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  1. Robert Johnson - incredible intensity. In a book somewhere Peter Guralnik wrote that Robert Johnson was a pioneer in playing electric guitar during a gig in St. Louis not long before he died.
  2. Oh right, that Plimley disc on Hat Hut. It's interesting; I have it in memory as an album of piano and bass duets, however. I may be misremembering - haven't heard the album in a long time.
  3. Paul Plimley once did an enjoyable album of Ornette songs with Lisle Ellis and a drummer. Did Ira Sullivan's old Chicago band record "When Will the Blues Leave"? They used to play it and "Lonely Woman" - pretty bold beboppers.
  4. Some typical Henry Threadgill titles: Little Pocket Sized Demons Keep Right on Playing Through the Mirror over the Water Off the Rag Through a Keyhole Darkly Be Ever Out Paper Toilet Spotted Dick Is Pudding Salute to the Enema Bandit there are plenty more...
  5. I love a good long browse too but browse less these days because of the temptation to actually buy books and read them at home. Re the Guardian article, I've been to 3 of those stores: Strand (I'll go back when I'm in NY next month), Shakespeare & Co. (a purportedly American literary bookstore that [shock!] didn't have WC Williams' Collected Poems) (it has been said that there's a superior English-language bookstore elsewhere in Paris), and City Lights, a disappointment, a tourist trap. As compensation, not far away, there's a very good second-hand bookstore in mid-Berkeley, don't recall the name. New Yorkers - are any bookstores that specialize in poetry trucked away somewhere in some of the boroughs? How about second-hand bookstores that have a lot of good old noir / hard-boiled / golden-age sf paperbacks?
  6. So do I. It often feels like America is entering a new Dark Age.
  7. Boubacar Car-Car Traore The Muck-Muck Man Snoop Doggy Dog
  8. Dudley Do-Right Wrong Way Corrigan Francis Wong
  9. Those last 3 choruses are a familiar song under another title, which I can't remember today. JeffCrom, help!
  10. Reagan was surely not a conservative when she and he were an item. A correction to the article: The full last line of the banana commercial was "No, no, no, nonono."
  11. Don't know about wrestling, but the great Dusty Rhodes hit those home runs that won those games for the NY Giants in the 1954 World Series, and beat the 2nd greatest team in history (Cleveland, 111 victories) four games to none.
  12. Jim, how is Ross Detwiler (no relation, I suspect) doing there in Texas?
  13. A favorite album cover: A favorite book cover:
  14. But Ornette is all that, and a bag of chips! Of course. He is the exception.
  15. Richard Williams said it well in The Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/jun/11/ornette-coleman-ourage-and-rightness : From hand to hand, the torch of jazz was passed until, at the end of a long line of publicly recognised hero-figures that had begun with Louis Armstrong, it reached Ornette Coleman. He was not where jazz finished, by any means. The music’s evolution continued by different means. But he was the last surviving great soloist whose playing, by itself, marked a major step in the music’s evolution, and defined an entire era.
  16. This is so true. We've been so lucky to live in the midst of his creations and we're now entering the post-Ornette era.
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