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Incredible bargain, such great music all in one convenient package.

ScoLoHoFo nearly put me off all involved, I disliked it that much. YMMV, etc. Once upon a time I bought nearly everything Sco or JoLo did, but as Willies says, Time Changes Everything.

How is this surreal(ist)?

General Mills.

The 8 instrumentals Ray Price's Cherokee Cowboys issued on Western Strings which feature Emmons among other stellar players are well worth seeking out, as is his (Buddy's) tribute to Bob Wills even if Buddy wasn't all that as a singer. Kinda the Les Paul of sit-down guitar.

I recently saw Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan in Saskatoon - set in the 1940s and performed in the round and good. And the preview night at the Fringe and The inventor of All Things about some obscure Hungarian Physicist also at the Fringe, my Bren' saw a bunch more of those Fringey things

Sonny Criss - not totally overlooked, but not fully appreciated either, IMHO.

It is indeed, as are the two later sessions (1969 & '75) on one CD I bought for slightly more the same time and place.

The Complete Sonny Criss on Imperial for $3.50 CND at the Vinyl Dinner in S'toon. Yes I know it's a (dbl) CD, but it's too risky transporting vinyl across the scorching hot inter-mountain west in the summer, and good luck finding that material on LP much less at that price. And a short appreciation of the music: the relatively short playing times of the tunes tell you nothing at all about the total commitment of the players here. Also bought some other (later) Crss and some early Ike Quebec, not bad for a trip with other purpose. And my mom gave me some stuff.

As you might guess, people in Sask are NOT happy 'bout how their riders are doing this year.

From Saskatoon, now living in Edmonton, my friend Bill Richards.

I was in the Paris of the Prairies, blissfully unaware of the glories of sax until a few years later.

Truly awful title, almost scared to see the cover...

How 'bout King Fleming?

Overlooked by whom? Once upon a time Sonny Clark was overlooked by the general jazz public, but not here and now. And just overlooked, or overlooked and great or just pretty good? Mose Allison was a pretty good pianist, but once the songs and singing took off that took a back seat.

Man made a career out of writing songs, so I gotta respect that, but I can't say I cared for any of the songs listed.

If a player is really playing, long and short aren't necessarily mutually exclusive - they can make the individual licks stand out and connect 'em up at the same time, if you know what I'm saying. But the 'long lines' thing as a critical cliche, yeah that gets a little overworked sometimes.

Gershwin Prize totally deserved, if kinda obviously so, but if it's a songwriter's prize why are all the recipiants so far (except co-sinner Hal David) more or less also performers? co-winner!

Yeah, this and the quartet date from the day after are sublime, IMHO YMMV. Some of the other late Pres, not so much but it's still him.

mjzee: Do the math, the Bobby Whitlock who played on D & the Ds was born in 1948, he would have been kneehigh to a grasshopper when the Mulligan Quartet sides were recorded.

Nina has made it into the collections of a fair number of non-jazz people, or so I've found - YMMV, etc.

Not what I hear or see in this recording at all, to me Ornette isn't at all aggressive - just going his own sweet way.

Overall Ornette Alumni MVP, IMHO, unquestionably Don Cherry - his BN's are extraordinary and who didn't he play with? Trane, Sonny, Sanders, Gato, Albert, Steve Lacy, James Clay - he made lovely music with all of them. Which particular recording, that's harder...

What he said.