Bluesnik

I've got him IIRC on an album with Bud Shank. It's actually two albums, New Groove and Barefoot adventure, which IIRC again was the soundtrack to a surf movie.

That's a song I love, and which I discovered through Breaking Bad. It fit perfectly there.

Ah, thanks. I think I will try to track it down. But what's the next 51 Chess? Weren't all of them on that album mentioned?

I also disliked them deeply (ELP). But there's one song from them, From the beginning, that's one of my favorites ever.

What's this?!

Continuing on in the theme from yesterday with this great set that contains, I think, Capitol and Black and White sessions. And thanks very much John L for your suggestion.

And really, really enjoying it. The booklet is also very good. I've picked two bibliographical references from it.

I have that one too and really enjoy it. That Mose Allison was really a Southern gentleman.

Following a discussion about it yesterday. And it's true that the celeste kills out the guitar. You hardly hear Charlie Christian. Except on Profoundly Blue no. 2, which I don't know if it's an alternate or what. And then the wonderful final Celestial Express. Which is like proto RnR. It's true what my jazz guitar teacher once said to me: When you hear Charlie Christian it's like the beginning of rock and roll. Same here. Although I also have a Japanese mini LP release of his only album, which is also here. But I like Twardzik a lot.

That's one I have. And yes it's very good. I have a US compilation with many of the tracks, or all, of Profoundly Blue. With Charlie Christian. I'll have to see the difference of tracks in the reissue. Maybe I'll try to get it. Just for the cover, which is great and wasn't, of course, on the comp. I just checked and it's the full content. Only that some tracks have differing lengths and the last one from the Edmond Hall Swingtet, Steamin and beamin, is called Beamin and steamin on the US domestic release. So I'll stay with mine.

Ah, then that was pure intuition. I didn't research or anything. But I remembered.

Wasn't Hall also part of another band? Funboy 3 or something like that.

Such a good set!

Today I will be listening to The Gerald Wilson Mosaic. In a little while. Celebrating I read about him in Jazz in Detroit. So he's a Detroiter (?).

I'm with this fascinating book right now. On chaps. 1 and 2. When the diaspora from the rural South to the northern cities made the beginning of a musical movement possible. And how in the 50s after bebop, Detroit had a very vital scene that even nurtured cities as NY. Congratulations for this work Mark Stryker. And I'm only just at the beginning. But it looks very promising. By the way, I have a Savoy album called Jazzmen Detroit. With Flanagan, Adams, Chambers, Burrell and Clarke. Who is omitted from the cover because he was not a detroitian, as I've said before. But I read in the book that it was precisely him who organized the session. This has me seeking out other music books about the city, like Before Motown. Very good the Elvin Jones shot from the cover.

I also had it since 2004, and only gave it a read now. But it's really good. Still with that one. And today I read a very hilarious account of a wrestling match between the Duke of Sardinia and something Lionheart. I dropped tears from laughing!

Oh, that's Nara Leao IIRC. And the album was on Philips. Again IIRC. Oh no, now I see it's Polydor. But I don't know why I associated it with Philips. There was a lot of bossa on Philips in the early to mid 60s. Including IIRC Tamba Trio.

Exactly the same.

Now I'm with the last novel, Dreams from Bunker Hill, which while not as good, is also interesting because it portrays the Hollywood studio world the writers live in. Amongst sycophants who pretend to be friends with all the stars, and a real crazy day to day live. It's really hilarious. Though admittedly it's not the best.

I remember that series from when I was a kid.

Some time ago, I don't know if it was related to this thread, I read an American had fallen into the crater of mount Vesuvius while making a selfie, and been miraculously saved by other people.

That is also always the case with me. All works of art follow one simple structure: presentation, conflict, resolution. And I always like the first best. The first part of a novel, film or anything is always the best.

Today I finished Ask the dust, in my opinion the standout novel from the quartet. And I still have the last to read. But I dug a bit deeper and researched and found it's considered his finest work. And Bandini, his alter ego, something you notice just by reading (there's one novel, Wait until spring, Bandini, where the main characters are his father and his mother and he is just a small kid), but when you read secondary literature it all falls into place. It's just as he describes it. I don´t like to read anything about what I am going to read beforehand. Not even prefaces or texts on the back. I like to enjoy the work of the author as it was conceived to be enjoyed, without knowing anything about it. There's always time afterward. And I also didn't know he was an inspiration to Bukowski or Kerouac.

Oh, I read a while ago here about a book that appears in the background of this cover: Jazz Optisch 1.8k Location:Germany

I once read, in the liners to the Joe Pass Mosaic, I think, that Moore, Pass and Burroughs shared a crash pad at some time in New Orleans, I think. Pass played in a strippers club. So all very seedy.