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It looks to me like a selection of tracks mostly from Verve and Aladdin, with some Savoy and JATP tracks thrown in as well. Edit: Sorry: You beat me to it, Brownie!

Revealing? Revealing of what? I find it as puzzling and incomprehensible as most other oral statements that Ornette makes. I much prefer him on alto. On the subject of "my sex," I recall in John Litweiler's book a discussion of a time when Ornette was genuinely contemplating castration, presumably as a means of preventing his sexual thoughts from interfering with artistic creation. Ornette Coleman just seems to be somebody who walks to a different drummer in all aspects of life. And thank God for him!

Chuck - In all honesty, do you really hear a sharp difference between WAV files and MP3s ripped at over 200 bits? I don't. Of course, maybe if I had an extremely expensive system, I would. But good quality earbuds and high quality MP3s can brings quite a lot of musical enjoyment.

Yea, but do you have Whip Appeal? Babyface: Whip Appeal

I see. So this is not Bird, Diz, Bean, and Jaws blowing together with Pettiford and Norvo. It is interesting that they give Jaws top billing on the cover!

I agree with this, and would extend that statement to "blues music" in the broad sense that Albert Murray has in mind. There was a time when many African American musicians did have an advantage of having absorbed the blues as a sort of first musical language. But that is rarely the case anymore. And the blues is no longer really what's happening in 21st-century jazz either. So the statement needs to be interpreted as corresponding to another time, and even then we can debate it. I wonder what Albert Murray thinks about Wynton in that regard. Does HE play the blues like someone who speaks it as a first language? I would say, definitely no.

Aretha's Columbia albums contain some sublime moments.

Ye, it's pretty amazing how popular he is. I have been spending a lot of time in Africa lately, and Kenny G is quite popular there. It is really a mystery to me. For most popular music that I don't like, I can usually understand, at least to some degree, why it is popular. Not so with Kenny G. I have absolutely no idea what people like about it.

98 degrees in the shade here in Lagos.

Sometimes the boat needs to be rocked, and sometimes the waters need to be stilled. That's why we have Miles and Pres. Both of whom utilized John Lewis rather effectively at one time or another... Yes. Like Milt Jackson, I tend to enjoy John Lewis more away from the MJQ.

Either that or sell off all the rare sets now before they are reprinted and sold off cheap in JSP/Proper-type boxes.

Sometimes the boat needs to be rocked, and sometimes the waters need to be stilled. That's why we have Miles and Pres.

Nice site, Allen. I hope that it will be useful for promoting your work.

Finally, a Mosaic filled with classic jazz of which I don't already own over 75% of the music. But the reason that I don't have much MJQ on Atlantic is that is just doesn't rock my boat too much. Too bad.

There were other albums produced by the units of the Black Artist Group, just not under that name. The Children of the Sun, for example. The Human Arts Emsemble is also BAG.

I agree. John Barry was really a fine composer. RIP

I have the Japanese CD of Down Home Reunion. The times there are the same as on the Booker Little + 4 CD, and are 10:48 and 8:10. I assume those are the times on the LP as well.

I tried to put in my reservation immediately, but also didn't get confirmation. I am sure that I was in time, but this looks like an inside-job allocation. To hell with them. I am not buying anything.

You can now put in your name to (supposedly) reserve one of the first 3000.

But just wait until you hear these three new 15-minute live versions of My Favorite Things that were just turned up.

I remember back in 75 hoping and praying that Thelonious would get well enough to come to the West Coast one more time. It never happened, and I never got to see him live.

Sounds like the familiar John Coltrane on Impulse! marketing strategy. If you want three new demos, you have to purchase or repurchase 4 discs of other music. I will wait and download from .... somewhere.