Hoppy T. Frog

There may be a mention in John Litweiler's Ornette bio. If I recall correctly, Ornette checked out a Dead concert and was impressed with the whole Deadhead scene. Thanks. I have the book, haven't gotten round to reading it yet.

Funny, I quite liked In All Languages, but maybe it was due to the thrill of hearing the same songs done by both Prime Time and the "Original Quartet". I haven't listened to Of Human Feelings enough to make a comparison, but those earlier Prime Time records have an excitement and energy that seems to lack here. Maybe that whole area of exploration had run its course by then, and new fields awaited, like the duet with Joachim Kuhn (which I loved).

Hi, this is the first time I've done this, and I forgot it was my turn until I was gently reminded, and I think I've done as much of a search to avoid a duplicate AOTW as I can. Soooooo, now that I'm off on the wrong foot, the hoopla about the new Ornette Coleman LP has made me think of one of his more obscure albums, "Virgin Beauty", or "The One with Jerry Garcia". Now out of print, I'm not sure it has aged well, especially with the bright, shallow production and synthetic drums. Perhaps a remastering would bring out it's charms like "Song X"? Anyhoo, being totally unfamiliar with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead, I can't hear anything about his guitar playing that he brought to the session that would make one sit up and take notice. The three tracks he plays on sound little different from all the others. On the one hand, maybe Jerry absorbed Ornette's methods and fit in seemlessly with Bern Nix and Charles Ellerbee--or those licks really were Nix and Ellerbee and I'm just not "hearing" Garcia. Was this just a record company idea? Am I missing something, or is this LP a disappointment? Any Deadheads out there who can enlighten me on the connections between Ornette and the Dead?

Email sent about Dolphy.

Discovering Stan Tracey has been one of the pleasures of this series for me. Sonny is just on fore, but Stan seems to be able to not only keep up, but on a few occasions (Volumes one and two being particularly memorable) coming out with some left field stuff himself. He seems to be trying to do much more than simple comping.

A few were on a catchall British comedy compilation issued by Rhino about a decade ago called "Dead Parrot Society". Private Eye content included Dudley Moore singing "LS Bumblebee" (in 1966!), as well as sketches parodying John and Yoko.

PM sent on the Corea.

Dang, I just bought mine last Christmas for like a hundred bucks!

Which DC area libraries are good ones?

That's in Bartonsville, a tiny traditionally African-American community just outside Frederick, Maryland (my hometown). His extended family own a lot of property there.

It was great, but I was surprised at the number of walkouts (actually I shouldn't, considering the number of walkouts I saw at an Ornette Coleman show just last year--WHERE'S DE JAZZ??!!). Anybody have the season tickets and get to talk to Braxton before the show? Any idea what composition was played, and if it was one of the Ghost Trance series or one of the others he is working on?

I'm driving from Central Maryland for this show--my first Braxton concert.

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Wow...December's going to be my 3rd time in the states, and my first in NYC, so as if I wasn't excited enough... How long in advance do you typically have to book tickets to a place like the Iridium? Or maybe you don't? I don't want to miss out! It'll be cool to see Marshall Allen and J.D. Parran as well. I wonder if Taylor Ho Bynum has played with CT before? Struck me last night that CT was the second half of the London Jazz Festival bill last year that included the now-famous Braxton quintet gig. I wonder if Taylor heard Bynum there? Bynum was fantastic on that gig, by the way! ← Bynum played in Taylor's Big Band in April of 2004 for a five-night stand at the Iridium. Based on my experience in 2004, it would be easy to get in without advance tickets. However, if you are the cautious type like me, you might as well get a ticket for the first set of the night--and then iridium allows you to stay for the next set(s) with only a minimum.

The Chiaroscuro label has been added.

Yep, available now - but today's it's official release day isn't it? ← It was available a month ago as a download. I grabbed it immediately.

I'm hoping they are paying the artists some $$$, otherwise it's really ballsy to do this in a store in a city where a large percentage of the artists involved live!

Except for the artsy-fartsy type design that they used. Still hard to read. What's up with THAT? ← Be grateful you have notes! My Plugged Nickel has the liner notes all in Japanese (got a MasterSound version cheap/used), and some very strange Nipponese cartoons of Miles.

I used to love the Game Show Network when they showed those old panel shows. Now it's all dull original programming. Or am I wrong?

Hey-- What's people's take on Andrew White? Any recommended recordings out of the zillions he's done? I've been reading through a collection of old Cadence Magazines (in which he always bought full-page ads) and I know he's quite a character (as well as a good entrepeneur). Does he still play? I live near DC but I don't see any local gigs.

I think I know the store. I love the place, but they are selling CD-Rs of out-of-print albums/CDs with photocopied artwork. I have avoided buying them because of my misgivings. I haven't asked the clerks at the store what the story is with these CDs--don't want to sound like I'm a mole from the RIAA.

Ohmigod that is one hideous cover!

Pre-order price at CD Universe is 91 bucks.

Let the buyer beware! ← Not to cast aspersions on the seller's character, but if he is unaware that it was a six-disc set, and it has no box or booklet, I'm willing to bet he is not--shall we say--the actual owner of the property.

The July/August issue of Indie Rock mag Magnet has an oral history of the 80s Minneapolis scene, focusing on the Huskers and the Mats. If the quotes from Grant and Bob are recent, there's still a lot of hostility there. I also must add love for Warehouse--and I'm surprised by the love for Land Speed Record. Even when I was 17 it palled relatively quickly for me. On the contrary, finally hearing the early singles and stuff when Rhino reissued Everything Falls Apart showed they were capable of much more than generic hardcore even at that stage of their development. Allegedly, LSR is only a recording of their first set that night, and the second set had more melodic and/or experimental stuff like "Statues", etc.