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Spaghetti Western soundtracks - the Good, the bad, etc.

"All My Trials" from Sonny Sharrock's Highlife. Wish Stanley T. had done some more spirituals &/or gospell.

There are no wrong instruments, just wrong times/ways to play them...

I do, I love hearing genuine jazz populists like stanley or Grant Green play hits of the day. neither of these is any more unlikely than "Little Green Apples" or "McArthur Park" which were issued at the time. Not quite the range grant showed doing evrything from "On Top of Spaghetti" to Mozart... Sonny Criss did a very swinging "Up, Up & Away", apparently he thought it was an instruction as to tempo.

John bonham neil Peart No jazz drummer comes close to annoying me as much as these two.

Got and am enjoying the Turrentine, anyone have any idea why the versions of "Up Up & Away" and "Georgie Girl" listed in discographies for the second session seren't included?

Another great Scots organist bites the dust! I wondered who the third would be after Guiffre and dickerson. RIP

I love the part in Milestones where hard bop orthadoxy just disolves into an echoing rhodes wash...to me it's everything happening then in one little gesture.

I have this and haven't listened to it in ages, have to think whether I want to get rid of it...

Jim, My deepest sympathies, we all have to face this if we live long enough, but still... I'm 53 and thankful my 6 year old still has all 4 grandparents. I hope you can take some somfort in what certainly sounds like a great relationship with your dad. Dana

Never been a big fan, but 'you can't argue with a hit', much les 146 of them! In some ways the ones that stayed at #1 for months at a time are even more impressive than the total...

i've been listening to lots of Grant Green lately and digging it as always (early and late), but the single track that did the most for me recently was a relatively obscure later Drifters thing with lead vocals by Ben E. King, who also cowrote it, called "Sometimes I Wonder". I too dig Jr Parker, have to listen to some soon...

Love Danny G, pretty much indifferent to Roy B. New York Stories is fine by me. Loved Jr Brown at first then wnet kinda lukewarm. Shoulda put Gatton's version of "Funky Mama" on my blindfold.

I know I should be able to figure it out myself, but is there sheet music for "The Train & the River" available? And RIP Mr Giuffre.

I've got what I think is a complete Billy Larkin & the delegates on vinyl: 1) Billy Larkin & the Delegates (Aura 3002) 196? Featuring their hit "Pygmy", later covered by the MGs. If you've never heard them think somewhere between the MGs and the Three Sounds. Just a trio at this point with local (Portland, OR) hero Mel Brown on drums. 2) Blue Lights (Aura AR 83003) "featuring Clifford Scott" added to the above trio, Blue Hour it ain't, but nice. 3) Hole In the Wall (World Pacific WPS 21837) Half with the original trio, half new guys. Title tune is the Packers hit (Packy Axton plus MGs moonlighting). 4) Ain't That a Groove (WP 1843) Title James Brown cover could be added to Lou's "Say It Loud" and various Grant Green tracks for a Blue/Brown tribute. With Fats Theus. 5) Hold On! (WP 1850) Fats is back and they do Dylan, Sam & Dave, George & Ira, more James, and the Standells' "Dirty Water". And Duke Pearson's "Jenne" (sic). 6) Don't Stop (WP 1863) Group grows to 6, more hits of the day plus a few standards, pretty dancing colored girl on the cover. 7) Dr. Feelgood (WPS-21874) as described above. Didn't have too much trouble tracking them down locally, enjoy but would consider selling/trading as a batch.

News For Lulu is a triumph, one of the rare recordings where an interesting concept actually spurs better playing, and as no-set-roles fully interactive as you could hope for.

Saw Lightening at the U of Sask. in the '70s (a golden era for me). solo electric and quirky, but a good time was had by all and beyond that I really don't remember.

Lovely photos, you are indeed blessed, as I'm sure you know.

Are there any good sets documenting 'northern roots music' or the relation between the stuff collectors have typically thought of as 'square'/'corny' and the stuff they usually collect? I liked the Bluebird 'secret history of R 'n R' series pictured above, even though I don't think the musics worth is measured by it's relation to rock oer anything else that came after... Harry smith's Anthology of American Folk Music had a huge impact, not all of it good, and has lots of good music but isn't the most cost effective way to build a collection...

You don't need to work for anyone who'd treat you that way, get well and get a better job.

Anyone who would compare the Beach Boys in their prime to the Little River Band is......missing a lot. as is anyone who doesn't get that said prime was a long time ago and isn't coming back. Chewy, Sorry to not reply sooner. Yes, I did live in Ashland, OR '63-66, ages 8-11. Then I moved to saskatoon, SK, CND where my aged parents and one survivng brother still live, but that's another story... I Get Around, Dana

I'm (still) definately a first box (Atlantic distributed period) sorta guy, but I did recently pick up a CD of Wm. Bell's later singles, I've always loved "I Forgot to Be Your Lover" strings 'n all, and think he may be the most under rated guy to have worked there. IMHO, the early stuff is the 'most unique' and if it's a little ruff 'n (not quite) ready, that's part of the charm. "Banana Juice" anyone?

Um, I think we've covered this, you *%$#@!

I've (re)listened to this (old version CD) every night for the last three and I don't know what ya'll talking 'bout. Dull and Stiff it ain't to my ears, and tapping feet and bobbing head, etc. Grant and Billy are just bright and sparkling in their soul, wit and verve. And herbie's ok too. He ain't Sonny Clark, but hey... and none of the much beloved quartets with Sonny really hang together as an album, lovely though they are on a moment to moment basis. Here Grant and the guys Feel the Spirit without giving up anything of who they are, making it different than anyone else's jazz plays spirituals album. Love Goin' West too, bummed no outtakes on the CD.

I also saw them in OR during the striped shirt period, they were in Ashland to film Where the Action Is at the Ski lodge on Mt. Ashland. Don't remember musch, concert was at the college gym, lots of opening acts, also saw Ellington, the Ventures and the Dillards in Ashland. Not bad for a little logging town (shich it still was then, now is different).