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Ghetto Music is available for preorder from cduniverse. . . no sign of Black Rhythm Happenin' . . .but it may be smart to delay that one due to the French reissue.

Thanks Hans! Not realizing I was a moderator for that forum I didn't investigate that!

I'd love to delete some threads myself but don't seem able to. . .

Maybe it's just because I do a lot of cooking, but this is still my favorite of the NOT CLASSIC BLUE NOTE covers of recent years.

You know, reading that about words that are fun to hear the sound of made me think of Al Hibbler singing the name "Azalea." It's fun to hear!

Well, no problem CJ. I'd be interested to hear what you have to say after you've digested the cd. One Miles-loving friend of mine says "Aura is like On The Corner, not really enjoyable or important." Now I personally ENJOY the HECK out of On the Corner, though I can also see a similarity in the fact that both are collaborations (though Miles is far from a "sideman" on On the Corner.)

CJ, if you are interested I have a cheap used copy for sale of the first cd issue. . . .

Great. No hurry---just know that there are those of us interested!

Noj: please shamelessly selppromote! I know we'll be appreciative and/or gentle!

I wanted to be an archaeologist. When I saw the amount of money necessary to do the necessary schooling, I necessarily balked. But I would have gone the distance except I chose the wrong undergraduate college: the University of Chicago. A great place for me to have gone for graduate work, a mistake for ME for undergraduate study. (BUT I did meet my wife there!) So after two years I started working to make some money and find out what I wanted to do. . . spent a number of years doing a number of trades type things, I have a long legacy of cabinet-makers and ironsmiths and machine workers behind me, and then when I got to Texas I managed to get into a state job twenty one years ago and have been in stock clerking, sales and Human Resources, and now dispatching/office management for a state agency or two since. And ever since George Bush became governor of Texas, it has been a declining hell to be a state employee in Texas. BUT I have about seven years to go to full retirement, so I am trying to hang in there. BUT I'm working now for a buddy in the good ole boy system, a buddy of the ED who is a buddy of the Governor who is a buddy of GW, and he's a clown and a pain and a bore and I will have to find something else somewhere when/if the state agency market expands ever again. . . I really like my work, BUT not who I am working for. Music has always fascinated me, two grandparents were amateur musicians and my father loved music. . . . I learned to perform on drums and played in some local bands at the end of the 'eighties, and I love pianos and guitars though I'm not proficient on either. I've done a little bit of writing, in the last five years or so mostly jazz related when appearing in public, and fictional in unreleased form. And I've amassed a lot of recordings! That's an accomplishment!

I agree with you about the live eighties material being better to listen to than the studio. Aura is a nice recording. . .not a milestone if you ask me, and not entirely HIS project in important ways if I'm thinking correctly about it. I break it out every now and then and enjoy it. I bought the new remastered edition. . .didn't add much sonically or liner note wise. It's good, it's not one of my favorites, it's Miles!

I don't know, I don't fastforward through Paul's arco work, but compared to Slam Stewart's for example it's not up to snuff for me. . . . And Mingus is the modern one that floors me with his bowing. But Paul's is fine, just for me not up to these dizzying heights.

Changes from time to time. Five big constants: Duke, Pops, Miles, Mingus and Monk.

There doesn't seem to be a website for Water, but here is one for the cd that seems to have the company description for the cd; I've seen that description at several places. http://ssl.adhost.com/jazzloft/baskets/pos.cfm?CD=3929

Something to look forward to! Thanks for the headsup.

I was really bowled over by this release, and it is a very great sounding cd on my system. Praises to Water, and here's looking forward to the Eddie Gales.

Mike, I just got a copy (two actually) of the Byard Lancaster release on Water, and it is a San Francisco company that seems to be leasing "outside" recordings of a jazz nature not of interest to the majors. The Lancaster sounds FANTASTIC and is a very nice session. They give good notes, and I'm not sure if they've used the original cover art as I have never seen the original cover. If they can make a Vortex/Atlantic title sound this great, I imagine the Blue Note Gales will really be sonically spectacular!

Thanks to you all. I had actually a horrible day at work on my birthday, but I got my revenge by posting all those Louis Armstrong photos. . . I had a really good time listening to Louis all that weekend and on that Monday. I've been going through a real unhappy work spell (again!) but Helen and our cat Marge made it a nice evening for me and I eased into being 48 pretty well. I think Satchmo had a nice birthday too!

I think I can remember sealed discs early and also unsealed discs early; my memory of these things is spotty though. "Made in Canada" is printed right on the discs themselves though in my Blakey set.

I don't believe he is actually going to be playing with Cullum. Last night he was simply announced as moving to San Anton next week, and I saw him on a Wednesday night at the Landing when Cullum was out of town for the week. Could be he's just going to continue to make the bigger city scene. He was playing with a few regulars who billed themselves as the Landing All Stars---guys who play there a lot with other bands not together. They did 85% (I calculated it) Ellington tunes the time I was there, and I had no complaints. Price was pretty impressive: he swung and he soloed really well. For the last tune I saw they called "Avalon" and he looked blank. . . he didn't know the tune! They told him where the bridge was and they took off and he was killer on it, with his best solo yet. He's a contender Jim, and seems like a nice guy.

Gary, so very sorry to hear about this huge mishap. Welcome to the site.

Hi Mike! Hope you are doing well. Sorry to say no I have no information to offer about these releases. I do have the French Blue Note version on cd of "Black Rhythm Happening" and really like it (with the one caveat that the liners are really hard to read).

Al, that's how I remember it too: 1980 incredibly hot, then snow and ice in January 1981. . . . Extreme!

Yes, Mike it was really nice to meet you and I enjoyed our talk! Helen and I saw the entire first set and then it was time for us to leave. . . I did so pretty reluctantly, but boy was I tired. I did get to shake Sam's hand and thank him for the wonderful listening though as he was sitting on a bus bench outside the club as we left! What a nice man. I agree that the Gibbs Trio did an excellent job backing Sam, and I was especially glad to see that bassist Hamilton Price was in the trio; he's an excellent young player that I saw in action a week and a half ago in San Antonio (soon to be his new home) at the excellent club "The Landing." I'm so envious that you got to hear Sam play "Beatrice"---I was hoping that would be among the tunes in the first set and it wasn't. But I'm very glad that I got to hear him play all three of the instruments he brought (he played three soprano numbers, two tenor and two flute that first set) and he was in great form. For a 79 year old he had energy and wind and grace and a really dignified presence. Let's hope he comes through again!

The discs of many of the Mosaic sets were manufactured in Canada in the early years. I had forgotten about the sticker on the seals because my cases were not sealed for long! If you mean that there is a "black border" on the front jewel case cover (big jewel cases, not slimline) between Art's jacketed sleeve and the spine of the case, yes that is how that set came when in stock. (Or at least how mine and one other set I have seen came.)