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You must be speaking of the lps - there are 2 bonus tracks on the cd version. All the tracks from the two-LP set show up as bonus tracks on the appropriate CDs.

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That's the only Patton vinyl I'm missing - and going by the comments here it will probably stay that way (unless I luck out with a fluke find - zippo chance). Looks like the most reliable listening option on that session would be the Mosaic Select. The defect is a minor one. The groove skips at the start of Jimmy Ponder's intervention on 'Early A.M.'. All that is required is to lift the cartridge one groove away to continue to enjoy the music. Good exercise for elderly BN groovers Yeah, it was discussed here some time back, but I'm too lazy to look for the thread right now. I agree that it's not a fatal flaw.

Interesting analysis. I hope it's fabulous, and in any case, I'm looking forward to hearing it. I'm going to order it as soon as I get back to Atlanta. And Bunk Johnson 1944 is indeed excellent. I just didn't want to overload my best-of-American-Music list with too much Bunk.

Cool - my favorite Patton! Does it have the groove catch on the last track of side one?

Readily available - from Amazon or the Jazzology website. As discussed earlier in this thread, it's on American Music, which is a branch of Jazzology.

I just got my copy of the latest copy of JazzBeat, which is Jazzology's magazine/newsletter/catalog, and all I can tell you is that I am definitely getting the Fess Manetta CD. He was an extremely important musician/teacher in New Orleans. The late jazz historian Richard Allen took trombone lessons from Fess, and in my conversations with Dick, he spoke of Manetta with the utmost respect. That being said, I don't expect to be knocked out by the music - it's just a feeling I have. If the album was really amazing, it would probably have been reissued before now, or bootlegged by someone. But I've got to have it, just to see for myself. I totally understand your reaction. But I love The Dancehall Years, partly because it's not a "jazz" recording - it's just a raw New Orleans band playing for dancers.

Johnny Hodges - Rippin' & Runnin' (Verve). This may be my favorite of the many albums Rabbit did for Verve in the 1960's. The rhythm section is pretty unusual for a Hodges date - Billy Gardner, Jimmy Ponder, Ron Carter and Freddie Waits.

Keith Jarret - El Juicio (Atlantic). Maybe my favorite early Jarrett album - recorded at the Birth/Mourning of a Star sessions, but not released until 1975.

A coupla Sun Ra Saturns: Hiroshima. An epic organ solo, recorded on "Mighty Mo" - the organ at the Fox Theater here in Atlanta. The Sound Mirror. One side is a sermon, delivered over the "Mayan Temples" riff. The other side is from the great 1978 quartet tour of Europe that produced Disco 3000, Media Dream, New Steps, and Other Voices, Other Blues.

Good luck, Shawn. I'm really impressed with how you've taken back control of your life.

Mal Waldron/Steve Lacy - Journey Without End (Japanese Victor). This 1971 album has been on my want list for 25 years. This morning it was waiting for me when I woke up, an anniversary present from my wonderful wife.

Happy birthday to one of the nicest guys I've never met.

Mine seems to be an actual Douglas pressing - a promo copy, in fact, which I had forgotten. Now playing: Duke Ellington - Up in Duke's Workshop (Pablo)

John McLaughlin - Devotion (Douglas). Needed something raucous tonight.

I'm in for a download, although I haven't devoted much time to listening to BFT 87 yet.

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My sweet wife is 800 miles away tonight. I'm consoling myself by digging deep into the soul/R & B 45s: Jackie Moore - Precious, Precious/Willpower (Atlantic) Denise LaSalle - Trapped By a Thing Called Love/Keep it Coming (Westbound) Oscar Weathers - You Wants to Play/The Spoiler (Top and Bottom) James Carr - That's What I Want to Know/You've Got My Mind Messed Up (Goldwax) Preston Love featuring Shuggie Otis - Cool Ade/Shuggie's Blues (Kent) Latimore - There's a Red-Neck in the Soul Band/Just One Step (Glades) Then a handful of records by one of the greatest soul voices of all time: Johnny Adams - Tra-La-La/Showdown (Ric) Johnny Adams - Reconsider Me/If Could See You One More Time (SSS) Johnny Adams - South Side of Soul Street/Something Worth Leaving For (SSS) Johnny Adams - I Live My Whole Life at Night/No Gettin' Over Me (Hep' Me) Johnny Adams - Hell Yes I Cheated/I'm Afraid to Let You Into My Life (Paid) On to a few more New Orleans singles: Eddie Bo - Every Dog Has His Day/Tell It Like It Is (Ric) Chuck Carbo - Tears, Tears and More Tears/I Shouldn't But I Do (Ace) Earl King - Those Lonely, Lonely Nights/Baby Get Your Gun (Ace) James Booker - Gonzo/Cool Turkey (Peacock) And I have ended so many of my 45 nights with this great record: L'il Queenie and the Percolators - My Darlin' New Orleans/Wild Natives (Great Southern)

I've seen it on LP.

This concerns a blues musician rather than a jazzer, but I thought it was interesting. When Alan Lomax recorded Muddy Waters on the Stovall plantation in 1942, he filled out a questionnaire with lots of information about Mr. Morganfield and his family. Lomax included the info in his book The Land Where the Blues Began. He listed the records Muddy owned: Black Pony Blues/Kind Lover Blues - Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, Bluebird B8896 Death Valley Blues/If I Get Lucky - Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, Bluebird B8858 Sweet Lover Blues (no flip side listed) - Peetie Wheatstraw, Vocalion 3396 Crawling Kingsnake (no flip side listed) - Tony Hollins, Okeh 06351 and one record each (no titles listed) by: Sonny Boy Williamson on Bluebird Jay McShann on Decca Elder Oscar Saunders - a sermon on Conqueror. I thought that this was pretty interesting. I wonder if "If I Get Lucky" was the inspiration/source for Muddy's song "Train Fare Home," which is kind of similar. And I wonder if the McShann record was one with a Charlie Parker solo.

This is why I'm reluctant to sell any records or CDs which don't immediately strike me.... In honor of Bloomsday, I decided to spin an album which I think I had only listened to once since I got it: Andre Hodeir - Anna Livia Plurabelle (Philips). This is a jazz cantata by Hodeir, based on part of Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. I like much of Hodeir's music, but this piece was so strange that I put it on the shelf after one listening. Well, tonight I loved it. The orchestra includes Jean-Luc Ponty, Michel Portal, Hubert Rostaing, and Pierre Michelot. Joyce's surrealistic words are even odder filtered through the French accents of singers Monique Aldebert and Nicole Croisille. But for whatever reason, I really enjoyed this tonight, and I'm glad I kept the album.

I'd like to get that LP at some point. It sounds/looks interesting. Mosaic has reissued it in their single series, paired with the Merrill/Katz album that preceded it (that's one's good, too, but not as good as this one). The customer reviews are pretty contentious concerning the sound quality. I haven't heard the Mosaic, so I don't know.

My response to my first listen in the "What are you listening to know" thread was: "How does Lee Konitz keep getting better and better?"

Helen Merrill/Dick Katz - A Shade of Difference (Milestone). I had forgotten how good this album is - one of the most imaginative jazz vocal albums ever. And there are two Alec Wilder songs! (Many folks here know of my enthusiasm for Wilder's music.) One selection does remind me of one of my favorite musicians' jokes: Q: How many girl singers does it take to sing "My Funny Valentine?" A: Apparently all of them.