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Boyd Senter The Great Gretzky Alexander

This week's Cubs vs. Giants series is sure promising. Go Cubs!

Bad Bad Leroy Brown Leroi Jones Les Rois du Fox-Trot

Don't miss "The Damnation of Faust."

Sleepy John Estes M. Night Shmalayan A Man After Midnight

Chicago Grandstand Big Band Grandmaster Flash Grandma

hate the metal box

Cheri Oteri My Cheri Amour Othello

Can Organissimo's McDonough possibly be the John McDonough who plays such enjoyable trumpet on the Anthony Braxton-McDonough Nessa CD ?

Re Gennett and its Ku Klux Klan connection - there was a Ku Klux Klan rally in Richmond on the same day the King Oliver band recorded there: https://books.google.com/books?id=H-Mrqo__kooC&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=gennett+ku+klux+klan&source=bl&ots=-X1quzsyUs&sig=2YmqxUs3yIXwwSSZ6tPXN4NQv18&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CFUQ6AEwCWoVChMIrJnnk66sxwIVk-mACh2NPQ7B#v=onepage&q=gennett ku klux klan&f=false

Tim, I wish you serenity and an absence of pain.

Big Tiny Little Short Fat Fanny Kate Middleton

Long ago I began to read Wells novels and even read "Tono-Bungay." Got so disgusted with "The Research Magnificent" - the pompous soul of Wells revealed - that I avoided his writings ever since. Just finished "The African Equation" by Yasmina Khadra and highly recommend it, along with the 3 previous Khadra books that came out in English. He may be best appreciated by reading those 4 in chronological order, beginning with :The Swallows of Kabul." Big heart and intelligence, wide sympathies. A European is captured by pirates in waters off east Africa, sees the pirate gang from the inside.

Yes to both Evans, who is highly active and versatile, and McGann. http://www.goodbaitbooks.com/newsletter.htm is my essay about McGann's CDs, which are strong latebop music. [Haven't heard Oehlers.]

Check out, if you can, her quartet and the Hear In Now trio - there either are or surely will be CDs. And Roscoe Mitchell's "Celebrating Fred Anderson."

Brigid O'Shaughnessy the gunsel Gunther Schuller

Sun Records would only give Johnny 3 minutes, so he had to cut "I Walk The Line." You shoulda heard the modulations he had to leave out.

Moms, there has been a Japanese free-improvisation scene that's little known over here - Derek Bailey, Peter Kowald, Joelle Leandre are some Westerners who have recorded with some of those musicians. I would like to hear and know a lot more about the distinctive qualities of free improvisation in Japan. One musician whom I've been taken by was Kaoru Abe, who seemed to invent the saxophone all over again each time he played it.

Moon Mullican Mars Williams Venus Williams

Duke of Windsor Vicar of Wakefield Knacker of the Yard

Ishtar Hey, I liked Ishtar,

Thomas Gainsborough J.M.W. Turner Trog

And they are as great as they look.

4 trios

Clarence Profit, Herman Chittison