Rosco

Spencer Tracy Kevin Spacey William H Macy

Rich Little Buddy Rich Gene Krupa

Joan Crawford Hank Crawford David 'Fathead' Newman

There's some previously unreleased stuff from this gig on Revenant's awesome Holy Ghost boxed set that *must* be heard!!

my BN conn CD says this was recorded on the 14th. Which is correct? ← Most discogs I've seen go with the 10th... I've found a Spaulding discog that gives it as the 14th (presumably from the BN Conn CD?)

More June 14: 1955: Lee Konitz with Warne Marsh (Atlantic) 1963: Paul Desmond: Easy Living/ Take Ten 1978: Pepper Adams: Reflectory (Muse)

Not guilty of *all* charges? Well done, folks! Here's your book deal! Jesus Juice all round!

Remember that R.Kelly guy? There was video footage of him allegedly having sex (and doing some more bizarre stuff) with an underaged girl. Also, the dude secretly married (the late) pop singer Aaliyah when she was 15. He was slapped with 21 counts of child molestation charges, all of which were dropped. (I think. At least he's a free and a very happy man.) ← Yeah, he claimed that the guy in the video wasn't him... even though it was filmed in a room in his house! So maybe I was wrong with my previous post... even video footage doesn't eliminate reasonable doubt... Justice, celebrity style!

Hm... the booklet in mine stinks too! It's not smoke... I can't really place it. But it makes me feel quite sick if I try and read it for any length of time. Oh, and it's coming apart, too

I thought it was Brad & Angelina, but still...

The jury are being interviewed on tv right now... One juror said they took a dislike to the mother when she clicked her fingers at them! WTF?!

Of course there was reasonable doubt. But when is there *not*? What do we need to eliminate reasonable doubt? Video footage of the crime? Ok, the mother was nuts... but no more so than Jackson. He should have been *required* to take the stand Somehow, I don't think this will be the last we'll hear of these sorts of allegations.

I didn't get into music at all until about the age of 11. When I was about 12 I started to hear the jazz-funk end of things; Grover Washington, The Crusaders, Herbie Hancock's 'disco' era, that kind of thing. At that time my local library had an extensive LP collection (sadly, funding cutbacks mean this is no longer the case)... Over the next couple of years I checked out as much stuff as I could... More Herbie (Headhunters), Weather Report, John McLaughlin, Chick Corea, Billy Cobham.... Of course, the name that kept coming up in connection with these people was Miles Davis. The library never seemed to have any of his stuff; it was ALWAYS checked out... Then one day, when I was 15, an older friend of mine mentioned he had a Miles LP, 'Bitches Brew' and he lent it to me. The first thing that hits you about that album is the sleeve. An African couple staring out at a stormy ocean... flowers bursting into flames... mysterious shrouded figures... tribal masks... black and white hands with fingers entwined, stretching out into faces, one black oozing beads of sweat, one white oozing blood... Even the cover made me think 'What the hell is *this*?!' The second thing that hit me was the length of the tracks. A double LP with *six* tracks, the first two taking up entire sides of a disc. then there were ralph j gleason's capital letter free liner notes. But nothing- NOTHING- prepared me for actually *listening* to this thing. Those deceptive lightly tapping drums that start 'Pharoah's Dance' leading into those eerie keyboard figures and that creepy bass clarinet... God knows what went through my mind. Even listening to it now, it sounds soooo *alien*... I know I listened to all four sides straight through. I know I got lost in the barrage of fuzzy electric pianos, drummers, percussionists and the constant ghostly presence of Bennie Maupin's bass clarinet (I don't think I had ever heard that instrument before but it started a love affair that continues to this day- I now play it myself)... I didn't know what to make of it all. I just had no frame of reference. It was SO different, SO completely unlike anything I had ever heard. And yet I was fascinated by it. I remember getting to the end of side 4, and putting the first side on again straight away. And I think I did that for about a month. Didn't listen to anything else. I didn't even know if I LIKED it. But it intrigued me, confused me... actually, it frightened the hell out of me! There was no way I could listen to this with the lights out! But the more I listened the more it made sense. It was like someone turning a lightbulb on in my head. I suddenly had a whole new world of possibility opened up to me. It started to change how I thought about music, how I listened and- having just started to play bass guitar- what I wanted to do as a musician. Anything seemed possible. The idea of improvisation to create beautiful, meaningful, challenging music seemed to make so much more sense... And that was the start of my Miles obsession. A little later I found a copy of Kind Of Blue, which also blew me away for completely different reasons. Then In a Silent Way, ESP, Jack Johnson... and on and on.... I now have a huge collection of Miles (probably around 150 albums) and I must have heard Bitches Brew (literally) hundreds of times. And it *still* gets me! Still thrills me, confuses me and intrigues me. And sometimes I'm filled with the same sense of wonderment I had a 15 year old. Except these days, I can listen to it with the lights out...

June 13 1947: Don Byas & Tyree Glenn record six tracks in Paris for Barclay 1967: Miles Davis Quintet record 'Capricorn' (Waterbabies)

Have you read any of Scott Yanow's stuff? He's gotta be doing it for free! ← I would think so, but he also churns out assembly-line-type books and I'm sure he gets something out of that--beyond ego fodder. BTW, I have seen a couple of Storyville liner notes by him that were better than the stuff he does for AMG. Scott seems to be into compiling statistical lists. ← Maybe... If he's into music he does a good job of hiding his enthusiasm!

Have you read any of Scott Yanow's stuff? He's gotta be doing it for free!

Joey DeFrancesco- organ and trumpet

also June 12: 1972 Miles Davis records 'Ife' (Big Fun, Columbia) 1981: Junior Cook: Somethin's Cookin' (Muse) 1990: (12th & 13th) Ruby Braff: Younger Than Swingtime (Concord) 1995 (12th- 15th): Kenny Burrell: Lotus Blossom (Concord)

Oh, don't get me wrong about Branford... he's a hell of a player for sure, chops, creativity, sensitivity, wit and the willingness to develop as a player, the sure sign of a master. Of course, it's one thing to master a language, it's entirely another to *create* one. Hawkins and Rollins created their languages. Hell, Hawk practically invented tenor saxophone playing. One of the joys of listening to the Hawk/ Newk session is the sense of a torch being passed from generation to generation. Rollins almost seems to be saying 'Yeah, Hawk, that shit it cool... but listen to what *I* can do with it...' (I always wonder what the ol' man made of the encounter. Did he dig it? Or did he come away scratching his head, wondering what the hell just happened?) All I meant about Branford is that he was fortunate enough to come face to face with one of the originators of a language that is still in use. How many players of his generation have had that chance? The torch is in safe hands, no question. It'll be interesting to see who Branford passes it to when he's the elder statesman. After Parker, Rollins, Trane, Ornette and Albert where's left to go?

Is there any scat singing on this?

anyone mentioned Milt Jackson? Vibes and piano And, on an LP with Ray Charles, guitar! Wisely chose to stick with the day job...

I'm a total sucker for Miles and this is such a cool period... the music changes weekly and it's pity Columbia didn't record more live sessions by the Jarrett edition of the band. Jarrett back then could be very soulful. Having just come out of Charles Lloyd's band (by way of the Messengers), how could you not be? During this period he seemed totally steeped in blues and gospel, a trait that has waned in the more recent 'cerebral' years. It's a pity KJ turned his nose up at electric instruments. As fine as his acoustic playing is, his playing with Miles suggests this was an avenue with much for him to explore. I've always loved the Fillmore East album with Jarrett and Corea, spitting and snarling at each other the whole way through. Hopefully Columbia will see fit to issue these concerts unedited someday. In the meantime, can't wait for the Cellar Door boxed set.

Hasn't Gerry Mulligan scoffed at the whole 'natural musician' myth? I'm sure he said that Chet could read the dots, knew the chords but he didn't always know what the chords were called! It's nicer to believe the 'romantic' version. And hell, I've been stranded during 'Have You Met Miss Jones' even WITH the book!

So THAT's where your technique comes out! I've been playing saxophone wrong all these years!