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I wonder what his reaction would have been if he had left them at the buy counter at a Half Price Books, only to get an offer of $16.25 for all 800 LPs.

This CD has the title cut from the soundtrack to "Hot Rod Rumble." It is a very exciting big band jazz cut.

I recommend: Eddie Palmieri--Palmas Cal Tjader--Soul Sauce The three Mario Bauza releases on Evidence

I thought so too--or was it the high that one received, whether desired or not, from walking down the hall in our smoky dorm at the University of Wisconsin. Everything sounded good.

Please define "immensely decorative", and feel free to linger over each detail.

Del Crandall Joe Torre Bob Uecker

I think that Garrison Keillor might be.

Happy Birthday, Jim!

Johnny Otis--Crazy Country Hop Umo Orchestra with Tim Hagans--High Speed Chase Louis Armstrong--Swing That Music

After reading today's thread on great used record stores in Grand Rapids, it seems tempting. Allen, think about it.

I can get with the beer part. That's about it. Me too, actually. It would take a lot of beer consumption to make the music somewhat tolerable!

This is less unusual than you might think, jazzbo. I was surprised at 19 when a woman I was dating expressed great interest in the Playboy collection hidden under the bed in my dorm room. I figured out quickly that her really good female friend was more than that.

Chuck Nessa, Do any of these stores have a good jazz selection?

That's not so unusual with ebay. Many sellers seem to make their living on the shipping costs. One ebay seller I buy regularly from charges $5 for the first CD, then $1 for each additional CD in the same shipment.

Wow! That link reminds me what a great label About Time Records is.

You might try "Too Much Sugar For a Dime", for something more accessible.

Mistake? You mean like saying something ill-advised that gets your mate upset? I have done that twice....in the past 15 minutes.

To me, Chuck is truly impressive for the following: after releasing several all-time classic albums on his label, he managed Discount Records, bringing great jazz into lower State Street in Madison, Wisconsin, at the height of the turmoil of the very active Vietnam War protests there, and at a time when the surrounding population was heavily into the rock music of the time. I can only imagine how many times his store windows were smashed by Vietnam War demonstrators. It had to be an uphill battle to get the students to buy anything other than Jimi Hendrix and Crosby Stills Nash & Young. His influence lived on in that store, which was a cultural center on campus when I arrived in the fall of 1974. It had a great jazz section and staff which knew jazz for years after he left. I am grateful to him for that. It had a great positive influence on my life. Trivia: The jazz professor at the University of Wisconsin while Chuck was there, was Cecil Taylor.

It's a good, solid John Hicks album. I think that "Inc.1" on DIW is the best one he ever released, and "In the Mix" is not on that level. "In the Mix" is definitely worth owning though.

Polkas bind the community together in central Wisconsin, where I grew up. The older people talk about the various bands in great detail, including the personnel changes and other historical minutiae, much like we talk about jazz. Romy Gosz is the Louis Armstrong of polka trumpet, for example. A polka dance in a community in which it is valued, is one of the most fun experiences that one can have. A tremendous amount of beer, make that a nearly unbelievable amount of beer, is consumed by all, and the dancing, which takes some skill, gets very wild. The bands are cohesive and swinging. Often the best musicians in the area (in all genres of music) help pay their bills by playing in the leading polka bands on weekends. If we were to read about a similar scene in some village in Africa, we would probably all fall over each other expressing respect and interest in the ethnic tradition and the indigenous music resulting from it.

I just alphabetized a stack of about 200 albums which I had purchased for $1 each when a used music store went out of business, and this Johnny Griffin album was among them!

James Newton Herbie Mann Hubert Laws

Joe Bisenius Joe Morgan Joe Koppe

Is there any information available on the musicians interviewed by Morton for the book?

Yes, it's hard. You agonise over each one you have to ditch. And for what? It's only a list MG It's not "just a list". This is one of the most useful written items I have come across in 35+ years of reading the major jazz magazines and many jazz books.