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Go Riders! Where's the Cup this year?

That's interesting news, that I've heard nowhere else. Thanks.

I like this as well as any, but he's consistently fine.

I think you're dead wrong on the Coasters, but whatever. Strings can be effective or not, but they do carry a lot of cultural baggage...

played piano just a little when I was a kid and snare drum in band one year. Then took up sax in college, first on a borrowed alto and then I bought a used tenor in S'toon. a few years later sold the tenor for $150 and bought a C-melody for $50 when the 100 difference made a difference to me. played v. little for a long time, then got it overhauled and started playing again, bought a second C-melody (a Conn, the first is a King). Would love to have a C soprano. Play sporadically.

yes, a Citizen

That's a good 'un.

He did Kinsman with Rudy M, right?

The CND politics poll was fun, but made me realize I don't follow it closely despite having friends and family there, my preferences are partly nostalgia for the SK I grew up in (I think you can figure that out).

thanx

I'd love to have a big wall-sized diagram (in the style of Pete Frame's Rock Trees) of all the Art Blakey & Horace Silver bands and interconnections between the various sideman, would take a pretty big wall I think!

did it come with a blower?

..and he (Charlie Watts) and Ginger knew each other, going way back to Graham Bond days if not before. Yeah, that trio shit here is quite something, thanx!

This is amazing!

No "Crazy" because it's a collection of very early work from a different label. Patsy meets Irving Berlin.

OK. I think we're more or less on the same page then. There was a history of jazz/record guide thing that preferred Lavern doing Bessie to Dinah doing same and said that Dinah's tribute was more old fashioned...but they were British and maybe it was just an editing glitch.

this is one of my favorite things ever

LaVern's OK, but I vastly prefer Dinah's take on Bessie:

It is known that BN's break even point while still a two man operation was somewhere 'in the low thousands', so your estimate of just how poorly True Blue sold is probably at least ballpark right.

The Staples version of "Masters of War' is what I'd call 'sublime', strong medicine to be sure but well worth it.

Both JOS and the 3 Sounds sold well enuff to get full color covers (a rare privilege @ BN), but the Sounds left for greener pastures first - their last BN session during their initial tenure was June '62 and Smith's last recording for BN were Feb. '63. AND they both left lots in the can which the label doled out for decades after, starting during what we're imagining to be a dry time for them. BN during the Alfred & Francis years was no doubt a day to day struggle. it's why so many great sessions went unreleased. Beyond that, details are kinda sketchy.

Mine, Multnomah County Library, still holds twice yearly sales which is where many donations end up. They still charge adults late fees, but not children, and there are those who wish to do away with adult fines.

I like yo think of myself as a pretty big Blythe fan, but I didn't know about this,. Thanks!

JOS on BN: 1) trios; 2) trio + 1 horn; 3) > 1 horns, free for all jam sessions like The Sermon: 4) concepts like Plays Pretty or Fats Waller.