Hot Ptah

Neil Bush Donald Nixon Roger Clinton

Private Benjamin Benjamin Harrison William Henry Harrison Henry O. Henry Dance With Me, Henry Buck Henry Moose Skowron Skunk Baxter

Jerry Porter Jerry Kramer Ron Kramer

Jimmie Dykes Joe Gordon Gordy Coleman

Wow, 150 cds! Or at least 100+ with a few box sets. Yea, I think I'm gonna take this stuff home in sections over many days. I'll be broke for a while with this self-inflicted damage on my credit card. The life of a hopeless music addict...*sigh*. That doesn't seem particularly excessive to me. 100 CDs here, 100 CDs there, who's counting?

I once planned to visit a friend for a day or two, during a holiday break from grad school, but stretched the visit into a week because I saw that Jack was going to be playing in town the next weekend. My host was gracious about it. I am glad I did it--Jack had Chico Freeman, John Purcell and Peter Warren with him. It was one of the best concerts I have ever seen. Jack's drumming was incredible--very creative and powerful, far more than just swinging, tasteful drumming (although it was all of that too). Probably only Elvin Jones and Roy Haynes have been in his league of drummers I have seen live (not that I have seen everyone in jazz history).

I was working as a flunky at a Howard Johnson's motel in 1972, while I was in high school. There was a truly corny cocktail lounge in the lobby, which featured the cheesiest bands on the planet. Part of my job was to go to guest's rooms and try to fix things for them or otherwise handle their complaints. I was called to a guy's room. He was the drummer in the lounge combo. He looked hung over and dishevelled, bloodshot eyes, etc. He had clothes, newspapers, magazines, empty cans and bottles, and hundreds of LPs strewn at random everywhere, as if a tornado had hit the room--which was impressive only because his cheesy combo was only going to be in town for about four days--why even go to the bother of feeling at home? He begged me to buy his entire LP collection. I was deeply into the hot new release of the day, the Rolling Stones' "Exile On Main Street", and his jazz collection left me cold. Also, as a high school kid trying to save up a little money for college on a minimum wage job, it was ridiculous to think that I would buy a grown man's fairly extensive music collection. He was so persistent that I bought the first album that I saw on the floor, for $3--a scratchy copy of "Kind Of Blue." He left me alone only after I bought SOMETHING. I wish I could say that it was a revelation, changed my life etc. I found it interesting enough, but did not want to play it over and over or anything. It did not throw open all the doors to jazz fanaticism. No, that honor fell to McCoy Tyner's "Trident", which I heard when it first came out and that one did change my life.

Grant Hill Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses

Zorro Koko Coco Chanel Kelsey Grammer Millard Kelso Millard Fillmore

All music will be converted to a single format--the cassette tape, which will make a stunning comeback.

5000 years from now, archaelogists will find fragments of a CD and wonder if it is from a household implement of some type. There will be a tantalizing piece of one page of a book about jazz, as the only surviving remnant of the art form. The page is badly damaged, with some pieces of it missing. Using state of the art techniques from 5000 years from now, scientists will come to the best possible reconstruction of that page. They will conclude that someone known as "anle Cr" was the leading scholar of the era, and that jazz was played by a person worshipped as a god, the "alis."

There's an article today about her on MSNBC's home page, in which she says that she wants to visit Iraq with Hillary Clinton and entertain the troops, like Marilyn Monroe did in the Korean War. She says that her dream is to become a pinup like Marilyn. http://msnbc.com/id/14246514/

Michael Dukakis Walter Mondale George McGovern

The intiial pic makes her look like she should join Tanya Harding at a trailer park.

Man Ray Ed Mann Ruth Underwood

No, but are there pictures? Actually, Tallulah Bankhead did do things like that, from what I have read.

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Going back to the original post that started off this thread, it occurs to me that it is slightly odd for a famous movie star to wear a skimpy swim suit to an indoor, night time party, especially when it seemed likely that the star planned to get totally wasted during the course of the evening. According to the photo in the attachment, mission accomplished there. I mean, can you imagine Katherine Hepburn doing that when she was young? Or Audrey Hepburn? Or Lauren Bacall? (all when they were young)

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Reggie Lucas Dominique Gaumont Pete Cosey

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The only jazz musician from our time who will be remembered is a musician whose music is very much like the music of 2156, and who is seen as the originator of all mid-22nd century music: Pete Cosey.

I've been lurking on this thread from the beginning...didn't have the energy to jump in...but I have a few thoughts. Would like to ask Hot Ptah first, though, if you were into Sun Ra enough to have wrote a college paper on him and if you have read Szwed, do you you still feel that this aspect of his behavior and that of members of the Arkestra need more clarification and explanation? Please take this question at face value. I can respond to you but I'd like to know if you think that Szwed, for instance, did not sufficiently explain Sun Ra in this regard. Ed Rhodes I think that Szwed provided descriptions of how Sun Ra locked a drummer in the closet for drinking wine, kept Arkestra members at marathon rehearsals even when he was falling asleep at them--there was some information about the controlling side of his nature. I wanted to bring the thread back to the initial question--why would Sun Ra prevent John Gilmore, who had been with him for decades, from participating in musical activity with other musicians? We got off track from that question. I do not know if Szwed adequately explained that specific question. I have a genuine question about whether the controlling side of Sun Ra's nature explains it completely, or whether there is another explanation. I hoped to bring out someone who really knows. About my college paper experience--I was a grad student at the time and sadly beyond the days of being able to write a paper on a musical topic. I spent a good deal of time talking to Richard Davis that year--he ran the jazz studies program--and he had only warm, happy things to say about Sun Ra. To him, Sun Ra was one of the nicest, smartest people he had ever met. He knew Sun Ra in Chicago, pre-Arkestra days.

Is that because you just go ahead and buy anything you are tempted by?

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