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Miss Otis Otis Ferguson Dick Oatts

All I remember is that inthe 1960s the Chicago Blackhawks used to finish each season as number 1 in the NHL, then the Canadiens w/Beliveau, the Mahovliches, Cournoyer, Dryden, etc. used to break our hearts in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Last night there was a Albert Ayler Christmas concert by Witches And Devils in Chicago. Christmas carols alternating with variouos Ayler themes and free improvisations; Witches And Devils are the Extraordinary Popular Delusions plus Josh Berman, Kent Kessler, Fred Lonberg-Holm, and Jeb Bishop. Suddenly this band gave me the Christmas spirit and now I love everybody.

Generally I'd rather hear music than hear people talking on jazz shows. But Larry Kart was a thoroughly rewarding and entertaining guest on two of my WHPK (and whpk.org) shows. I usually program a show in a sort of Voice-Of-America style: early jazz and swing-era idioms at the beginning, moving to bop and and idioms that emerged in the bop era, then to Ornette and post-Ornette idioms. Since recorded jazz is nearly 100 years old, the styles are approx. evenly apportioned. Monday Dec. 22 will be a extra-long show, 4 hours, and the first show of 2015 will be mostly Thelonious Monk records.

Jolly Roger Mr. Rogers Ike Rodgers

Yes, it was.

Looks like Miles, all his life, saw where the leading edge was and reacted against it. Bop, Parker? Miles invented a contrary modern jazz, birth of the cool. Hard bop, with its soul and little big bands? Miles' contrary music was the Gil Evans works on the one hand, his evolving quintet, including the radical Trane, on the other hand. Was Ornette's freedom now the leading edge? Folks, here are modes, easier for your digestion. Yet in spite of Miles' nastiness toward Ornette, Miles' quintet, as Hancock pointed out, evolved to become Ornettelike. The subsequent years of fusion adventures, nearing half of his musical life, were a retreat of sorts. Leading, retreating, so what. He played a lot of the best music ever. I like where you're going with this, but what do you mean when you say his fusion years were a retreat? Craig, I think a retreat strictly in terms of his trumpet playing - the simplified phrases, the dissipated solo forms over one-chord settings with lively rhythm sections.

I used to clerk in a hotel that played canned music all day every day, and those Decembers made me hate and dread Christmas pop music. On the other hand, there's this: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=berlioz+christ+trio+flutes+harp

Bugsy Siegel Spider John Koerner Adam Ant

Dick Donovan Herb Score Whitey Ford

Looks like Miles, all his life, saw where the leading edge was and reacted against it. Bop, Parker? Miles invented a contrary modern jazz, birth of the cool. Hard bop, with its soul and little big bands? Miles' contrary music was the Gil Evans works on the one hand, his evolving quintet, including the radical Trane, on the other hand. Was Ornette's freedom now the leading edge? Folks, here are modes, easier for your digestion. Yet in spite of Miles' nastiness toward Ornette, Miles' quintet, as Hancock pointed out, evolved to become Ornettelike. The subsequent years of fusion adventures, nearing half of his musical life, were a retreat of sorts. Leading, retreating, so what. He played a lot of the best music ever.

Jungle Jim Rivera Bubber Miley Bobo Jenkins

side 1 of Jelly's 1926 Peppers - by skipping alternate takes, I'll go out during Sidewalk Blues

Grandpa Jones Cousin Joe Bashful Brother Oswald

I like Stefan's photos, want to see more. My Bernie McGann essay is now on http://www.goodbaitbooks.com/newsletter.htmalong with some more photos. More reprinted articles to come, I hope. This new crib now feels mostly like home. Lost about 99% of my books and recordings when, after the fire, my former landlord sent everything to a landfill. Truth is, far more of those could have been salvaged; two rooms were hardly damaged, for example. I don't plan to own LPs again except for ones I wrote liner notes for, but never made it to CD.

A dream come true - congratulations.

Jon Lester Sonny Lester Bob Koester

Thanks, Late. Ah, youth.

In later years he could still be a power in person. I remember when he came to Chicago with a Benny Golson folio and, accompanied I recall with a Chicago rhythm section, played nothing but Golson songs all week.

Jim Neumann is a very good guy and I am happy for him that (a) his Bee-Hives are coming out on CD, and that (b) his collection is going to a top music school. I just saw him a few days ago in a record store - he's still collecting.

Berry Gordy Flash Gordon William Claxton

Jean Harlow Billy The Kid Michael McClure

wonder what the Nationals know about La Roche that the White Sox don't know. I don't trust that Zach Duke deal, either - $15 million for a pitcher who had one good season in his last nine.