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I don't think it's him, but for a sec I though it looked like Virgil Gonsalves, who was a West Coast baritone player.

I actually find Facebook very interesting - a wide array of domestic and foreign interest in music. A different and more world-wide perspective. A strangely effective forum. A big fuckin' mess. I like that.

it's ok, that Rhodes guy is from Mississippi (or Northern Maine).

needs some hair spray.....

hey Jeff, cool stuff (I'm listening as I post this) - good re-mix. I can picture the film: Shabbos Night Fever.

sorry, just found out he didn't do the transfers for this one - just kidding

I bought 25 of these and when they are no longer available I will re-sell them to the growing contingent of OP fans for $10,000 a box, cash only. Start lining up, boys - my daughter's going to college next year. Baby needs books.

well, had my first airport scanner experience today: Security man: "Is that a box cutter in your hidden cavity or are you just glad to see me?"

"is this some kind of a bust?" "yes, it's very nice." "now that I'm retired, next time I shoot someone I could get into real trouble."

"how come Slide Hampton plays the valve trombone?"

Michael Kieffer. Trust me on this. Makes it worth it.

1) I like Facebook and I like all the little emails I receive; keeps me on top of certain threads, and makes me feel like I am popular. 2) I have met and spent time with Chris, and he is very mature.

I don't like the competition.

I always thought that the rule in French pronunciation is that the first, last, and middle syllables are silent.

it's mostly curiosity - I like to see how the other 2/3 lives. I want to know what other musicians are doing. And I really do think there are too many of these people (of course, I may have to include myself in this population explosion) - but judging from Facebook, I now believe that every other American, and every third European, is composing music of some kind.

good stuff - reminds me of that time at the Clinton inauguration when one of the MTV babes, having seen TS Monk, asked someone (quite seriously): "Who is The Loneliest Monk?

lately I've been cruising around Facebook making new Musical friends and trying to find out what other musicians are up to. Many of these new friends work in the area of what I might call ambient sound, electronic drones, prepared instruments and new-age forms. One nice thing about my new adventure is that I have learned, to my great relied, that most of these people are even more self-centered than I am. And here is the latest from a new-music label called Dragon's Eye, which I recently found through a new Friend: "Dragon's Eye's goal is to foster personal and artistic relationships with its artists and to function as a meeting ground for its artists to further develop relationships with one another." I am not so sure that this is a good thing; I have enough trouble developing relationships with the insincere artisans and creative poseurs I meet in my daily life. So what is an artist to do? Develop NON-artistic relationships? ahhhhh, the trials of a life of contemplation......

one to think about, if with duplicates, is that Michael Kieffer does their transfer work, and he is one of the best - so depending where your other sources originate, this still might be worth it.

Mance is one of my favorites, but, sales category or not, he should not be labeled a blues man in a piece of journalism.

I am thrilled, as I have been awaiting this one.

true - but that wasn't really a series but one big thing - not to split hairs -

yup - sorry, but the Buick was stolen overnight from my driveway (I probably should not have left the keys in it) - I'm guessing OJL, indeed, was the first label to do serious blues reissues (under the auspices of the wonderful, late, Bill Givens, a very nice man who deserves credit). The article also cites Mance Lipscomb, of whose repertoire 90 percent of songs were NOT blues, as a blues man. Who says the Times is not the paper of record?

from today's NY Times, article about Arhoolie Records and Chris Strachwitz, the label's founder: "For a generation of folk- and blues-inspired performers, from Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones to Bonnie Raitt and T Bone Burnett, Arhoolie has been a lodestone. In his autobiographical “Chronicles Vol. I,” Mr. Dylan, a member of the advisory board of the nonprofit Arhoolie Foundation, credits the label as being the place “where I first heard Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Blake, Charlie Patton and Tommy Johnson.” (this contest prohibited in the void; batteries not included)

I have this already and it is one of the greatest series of vocal recordings ever made in jazz.