Wow that Live at the Left Bank sure is tempting and been listening to a few samples so now might have to buy a copy!   Nice find

Kenny Clarke Francy Boland Big Band “Blowing the Cobwebs Out” disc 1     The blowin’ out of the cobwebs is a helpful thing.

Walter Smith III and Matthew Stephens “In Common” Whirlwind cd  

I'm a big Stout fan, read all the Wolfe's when I was in my twenties, my youngest brother got me started on it as he told me that he thought I was a lot like Archie Goodwin (and there are similarities--I too was born in Canton, and my favorite drink is milk--my brother thought I was like Archie with the ladies too, but I don't see that). I like the Tecumsah Fox books too--a nice re-imagining of Sherlock Holmes I think. And I love a novel he wrote in the second person called "How Like a God." What a fascinating person Stout must have been to be around.

Didn't "Cugie" make his music as palatable as possible to the U.S. mainstream audiences in the first place?