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Couldn't say whether Nora has truly made it to only one name necessary territory yet but I thought this would be as good a place as any to mention that I enjoyed hearing her sing Magic Sam's "All Your Love" (NOT to be confused with the Otis Rush song of the same name) on some opportunistic album of live recordings of some band whe used to be in..."Love is one thing, baby, you won't find on the ground".

I have this, dig it. How does it compare with his other CDs, or them with it?

I've owned/heard most of these at one time or another and think that Say It Loud is at least as good or better than Hot Dog (which I can't listen to without thinking how much more I like Grant Green's "It's Your Thing") or "Everything I Play" which I found pretty lack luster except for the tittle cut which is grooving (albiet not as much as Lee Dorsey's original). On the whole I think the worst thing that can be honestly said about the post-Alligator Boogaloo period is that they do get kinda samey. At least in the earlier '60s Lou would alternate organ dates with piano/conga ones; my personal favorite ones being "Here Tis" & "Gravy Train". I generally prefer these "early grooves" (my own coinage, the much maligned Don Wilkersons would qualifyhere, as would some Grant, Baby Face, Fred Jackson, John Patton, etc.) to the later "rare groove" period ('67-7?). One thing to remember about anything like AMG is that the people doing the ratings are going to be more familiar with some albums than others and if album x is the last one of a similar series that they are listening to just to get the job done its rating is going to suffer as a result. (Not to mention the notorious cases where people pretend to rate things they never listened to...)

But you'll miss Lester singing "Two to Tango" won't you?

It at least used to be the case that if you could convince Fantasy that you were a bonafide critic they would sell you anything in the catalog for $5/disc.

Not to totally hijack the thread, but I passed on a used copy of a C. Lloyd Columbia with T. Williams, R. Carter and Gabor Sazbo at a record show the other day, did I goof? (It was cheap)

How about the Silver 'n... series with just Horace and the band whithout the 'n Wood, Brass, Strings, etc?

I'm at work but will check my email(s) when I get home later tonight. [i've been following the saskatchewan provincial election results on the cbc web site, another glorious victory for the NDP declared less than 90 minutes after the polls closed. Voter turnout should be 65-70%]

See my post in Offering/Looking For re the Mulligan/Baker Mosaic

I have a copy of this long OOP Mosaic box: LPs and book v. nice shape, box slightly crimped. $160 incl. shipping to US/Canada, $150 if you pick it up from me here in Portland. I'll be going to (but not having a table at) the record convention here next Sunday. Cash, Paypal or checks from people I recognize from this board. There are things I'd do partial trades for, PM me or email at danasgoodstuff at yahoo.com or aol.com...

Parkertown, Um, actually I haven't posted it here yet but will when I dig it up and figure out how to make italics work on the posting (it has song/album titles in italics). Thanks for asking.

A tenor player I knew in MN used to do a Mobley tribute band called Straight No Filter whenever he could get gigs for them around the Twin Cities. His name is Scot Fultz. I'm not sure if he still does SNF but whatever he's doing is usually worth checking out. I am slightly biased 'cause he let me read my Hank Mobley poem with the band at a gig once.

I think that's a customer review from Amazon.com

I was going to post something about 'what is Michael Henderson up to now?' but then I read in the Nov. issue of the Jazz Society of Oregon Newsletter that he was going to be playing here in Portland with this bunch of mostly Miles alums on Sat. the 8th. See www.thegoodfoot.com. Anyone heard Children on the Corner? The other members are Sonny Fortune (or Sam Morrison according to one source!), Barry Finnerty, Badal Roy, Michael Wolff, and Ndugu Chancler (or Victor Jones). Maybe they could double bill with the Electric Mud band featuring Pete Cosey! That still leaves Reggie Lucas unaccounted for...

Hans, I always wanted to take a thread off on a tangent so I am quite pleased to say that I too love the Clovers. What's not to like, great material and production curtesy of Atlantic, great singing from the group despite the usual personnel changes curtesy of the draft. I think their closest competition would be the 5 Royales who sang in a similar style and were more self contained due to bass singer/guitaris Lowman Pauling's writing skills.

No, that's just "Clover" NOT "The Clovers" who were a '50s vocal group who recorded "One Mint Julep" and other R&B hits for Atlantic.

Hans, My Aium is True is indeed quite an album, but it's not the Attractions but rather a band called Clover who later became Heuy Lewis' News. If you want to hear the Attractions play (the shit outta) the material from My Aim get the Live @ the El Mocombo promo/boot (part of the 2 1/2 Years box) or various live boots and bonus tracks...

I kinda liked Laurie Pepper's notes which provide insight into Art the complicated person, rather than technical stuff about the music. Basically he got to be a sideman on his own records here (kinda like [D]erek & the Dominoes that way). Which means he wasn't responsible for the albums on a conceptual level and was free to just play well on material, and with people, he wouldn't have had the opportunity to do otherwise. If you're at least a 'pretty big' Pepper fan you'll probably dig it. I certainly do. But then I own the complete Galaxy box (16CDs), so I guess I'm more than a pretty big fan.

TEE NAH! NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH TEE NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH! BUY THEM ALL! P.S. I've happily owned the Mosaic for years.

My dad (Robert Ian Scott, "the Canadian linguist" according to Vanity Fair) did something kinda similar years ago when computers took up whole rooms he and someone else at the U of Sask. had one programmed to generate parodies of The Wasteland. 'Bout as good as the original as I remember.

Another tenor player who sometimes played bari is Alvin 'Red' Tyler, of NOLA, who played with Red Holloway for Prestige as well as lots of R&B dates.

IMHO, this is one of the greatest things on BN, esp'ly the deluxe dbl time ed with its extra (earlier) session. However, in previous discussions on this and that other board, there was a substantial dissenting opinion which found it to be kinda snoozy. It's more a blue ballads thing than a blues album per see and I would expect that opinion would divide along the same lines as the recent AOW discussion of Street of Dreams. Maybe we could do a poll on these two and, say, A I Blue? Hopefully if you weigh the various members opinions according to what you know 'bout there tastes relative to your own you will get a good indicator of whether you will like it (not that it's ever totally that simple, nor should it be).

Oh, I forgot John Fahey's lovely solo guitar Christmas albums, two of which are doubled up on CD. All the flavour of the season but much less sugar than usual...

Mike, Thanx for the elucidation, I hope I didn't sound too flippant with my question. Nonetheless I think authenticity is always a difficult issue, or nonissue.

On the authenticity issue: Of course, it's always good to know what the "authentic" sound is...but that doesn't always, or even usually, mean that's what I want to hear. And specifically, isn't even Brazillian bossa nova a bastardization of samba mixed with stuff they pick up from American jazz?