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Rooster, All my best thoughts are with you....

Hey Man, Sorry to not reply to your Group of Seven question sooner, but I wanted to check and make sure I got all their names right. "Around 1912 a loosely knit group of artists began to paint Canada as they saw it...Despit the death of mentor Thom Thompson in 1917, these painters banded together as the Group of Seven in 1920 to forge a new Canadian expression." (from the CBC archives online, a yahoo or google search "group of seven" should get you there, sorry I don't know how to do links) The original seven: J.E.H. McDonald, Arthur Lismer, Fredrick Varley, Frank Johnson, Franklin Carmichael, A.Y. Jackson and Lawren S Harris. Later members: A.J. Casson, Edwin Holgate and Lionel LeMoine Fitzgerald. Other Canadian painters were working along similar lines but were not part of the group per se, e.g. Emily Carr. They were and are a big deal in Canada, so much so that later generations of painters felt compelled to 'break away' from their influence, etc. I love their work, and proclaiming themselves as a "group" no doubt helped spread their fame, but lumping them together tends to obscure the very real differences amongst them... see alos, www.mcmichael.com/group.htm

Ed, Tom(my) Thompson, Group of Seven precursor, right? I love the group of Seven, eight or nine...Don't think I've seen that orangy one before though.

Hank, Thanx, but no thanx. I think I've got all those tracks elsewhere.

I'm so disappointed...I thought this was going to show me a new way to keep my tool from overheating!

Hank, What are the bonus tracks on the Little Walter? Thanx muchly, Dana

I have a 1CD (75 min) version of this, I believe there is a 2CD version with one extra tune. It's been a while but I do like it, different but not that different from the way they played together 5-6 years earlier.

I think that Jsngrey had a good idea a while back that kinda got passed over: Let's see if we can genrate some light and reduce the heat by discussing the relative merits of various items of late 'Trane. Interstellar Space has already been mentioned as an "Oh that's what this stuff's about" moment for lots of folks. I would like to draw attention to the, IMHO, equally revelatory (sp?) Stellar Regions. The relatively short tunes and quartet format put the focus squarely on the sorts of techniques Jim was talking about, in nice digestable chunks but without being in any way watered down. Any thoughts on these specific performances?

I'm fer it!

NEWS FOR LULU! Zorn, Frisell and G. Lewis playing the heck outta S. Clark, F. Redd & Hank M. Why is this out of print?

I don't usually do "me too" posts, but I will here...also dig his work with Miles, playing in fron of Cosey & Lucas must've been a trip!

was planning to attend schedualled gigs by both Art Pepper and Art Blakey that they died before (bad schedualling I calls it). Last week Charles Gayle was in town but I didn't know about it til afterwards. Don't know if he wore his clown suit.

I, too, am quite found of Capt. Marvel, Sweet Rain, Focus, The Shrine and The opera House. Haven't heard all the rest by any means, saving something good for my old age! You might as well just get the Bossa Nova Box (what's it called?) since it's all good.

I bought the Rev. Al's latest recently and quite like it. He and Willie Mitchel used mostly the same players, the same studio and even the same michrophones as back in the day, so it may not sound like bluenote but it certainly does sound like Hi Records.

TJ Kirk (originally it was James T. Kirk but legal action was threatened...) was an interesting concept for an album but by the 2nd one it was wearing thin...but they were good live.

Loved their Rhumba Para Monk but haven't heard much since then (a decade ago?)

BB, No way man, I know when enough is enough, and this is it (or not?)!

Isn't "overly self-indulgent" overly redundent?

I was at the gig where The Rent was recorded, one of the best I've ever been to. But I gotta say I haven't heard any recording that really does his sound justice. Also like the solo Monk and duets with Mal.

That depends how narrowly you want to define "Delta Blues" (what was that quote about Hendrix playing delta blues, for the delta of a river on Mars?). But the first name that popped into my little head was Tommy Johnson, a big influence on Howlin' Wolf, among others.

$70 is quite good, I paid $37.50 (record store employee price) for a used set and consider it one of the best purchases I ever made both for the music and the deal.

Pat said something in print about how he didn't hear ZTFS as all that different from the PMG albums, but his audience sure did. I was working in retail when it came out and being the good guys that we were we would try to warn people who would ignore us and buy it anyways just to bring it back the next day. "Shipped gold, returned platinum", as we used to say at the Electric Fetus.

Appollo is owned by Delmark, who have reissued some jazz and blues/R&B stuff. Chess/Checker/Argo/Cadet is owned by MCA/Uni- (or whatever the're called now) who have concentrated on their blues and vintage R 'n R/R&B side and largely ignored the jazz side. Alladin is owned by EMI who did a nice 2CD comp about a decade ago and have largely ignored it ever since.

I must've got half way through my comments on Twilight Time and been distracted. SRV and Sco do NOT play together, but both play nicely in their own ways and the album is a keeper. More later, maybe.

If you can find the OOP 32 Jazz 4lp on 2cd package, go for it! Ditto their Hank Crawford.