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I have never been to Memphis, but I'd love to go and the Stax museum would certainly be on the short list of things to see there. Could take the empire Builder to Chicago from PDX and then take the City of New Orleans from Chicago to Memphis and stay in the hotel at the depot there. Maybe someday.

Finally got my own copy of this wondrous thing, slowly working my way thru it.

I thought I had replied but I probably forgot to hit send again, anyway that is the version of Django I was thinking of. Quite wondrous to me.

Thanks, from the above linked: "There is a long tradition of criticizing Rhapsody. Leonard Bernstein’s 1955 “it’s not a real composition” comment is famous:

Iverson's article is hype too.

Didn't some of the other songwriters of Gershwin's time & place try their hands at writing extended pieces of various sorts? Maybe instead of putting down RiB a better argument would be to throw light on some of those? Any thoughts on that?

We could meet here, former state mental hospital in Buffalo, now the Richardson Hotel

Also being discussed at SHF, FWIW.

Iverson is a tool, this article is trolling thinly disguised as flyfishing.

I think it was Johnny Griffin playing live with monk at the 5 Spot, a good chunk of blue tailed Fly to start his solo. Clapton on Sunshine of your love starts his with Blue Moon. Hendrix on Wild Thing at Monterey, Strangers In the Night. Eric and Jimi didn't usually do that sort of thing, Johnny often did but maybe not as often as Dexter.

I saw Sonny maybe 5-7 times, from the '70s on. OR, MN, & SK. Can stumble my way through a few of the tunes on sax. Have transcriptions of some solos but generally don't bother. Favorites include: Friday the 13th session with Monk Oleo/Doxy etc. 4 song 10" session with Miles Dizzy G session with Sonny Stitt Colossus any and all with Clifford Night @ the VV Freedom Suite (the suite itself) Way Out West various boots from the late '50s just before he went on hiatus The Bridge (and the stray tracks with Jim Hall after) Django as if he were Ayler theme from Alfie as a tune, not so much the ST performances, great fun to play Next album Live in Japan "To a Wild Rose" @ Montreux 3 tracks on the Stones Tattoo You, esp'ly Waiting For a Friend G Man +3 Parts of the various Road Show albums

This.

+3 might be my favorite later period Sonny, some days at least, very good and very consistently so.

Thanks, that may be the way to go. I'll message you soon with some alternative choices.

How do I make/send an MP3?

Meade Lux Lewis, here on harpsichord, he also recorded on the celeste.

Thankyou.

I have a Conn & a King, both C-melodies. Both nearly 100 years old. I have no interest at all in Selmers, even if I could afford them.

I've been listening to this solo tribute to Detroit a lot, need to find a hard copy. Also her Three Pianos for Jimi with the Batson Bros,

He did cut right to the chase there, didn't he? Lester Bangs was my favorite of that bunch, but they all had their good & bad points.

I love this clip of Alvin Cash & the Crawlers doing Twine Time live, music is canned but the dancing is live.

Ramsey Lewis Trio+, Sound of Christmas, and FWIW you can put me in the 'don't get nothing out of it' column for Black Nyrd, or anything else the Mizell Bros were involved in. Except that live thing, and that's only a little better.

Happy Holidaze to all.

This is from 2014, last released music appears to be the Billie Holiday tribute from 2015. Hope she's well. I also read elsewhere on the web that she was the St Paddy's Day parade Marshall in Jackson Mississippi this year, so perhaps she's sticking close to home. Didn't intend to quote my previous post, but I couldn't make it go away.

This is from 2014, last released music appears to be the Billie Holiday tribute from 2015. Hope she's well.