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The Julius Hemphill Big Band album. There are at least two Clifford Jordan Big Band albums on CD.

Happy birthday! And, may the Mystery Tenor Saxophone player come forward, identify himself, and wish you a happy birthday in this thread!

HolyStitt is my favorite.

In alphabetizing a backlog of CD acquisitions, I am surprised at how many duplicate CDs I now own. I would like to trade any of the following for a CD which you may want to offer in exchange. Randy Weston--The Spirits of Our Ancestors (2 CD set, 1992, with Dewey Redman, Dizzy Gillespie, Pharoah Sanders, Billy Harper) Charles Fambrough--Upright Citizen (1997, sidemen include Joe Ford, Mulgrew Miller) Machito and his Afro Cuban Jazz Ensemble--Latin Soul Plus Jazz (1957 and 1958 sessions, with featured soloists Cannonball Adderley, Joe Newman, Herbie Mann, Curtis Fuller) Tony Williams--Native Heart (1990, with the Roney/Pierce/Mulgrew Miller quintet) Don Pullen and the African Brazilian Connection--Live...Again (Blue Note, live at 1993 Montreux Jazz Festival, with Carlos Ward) Pat Martino--Footprints (1972 recording, with Bobby Rose, Richard Davis, Billy Higgins) Blues: Charlie Musselwhite--Stand Back! Here Comes Charlie Musselwhite's South Side Band (with Havey Mandel, includes a version of "Christo Redemptor") Otis Rush--The Classic Recordings Of (a Charly compilation of the 1950s Cobra recordings)

PM sent on Jaki Byard CD.

I went to a Catholic school in 7th grade. We were still learning fractions. the ptah was an alter boy? I was, in fact, from 5th grade until 8th grade. John Kerry and I have that in common!

I went to a Catholic school in 7th grade. We were still learning fractions.

Professor Weirdo: Six drops of Essence of Terror, Five drops of Sinister Sauce; Count Kook: When the stirring's done, can I lick the spoon? Professor Weirdo: Of course! A-ha! Of course! Now for a pinch of tenderness But I must use only a touch, For without a touch of tenderness He might destroy me! [Kook accidentally knocks Weirdo's arm] Professor Weirdo: OOPS! Too much! [with stethoscope] Professor Weirdo: Better hold your breath; it's starting to tick! Count Kook: Better hold my hand; I'm feeling sick! [the monster arises] Milton The Monster: Hello, Daddy! Professor Weirdo: Good heavens! What have I done? Milton The Monster: I'm Milton, your brand new son!

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Are you sure you're thinking of Fort Yawuh? Aside from "Still Life, Still Life", all the songs are upwards of 12 minutes in length. Guy You are correct. I am wrong.

Fort Yawuh and Treasure Island are almost like collections of singles. The songs are short and catchy. For long, extended blowing, my favorite is Backhand.

I have loved George Cables' playing since he was a sideman with Dexter Gordon. I hope that he recovers well and with as little discomfort as possible. I wanted to comment on Chris' comment about the power of prayer. I see nothing wrong per se with requesting prayers or saying that you will pray for someone. However, it has struck me in recent years that this is a new cliche of our times. Whenever something difficult or tragic happens to someone you know, it is easier to say, "I am praying for you" than it is to come up with a sincere, thoughtful response. Often it is very difficult to know how to respond appropriately to someone else's difficulty or tragedy, and it seems quite possible that one might say exactly the wrong thing. So the easy shorthand comment of today is "I am praying for you." That covers the situation, and you can feel good that you did something. I heard this a lot when our son was diagnosed with autism, even from people who I know are vocal about their atheism. A friend of mine lost his long time significant other to cancer, and reported the same thing, that many people who are not at all religious responded to him with the comment that they "would pray" for him. It struck him as insincere, and somewhat hurtful, that those who never pray, and have even ridiculed organized religion in his presence, would say only that they were praying for him in his hour of deepest tragedy, with no other effort to communicate genuinely with him. So, to post on a public forum that everyone should pray for a public figure most of us have never met, is a well-meaning gesture, and many people who do pray regularly and for non-personal things, will no doubt add George to their prayers. It should not be surprising however that there are mixed reactions to a call for prayer from the general public.

Your post motivated me to pull out Bright Moments: Return of the Lost Tribe. It is a very worthwhile album. It is more "inside" than one might expect from the personnel (Jarman, Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, Adegoke Steve Colson, Malachi Favors, Kahil El'Zabor). Most of the compositions are in a traditional jazz song form, many with catchy heads. The solos are focused and compelling, including Jarman's. Jarman plays an absolutely lovely extended flute solo on his composition "Kudus". He plays alto sax on the other cuts, from the right channel. (The liner notes state that Kalaparusha is heard in the left channel on tenor sax, Jarman in the right on alto sax). This is probably one of the most conventionally accessible albums which Jarman has played on.

The title of this thread is "What, in your mind, is a 'cover'"? In my mind, it is:

Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne" has been recorded by Rene Marie, and by Lynne Arriale. The last time I saw Dianne Reeves live (2006) she sang it, but I don't know if she has recorded it. Lynne Arriale has also recorded the Beatles' "Come Together", but I am not aware of any other jazz versions of the song.

I saw him live with Don Moye in duet concert. He should not be underestimated.

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Just about everyone who has seen this has enjoyed it. http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...ideoID=18560309

I enjoy Little Brother Montgomery's Document CD, "Complete Recorded Works 1930-36" very much. That is the only Little Brother Montgomery album in my collection. What should I buy next? What do you recommend?

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The Brubeck album with Lee Konitz and Anthony Braxton is one of my least favorite Brubecks. It is an idea that looks fascinating on paper. The recorded results are good, but not mindblowing, to me, and the working band group cohesion which I find so enjoyable on many Brubeck albums is not there.

I am not exactly sure what you are asking, MG. However, I believe that the difference may be that in American professional sports leagues, the league is the central controlling body, and the member teams are franchises in the league. The league makes its own rules, through a commissioner elected by the franchise owners. There could be no such thing in American professional sports as a city's team going its own way. If a team does not follow the rules of the league, they are sanctioned and in extreme cases, could be thrown out of the league, or its owner forced to step aside in favor of new ownership which would run the franchise in accordance with league rules. The league grants franchises, in a limited particular number, to the teams it wants in the league. These franchises exist independently of the city they are in, or the owner who owns them at any particular time. If an owner dies and leaves no successor, for example, the league may step in and try to find an owner for the franchise. If an owner of a franchise wants to sell the franchise to someone else, the prospective new owner must be approved by the league, before the new owner can take over the franchise. If the owner of a franchise wants to move the team to another city, the owner must get permission from the league, which is more or less difficult to obtain depending on the sport and league. For example, there is a franchise in the National League of baseball with the nickname Braves. It has been based in Boston, Milwaukee, and since 1966, Atlanta. It has had a variety of owners over the years. The Montreal baseball franchise had a crisis of ownership in recent years, and the National Baseball League (and the Commissioner's office, which has authority over both major leagues), made decisions on what would happen to that franchise. In the end, the franchise was moved to Washington, D.C. by the Commissioner's office. The fans of Montreal had no say in the matter, and got screwed over. In the very early days of the National Football League, the late teens and early 1920s, the league was not nearly as centralized and was not organized in a regular franchise system. Town teams came and went out of business. Schedules were irregular. Teams scheduled opponents in a haphazard fashion. Some teams played more games than others, and some big city teams scheduled games with semi-pro or very small town teams, on an ad hoc basis. The league was pretty much chaotic. At some point in the 1920s or early 1930s the league settled into a franchise system with a set number of franchises, two conferences, a Commissioner to oversee all of it, and a centrally mandated schedule of games. It is thought that only then did the National Football League become a "real" league. Is this different in the United Kingdom?

There is no jazz controversy in 2007 surrounding the Mac Arthur Foundation "genius" grants--because no jazz musician received one! For old times sake, we might recall how unhappy the selection of Regina Carter made many of us in 2006. Those were the days, when an undeserving jazz musician got a Mac Arthur grant! Much better when no jazz musician gets one.