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Very funny! I confuse Jane Monheit and Don Mossi, the former major league pitcher.

I have nothing by Spyrogyra, Yellowjackets, Rippingtons, Manhattan Transfer.

I find that really interesting. The Darlings were the Dillards, a bluegrass group which recorded several albums for Elektra Records. I had not known that she was also a professional singer. Today, a female singer/actress who looked like she did in the early 1960s, would probably be featured on any number of TV and/or cable series and reality or game shows, record her own CDs, star in depressingly poor films, be a scantily clad presenter at the Grammys and Oscars...but back then, she was doomed to relative obscurity by the scarcity of marginal, bad taste national media opportunites.

The version of "A Child Is Born" on the Richard Davis album is THE song. I was also at that Kansas City appearance by Roland Hanna and heard him state that he had written the song. I know Richard Davis so I asked him about it after that. Richard told me that Roland had always said that he was the composer of this song throughout the years.

Two unrelated points: When Carmella sets up the portable stereo in Tony's room, she plays one of his favorite CDs--the first song played is Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water". This is the very song that was playing on Tony's car stereo when Tony blacked out behind the wheel and crashed his car--how many seasons ago now? If you record the show and hit the pause button during the first time that Tony looks up at the helicopter light in the dream sequence, you will clearly see the face of the physician treating Tony for his gunshot wounds looking at him from behind the light. The physician's face fills the screen.

My wish list has grown after reading the great suggestions on this thread. Here are my favorite Tzadiks. Some have been mentioned by others: Ahava Raba--"Kete Kuf" One of the few albums that I have ever heard that deserves adjectives like astonishing, amazing, even mindblowing. It is certainly unique to my listening experience, and not unpleasant to listen to. When people say that there is nothing exciting or different being released any more, I play them "Kete Kuf" and wait for the reaction. Steven Bernstein--"Diaspora Blues" I like all three of his "Diaspora" albums, but this one, with Sam Rivers and his group, is really special. It is tied with William Parker's "O'Neal's Porch" for me as my favorite jazz album of the last decade. John Zorn--"The Circle Maker". Zorn does not play on this album. It is very beautiful. Frank London--"Invocations". Very beautiful music by a trumpet player with a compelling sound and approach.

I find Murray Perahia's recordings of Mozart's piano concertos and sonatas to have plenty of soul. I can't dismiss Mozart because of them.

Thelonious Monk stopped playing for several years before his death, due to illness. I don't know if that qualifies.

I have just discovered this thread. I suggest that you may want to get the Murray Perahia Complete Mozart Piano Concertos at some point. I find that set to offer many rewards. It is incredibly beautiful music. I find a certain "soul" in Perahia's Mozart playing that other well known pianists just don't offer. To me, it is one of the most special sets in my collection. Needless to say, it's just one person's opinion, and others may feel quite differently.

I second the mention of the Zehetmair Quartet's Schumann String Quartets. I find it to be amazingly beautiful and moving music. Repeated listens bring more and more pleasure to me.

I read an excerpt from this book in the new issue of Jazz Times, about Silver's time with the Jazz Messengers. It was very interesting reading. If that is representative of the book, it will be worth going out to get.

Wow, I never knew that the works of e.e.cummings had been turned into a rock song!

Joe Zawinul is holding the box of apple juice above the state flag.

Wait! Wait! I think I've got it! Was the song "It Never Rains in Southern California" by Albert Hammond? I'm pretty sure that is it!

Peacemeal is one of Eddie Gomez/Jack DeJohnette's best recordings together. Man they are a fucking powerhouse together! A big Big second for Peacemeal. This may be a stupid question, but how many recordings did they make together? There's a Bill Evans album, right? What else? Guy They were together on the second LP of McCoy Tyner's Supertrios.

Was it "Sooner Or Later (Love Is Gonna Getcha)" by the Grass Roots?

Here is the lineup touring as Wayne Henderson and the Jazz Crusaders: Paul Russo, saxophones; Ronnie Laws, saxophones (special guest artist); Joel Gaines, keyboards; Brian Price, guitar; David Hughes, bass; Anthony Moore, drums. Has anyone seen this group, and if so, is it worth going to see?

Has anyone attended a show in the present tour of Wayne Henderson and the Jazz Crusaders? I see that Wayne is the only member of the original group in the band, and I wondered what it was like.

I recall reading an article in one of the major jazz magazines of the time about the breakup of a Sam Rivers group which had Barry Altschul on drums. The article alluded to something major and negative that occurred between Rivers and Altschul, without specifying what it was. Whatever it was, the article made it sound like about the worst thing of all time. So I do not know if they would work together now or not.

McCoy Tyner, Joe Ford, Ron Bridgewater, Charles Fambrough, Eric Gravatt, Guilherme Franco.

I wondered if anyone else remembered that! I found September difficult to sit through to the end. I thought that the prominence of the Tatum/Webster recording was by far the best thing about the film.

I agree that the Decca set should come first. After that, here are three that I find very enjoyable to listen to: Well, I cannot figure out how to get the images to become visible. What I am trying to post are the covers from "April in Paris" and "Count Basie Swings and Joe Williams Sings", from the mid-1950s, and "Count Basie and the Kansas City 7", an Impulse album from the early 1960s.

I think that the Horo big band album is one of Sun Ra's very best big band albums, for mainstream and swing songs. The band is more together on the arrangements than on "Sunrise In Different Dimensions" or other albums with bop and swing material. It is worth paying something for--$100? That's for everyone to decide for themselves. I have seen some of the lesser Sun Ra Saturn Records albums go for over $300 on ebay. Now that strikes me as excessive--at that point you are collecting objects rather than seeking out music to hear, in my opinion.

Didn't realize we were in a cross-examination mode. I guess I lost the trial.