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I got something from S Korea without issue, surprisingly, via EMS. It was one book & several CDs. A lot of EU countries are not shipping anything to the US, which is surprising considering the tariffs are greater on non-European goods. It’s all enraging to be honest.

Very interesting piece, thanks for alerting us to it!

RIP. This clip is a favorite:

I would assume that anything folded into the UME jazz bucket could conceivably get a Tone Poet release. PJ/World Pacific was part of Liberty/Transamerica from the late 1960s, which also owned Blue Note, and of course BN bought some of the Transition masters as well. Solid State was a Liberty/Transamerica imprint, too. So it all makes good sense to me.

👍 I am hopeful but unsure if that concert was recorded...

That Stan Douglas video is great. I've seen it shown a couple of times in New York. A favorite concert with Ewart is still etched in my mind: François Tusques with Ewart, Denis Colin, Adam Linz (bass), JT Bates (drums) in Minneapolis as part of Jean Rochard's Minnesota Sur Seine festival in 2005. That gig was pure fire, and they closed with "Portrait of Erika Huggins," a Tusques classic. I was able to interview him during the festival and we talked a lot about Intercommunal Music (which closes with that tune), so I was overjoyed seeing the group rip through that one live.

you've gotta be shitting me. This is grim.

Cassandra Wilson is of a similar political persuasion to Kid Rock and Gloria Gaynor, so maybe she’ll get the job. This is all so depressing.

Thanks for the reminder on that one. Nice record.

Huh. I feel like that was floating around as a bootleg video at one point, but I'm not sure if it's still around on YouTube.

Classic. I have the Japanese Odeon pressing with an alternate sleeve design. At one point I had the French Decca but it was a bit off condition-wise…

A classic! Glad he’s still with us performing and recording.

Such a great cover photo (and the album isn't too shabby either). I remember buying that on cassette, Sub Pop issue, in the fall of 1991, maybe days after I picked up Nevermind.

I would appreciate Elemental using period images of Pharoah, rather than shots from the 1960s...

yeah, remains to be seen what's available online. I could imagine the NYPL doing something like this: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/divisions/music-division as you can see, some collections are onsite only, while others have digital availability, f.e.: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/913c4000-8fa8-0133-bc73-00505686d14e?canvasIndex=15 and yes, I'm familiar with Aviary. I can't remember what the NYPL uses for its online document viewer but I believe that a lot of their software is proprietary/in-house. They have quite a budget for such things.

Well, depending on rights issues not everything can be shared online -- for example, when I worked for an artist's foundation in NYC, the photographers of the pieces (which were mostly performances) held reproduction rights, which is pretty common. Some of the photographers gave us carte blanche to do with images what we wanted, others were very careful about how their photos were distributed and worked with third parties to handle access and royalties. Depending on the contracts the Shorter family has with both photographers and the NYPL, the public availability online of certain things will vary. Regardless, I think it's a good thing the archives are at NYPL and will be curious to see what unfolds. As I mentioned to Hank, 138LF of original manuscripts and images will take time to catalog, and there'll be a lot of treasures to (hopefully) examine in the future.

Hill’s chords, rhythm, and sense of melody, much of which work in a churning cloudlike or allover sensation, direct while also indirect, are fascinating to me. I’ve never heard anyone else like him.

I hope this is true. It would change everything.

What an absolute mess. I mean, there are a lot of things in this world to be angry or depressed about (rightly), but this is just like... we can't even import cheap goods to make ourselves feel momentarily better. Isn't that what capitalism is all about? Really a-level bullshit.

yeah, DHL, FedEx, UPS will continue to deliver, but at a significant upcharge. Paying $30 to ship a $15 CD becomes completely unworkable after a few instances (I've definitely been there).

yes. My undies are in a bunch trying to figure out how to get LPs shipped here without it being a complete mess. The only real option I see is having stuff sent to Canada and then here, but there'll still be a duty and double shipping costs (potentially) so probably not worth it in the end.

Yes, I too love those Saravah LPs! Lapis is of course a favorite but they're all excellent.

The unissued Ed Blackwell on Sweet Earth needs to come out!

I'd love to hear the quintet session with Marion Brown if it survived.