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One of my favorite clips of Bob… an outtake where he forgets the character name of his wife in the “Newhart” series — and Mary Frann’s response and timing are just perfect.

Wonder what there could be from the 1960’s?? Have to confess I’m not at all familiar with the label, so I don’t even know who was on it in the 50’s either.

My Dusty Groove watch-list (more a ‘curious’ list really, in most cases, than a true ‘want’ list) is literally 3,087 items long (I just checked). Anytime I go CD shopping, I try — if I have time — to go thru everything A-Z, even if it’s just very quickly. You never know what you might find, especially things you knew existed, but hardly ever see. I would NEVER frequent a place like this article describes. At a minimum, I would have to give the guy a list of 50 names, and ask him to tell me everything he has by them — but that wouldn’t even hit any of the sideman appearances by those people. Browsing has netted me hundreds of titles (maybe 1,000?) that I would have never otherwise even thought to look for.

Just gave Shunzo’s debut from 1973 (rec ‘72) a spin again, and I continue to be amazed by this album — and decided to bump this thread for the heck of it.

The world may never know!!

Good question!!

Ah, I’d overlooked that there were two separate V-Disc sets — thx!!

Am I missing something? (I only count 3.)

Yeah, that Kontiz set is really great! Got the issue of it in this series a couple years ago (at full price), and it’s as high-quality a reissue of this material as there ever was — and now a steal for a double-CD for $8.99.

Saw him conduct the St. Louis Symphony 20+ yrs ago, on a program with his own flute concerto (which I don’t think had (or was?) ever recorded, fantastic as best I’m recalling) — along with 3-4 shorter Ives pieces that opened the concert, and I’m forgetting what was on the back half. And my wife and I were in Boston on vacation a couple years later, and I happened to see a poster or maybe a listing in a free weekly newspaper? — for a chamber music ensemble that specialized in 20th century music exclusively. Gunther was in attendance and might have conducted the one longer piece of his they played. In both cases, St. Louis and Boston, he gave a pre-concert lecture too, which we saw. And I had him autograph a couple CD’s in St. Louis, I’m pretty sure.

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I’ve encountered a few audiophiles who don’t seem to get the music, for being obsessed with ever more elaborate “perfect sound” reissues, and elaborate rigs to play them on. Me and them seem to barely have a thing in common, even about the albums we all owned in common. Holding a conversation with them seemed to always take (me) an inordinate amount of effort, and always wore me out too, as I recall. A couple were annoying as hell, but even the well-meaning ones seemed to be on another planet from my vantage point about the music. Not claiming my knowledge or perspective is superior to all — far from it!! But I will say it was always disconcerting to be talking past each other in our interactions.

Another board member sent me a Mosaic big box via media mail during the height of the pandemic the week before Thanksgiving (Nov 2020) — when so much regular mail was just starting to taking weeks to be delivered. And he sent it media-mail from Santa Barbara CA to Washington DC — door to door — in 36 or 37 HOURS!!! That was based on the timestamp of the transaction at his post office, and the timestamp of when it arrived at the front desk of our apartment building (both from USPS and my bldg’s package checkin system). 36 or 37 hours!! — media mail!!! I’ve also gotten most media-mail packages from Dusty Groove in about 4-5 days at most, sometimes as little as 3 days. Not 100% service like that, but all in all I’ve rarely had USPS package delivery complaints in over 30 years of buying stuff online and tons from Mosaic, etc.

Sadly I missed out on the Roach Mosaic long ago (and am in the market for one now btw, on CD)… Meanwhile, as I’m trying to figure out the contents to try and buy more of what’s in it as singles, I just stumbled on this copy of the Mosaic liners discography… https://www.ejazzlines.com/mc_files/2/MO-201.pdf I’m ashamed to say I have little of this set in my collection, so I’m trying to wrap my head around what the individual albums were — and what CD’s I need to be on the lookout for (in terms of the reissues with the most bonus material, etc).

So I just broke down and got the navy BN cap directly from the BN website. The logo is embroidered (none of that printed-on nonsense, which can’t be good on a hat). And with BN’s 20% summer sale thru Sunday 7/7, it only came to $24 per hat. (And I got two, which should last me 15 years — fuck, I’ll be 70 then!! — I am *SO* not glad I just did that math). Also got the new 2022 paperback edition of BN: Uncompromising Expression for just $40 (normally $50, also 20% off)… …WHICH saved me a whopping $19.46 in shipping (there’s free shipping for orders over $85 — and 2 hats plus the book came to $88). SO… it’s like I got the book for $20 more than if I’d gotten just the two hats and paid $20 in shipping.

Then, I just got an email about a summer sale from Blue Note directly… SUNNY SIDE UP SUMMER SALE We’re celebrating summer with a special sale on the Blue Note Store! Today through July 7. 20% off Music and Merch* Up to 15% off Art Free U.S. Shipping over $85* Plus a FREE Blue Note album cover flag print with every order!

That’s NICE!! Yes, the “dad hat” style is much better — and so is that shade of blue! I think we have a winner. PS: The logo also seems to be a little smaller on the “dad hat” style too, which I definitely like better too — because looks more like a ‘logo’ and less like a ‘billboard’. (But I’m still open to other suggestions from other vendors, or any style — no reason not to have multiple designs and styles.) EDIT: Decided (see a couple posts down below) to get the darker one direct from Blue Note after all. It’s got an embroidered logo, and the quality will surely be better, and last longer. My earlier C-CPAN hats were embroidered, and have held up 15 years.

Ok, but I have to say scrolling through that earlier — the mega-dark-blue one on top just look black to me (like they didn’t have any blue hats).

So would it kill BN to have a hat with a blue logo that wasn’t white?? (Or a blue hat with the logo??)

Excuse me, 2008!!!! — technically 2009. (off to edit my original post)

The two ball-caps I have predate when I moved to DC in 2011, and have both seen better days*. Any decent Blue Note caps available online anywhere? (Any of the various generic logos are up for consideration, and would be fine). Or are any other jazz-related caps even worth considering? At one time I thought about getting a “Kansas City Monarchs” ball cap, but much as I liked the IDEA of one (the KC connection, and a Negro Leagues team to signify my interest in black history and black culture, all the while NOT suggesting am any sort of actual sports fan in particular)… but I’ve never been super enamored with any of the actual historic KC Monarchs branding/designs (much as I wished they had some cool logo, or one that I thought was visually interesting). So any other interesting ideas or suggestions , generally? And any hat I liked enough to buy, I’d probably buy TWO of — so I could wear one a lot, eventually wear it out, and still have one to wear for another 5-10 years more. *My two current and quite well-worn ball-caps are both C-SPAN hats, which I know sounds insane… but my wife and I bought a C-CPAN DVD of the 2008 Presidential Inauguration and a bunch of other related footage/programming) as a memory of our having been there (up front too, close enough to have seen Herbie Hancock from 50 feet away, among a dozen other notables). And in order to get free shipping, I tossed in two C-CPAN ball-caps, so I had a hat to wear outdoors in my sometimes public-facing job where I couldn’t wear anything partisan — in the hopes (back then) that it might generate some interesting conversation with others. It was DEFINITELY a different time — I do believe I can at least say that, without overstepping board protocols. And now that I live here in DC, they just make me look like I work(ed) for C-CPAN.)

Funny, when I lived to DC and had to really thin out my collection, San Francisco was one of less than half-a-dozen Blue Note titles I traded off. I have the Hutch Select (mostly great, much of it really great!), Now! (outstanding!), and Head On (quite good, and really interesting). But I never could get with San Francisco for some reason. I used to blame it on Joe Sample being on the date, but I’m not sure that’s fair (or was the only reason). I love the two ‘Mainsteam’ Harold Land dates with Hutch — so maybe I should give San Francisco another try. I’ve never had Montara, despite having seen it used several times. Every time I sampled it, it left me kind of cold, so I never bothered. Other than the Select and the titles I mentioned above (and the live one with Woody Shaw) — I’ve never bothered with any of Bobby’s other 70’s output (as much because it’s either never been on CD, or else only as pricy imports I never saw used).

The answers are probably all here… https://jazzmf.com/art-blakey-chronology-and-the-jazz-messengers/

Don’t mistake me, because I would gladly probably take Paxlovid again (especially if there was an nasty new variant). That said, the entire 5 days I was on it — and my wife too — EVERYTHING tasted like sucking on a bag of nickels. And I mean continuously. While we were eating, we could sort of half-taste our food kinda halfway-way OK. But the minute we stopped eating, it was back to that strong metallic taste. When I was a kid, did you ever touch the two poles of a 9V battery to your tongue to test it? It was THAT taste for 5 days, 24 hours a day. We chewed lots of gum, and at LOTS of red-hot cinnamon candies — and despite all my bitching here, it absolutely wasn’t that bad — and we definitely felt it was better than the alternative. Far as the Covid itself, it wasn’t quite as bad as the worst cold either of us had ever gotten. But we do attribute that to our both taking the Plaxovid so quickly, and we’d take it again. (I think we each lost 10 lbs over 7-10 days, easily, because food just didn’t taste all that great — which, again, was a good problem to have.)

Here’s 5. I’d seen this listed online somewhere, and then I forgot all about it, and wondered if I’d just imagined it! This seems to be a YouTube upload of the entire thing.