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Interesting. That answers my question, which was not meant in any way as a criticism - I was just curious about the magical cut-off of 1960. I know all about space and time constraints! What is the subject of your dissertation? Thanks, Bertrand.

Why limit your discography to the 50s? Did Cleveland stop recording after that? Bertrand.

How about this: Divide the cost of a Money Jungle CD by the number of members minus two. Each of us then contributes our share and someone buys a copy of the the thing and send it to Soulstation. THEN CAN WE FINALLY STOP HEARING ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bertrand.

I used to be on the Miles list. It was a discussion of all things related to Miles. It mostly sucked. I dropped out when some dipwad started berating me for something I posted about the Shorter brothers; the asshole didn't read my post correctly. That's one thing I hate about the 'net: people who hit the send key prematurely. Bertrand.

Curtis Counce's Sonority was on backorder last year for about three months at *every* website; then it became available again. So let's not panic quite yet, OK? Of course, we know what will hit eventually. Bertrand.

Thompson had an amazing career: U.S. envoy to American Samoa, then China, general manager of the Washington Redskins, etc. etc. Bertrand.

Or better yet, an automatic translator into English. Bertrand.

Only play tunes in the public domain until he stops this shit. Bertrand.

Aric, I asked Lou the same question - he said 'that's the 64 dollar question'. Marcello, Guess what - Gravatt retired from the prison guard job; he's back playing with McCoy! I saw them at Blues Alley in October and spoke to Eric for a while. He was charming and lucid, and even gave me his card. Bertrand.

The first Hot Tuna album... Bertrand.

I met Lou Donaldson tonight; he was hanging out at the East Coast Jazz Festival (I could not see his gig with Dr. Lonnie Smith, alas. Among other things, the cover was $65). Lou confirmed what I had already heard him say before: 'My Little Suede Shoes' is a Cal Massey composition. Bertrand.

Going back to Pete Laroca: Turkish Women At The Bath was reissued by Muse as a Chick Corea album called Bliss. LaRoca sued and won. Bertrand.

Great news! One of my best memories is catching an early set of Cecil Payne at Smalls (with Richard Wyands, John Ore and Joe Farnsworth) celebrating Cecil's 73rd birthday, then walking 'round the corner to the Vanguard for two sets of the Jackie McLean sextet. That's New York. I also met Tommy Turrnetine there once - we chatted at length. Bertrand.

I agree with Mike to disagree about 'Groon'. It's a fantastic piece. I have it on a 2-LP compilation I bought years ago, principally for the amazing booklet. It is essentially a chronology of KC up to the time of the compilation's release (late seventies), chock full of pictures and hilarious press clippings and anecdotes (John Wetton was once referred to in a review as Rick Laird). I hope I still have it - it's probably at my mother's place in Paris. Thanks for the reminder, I'll bring it home on my next trip. Bertrand.

This seems like the right thread to conjure up the name Harry Chapin. This may get me banned from Organissimo for life, of course. Chapin had a song about lonely fishermen's wived in Gloucester Mass who, in the dead of winter, would 'cuddle up' to their big hairy dogs. 'Cuddle up' is a euphemism here, but you get my drift. Bertrand. P.S. It's spelled 'Gloucester', but it's pronounced 'throat-warbler mangrove'.

I got an e-mail from Brooks himself, I believe. I don't know how I got on his mailing list, I've never even met him! Maybe through Don Braden, who I do know? Bertrand.

I knew Margaret Davis was his manager - I did not know that it extended to 'companion'! Bertrand.

Holy crap, Marshall Allen is 80! He should be at home in his slippers, sipping a hot toddy. Looking forward to the Baltimore gig. Got my tickets. Bertrand.

I will be at the Baltimore gig. Bertrand.

Which record was first made available to the general public? Bertrand.

15 pages and no one (myself included) has asked the obvious question yet: will the title track also be renamed? Basra is a damn good record - I'll have to load into into my iPod this week-end. On the subject of LaRoca Sims being a lawyer, here's a funny story. A few years ago, Jazzbeat (or Downtimes) had a story on Joe Chambers. Somehow, in the story, they got him mixed up with LaRoca and claimed Joe was also an attorney! Joe fired off an angry letter saying that he was not a lawyer, had never been a lawyer and never intended to become one. You could tell that he truly felt insulted! Bertrand.

Looking at the Andrew Hill discography by our friend relyles hosted on Mike Fitzgerald's jazz discography site, I see that at least one TV broadcast is listed. I hope this becomes more and more of a practice. Of course, since right now I'm working on a Wayne Shorter discography, I just gave myself a hell of a lot more work to do! Plus with him, there's a bunch of European and Japanese TV broadcasts which I know nothing about, and I am not sure about how to get this information. Maybe I need to rethink this idea Bertrand.

I was thinking about the new Ray Charles DVD in Brazil which has foootage of Tina Brooks. To the best of my knowledge, the music has not been released separately on an audio-only CD. Yet, in a way, this is a performance that belongs in the Brooks discography - it's definitely an important piece of the puzzle, because it's his only 'wide-audience' exposure (The Sermon is a distant second) and it's also his last-known recorded performance. Should it become a common practice to include these types of DVD-only performances in discographies? Is anyone already doing this (and pardon my ignornace if they are)? If one of the purposes of discographies is to make fans of a certain musician aware of every known performance captured in some medium, then I would think this would be a good idea. I would have never known about the Ray Charles DVD if it was not for this board. Still need to get a copy, BTW. I'm just swimming in backlog. Bertrand.

I must be a total fucking idiot, but I don't see what's controversial about the name of this album. Bertrand.

There is a Charlie Hampton who plays piano around D.C. I think I've only seen him once, but I see his name listed a lot. He was an elderly gentleman. I have met Fred Williams a couple of times. He is indeed D.C.-based. Although he has been around for a while (in his late sixties, perhaps?), I have only recently been aware of him. He told me he played in '68 or '69 at Bohemian Caverns with Woody Shaw, Buck Hill and Eric Gravatt. He is also on a recent locally-produced CD by vocalist George V. Johnson. I suspect it is later than 1990. Whether he is the same Fred Williams as the one listed in the Lord, I can't say. Not familiar with the others. Bertrand.