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I love many of my Miles records, but hardly ever the bits where Miles is playing.

They were right. I interviewed him and heard him in 2001, and 2003 I think, and he was very supple indeed. He wasn't overly busy at all, but there was so much going on (polyrhythmically, timbrally) I got the impression he wouldn't have been easy to play with. I think the people I watched him playing with were having that impression too.

'Financial participation is available'. Nicely put!

In 1986 at the Storyville hall in New Orleans! More from the same evening... Bemsha Swing! No way! When I read Jim's question, then saw Dizzy's jacket, I knew instantly it was 86. That was very much the year of salmon pink. That period marked me for life. Relatedly: is Don Cherry pulling off a Jean Michel Basquiat look with that bow tie and hair combo, or vice versa? Hard not to be mildly disturbed at the 3:40 mark by Al Hirt's diaphragm movement.

Oh dear. A sad story mad sadder.

Well that's Cornbread ruined!

IIRC, Mabern told me that I Remember Britt is not for Woodman, but for a kid called Britt who was a friend of his son and who died as a child ... I'd have to check that though. Did he say that Brit was one of the children on the cover of Andrew Hill's Grass Roots even? I think so, but this may be my imagination.

Bear in mind that this is an international forum and that incorrect English is not always easy to understand for members whose first language isn't English If we're going to talk in really International English it's probably not going to look like 'correct' British or US English at all. IE teachers use a basic vocabulary of about 1500 words. Good news - 'jazz' is one of them! But we will never speak of hard bop again ... Afraid I didn't copy that interview. I'm sure Brownie has it. I only skimmed it: Mobley moans about Ornette a bit, then gets down at the disco, and that's about it.

I was reading an article in which the author used the word ... Only joking. That Mizell story is an old chestnut. By the way Chewy, I came across an interview with Hank (conducted by Phil Woods) in the French Jazz Magazine today (c. 1970). Do people know about this piece? I didn't. He talks about dancing at a disco with Dexter Gordon. Preemptive apologies for any language errors.

Well, I won't sign up to that, but Bebop, I've read the book. Go with your initial instincts on this one.

Here we are, lovely Lee and Billy H solos on Journey to Morocco and Set Us Free. On Sidewinder you can listen to a reasonable Lee solo overdub and a rejected earlier effort bleeding through at the same time. In my book that represents value for money.

Was it a better session for being had at that price? At the time I'd never seen any copy of this - on LP or CD so even though it was one of those garbage Applause reissues it was a no-brainer (not to mention getting change out of a Loonie ). Since then I've picked up a near-mint mono vinyl original so it gathers dust ! Maybe I should do an Applause Label freak show display? I like this session by the way, although it regularly gets panned. I had the Applause version, too I'm not one of those who pans it, either. Think I'll listen later; it's been a while. MG In that case I'm going to tie these threads together and listen to Bobbi's Flute-In, on Applause, which I picked up from a cut-out bin in Boston in 1994. As I remember, it's not all bad, just mostly.

Ouch!

How much happier we'd have all been if the US was a little more queer.

Sorry to drag things down to my level.

David, as in Kelley's book you've got an inadvertent cap-doff to the classic misspelling up there!

My thoughts exactly. Come on, look how he's working that cravat! You can tell it's a good record. Interesting that All Members was chosen as the title tune, since a glance at the cover shows that they patently aren't ...

Actually, I withdraw my original comment. To develop my response would lead to a possibly academic and certainly ill-natured discussion of what 'whiteness' is supposed to be, and I don't think anyone here will have any more time or stomach for that than I do. And Allen and Chris are right, without specifics my post looks like insinuation, which is never a very noble tactic. So please, pretend I never spoke.

Mmr./ms Anonymous, your statement is meaningless without specifics. Well then, neither of you two. For nonymity, see below ...

All kinds of race anxiety on show in this thread. And a couple of classic 'whiteness' moves.

It's a pretty easy league to be out of!

I value my magic circle membership too highly to respond.

Thanks David. The pointers gag took me ages to get.

I thought I once read Lou Reed saying that Metal Machine Music was designed to be like a long Hendrix or Townshend solo with everything but the distortion taken out (or words to that effect). And I thought I read it in the hilarious face-off interview Reed did with Lester Bangs - but I've just re-read that and it's not there. Am I making this up, or does it rings any bells for anyone? Pointers would be much appreciated.

Serrano's album Blues Holiday is lovely, and you get four Chicagoans for the price of one - Bunky Green, Jodie Christian and Don Garrett too.