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You can get the Winding version (and many other fine soul sides) on a superb compilation on Ace entitled "The Jerry Ragavoy Story". Ragavoy wrote the song (under the pseudonym "Norman Meade") and added lyrics at the request of Irma Thomas' producer. No doubt this is where Dylan (or his producer Eddie Gorodetsky) became aware of it.

Not really a blonde. She was a brunette when she joined the show, transformed into a blonde during one of her maternity leaves. For the record, I think she's good looking, smart, and funny.

Maybe it was a message from on high that was telling you you'd be better off without them.

So you bought the other Alfred Apaka and Webley Edwards albums from the dollar easy listening bin? I need more customers like you!

Has anyone viewed the "Lost Roy Silver Interview" yet? We watched it last night - what a waste of time!

Very keen on Maynard in the 50s, which is when Carmen was with him. I first discovered Carmen on Maynard's recording of "Frame For the Blues". A great track, and some booting tenor! Also like his LP's on Famous Door, Daybreak, & Progressive. The ones on his own label looked cheesy, but he played well on them!

He is. 94 years old.

I was goint to mention this as well! Also love Brown-Roach at Basin Street Max Roach +4 (the one with all their backs to the camera) Drums Unlimited Sonny Rollins - Worktime

Nobody has mentioned the album that turned me on to Groove some 40+ years ago: "Somethin' Special" (Pacific Jazz) Clifford Scott (tenor sax), Groove Holmes (organ), Les McCann (piano), Joe Pass (guitar), Ron Jefferson (drums) Tkis album burns from start to finish! The tenor player was listed as "Joe Splink" on the original LP. Clifford Scott is mostly remembered for his classic tenor solo on Bill Doggett's "Honky Tonk."

My condolences to you. Dealing with all the red tape and hospital confusion only heightened the anxiety you were already feeling about your mother's condition. Losing a parent is something that most of us go through at one point in our lives. I only hope that she didn't suffer for very long.

Except that if someone has gone to the trouble to include something, I feel I should at least allow them the consideration of listening to it all the way through. I try not to make hasty judgements without giving the music a chance. Of course, on the second listen (I always listen twice before making comments) I often hit the "next" button on some tracks!

I've got to agree with Thom on this - let's insist that the BFT be limited to one disc. The main reason I dropped out is that I felt that two discs was too much of a tax on my time. Especially if it's two discs of music I don't like! I'd be more inclined to participate if I know that one disc will be all I have to endure (or enjoy, as the case may be).

Especially when he and Getz were the same age - both born in 1927! Nevertheless, I thoroughly applaud your appreciation of Raney - a giant whose work is far less well known that it should be. He was a true original.

I've put up with some bad sound over the years, but I remember one Charlie Parker set on Philology on which the sound was so bad it wasn't even recognizeable as music!

And you can hear Trane's dedication piece, "Like Sonny" on Coltrane Jazz. Nice little tune. Supposed to be based on a Sonny lick. I used to hear guys play it a lot. It goes up, like in minor thirds, I think. I always liked Trane's opening on his solo. It was so melodic I thought it was part of the tune. The tune "Like Sonny" ( also recorded as "Simple Like") is based on lick played by Sonny Rollins. You can hear Sonny play it on the Kenny Dorham album "Jazz Contrasts" (Riverside/OJC) during his solo on "My Old Flame"

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ar...D=2009903270355 Although it's not mentioned in the obit, I remember him as the guy who ran the Charlie Parker label.

Big Fred Neil fan here, too. The Capitol albums are wonderful, but "Bleecker and MacDougal" is really his masterpiece. Btw, In the late 1960's, Elektra reissued it with new cover art as "A Little Bit of Rain".

Great!! Thanks for posting the link.

Have always loved this record! It's probably Wayne's most overtly swinging session.

I can't believe that anybody thought this record was worth reissuing! I heard it years ago and was underwhelmed. At least "The Transformed Man" has plenty of comic value. "Many Moods" is a straight bland album of easy listening instrumentals, and I suspect that it was issued to shut Murray up!

Never owned a set myself, but I definitly remember seeing him on TV!

From all reports I've seen, the fall was very minor, and she got up and walked away, insisting she was OK and refusing treatment. It wasn't until later that she began to experience headaches, and sought medical treatment. Although I assume that an autopsy will reveal the answer, some have speculated that she may have had some pre-existing condition. The whole thing is very tragic.

Plays alto (alongside Zoot Sims on tenor) on most of "Something Borrowed, Something Blue", also from this period.

Well put. This, like many of Duke's "suites" is a program of original compositions, tied together not by any common musical theme, but by titles that refer to New Orleans people and places. "Portrait of Mahalia Jackson" is, imo, one of Duke's most beautiful compositions, and it never fails to move me.

Where'd you hear this? James Lincoln Collier? Hodges left because he had a hit record (Castle Rock), and figured it was time to go out on his own. He was back within five years.