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Sundog, For S&D check out the Rhino dbl Sweat & Soul, it's w/in a couple of tracks of perfect. And while we're discussing Sam Moore and David Prater, was there ever an act that was as big for as short a time? ("Hold On" to "Thank You" is about 2 years...) Back on topic, Borders is having a buy 3, get the next one free sale so I'll have to think about what I want...

Oh, my goodness... The only hard question is do I sell my copy of One For One now or wait to make sure, oh never mind it's the only way I've got that other session (mentioned above). I think I can live with this small duplication...

Just returned from driving to Saskatchewan from Oregon (and back): blowing snow in Montana on the way there, blowing snow, hail and no visability in Alberta (Crowsnest pass) on the way back. Late April/early May is too early to cross the Rockies but my 47 yr old buddy was getting married for the first time so I had to go!

Shawn, Could that Atlantic album perhaps be Soul Song (which includes a stomping rendition of Lowman Pauling's "Think")?

tenor sax is a B flat instrument

I'm not as deep into Brasilian music as many here, but AS A STARTING POINT I'd reccomend the soundtrack to the film Black Orpheus (SP?). Lovely music by Bonfa, Jobim, etc. It was instrumental in spreading the word beyond Brasil and includes some earlier samba style(s) so you can hear what what was Nova about the Bossa... Now if someone would do a Brasil/celtic hybrid we could call it Bossa Nova Scotia!

I think that would mean it was named long after it was recorded, a not uncommon occurence for jazz instrumentals. And yeah, I think it fits, in a nicely nonobvious sort of way. Pity they didn't ever work together...

Perhaps I'll have to give it another go...

Lon/Jazzbo, For me Weird Nightmare was just trying too hard to be eclectic and 'interesting' and just generally too focused on Mingus the character (not that that's exactly uninteresting, but...) and not enough on Mingus the musician (not that you can totally seperate the two).

Don't see it on jazzmatazz any more, but it's easy to miss individual items there. Well worth searching out the vinyl, I love all of Wilner's stuff like this--Amacord Nina Rota, Stay Awake (Disney), Lost In the Stars (Kurt Weil)--up to but NOT including Weird Nightmare (Mingus).

He did a nice 'modern' session with Martial Solal (sp?) on piano, usually known as When a Soprano Meets a Piano; but I'm not sure if it's available on CD.

I think the Heptones are the most under appreciated (in 'the States' at least) group in reggae. "Book of Rules" from their generally fine Night Food album may be my fav reggae song ever. Disclaimer: I generally prefer the rock steady through classic reggae period(s) (late '60s to mid '70s) and don't care much for dub at all. Dancehall and other later styles I find pretty hit and miss...

The Stitt Mosaic is a good thing, but maybe too much (at once) of a good thing. I borrowed the library's copy and enjoyed it but haven't bought it, and not just because I'm broke. But I did buy the Lou Donaldson, so what do I know. The one pleasant surprise was how good Sonny could be on ballads. Not all the time, he often goes all formalist on them, but when he felt like it, you felt/liked it too! If I came into a windfall I guess it would be about in the middle of the list of stuffs I'd get from Mosaic...

I'm interested: clarinet, piano, drums. An hommage to Pee Wee Russell perhaps?

When I play it...

The first full length bio of da Wolf is due out soon, see www.howlinwolf.com for more details.

Ellington in the imitation of the Globe theater at the Shakespear festival in Ashland, OR circa '65 (I was outside when my dad walked up and asked if I wanted to go. Got most of their autographs, but quickly lost them. And Sun Ra several times in the '80s, including one truly magical performance at Reed College in Portland. I was in the truly amateur Reed Copllege Stage band, but that really doesn't count.

Getting back to Eric and his (Mr. to you) Johnson, i finally heard some excerpts t'other day and thought it was nice if no big deal. Not much on the flaming lead work, but in pretty much every other way (singing, the rest of the band's playing) an improvement on From the Cradle.

MF, Yes, "Nature Boy" is on Miles' Blue Moods album, and Teddy Charles is on that album. The version I was thinking of is actually on the Collectables album pictured above, originally on Atlantic. Perhaps my question was too ambiguitous... Oh well, many good version of this tune, with and without vibes.

He did a v. nice "Nature Boy", what album was that...?

Got mine done about 2 days ago. I guess I should thank W that the basic deduction for married filing jointly is now enuff ($9,500) that I don't have to itemize (what with a 'modest home' and a variable rate mortgage). I would've come out about the same, but it so much easier to just take the basic, and they can't argue...Of course, the state and local are a 'nother matter.

I think there may be (at least) two possible sources of confusion here: "certified" means there has to be documentation meeting a certain standard, I suspect that both Kind of Blue and Love Supreme have time periods during the last 40 years or so that can't be adequately documented; and sales in the USA vs. sales world wide. Either of these variables could result in widely varying figures, taken together it's like comparing v. big apples to v. small oranges, or vice versa.

Losing my $ in poker machines works pretty well to cut down on my CD purchasing, unfortunately...

I voted for cheesey, but I was thinking post-Roy Wood. ELO w/Wood is basically the Move, pt. II (III?), and the Move were a great band, IMHO. But as is always the case with cultists, once the band had changed to the point where the gen pop got interested, I got uninterested...

Ayler, Ghosts, done as an air to start, then as a jig. Always sounded celtic (and anthemic) to me...