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Not surprised that it's a stereotype perpetrated by a library worker, by co-workers at the multnomah county library are the most class-biased of anywhere I've ever worked, more so than construction or cabbies.

This was probably the first AB & the JMs album I bought (30+ years ago, I got a lot of stuff from 1959 for some reason). Always thought it was a great half an album, rarely played the second side. IMHO, the perfect AB album would be side 1 of this and side 2 of The Big Beat. Other version of the band may have had as good or better players, but those two sides have great songs and sequencing and Blakey was all about making it a REAL BAND with uniforms 'n evrything...

My public employee pension fund took a big hit but then I'm 54, have only been a public employee 11 years and have a six yr old child. I'm gonna work til i drop dead or win the lotto, that's the plan now and always has been, always will be.

Delmark is a great label and (having spoken to him once or twice) Bob K. is a heck of a guy too. When I worked at the Electric Fetus in Mpls we played at least an LP side of Jr. Wells' Hoodoo Man Blues EVERY DAY and sold at least one copy every time we did. They once ran an add of all the v. diverse artists who made their first albums for Delmark, amazing really... And Magic Sam totally rules!

Levi would've sounded great singing the proverbial phone book in an alley, but the Tops work with H-D-H shows that great production and great voices can go hand in hand and make each other even greater...

Dusty was indeed a great singer, I personally prefer her to Dionne BUT the latter did have the bonus of arrangements by the man himself. Wasn't dusty's "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (melodramatic sclock, but really great...) co-sritten by one of the Yardbirds' managers? Know who else I like to hear 'do' Burt? stanley T!

Only saw the show on holidays in Portland or Oakland, so I don't remember it well. Thought he was kind of silly but, on the other hand, there were cute girls in short skirts, dancing. Easy to figure out which side of that equation won out. Still my weakness now, maybe it's all his fault...

Are some of these pseudonyms?

That's a crying shame. Even though Smokey is much more to my taste than Norman, I'd have to say he pretty much saved Motown's bacon after H-D-H left.

There was a time (there was a place) that I would've 'had a hardon' (NOT literally!) for dates like this, but no more. The turning point (or one of them) came a few years ago when I went (with my spousal unit's blessing) to look at a collection of CDR's offered on a take it or leave it basis for the whole collection - 1,000+ pieces all meticulously catalogged with datess, locations, some personnel. I was intrigued, so I went to look - all laid out in shoe boxes in a decent apartment, the story made sense, it probably was at least mostly what it puported to be and some of the dates were recognizble collectors items on this level of rarety and desirability and some weren't. But I passed, not enough $ to lay down a wad of cash for a probably, not enough time to ever listen to it all, and not enough interest frankly - even if I won the lottery and could just do what I want all day, I'd rather hear my little girl make up songs that no one else will ever hear again. Now, that's my kind of rarity. And no, I don't regret passing, but if you're interested the stuff is out there. Me, I couldn't get out of there fast enuff.

Didn't notice any lines or price jump here in PDX yesterday. I've taken the Stude off daily driver duties but had it out and put $20 in at 3.5? = 5.5xx gal, right? Paid 3.49 when I filled the Mazda last week (dif station), lowest in a losng time.

I think Monk's playing is fine on the Columbias, it's just the way it's recorded that rounds off the edges and makes it seem less interesting...

i like Lester, i love the art ensemble; I've seen the art ensemble live 5-6 times (once magical, the rest interesting). Never saw BF and find their recordings enjoyable but a little disappointing. To me "I Only Have Eyes For You" doesn't add much to the Flamingos' brilliant rendition, it's just kind of there for people who don't appreciate vocal groups but who'd find an instrumental somehow more worthy...am I just not listening carefully enuff? I also find the pop/R&B covers somewhat condescending...and I have nothing against humor in music.

Seriously, you could not like Hank mobley for a lot of reasons but if you really think he's anything but subtle I have to wonder what world you're living in...

You don't love Gene Harris? Why you...!

New York Review of Books (the most literate thing out there, IMHO) Turning Wheels (Studebaker Drivers Club rag, surprisingly good if somewhat narrow) Classic [moter]Bike (again somewhat specialized, but v. good) Scottish Life (neoJacobist, which makes it nearly as reactionary as some of our posters here)

It's great to see all the love here for Mr. Jackson. In general I've always felt group vocalists didn't get no respect, at least compared to instrumentalists, any thoughts on why? Should probably start a new thread on whether any new groups compare to the Spinners, Temps, et al. I'll Be Around... Dana

Grinding it for the daytimers?

Valerie, I certainly woulda thought so but, unless I'm having a major brain glitch, no. Maybe that assumption that he shoulda been inducted years ago accounts for him not being in...? dana

Overlooking the gratuitous insult of the purple one (I'm no fan, but I don't see the point in this context)...I'd like to encourage everyone here who's even thinking of voting in this poll to consider Ray Charles for the HOF. "Jazz, blues & beyond"; he's certainly all that...and a bag of chips!

Yes, we all know LeRoi (good enuf for his mom, good enuf for me) went off the deep end a long time ago, but he did some good work before (and after?) he did. anyone here know anything about the unissued don Ayler album he produced/recorded?

yeah! All the best...

can't decide which is my fav ST session, but "ThinK" may be my fav cut, but then I love the 5 Royales and love to hear stan play the hits (release "Georgy Girl" nd "Up, Up & Away" now!)

thanx, muchly

Nice article, but there is at least one inaccuracy - Wexler may have brought Dusty to Memphis but it was to American, not Stax, studio. Probably the result of an editor simplifying a more complex exposition. I think the perfect ttribute to Mr wexler would be a Mosaic collecting all the recordings of the allstar band he cherry-picked from the Memphis and Muscle sholes guys and used behing aretha, King Curtis, Wilson Picket and Solomon Burke, the defining combo being Tommy Cogbill (Memphis) on bass and Roger hawkins (MS) on drums. This was really a quite different and better band than any of the regularly working studio crews from which it was drawn.