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Well, since the ultimate point of the thread is to impress everyone with the vastness of your collection, I won! It is a slightly sarcastic comment on the nature of a thread like this.

that means ?? I have one hundred twenty five thousand two hundred twenty three Blue Note recordings.

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I would say, get Uncle Meat, Burnt Weenie Sandwich, Weasels Ripped My Flesh, Roxy and Elsewhere, Bongo Fury, Make a Jazz Noise Here.

Ehhh .. large?? You are not confusing Bob Wills with his brothers Johnnie Lee or Luke or with Tommy Duncan, are you? They certainly were "large" but next to them and others on the bandstand Bob Wills looked neither very large nor very tall, just average. I may be wrong--I was just going off of photos and film footage of the band in concert. I never saw them live.

There are some good ones on the studio version of "Bubbles in My Beer", too. I have always found it compelling in a strange way to consider his little, high pitched voice coming out of such a large, vigorous person.

I think that some well placed "Ahh-hahs!" might have made "Ascension" or "Om" easier to take in.

Bob's "hollers" are one of the charms of his music. There is a song, "What Makes Bob Holler?", on his last recording session. Bob sings the answer in a halting way--he had a stroke and could barely speak at the time. The gist of his answer is that when he saw an attractive woman while playing, he let out with his "holler."

"Sunrise in Different Dimensions" on the Hat label is good, but the performances are not as tight and focused as on "Unity", which is a disadvantage on the swing charts. Gilmore is outstanding both on tenor sax and clarinet on both albums, but again, especially on "Unity."

I will be surprised if you do not enjoy "Unity".

So how was your time in Kansas City, Michael?

Sun Ra's albums "Unity" (on Horo) and "Sunrise In Different Dimensions" (on Hat Hut) contain live renditions by the Arkestra of songs played by the Fletcher Henderson band. Are they Fletcher Henderson's arrangements? I think so, although the Arkestra's instrumentation is not exactly the same as the Henderson band's. They are close to the Henderson arrangements if not note for note reproductions. "Unity" is a 2 LP set which has not been issued on CD. It has been cited by others as "the best" Arkestra album, and I tend to agree. The songs are well played, tight, not sloppy, with excellent solos throughout and good sound. It is really a shame that there are no CD reissues of the Horo label, for this album alone.

I think that all of Coltrane's work in the late 1940s--early 1950s era is not of much interest, whether with Dizzy or Hodges. What is interesting to me is the degree to which Coltrane improved. It is relatively common to hear improvements in most jazz artists with a recording career, from their earliest recordings to a later date. However, Coltrane's improvement is much more dramatic than with many other musicians.

I am surprised at the insulting remarks made by some members about other members and their posts. I would think that the point of a thread such as this one is that members could express their subjective views about the drummers. Such views may be surprising and not adhere to the "party line" among jazz fans and critics. I find it fascinating that some people might not like the playing of some of the celebrated figures of the instrument, and why they don't think a lot of them. I think it is stimulating to break out of the stereotypical ways of thinking about the big names on any instrument and get some fresh perspectives. But that's just me.

I enjoy that set a lot. Apart from Coltrane's contributions, the music is quite good and appealing to listen to. It is not a Trane conception like "A Love Supreme" or "Africa Brass" or something like that, but I think that it is far more than just something for the completist.

I have the three Sun Ra releases, which are all excellent. I think that the big band album is the best album that Sun Ra ever released. I also have albums by Max Roach, Sam Rivers and Lester Bowie, all of which range from very good to excellent.

I have seen Jimmy Cobb live on two occasions in recent years (including a few weeks ago), and both times, sad to say, he was boring as could be. He played on a lot of great albums, but he just didn't make it for me recently. I have seen Al Foster live many times, with different groups, and I have never heard him play in a groove with the other musicians. He always seems to be playing alone, not listening. Each of the several different groups was not as good as it could have been as a result.

Did Japan Change Corea to Korea? There is a fabrication about the spelling of Korea. Some Koreans say, "Japanese Empire change Corea to Korea to put it after Japan in alphabetical order." To an example I show Goldsea's explanation: We at GoldSea choose to honor the more natural rendering commonly used in the English-speaking world prior to the Japanese annexation and colonialization of Corea beginning in 1905. American and English books published during the latter half of the 19th century generally referred to the nation as "Corea" as recently as the years immediately preceding Japan's formal annexation of Corea in 1910. An 1851 map of East Asia by Englishman John Tallis labels the nation Corea. The same spelling is used in The Mongols, a 1908 history of the Mongol race by Jeremiah Curtin, the world's foremost Asia scholar of the day, as well as in several books by American missionaries published between 1887 and 1905. Korea was spelt both Corea and Korea in the 19th century. Japan's annexation of Corea didn't become formal until 1910, but for all practical purposes Japan had become the power that regulated Corea's relations with the outside world in 1897 when it defeated China in a war over Japan's ambition to exercise control over Corea. The only other power willing to contest Japan's supremacy in the Corean peninsula was Russia. When it was easily defeated by Japan at Port Arthur in 1905, the annexation of Corea became a fait accompli. Anxious to avoid a costly Pacific conflict, President Wilson ignored the pleas of a delegation of Corean patriots and their American missionary supporters and turned a blind eye to Japan's acts of formal annexation and colonization of Corea. During that period Japan mounted a campaign to push for the "Korea" useage by the American press. Why? For one of Japan's prospective colonies to precede its master in the alphabetical lineup of nations would be unseemly, Japanese imperialists decided. Japan's colonial rule over Corea ended on August 15, 1945 when it lost World War II. Now that Corea is eagerly shedding the last vestiges of the colonial period, even demolishing public buildings erected by the Japanese (for example, the monstrously immense colonial governor's mansion), forward-thinking Corean and Corean American journalists, intellectuals and scholars are urging the American media to revert to the original, more natural rendering of Corea. Look at Korean stamps searched by issued date/1884-1910 years. Although stamps printed in 1884 perforated with "Corean", they are marked as "Korea" or "Korean" after 1895. It stand to reason that the Korean government adopted the spelling of Korea without Japanese influence before annexation. The changeover will pose a problem only in English-speaking nations as other western nations never accepted the "K" spelling. For example, France, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico, among many others, use the "C" rendering. Not all western nations accepted the C spelling. Only the Romanic languages such as French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese adopt the K spellings. In Romanic languages the K is never used or is used only in loan words. Words started in K are commonly used in Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Latvian, Slovak, Slovenian and Turkish. In addition, Greek (the Greek alphabet), Russian and other languages written in the Cyrillic alphabet use the K for the [k] sound. English convention, too, is on the side of the Corea rendering. Non-European names are romanized with a "C" (Cambodia, Canada, cocoa, Comanche, Congo, and even old Canton, for example) except where the first letter is followed by an "e" or an "i", (as in Kenya). Other than that, the "K" spelling is used only in connoting childlike ignorance of spelling conventions ("Kitty Kat" and "Skool", for examples). No. Look at a world map and you will find Karnataka (India/Former British India), Karachi (Pakistan/Former British India), Kalimantan (Indonesia/Former Dutch East Indies), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia/Former British Malaya), etc. It is worth noting that Calcutta (India) was renamed to Kolkata in January 2001. Therefore, the American "K" spelling is offensive from a historical standpoint (remember "Peking" and "Canton"?); violates western rendering conventions; suggests a lack of sophistication toward Corea; and by connoting naivet?, imputes a lack of sophistication to Corea and its people. The Corea rendering will ultimately become universal when more Americans are educated as to the offensive and relatively recent origin of the "Korea" rendering. he English-speaking world was responsible for agreeing to Japanese efforts to change the spelling of Corea's name in English useage. Who better than concerned Asian Americans to help change it back? Well then, I think that if they really want to change Korea to Corea, they should do so without cooking up a story. It is not so rare a practice to change country names. For example, Zaire was renamed to Congo, and Bilma to Myanmer. The Korean seem to consider alphabetical order as a measure of importance of countries. If so, Afghanistan may be the greatest country in the world. Some Koreans use "Zapan" instead of "Japan" ([j] and [z] are not distinguished in Korean.) By doing this, they can insult Japanese people, they may think. How childish they are! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is another fiction. Koreans insist that Japan changed the spelling of Korea to put it after Japan in the Olympic Games. I can easily debunk it. Japan's first participation was at the 5th Olympic Games in Stockholm in July 1912. By then Korea had already been ruled by Japan. (Korea was annexed to Japan in 1910.) Changing the spelling would have been completely unnecessary.

A few more Shorter-the-saxophonist recordings which I like, and which have not been mentioned: Miles Davis--"Ascent" (one of his most beautiful soprano sax solos, in my opinion. Miles' solo is also a thing of wonder to me. Too bad the song itself isn't much). Weather Report--"Black Market" from the live "8:30" album. How about his playing on Tony Williams' "Spring" album, in the two tenor format with Sam Rivers?

In my interviews a man from Chicago said, "I just can't believe that anyone who grew up in Wisconsin could fit in and live in Chicago. You have 20 seconds to tell me how you could." I thought I gave a convincing answer but it did not suit him. I remember that he had rings on every finger, most with gemstones. Another time a guy said, "if you are well suited to this job you will love doing puzzles. Do you love puzzles?" Of course I said yes. Then he said, "well then, if you are suited to this job you will get this puzzle right away." He went on and on with a very complicated word problem, which I could not follow for the life of me. At the end he said excitedly, "O.K.! What is the answer to...THE PUZZLE!" I tried my best to put a good face on the fact that he was talking a foreign language to me. It did not work.

That's kind of a neat, definitely unique, story! If I'd been in your shoes back then -- living as you were in Romania 'cause Dad was the U.S. Ambassador -- I doubt I would have hatched such a plan to go out trick-or-treating just for the helluva it to see what might happen. Who were you dressed up as? Brezhnev? Ah, actually this took place in Wausau, Wisconsin, USA, during the LBJ Administration. I can't remember our costumes that year, but in that era they were always a plastic mask from the Ben Franklin 5 and 10 with some low grade clothing match.

True story--When I was about ten years old, we walked down a side street that almost no one ventured onto because it was just three houses down the side of a hill. Two very elderly women answered the door and genuinely seemed to have no idea what trick or treating meant. After a while they came to understand that they were expected to place food items in our bags. So they disappeared into their home and then came back with old, darkened, rapidly spoiling apples and threw them into our bags with much sincere anticipation, waiting for our excited responses.