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Fortunately for my wallet, I didn't like his regular larger working band much. Definately dug the solo Monk and duets with Mal though...

I think Ayler shoulda been on this pole, don't know that I woulda voted for him but he was the most Albertian tenor ever...

Nice tangent guys, no really, but can we get this back on track? Still exploring the box, lot's of nice stuff, particulary dug the Live trio stuff from '64. Can't help thinking 'what if' and wishing things could've gone better for Al & Don, although it seems they played more gigs than I had been led to believe...course it doesn't say if or how much said gigs actually paid. Does any one know how extensive Coltrane's financial help to Albert was? Any further thoughts on the wealth of music? What about the new Live at the Foundation de Whosey Whatsy album currently featured on the ESP site, is this previously unissued? Music is the healing force of the universe, at least Albert's is, IMHO.

My first 'real' job was driving taxi cab in Saskatoon. Lots of great stories from that, but my favorite concerns my late brother, Ian, who also drove for Fast Freddie breifly. On his first day on the job he'd made sure he had a good new map on the dash. He knew where pretty much everything in S'toon was, but wasn't that great with names and numbers (dsylexic). So he gets his first , maybe second, fare of the night. Worker guy just getting off a construction job, no doubt heading to the bar. Guy gets in front (they did that in Saskatoon, no pansy barriers for us), looks around, looks down at this boots and realising that the're muddy, thoughtfully looks around for sonmething to wipe them off with so he won't get the cab muddy. Naturally he grabs Ian's new map, wipes his boots with it and throws it out the window! Being a newbie, Ian doesn't say a thing. Driving drunks around the great white north when you're 18 is assertiveness boot camp. I'll have to put more 'bout why I love Toon Towen in the Street Where You Live thread. Meter's running...Dana

I think I said it elsewhere, but I might as well add it here too - I saw this gig, and as good as the recording is, it doesn't do justice to the sound Lacy got live.

Marty, Larry, et al: Sorry to take so long to respond. It's not surprising that Artie dissed J. Dodds, but it doesn't really bother me. Shaw had strong opinions 'bout all sorts of things and a guy who played that well and then hung it up for 50 years (not just quit the business, but as I understand it, quit playing totally) has got issues. Nice that he likes Noone who Goodman also admired, funny since Shaw complained that Goodman thought it was all about playing the clarinet, missing the larger musical picture, much less the cultural one. It's like when you have two friends that don't particularly like each other; it's their prob, not mine. shaw also said some pretty strong things about Klezmer, but I don't let that stop me from enjoying it or him... Shaw certainly wouldn't have been as nice about my playing as Perry R. was but that doesn't mean that Perry can't play... Eliptically, Dana

What I think 'bout Braxton is this: I think I'd need to clone myself and have one of me study him fulltime to have an even half way informed opinion. And that he really must have something against getting any airplay with those darn unpronoucable tune titles! Pie R squared? Pie are not square, pie are round!

Xmas list, fer sure.

Dolphy, but not as much as his versions of "It's Magic" or "They All Laughed"

I believe that Strayhorn actively dis-liked Nat's rendition, at least in part because he garbles the lyrics...any confirmation on this? My fav, Coltrane, the instrumental, I hear the lyrics just fine in my head without anyone singing them.

Got it (79.49 at Borders on the Educater Card 25% off sale, no sales tax). Read most of the book, listened to disc one and parts of others. Damn nice. Can't believe there's still unissued stuffs out there after this. LeRoi Jones is...um, well it does give you the flavour of the times. Has any one heard the other tune ("Tune Q") that was on early editions of Spiritual Unity? All the confusion re tunes/names can't have helped...not that he'd have been a best seller without it, but still... And I'm dying to hear what the unissued Don Ayler album done for Jihad sounded like, and not just 'cause I identify with Don since I too lost my brother a long time ago and struggled with it (not, thankfully, to the same extent).

Just turned 50 on Oct 4th

Live @ the VV: Trane, Sonny, Bill Evans, Art Pepper, etc. Maybe it should be a national monument? Ellington @ Fargo Goodman @ Carnegie Hall Clifford Brown Beginning & End (the End part, even if it wasn't quite) Albert Ayler Prophesey, etc. (over Spiritual Unity) Miles @ the Plugged Nickel (but I'd love to hear > of '67) Monk Big Band & Quartet Mingus @ Antibes Parker Summit Meeting @ Birdland w/Diz, Bud & Roy H, over Massey Hall non jazz: Dylan at the Royal Albert (sic) Costello @ the El Mocombo Allman Bros @ Fillmore Jimi all over the place, 'cause he was all over the place live, running hot and cold from tune to tune but when he was on... James Brown at the Apollo (Oct '62) Ray Charles in Atlanta on Atlantic Howlin' Wolf in Cambridge (piss poor sound, but stomping...) the Band Rock of Ages, over Last Waltz by a mile

Amongst the currently active I gotta go with Perry Robinson, and not just 'cause he's the only one I've played with. But he did sound damn good when I was standing elbow to elbow with him getting blown off the stage! Heck of a nice guy too. If living is the test, Artie Shaw. All time? Sidney B, Johnny Dodds & Pee Wee are all up there for me, John Carter too.

We're on again this Wed. Don't think Perry will be there but I will, along with Vibra Stan and Jackie from Smegma and all the usual suspects. Be there, be square.

Clarinets (cylinders) overblow not at the octave like saxes (cones) but at the 12th (next harmonic, right?). That's why their fingering changes from one register to the other making them more complicated than saxes but able to cover a greater range (again, I think that's right, I play sax and have only held a clarinet for a few minutes). One of the things that false or alternate fingerings can allow you to do on a wind instrument is to sidestep the tempered scale cunumdrum and play perfectly in tune in all keys, or however 'imperfectly' you chose at any given point...if your ear and your technique are good enuff. I'm far short on both counts. I use three fingerings for b flat on a regular basis, but v. rarely much else.

My criteria for rock boxes is a little different. If it's a single artist box, then IMHO the basic rule is that you should be able to just buy the box and forget it - that should be all you really need. The Velevet Underground and Cream boxes, as different as they are, both meet this criteria - you could certainly live with just that, even though I can think of things which would have made them even better. I think the Faces box comes close, but I'd have to get all the original albums (aand some boots) to be sure and that kinda defeats the purpose. Of course, those bands all had relatively short lives, bands like the Stones would be hard to do properly in a managably consise box, although I'm sure that once Allen Klein dies we'll see one or more. Klein has of course kept Sam Cooke from being fully boxed, although the last attempt that included all of Nightbeat and Live @ the Harlem Sq. Club was v. good. The Who nd the Band should be possible to do in 4 CDs but so far the attempts have fallen far short. I've read that Robbie Robertson is working on another attempt at a Band box; it'll only work if they include some stuff with Hawkins and Dylan. Speaking of Bob, I have the Ten of Swords box, 10 LPs all at the time officially unissued from the beginning through Live at the Albert Hall (sic). Very nice even if it fails my test as set forth above. For genre boxes, I'm v. fond of Rhino's Doo Wop boxes, at least the first two, III is a little spotty. I was going to include a long tangental rant on the centrality of Doo Wop to R 'n R, but I'll save it for another thread. I enjoyed hearing both Nuggets boxes but don't feel any need to own them. Wouldn't mind hearing the Rhino Surf box, suffered through the Rhino Punk/New Wave box. I got all five Rhino Instrumental Rock CDs in a cardboard 'box' for $18 - not a perfect set but well worth it at that price. I don't think anyone has discussed label boxes here: I like the Stax Singles boxes (esp'ly the first), and the Jewell/Paula, Swingtime, Sun, Specialty, King, and Fire/Fury. A good overview of RPM/Kent still needs to be done; BB King's work for them has been given the royal treatment by Ace, UK. Chess has many interesting boxes on individual artists and various concepts, but most of them only add to the confusion in the end. I'd like to see boxes of their main artist that simply compile everything that was initially issued on singles, yes their are Muddy Waters singels that have still never been on US albums. Maybe next time we switch formats this will get done.

OK. I geuss y'all tired of hearing 'bout this by now, but I forgot the funniest part of my recent brush with (semi-)fame. I was sitting at the bar with my horn between sets (no, I don't let it out of my sight) when a patron came up and asked if I was form NY! Apparently he'd heard someone was and just couldn't figure out who. No, I didn't lead him on, although that could've been fun...

The thing that strikes me about the unopened records story is that these were 78s not LPs, i.e. they wouldn't have been shrinkwrapped so you couldn't tell for sure if they had been out of their covers or not. In other words, this story doesn't even make sense to me. I like Bix, to me the sad thing is that he doersn't need to be romanicized, what's really there in his music and life is more than interesting enough. As a C-melody player I, of course, like Tram too!

I like this one too, I have (part of?) it on a 2fer with the abovementioned sessions with Monk & Griffin (both v. nice too). Somehow it didn't inspire me to go out and buy more Clark Terry though...

So I went to the gig the other night, even tho' I'd been frustrated with my practising all that week, largely as a result of not playing enuff earlier in the month. So, the first set goes OK, everyone seems glad to see me both before and after. Especially our surprise guests who are there to play the 2nd set, local (but most excellent) drummer Abcar DePreist, Seattle tromboner Mark oh-no-I'm-forgetting his name, and, on clarinet, Perry Robinson. Yes, that Perry Robinson who is especially complimentary. So, they play their set, which is lovely (including Henry Grimes "Farmer Alphalpha" and a v. out snipet of "Sing, Sing, Sing"). Next set is the big freeforall, I'm thinking 'they don't need me cluttering up an already crowded stage', but others encourage me to play so I do. It's not too awful (my bit, I mean) even though I'm totally imtimidated and Perry is standing right next to me. I know I'm not going to be gigging with Henry Grimes next week, nor should I be. But it's still v. nice to get to play with the big boys and be one or two degrees of seperation from Albert Ayler. I'm so chuffed I go out and buy a new/old case for my Conn C-melody but on the way home some yo-yo sideswipes my good car while it's parked in front of my friend's record shop (www.jumpjump.com). Oh, and Perry at one point compared my playing to Desmond's, quite a compliment coming from a guy who played with Brubeck. And no, lp, I don't care if "he's just nice to everyone". All in all, a busy week.

Rainyday, If you haven't been to Ptld lately, Alberta street is full of Galleries and resteraunts, and North Mississippi is even more amazing, 'turned around' virtually overnight. My nearest rundown business district, Kenton, has been officially annointed as next. I think I preferred it when it had the highest concentration of bars in a three block stretch in the city. But even yuppie scum are preferable to empty storefronts. I'm a big Willie fan (that doesn't sound right!), but in many ways his aesthetic is v. non-R 'n R...

Rainyday, Nothing wrong with NE, I just get tired of local news outlets and other longtime residents who can't tell the difference/don't know that Ptld has 5 'quarters'. People if you're west of Williams Ave & east of the river, it's North. My mom grew up at 24th & Going, the house is 'sorta' still in the family. Getting mighty gentrified over there now. I've been to the Produce Row jams, but not much anymore. Dana

Our Man In Paris, no contest. I just love the swaggering authority with which Dex plays on this. I always figured the reason that nothing from it was on the best of was because you were supposed to buy Our Man & the Best of...

As a resident of North Portland (not NE, thank you v. much) I have no problem with Miller advertising whatever brand of swill they think the locals will drink. The 50th ann beercan thing is pretty funny; I think 'too many cooks' had something to do with it since Miller, RS & some 3rd party were all involved. Also funny that they mention Jimi H. as the black guy whose picture they couldn't get clearance for--I didn't think Miller made his drug of choice! I'm not a Miller fan, but I'll still take it over Bud if that's my only choice. Couldn't put Chuck Berry on a beer can, he probably gives it to underage girls...