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RDK: That's a fine slab o' cheese you found there, but if memory serves big chunks of it are actually from the '60s, not to be too anal or anything... Dana

Pity Sonny doesn't record with the organ trio, just have him show up and let Broom pick the tunes. Should be the perfect antidote to Sonny's nice but too fussed over studio dates...

just finished signable copies of my 1040 and state retyrns, have to make copies, staple, etc. before they finally go in the the mail. may or may not clean up a couple of schedules I messed up a little. What time is it?

Personally i hate that "The Creator Has a Masterv Plan" is too long for a single LP side. I own a comp. CD that has an edited version (maybe it's just the first LP side?). I enjoy what's there but don't find myself wanting more. Then again, it also has an edit of "Upper & Lower Egypt" that I prefer. The relative conciseness of the performances on Sonny Sharrock's Ask the Ages is one of the reasons I prefer it to most of what Sonny and/or Pharaoh did back in the day. "Peace and Happiness throughout the land" is indeed a wonderful goal, but merely stating it don't get you nowhere...

Bruce, I, for one, like the Sony Clark Memorial Quartet album v. much. More literal than News For Lulu, which may or may not be a good thing depending onyour tastes. Zorn only gets real Zorny every once in a while, if that's what's scarred you off.... Dana

news (and more news) for lulu is/are wonderful. Here's some more: Sidewinder: James Brown, Bobbie Humphries (with Lee!), Ray Charles Song For My Father: James Brown Senor Blues: Ray Charles Moanin': Ray Charles The Turnaround: John Patton Chitlins Con Carne: John Patton, Jr. Wells & Buddy Guy Watermellon Man: Mongo Santamaria, HH & Headhunters Maiden Voyage: Grant Green Fancy Free: Grant Green Could be a good "Blue On Blue"comp for BN here, no?

This thread has certainly turned into a lovely study in the nature of obcession. but then I don't think that Prince is all that, talented sure, but still not all that, now or ever. And Kurt is no more tortured or complex than me or the next guy and a worse blooze singer than Keith Relf or John Mayall and with a much less interesting band than either of them. Gimmee Sly Stone AND the Stanley Bros.

Not bad, but perhaps it benefits from lowered expectations?

I saw the ICP tour stop in Seattle and had a mixed reaction. Loved the totally free (I assume) opening and the Monk they played, thought the solo bone and other bits were self-indulgent and one of the saxes seemed to be having an off night. Johnny E was there (so he tells me) and had a more positive reaction so, as always, your mileage may vary...

Smooth jazz, cancer; tough choice.

Saw Roy at Newport this/last summer, he's (still) the man!

Thanks for the encouraging report. "Billies Bounce" as an encore is unusual unless Sonny's changed his habits, what was the tempo like on that? Set list?

I thought it was no worse than usual and I don't see/hear what some people like in John Legend, did nothing at all for me. I think they should give just one lifetime award per show and all the performers whould have to pay tribute. Make it more of a challenge...

Hey, Sly actually appeared and did something. I, for one, was plaeasantly surprised. Lowered expectations, I guess. There's a Riot Going On brilliantly captures what went wrong, but I prefer to remember him by the earlier stuff.

I can't believe anyonewould define "vintage" cars, or anything else, as pre-95! Try pre-68 (pre-smog and safety regs, which were a good thing but took the muscle outta most cars v. quickly). Or, in Studebaker terms, pre-Dec.'63 when the South Bend plant closed and Stude engine production ended.

Wasn't "KB Blues" part of the KB dbl CD set of not too long ago?

I'd like to hear what Big Joe had to say about it even more...

1959 Studebaker Lark VIII, AT, 4dr, 259 w/4barrell, 44,000 miles this time around. Not as old as a Model T but mine's a daily driver built in a 19thcentury wagon factory in South Bend, Indiana.

I'm gonna do this mostly off the top of my head 'cause I think first thing that comes to mind is kinda what you're asking for: 1) Grant Green - Visions (his biggest seller back in the day) as a 2fer with the unissued 5/29/70 date. Lots of pop/R&B covers on both but v. dif. instrumentation/personnel. Live at the Club Mozambique would be nice too, as would a deluxe Carryin' On with the two Jimmy Web outtakes. 2) Stanley T- Always Something There and Look of Love would dbl up nicely and sometimes grilled cheese really hits the spot. But even better would be 2CDs bringing together the 5 mid-sized band dates from '67-68 that appeared in part on Ain't no Mt High Enuff and the dark dbl LP set back in the day - some pop, some Jobim, lots of Duke P arrangements. 3) Ruben Wilson - On Broadway is a groove, hearing someof his unissued stuff would be too... 4) Jimmy McGriff - Something to Listen To & Black Pearl are both interesting 5) Lou Donaldson - I think the man deserves a box set, they could call it From Monk to Funk, some unissued stuff here too. 6) Jimmy Smith - Plays Fats Waller should be dbl'd with Plays Pretty 'cause the latter has a nice "Jitterbug Waltz". 7) Freddie Roach - Mo' Greens, please! Just so y'all don't think I'm a total greasehead, I agree with the A Hill & SAm Rivers choices!

Clem, I thought FD was using "prog" as short for 'progressive', as in prog-rock or -jazz, in the bit you quote, but I could be wrong. In any case, the whole thing has a class-based snobbery about it that's quite obnoxious but otherwise empty and "untouched by the thought process" as Click & Clack say. I really thought the singers thing in the Atlantic was pretty good/not too bad/OK, but this one truly is a piece of shit...and just as wrongheaded and harmful to jazz as the anti-Parker piece refered to elsewhere.

I have this on reissue vinyl, and "Dancing In an Easy Groove" on the 2LP Lost Grooves. All good stuffs but I agree with those who prefer Live @ the Club Mozambique. Isn't this the seesion that the unissued version of "Satisfaction" is from? The only Lonnie I didn't really care for was Drives.

The Feb issue of downbeat has an interview with everyone's fav sound engineer. Not v. tchnical, but interesting nonetheless. Should be an excerpt on their website.

In the current Atlantic there's a rather long article by Clem's nemisis on current female jazz/not jazz singers, Krall, Moneit, etc. Not a bad piece, not brilliant either. He takes what I think is a cheap swipe at Cassandra Wilson, who he does not mention by name, and is surprisingly kind to Ronstadt and Stewart re their recordings of standards...check it out if yer interested.

Fav Wicked Picett stories: 1) Jerry Wexler getting down at Stax studio and doing the jerk to illustrate where he felt the groove should be, I'd love to have seen the look on Pickett's and the session guy's faces. 2) Supposedly he'd let out one of those blood curdling screams just to clear his throat first thing in the morning. 3) Pickett not wanting to even get off the plane in Muscle Schoals after he looked out the window and saw 'his people' picking cotton, I'm sure the appearance of the session guys there probably didn't reassure him much but he decided they were O tay after he heard 'em play. 4) Not wanting to record "Hey Jude" 'cause he thought it was "Hey Jew"! "Man, I can't say that with Mr. Wexler standing right there" I think Pickett was the only singer to record with as many of the great session bands of his time: Stax, Muscle Schoals, America (the Dusty in Memphis band), the MS/American hybred band Wexler cherry picked for sessions by Pickett and Aretha and v. few others, and Sigma sound/Philly International. Rhino did a 2 CD set awhile back that pretty much covers it... Damn, makes me wanta scream myself!

Hearing Gato rip on Latin America Chpt 1 was one of the things that made me want to pick up a sax in the first place, despairing of ever getting anything close to that sound was one of the reasons I put the sax down for so long. Pretty much everything up thru the Impulses is worth hearing. Two not mentioned yet El Gato w/Oliver Nelson arranging and trading licks on the title tune and Yesterdays with a particularly florid rendition of Jerome Kern's title tune and a honking blues dedicated to John Coltrane even if it sounded to my ears more King Curtis with a bunch of percusion (in a good way). I'd love to hear him play the Drifters psuedo-latin hits of the early 60s but that seems unlikely. Haven't heard anything by him in decades that I did particularly like.