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The new link froze up my computer and I had to restart! But everything seems OK...

Same deal for me re the article and the album(s).

what y'all said. I'm going to go listen to Mr. Smith...

aric, The "with strings" was meant kinda tongue in cheek, it's a fully interactive small combo, all of whom happen to play stringed instruments. Hope you go and post what you think...

I may not always be able to fully hear what he's doing (my ear for harmony is pretty limited) BUT the other musicians can...I've found that there are no bad records with Tommy F. on them, and I probably own close to a hundred.

Aggie, Thanks for filling in the details and corredting my too lazy to look it up spelling mistakes. If the're coming to a venue near you, go see 'em. Esp'ly if said venue is 'intimate'. Still waiting for the Bill Plays Lefty album, Dana

Yesterday my friend of 30+ years, Charlie, and I saw BF at our alma mater, Reed College. He was playing mostly music from his recent cd of songs about the work of some German painter whose work I don't know (I'm sure someone here knows all about this). He shared the stage with Hank roberts, cello, Jenny Schiedman (?), violin, and Even K., viola. They had sheet music on stands, but I assume a good bit of what we heard was improvised. Announcements were somewhat crytic, per usual. They worked in "Pretty Polly" and "What's Going On" and who knows what else that I didn't recognize. Pretty abstract overall, but it worked live, due in part to the excellent sound which allowed each part to be heard clearly.

Yes, but does it have the bonus track ("Hold On, I'm Coming")?

More significant than the above-mentioned alternate is the outtake "Red Top", IMHO. Now we'll probably never hear this, at least until the next format change, WTF?

I'd thought they'd call it "One Hump or Two".

The Nino Rota "Otto Mezzo" from 8 1/2 is from an album/CD calledLa Dolce Vita by the Czech Symphony Orch.. I t's subtitled "New Symphonic Suites", so I guess it's neither a Soundtrack Album nor music from an actual film soundtrack but rather reworkings of the material just as Wilner's Amacord Nono Rota is, which by the way I love but only have on vinyl... The other reason I didn't use Amacord Nono Rota is that the Carla Bley track (my fav) is way too long. Even though this rendition is less jazzy than Amacord NR, I still hear a little jazz (or what Europeans think of jazz) influence, no? The bassist on #10 is Charnett Moffet, son of drummer Charles Moffet. Kinda surprised by the cool recption this got, I find the combination of feedback and brushes nice on a purely sonic level. Not particularly typical of the rest of the album which is more up and at 'em.

JSngry, Re #10, I suspect you're not the only one.

Johnny, Sorry to be late to the party. Nonetheless, congratulations to you and yours. Your life is gonna change (I have a three year old); in fact it already has. Dana

Al, I thought the Hendrix quotations woulda given it away, the connection to the previous cut was that Jr. plays Jimi but sings Ernest...at least that makes more sense than doing it the other way round!

Love ska for about the first 15-20 minutes, then that relentless groove starts to drive me bonkers. And how could you call yourselves the Checkered Cabs and not have a picture of a Checker Marathon Taxi Cab on the cover?

Just the answers, I''l try to do more extensive commentary later. 1) "Do It", Jack Wilson from Easterly Winds (BN 1967). As many surmised, ably assisted by Jackie Mac, Lee Morgan, and Billy Higgins. 2) "Moanin'", Ray Charles From Genius + Soul = Jazz (Impulse 196?). Not much respect for brother Ray's organ tone round here. Same album as the hit instrumental "One Mint Julep". 3) "Watermellon Man" by the JBs (early '70s, reissued on a dbl CD anthology). I prefer the '60s bands renditions of "Sidewinder" & "song For My Father" but I only have them on vinyl and I can't burn from that. 4) "Ole" from News For Lulu by Zorn/Frisell/Lewis (Hat Hut OP?). 5) 8 1/2 by Nina Rota from a collection of music he wrote for various Fellini films. 6) "Last Tango Suite, pt.5" by Gato Barbieri from music originally used in the actual film soundtrack, now added to the Soundtrack Album as bonus tracks. 7) "La China...", Gato again. This version recorded in LA, originally intended for release as a single but not issued til added as a bonus to dbl CD Latin America, mostly recorded in Buenos Aires and Rio. 8) "Monk's Mood" by the New York Contemporary 5, recorded live in Europe, and featuring Don Cherry and Archie Shepp, among others... 9) "Backwater Blues" by Archie Shepp & Horace Parlan from Trouble in Mind (Steeplechase 1979/80). 10) "Who Does She Hope to Be?" by Sonny Sharrock from his (and producer Bill Laswell's) masterpiece, Ask the Ages featuring Elvin Jones and Pharogh Sanders. 11) "East Timor" by Ginger Baker, Bill Frisell and Charlie Haden from the first of their two albums together. Maybe Cream should do this at the Albert hall, or let ginger have his say on current British foreign policy.... 12) "Got to Hurry" by the Yardbirds, the B-side of "For Your Love", at least in some markets, and indicative of Eric's artistic differences with the rest of that band which lead to his departure. Anyone know who did this originally, or for that matter, "Steppin' Out"? 13) "Still I'm Sad" by the 3 Sounds (Dan's resonse should've given this away!). This was also a Yardbirds B-side, from the Jeff Beck era. 14) "Work Song" by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, from East/West (1966). Featuring Bloomfield and Bishop on guitars and Mark Naftalin (still working, I think) on organ. 15) "Sack o' Woe" by the Mar-Keys (Stax/Volt 1962?). Originally album filler, later issued on a single, feat. future Memphis Horn Wayne Jackson on trumpet. 16) "Willow Weep For Me" by Booker T. & the MGs, album filler. Might be Booker on piano, might be Isaac Hayes; they were pretty casual on Mclenore back in the day. 17) "America the Beautiful" by Herb Ellis from Texas Swings, feat. Willie Nelson, Johnny Gimbel, et al. 18) "Walkin' the Floor Over You" by the 3 Sounds, originally by Ernest Tubb & His Texas Troubadours. 19) "Sugarfoot Rag" by Jr. Brown, originally by Hank Garland, a million seller back in 1949! 20) Where Or When" by Dion & the Belmonts, 'bout the same time as "Teenager In Love". No I wasn't trying to be ironical, I just like this. 21) Time Berne from his tribute to Julius Hempell, feat. David Sandborn, and I've forgotten the name of the tune and the album. Good work in getting nearly all of it and thanks for playing!

Answers will be posted in another thread forthwith... Sorry 'bout the delay but I can't post all the time anymore, hence my eagerness to get it done earlier.

I think there's only two unID'd tracks, maybe I'll wait for Peter Johnson to get his disc and take a shot and then do the answers. Sound like a plan?

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If it's 'you get the complet run of the label, but that's all you get to listen to through all eternity or at least for the rest of your natural born days', then I'd take Atlantic id it included the Stax/Volt and other stuff they distributed and the Chess bros. labels if not (Chess/Checker/Argo/Cadet). But judged strictly as a consistently groovy jazz label, it's the Alfred and Francis record company by a mile, IMHO.

OK

I think we're at over 50% which seems pretty good to me...?

OK, y'all ready for some answers?

Mines so big I can't [edited for freudian slip, oh my...] measure it, and it just keeps growing! But seriously, I guestimated it at between 3500 and 5000, all formats, all styles. Mostly vinyl, mostly jazz.

Personally, I love Go, Unit Structures, and Whistle Stop. At least like most of the other 'wursts' mention above, including the six or so 3 Sounds I have (why would I own six albums by a band I only like? because it's Blue Note and because I love Blue Hour). If I had to choose my bottom few in the stated parameters, I guess I'd consider Night of the Cookers, or ___________? The only one mentioned I've actually gotten rid of would be Hot Dog, but even that holds pleasures for me. It's largely a matter of context for me: I have tracks from Hot Dog on samplers (the title tune is on Cordon Blue, a collection of songs about food, where it sounds great), by itself the rendition of "It's Your Thing" sounds fine but next to the Isley's original or Grant Green's version it pales, perhaps the wurst way to hear this album is in it's original context, i.e. after hearing Alligator Boogaloo, etc. right before it. Still, the worst I can honsetly (non-hyperbole) say about it is that I prefer other similar Lou Donaldson albums: Alligator Boogaloo, Midnight Creeper and Say It Loud. All of the above are miles above any of the later Mizel bros. stuff in my book. As for Slow Drag, all I can say is "Yo' Mama!"