Jim Duckworth

Disc 7

Leslie Gore invented the rock opera....

Rock music was having a watershed year when I was 14 back in 1971. I recall buying and loving Sticky Fingers, Who's Next, and as many others as my very limited income would allow. Rock music seemed to change within a couple of years, becoming (as I saw it) more formulaic less interesting. This is how I became a jazz fan.

In line at a chicken place here, I had the realization that I am, in fact, old when a patron addressed me as Unk. Now the other shoe has dropped: I am finding even archival releases by my favorite artists far less seductive than I once did.

Same here. Apparently it took a Mosaic box set to get me to own Blue Spirits-not that I was avoiding it...

Hey there. It seems that one track from that show, Foxy Lady, was left off of the previous box set, and some of the performances are edited. This show comes from a multi-track recording of some sort, so the promise of Improved Sound is the selling point.

It is not a set that I listened to much in that it is a narrated radio style program...except for that last disc.

Previously the fourth disc in this set from 1990; it was the reason that many people (or maybe just me) justified the purchase of this nonessential set.

I was enjoying Eric Dolphy Out There last week and loved his version of Eclipse.

Couldn't agree more.

The first "Jazz" lp I purchased and dug immediately was Tribute to Jack Johnson by Miles Davis purchased when it was new and I was newish-sixteen years old.

Mrs. Duckworth had this one playing this morning and took a moment to declare that Roy Haynes is "the best drummer ever."

Sounds like a Memphian.

Reasonable me would not have purchased a copy of this record as it was available from my streaming service. Reasonable me would not be listening to this now.

PM on Sun Blues Box.

I have struggled with Fender guitars occasionally over the last fifty years. I find that I am much more satisfied with a Suhr.

Haven't been mining the Eric Dolphy discography for a few years and heard The Baron on the radio and pulled this out. This was the first Eric Dolphy lp I purchased, yet it remained entirely under-appreciated. It only took 45 years, but now I really enjoy it.