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Bassist / Composer Ben Tucker killed in a golf cart accident - http://savannahnow.com/news/2013-06-04/savannah-music-icon-ben-tucker-killed-golf-cart-crash#.Ua488utAugo

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A couple of months ago I got Ann got a new laptop with the dreaded 8 and she has been cursing me since then. I can only hope the new "update/fixes" promised for the Fall bail me out. They made the idiotic decision to make one program written for touch screen and then dumbed it down for pcs.

probably not legal but I have a 90 day supply of Chantix. This is what got me off and my insurance resupplied me before I knew it. If you want it and really wish to try contact me. No money involved. The first 90 day supply cured me after 40+ years and dozens of failures.

EMI also have a nice 2 disc set of Poulenc Chamber music.

EMI has 2 double cds of Faure chamber music with Jean-Philippe Collard and others. One set is duos for piano, violin, cello and flute, the other is quartets and quintets.

Me, too. And of course, Shapero deserves props for the title - calling a piece based on Monteverdi "On Green Mountain" is pretty damn funny. As clever as the music.

Sorry, I always thought "On Green Mountain" was the lamest work on any of the above mentioned packages.

I expect this is a very common problem...but whenever it strikes, the results may be devastating. I seldom had the problem you describe (sticky tape), possibly because I have very few Ampex tapes, but the opposite is even worse : the binder dries out and falls off the tape, taking the iron oxyde particles in the process and leaving bald spots on the tape...no more sound, not even tape hiss..! It happened frequently with Memorex 2500 tapes, leaving several works on this tape unusable because of sound drops of 1 or 2 seconds. These tapes date back from 1973-74. I even tried to repair the digital transfer of the tape when by chance sme soonatas have repeats in the score, but then that is pure luck. Do you feel the baking process might be a temporary cure for this? I doubt it but have no solid information to back it up. Back in the '80s when we first encountered the "sticky" problem we eventually received the "cure" from the Ampex engineering department. Ampex and their successor Quantegy would bake tapes at no charge for a few years. Most companies with quantities of these tapes now have convection ovens to remedy the problem. I suggest contacting the companies directly if possible. Best of luck.

I smoked for 48 years and stopped 3 years ago.

Listening to a relatively current cd by a vibes player and had to stop to listen to some Bobby Naughton.

It was made with a 2/3 different rhythm section - better one. In Action was made with his Cedar Rapids group and the later one with the Iowa City guys - Dale Oehler piano, John Wilmeth bass and Rusty Jones drums.

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Is that the late Senator McCarthy?

Too bad the second (unreleased) session has gone missing. JR and the guys in the band raved about Out of Nowhere.

I hope nothing happens to this thread. It is an important history for some of us.

Can't speak to the new issue but back then JR and I were friends. I had the record in a white paper sleeve before the covers were printed. Back in the early '90s I sold the bulk of my lps to a Japanese dealer to finance the Art Ensemble box I issued. I have the Bainbridge cd and can not imagine extra money will deliver a better experience.

Yes I was there. Lots of tension between Diz and Haig. I don't know why but imagine it had roots in the past. As I remember it, Diz mostly ignored Haig while hamming it up with the other guys and Al felt really uncomfortable and became "prickly" if that's the right word. The big deal for me was the first chance to hear Kenny Clarke and he was great. I witnessed the Gillespie / Haig tension again in 1980 when they were part of an all-star group we formed to celebrate Bird at the Chicago Jazz Festival. That situation might have been aggravated by Max Roach, but that's another story. Diz could be either a prince or a dick. I witnessed both.

I made a distribution deal with Flying Fish (a relatively large folk/bluegrass label based in Chicago) to sell my products in the US. Bruce Kaplan, owner of FF, was curious to see if the label names and their fans would react differently to jazz releases. We tried the experiment with the Sulllivan on Fish and a new Air record on Nessa. Not sure we proved/settled anything but the Air record was the winner. Though I could sell more jazz records, the average sale of Flying Fish records far out paced items in my catalog.

Can we now ignore this thread and move on with valued new members?

Jodie was on SteepleChase dates by Von Freeman and Louis Smith as well as a trio date of his own.

And the piano is very well-recorded. Who was the engineer? The engineer was Mark Rubenstein. I also used him on my Air record and a Roscoe Mitchell solo date.

Hans has identified the recording. To be clear, my mention of 2 sessions referred to 2 times in the studio, not 2 different releases. Jeff used a track from the lp to lead off blindfold test #110 and Simon got some bad reviews. Jeff also mentioned he would repeat a story I told him about the sessions in his wrap-up of the BFT. Warning for Hans, Jodie plays electric piano on two tracks of the eventual cd.

The tapes in question are from my 2 sessions with Ira Sullivan. In addition to Ira and Jodie, the players are Dan Shapera on bass, Wilbur Campbell on drums and a Sullivan student named Simon Salz on guitar. I think we captured some of Jodie's best playing on these sessions.