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This appeared tonight: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Grammy-winning singer Lou Rawls has been diagnosed with cancer and was being treated at a Los Angeles hospital, his spokesman said on Friday. "He was diagnosed with cancer a while back and he's undergone various treatments," Paul Shefrin said, adding that the illness became public in an Arizona court where the 70-year-old crooner was seeking an annulment of his marriage. Shefrin declined to provide further details or confirm a report in the Arizona Republic that Rawls was diagnosed with lung cancer a year ago. "Don't count me out, brother," Rawls told the paper from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. "There's been many people who have been diagnosed with this kind of thing and they're still jumpin' and pumpin'." Rawls said in the interview that he had smoked regularly as a young man but quit 35 years ago. Rawls was born in Chicago, grew up performing in the church choir and got his start in show business as a Gospel singer before turning to R&B, soul and pop. He has won three Grammy awards and sold more than 40 million albums. Here's hoping Lou continues to 'jump and pump' for a long time yet. Wishing him all the best.

Yes indeed. I'd forgotten about the 'rediscovery' of the original tapes.

Interesting... I got the December 16 date from Pete Losin's website http://www.plosin.com/milesahead/Sessions.aspx?s=701216

December 16: 1926: Jelly Roll Morton records for Victor 1927: McKenzie & Condon record for Okeh 1954: Sarah Vaughan- session for album with Clifford Brown (Emarcy) 1962: Oscar Peterson- Night Train (Verve) 1993 (16th to 18th): John McLaughlin- Tokyo Live (Verve) Oh, and... 1970: The first of four nights of Miles Davis live at the Cellar Door, issued on.... oh, wait....

And Branford's too...

Interstellar Space was Coltrane's final realization that he no longer needed a conventional jazz rhythm section (as far out as Tyner, Garrison, Ali, Coltrane [A.] took things, it was still essentially the fundamental instrumentation jazz had been using for, by that point, some decades already). On Interstellar Space the drone that had by now become the norm was replaced by a silent, inner drone. Whatever parameters Coltrane was working in/ against (and even at his most abstract Trane was a methodical, logical improvisor) were known only to him. The March '67 tracks from Expression just confirm for me the feeling that the quartet had outlived its purpose as a setting for Trane's explorations. I don't think, had Coltrane lived, that that unit would have survived much longer. Quite where you take that realization/ innovation next is a question Trane never got to answer of course. And jazz has been grappling with its implications for close to 40 years.

All comics who draw on 'life experience' to fuel their humour will have those same ambigiuties- contradictions even- in their work. That's the nature of putting painful, honest truth out there and making it funny. The same could be said for Lenny Bruce or Bill Hicks or Woody Allen or Chaplin. That's the nature of the genre. For a black American during that time period, those ambiguities and contradictions will seem even more acute. Ain't nothing funny about comedy. What's interesting about Crouch's piece is his responses to all of that, filtered through that black conservative guilt thing he has going on. Richard Pryor was great, he seems to be saying, but I'm uneasy about feeling that way. That says more about Crouch's own ambiguities and contradictions than it says about Pryor's. And that last sentence is simply waffle. Any third rate hack with five minutes on his hands could do better than that.

RVG's remastering of Birth of the Cool was revelatory! I don't know how he did it but for the first time you can really hear what the French horns and tuba contributed to the music with real clarity. I thought he did a superb job on music that truly deserved the best. That one stands out for me; There were others that I liked better and others I wasn't so impressed with (I recall Out to Lunch being a disappointment) but I'd have to go back and do an A>B comparison to be sure. To be honest, some of the regular McMaster versions sounded fine to these ears. It's hard to escape the feeling that some of these remasters are done for marketing purposes than for any real musical reasons. But these are minor gripes; on the whole I think it's been a good series.

Also December 15- 1943: Nat Cole records for Capitol 1944: Stan Kenton records for Capitol 1978: Kenny Burrell- Live at the Village Vanguard and Live in New York, both Muse 1992: Ken Peplowski & Howard Alden- Maybeck Duo Series, Volume 3 (Concord) 1998 (15th & 16th): Joe Lovano & Greg Osby- Friendly Fire (Blue Note) I also have this as the date (in 1960) for Gil Evans' 'Bilbao Song' from Out of the Cool (Impulse). I have no idea where I got that from (the booklet isn't specific, nor is the discography in Stephanie Stein Crease's Evans biography). Anyone confirm?

Not sure what Mingus says but if it's 'Go, Danny!', then it should be 'Go, Dannie! -_- Slight difference in pronounciation...

All the best for your 50th, Mr. Sangrey!

"Go, Danny!" ?

There's quite a few in the RVG series that were never Rudy's to begin with. Birth of the Cool and Clifford Brown's Jazz Immortal (not even Blue Notes) and most of Miles Volumes 1 & 2 for instance. So, it's not without precedence. Those Hutcherson/ Land albums get my vote.

I still haven't got round to Mullholland Drive. Saw her in '21 Grams' and 'I Heart Huckabees' (two very different roles!) and thought she was great in both of those.

and not even then!

Careful, chaps. This is going to go the way of the Tookie thread.

Every discog I've seen has it as the 21st. If you can still get it, go for the one on the French Trema label, En Concert Avec Europe 1. 4CDs, two of the gig with Trane and two with Sonny Stitt from a gig in October that year. These were discussed in a couple of recent threads.

Wow! That's service!

Crouch: "...never settle for a standard that is less than what he did at his very best, which was as good as it has ever gotten." Uh.... what? That has to be one of the dumbest things I've ever read.

Ahead of the US release date? ... or have I missed something??!

Some more December 13ths 1929: Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra (with Hoagy Carmichael) record for Okeh 1932: Bennie Moten records for Victor 1940: Count Basie records for Okeh 1954: Horace Silver- session for Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers (Blue Note) 1954: Harry Carney- With Strings (Clef) [reissued as part of Ben Webster- Music for Loving] 1962: Duke Ellington- tracks issued on Recollections of the Big Band Era/ Will the Big Bands Ever Come Back? (Reprise) Edited to correct 'Will the Big Bangs Ever Come Back?'

Imports from where??! HMV in the UK are still showing this as January 30th.

Three that I know of. Does the one with Jessica Lange count?

"Rosewood' was the title of a Woody Shaw album on Columbia, about 1977. Don't think Hutcherson was on it though.

Coltrane Live in Japan is a trance CD