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I love that song...

I thought Big Jay McNeeley was the Keith Richards of the sax...

IMHO, YMMV, BUT Ahmad and Gene have at least this much in common for me - when they were part of a band that really was a collective effort it's great, after that not so much. Really not so much and even more so for Ahmad.

But what did he do with the crack of Dawn?

I generally don't much like either Joe Pass or OP as a leader, although I'm generally fine with many dates with OP as a sideman and am looking for Joe Pass's tribute to Hank Williams which he in effect co-leads with Roy Clark. I find OP to be a bit of a steamroller quite often; I do like both Herb Ellis and Barney Kessel and when their contributions 'carbonate' the trio, it's better. I like the 3 Sounds because I hear it as more of a group than most of OP's trio records that I've heard. Later Gene Harris I'm not to big on. The Joe Pass Stones record I'd like to hear, but not enuff to pay good money for it.

Hey There (you with the stars in your eyes) by Rosie Clooney - I'm wondering what were the #1 R&B and C&W singles that day? I love Grant & Ike's version of Hey There, so...

Given the year the're having, this can't be a surprise.

It was stormy (and Spooky and Sunny sometimes too) both here and in Kelso, WA where I was for a car show this weekend, but we got a nice turnout just the same.

I think it might be a Maine / Canada rivalry. That's funny...

If the library I work at gets it, I'm all over it. But to plunk down my own hard-earned cash, I'd have to hear it to see how much variation there was from night to night. But if it includes some gigs before Levon Helm bailed, I might have to get it.

SandSTRÖM! He wasn't quite that tempestuous ... I can feel a photoshopped album cover coming on...

I've been thinking about Bob in a different context recently, due to a mix tape my brother requested, as a writer of songs performed by others - the're not covers if Bob hadn't intended them for commercial release by himself, as was often the case. If anyone really wants to get into this maybe we can start a different thread.

Laswell, yeah he can be overbearing, putting his greasy figure prints all over some one else's records BUT what he did with Sharrock on Ask the Ages is something close to a miracle, IMHO, having seen Sharrock live I'd say he not just rescued his career but took a guy who was pretty scattered left to his own devices and made a far better record than what should/could/did (mostly) happen in the '60s. And Guitar! I swear Laswell has the fretboard squeaks doing their own little dance... "The unreleased remix of Turn It Over" What, pray tell, is this? I'm totally intrigued.

Nice. Glad you dug that, when I was in College I used to close my radio show with Lateef doing In the Still of the Night (the Satins', not Cole Porter's) and its attendant 'radio being tuned and signed off' sounds.

Joel Dorn, he was responsible for Rashan's 3 Sided Dream and Lateef's Part of the Search, right?

So that was the problem, he lost his fiz...

The Eric Clapton is a good one. I saw it on MTV back in the day, taped it on VHS. Is that the year where Otis Rush & Clapton played together?

Perry Robinson said that I said sounded like Desmond, but I said no I was more into Konitz, but then he only heard me once and I was just being an idiot, so....

He looks just like every other middle to older aged guy I see digging thru the crates..looking for inspiration?

Not if that's where your customers are most likely to look for her.

I was taught that you should use the Oxford comma when, for example, your flag has red, white, and blue on it, each in their own separate parts of the flag, but not when you're talking about the colour you get when you mix red, white and blue together to make a new colour. But it was often not clear to me which of those two examples applied to any other particular situation, and we never called it the 'Oxford comma' back then.

I think Hand Jive is a fine and much under appreciated album, largely because of Eddie Harris and Bill Stewart.

Happy birthday, and thankyou.

The kind of intellectual that only a non-intellectual thinks is an intellectual. - that's some funny (in every sense) stuff there, and yeah I do know what you're saying, both generally and with regard to Desmond, but sometimes he is better than that too.

Excellent album. Picked up a used copy recently, totally knocked me out!