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A soft-spoken titan of his instrument, and the pen. RIP.

Will this perhaps be part of their American Masters series? (Or, regardless, what are the odds of seeing it on PBS nationally?) The most recent Miles doc played under the American Masters banner -- but the most recent Trane doc played as part of their Independent Lens series. In any case, I wanna see it here in DC.

True story: I’ve been trading txt-msg’s the last hour with a friend in the know — who I’d sent a link to this topic. And he told me “I still think Valdo sounds like Erroll Garner on acid.” And further that “…if you told AI to fabricate Erroll Garner playing “Impressions”, it would sound like the first cut on Valdo's album.” So my theory is this lacquer (and my friend thought it was a lacquer too, he said Chuck was right)… So now my working theory is this Valdo Williams thing from the past, was AI-generated Erroll Garner sent back from the future!!!!!!! You heard it here first!!!

From an earlier studio album, I’ve always found his solo reading of “Martha My Dead” inspired. Would love for others here to listen (below), and give their impressions (good or bad).

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Must have been this!!

Got it!! Thank you!!!! (Figured I shouldn’t hem and haw about it, since I bellyached so much about the price up above several times.) Thank you again!! (It was $35 + $4.50 shipping)

❤️❤️❤️ Still looking for a legit CD of this (that won’t break the bank). Wish he’d recorded more!! — especially in the piano trio format.

Enjoying the heck out of this one last night and on my morning commute now — which I’m only just now getting around to listening to (streaming, unfortunately). A used CD copy popped up on Dusty Groove for a couple hours yesterday, but already gone — too pricy for me ($25). But it got snapped up quickly, so I guess that’s what the market will bear. As a plus, there are definitely some moments where Mall’s playing presages (in a good way) some of Mal’s late 60’s and 70’s style — more so than I’ve heard on very many of Mal’s work in the 50’s. Will have to keep my eyes peeled for another one someday (hopefully under $20 if I can).

Excellent choice!! I’ve yet to hear a live Woody Shaw disc that I’ve regretted getting — all, what?, 27(?) of them?, I’ve lost count. Anyway, I’ve got like 85% of all the live Woody Shaw discs out there, and they’re almost all amazing.

Aha, thanks!!

MMO?? https://www.dictionary.com/browse/mmo abbreviation, Digital Technology. 1. Massively Multiplayer Online game: any online video game in which a player interacts with a large number of other players.

She went to KU, and they’re her favorite team across any and all sports, by a mile!m When we lived back in KC, every year she would kick me out of the house during the Big 12 and Final Four — and I would systematically hit every used CD store for 50 miles and go through their stock A-Z, each store — jazz, rock, and classical. Probably a quarter of my used CD purchases for a decade there were those 5-6 weeks in the spring every year, like clockwork! 😄

1-2 hrs of NPR every morning in our household, 7 days a week (usually closer to 2 hrs). My wife also listens online to a Kansas City sports talk radio station a LOT during college basketball season, and in recent years recently when The Chiefs were/are doing so well.

Reminds me, one of the very best working sax players back in KC was (presumably still is) Rich Wheeler — who was all of 5’4” (maybe 5’5” at most). Also one of the nicest guys you could ever meet. http://www.kcjazzambassadors.org/post/rich-wheeler-working-hard-and-loving-it Tenor was his main axe, and I used to joke he had an extra set of lungs in his legs, as powerful as his tone was — generally came out of the Joe Henderson camp (which I probably why I loved his playing so much). Not sure if I can post a picture here via my phone, let’s see…

Wasn’t Tina Brooks short too? (From Brooke’ Wikipedia entry: The nickname "Tina", pronounced Teena, was a variation of "Teeny", a childhood moniker.) At least I always assumed he was short anyway.

TIL: Heath was the father of R&B songwriter/musician James Mtume. (‘TIL’ is short for “Today I learned…” — a Reddit thing, far as I know.)

Mine from Dusty was (or, rather, will be) just $9.99, plus probably about $1 in shipping — if I get 4 other discs — and I always have stuff sent media mail, cuz I’m cheap!

I’ve had my eye out for a CD copy of “In The Idiom” for about a dozen or more years — at least at a decent price ($15 or less) — and only just found one about 48 hours ago(!) at Dusty Groove. So I jumped on it, starting a new 10-day open order, which I’ll add too (like I always do) if anything else comes into their stock for the next week or so. Full confession, it’s the Joe Henderson quotient that’s probably my primary draw — but I liked what I heard of the album back in KC when I borrowed a copy from a friend back in the ‘late 20-teens’.

Ah, right -- didn't notice that Vol 4 was hardcover when I looked this morning on my phone. Maybe I'll try and track that one down. Actually, if it didn't break the bank too badly -- I'd love to have all of vols 1-4 too -- but I suspect that'd set me back more than I'm really interested in doing.

Thanks for that photo, Chuck. I have vols 5-8 (aka just the hardcover ones), but never knew vols 1-4 were smaller and paperback.

This is a Euro Public-Domain issue, right? (The visual style of the release is of the type I associate with PD releases.)

“Walter’s Walk” from the 1982 odds-and-ends collection Coda — started as an instrumental from 1972, with various overdubs in 1982 — including vocals that are all Plant’s 1982 voice. And I think pretty clearly so too — when compared with Plant’s first solo album (also from 1982). I’m not a big Zeppelin fanatic (far, far from it), but I do like this song better than most, in large measure because I specifically like Plant’s (1982) vocals better here. I think I already said up-thread that I am quite fond of Plant’s early solo work (his first 3-4 solo albums especially). But AFAIK, “Walter’s Walk” is the only Zep tune that Plant overdubbed his vocals on post-1981 (but I’d love to know if there are any others).

Or cut-n-past the Japanese title and past the Japanese into the Google search bar — and add ‘Discogs’ to the search key too. Google is actually really good about searching for titles and names in foreign languages (even Japanese, and Chinese, etc). Then you might need to switch the results to an image search, and that might make it easier to match.

My wife and I are debating going to see them at Wolftrap here outside of DC, June or July, I forget which. We have both their duo CD’s, and they’re both lovely. I’ve half followed Plant’s solo career about 10x more than I ever listen to any Zeppelin any more (and haven’t for 20-25 years). I appreciate Plant charting his own course apart from the Zeppelin legacy, and have always said ‘more power to him!’ every year he’s turned down opportunities to reunite as Zeppelin. His voice is (imho) infinitely more pleasing post-Zep too. Even his first several solo albums in the 80’s are preferable (to me) over most of his LZ output — and I’ve probably listened to his first 2-3 solo albums more in the last 25 years, than I have any Zeppelin. Not everyone has to agree about any of this either — to be clear, I’m not saying I’m ‘right’ about any of these preferences.)