Point of Departure was actually the only Hill leader-date I'd heard before when I took the plunge. Took me 5 years to really get my ears around that box -- but that's what so great about Hill, is that the music is always so fresh and unpredictable every time I hear it, even to some extent today. I was NOT a Hill convert from day #1 -- but I was intrigued from the git go, and kept listening.

“I just remember hitting my head, and now I have the cheese,” said Delaney Irving, 19, who comes from Nanaimo, British Columbia. Matt Crolla, 28, from Manchester in northwestern England, won the first of several men’s races. Asked how he had prepared, he told reporters: “I don’t think you can train for it, can you? It’s just being an idiot.”

Be aware that the Mapleshade website also currently has a "SAVE 30% WHEN YOU BUY 3 OR MORE CDs" offing going on, which seems to apply to everything they offer. This new Clifford Jordan disc is under the category "OTHER LABELS' CDS".

Whole thing is on YouTube too. I'm diggin' it!

Been enjoying this on CD for a few days now, and it's absolutely fantastic. Superb playing from everyone. Especially the bits of Clavinet sprinkled here and there. This should be in everyone's collection. Outstanding job, Jim, bravo!!

Who is Audrey Plaza?

On my phone, it shows two options under “store” in the upper right hand corner, “bandcamp” and “physical CD’s”. Be aware that the CD’s seem to have (presumably domestic) shipping included (which explains their relatively high cost). And there’s also a note to email them if you’re buying more than one item. ALSO, there seems to be a (short) “page 2” of more CD’s (which could be easily overlooked). This is all on mobile via my iPhone — no idea what it looks like on a desktop browser.

OMG, I’d completely forgotten about Reptet. I probably have a CD of theirs somewhere. They played in KC about a month before I left for DC — and stayed at our empty house (the entire band). Had to all sleep in their sleeping bags on the floors through the house (carpeted, at least), as that was after I’d already moved all of my wife’s and my stuff to DC (I was sleeping on the floor myself my that point) — as I was still trying to get the house ready to put on the market. Great band, far as I’m remembering.

Looks like four (4) sets to me — but can we identify any of them??!!

If you didn’t get that one, here’s another one. 99¢ opening bit, but $18 shipping from Japan, iirc.

Amen, amen, and amen — 1,000x over. The collective knowledge and wisdom around here is unparalleled, in terms of a singular place to get good info, discographical or otherwise — and a solid variety opinions and historical perspectives. And the BS-quotient is normally quite low, all things considered (a rarity in this world, especially online). I wouldn’t know 1/4th of what I know about jazz without this place — and might not have ever discovered probably close to 1/3rd of the titles in my entire collection — or easily only discovered things a decade or more later than I did. This place has been a serious blessing in my life (and despite my use of the terms ‘amen’ and ‘blessing’ here… for the record, I’m really more of an atheistic-leaning agnostic).

Think of my use of the term "understated" as me trying to find a word that means the opposite of "uproarious". In other words, quiet (drumming) with an attack that doesn't try and draw attention to the playing -- BUT what's being played is really active and every shifting. And ideally, in a larger context where the entire group is also playing in a deceptively unassuming way. There's largely a ton of stuff going on from every player on Pat Metheny's Question and Answer album (nearly every track) -- and yet I could play that album on my desk at work at a moderate volume, and practically NO ONE would ever notice. The timbre of Lee Konitz' alto sticks out slightly more (that Pat's guitar), but I can easily play Motion with Elvin with my wife in the room, and she'll barely notice it either. And yet, when you turn either of them up just a little bit more, and really listen -- there's SO much going on, like everyone is half-soloing all the time, every measure, on every track. And Elvin and Roy are largely the reasons.

I kept going back and forth about posting the studio version of Brad Mehldau's version of Radiohead's "Knives Out" (from the first album Mehldau did after Jeff Ballard joined his trio in 2005)-- and had all but decided against posting it (because, although the drumming is both really busy and fast, it's also somewhat louder than what I'm looking for). BUT, this *live* version from 2006 definitely gets closer to what I'm talking about -- and Ballard's playing here is just lovely...

Seems like Billy Higgins is a master of this kind of playing, and yet I’m not sure I can think of any album he’s on that’s ‘understated’ enough — overall — to qualify. What am I overlooking?

Seems like I don't have nearly enough of stuff like this in my collection. Lee Konitz' Motion (especially the first of the 3-disc set, the one that's all Elvin) -- and Pat Metheny's Question and Answer, with the incredible interplay of Roy Haynes and Dave Holland -- are the two best examples I can think of off the top of my head. And I guess this is also a call for suggestions specifically for albums with more of Elvin in this kind of Motion mode -- incredibly understated and SO tasteful, but also fairly busy (almost continuously!), but somehow not overly busy (maybe because his playing is so understated). And where else can I find more Roy Haynes playing in this kind of way too? And anybody else?? -- especially albums that are deceptively quiet and maybe a little sparse in terms of instrumentation and band size. I guess I'm open to anything, but I *don't* think I'm looking for the most ECM-ish of production values, if you catch my drift. Busy, lots of interplay, but quiet, understated -- and NOT all hidden behind that ECM 'sheen'. (But I guess don't omit ECM, in case I'm being boneheaded again and being too self-limiting.) Motion and Question and Answer make my brain tingle (especially the drummers) -- and I want more of that.

I wonder who does? Who held on to that, while selling all(?) the other rights to Mosaic? And doesn’t Mosaic outright ‘own’ (literally own? the material otherwise (whatever ‘otherwise’ means in this context).

Holy shit, you weren’t kidding!! https://www.dustygroove.com/item/145593/Donald-Byrd-Dexter-Gordon:Lost-Recordings-Berlin-Studio-Session-1963-180-gram-pressing