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Swapping my two middle names about, I got Fat Gumbo-legs Lee MG 'Course, MG comes out as Jailhouse Jones which is nice MG

I always thought the Blue Notes were straight ahead, too. But grab this one or die incomplete. MG

Computer wouldn't boot this morning. I've had trouble booting it for a few weeks, but it always worked eventually. Today it didn't work eventually and, while she's giving a friend a lift home, I'm using my wife's - and all the keys are in the wrong place. See you when the menders have finished with it. MG

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Fallou Dieng is terrific! I have a ton of his stuff. Well, not precisely a ton, but everything he had recorded from his first album in 1990 up to my last visit to Paris in 2007. Glad to see there's something available generally in the West. Do you have a track list? MG

OK, realizing that the above post is over 6 years old, still that's a hell of an accomplishment. How did you do it?! ... (I know, I know -- stop eating). Please read the gardening thread and see what's coming out of Chuck & Anne's garden. MG

At the point where a disease is incurable, the patient will sometimes choose to fight it knowing full-well they won't be cured, but rather with the goal of prolonging life and, hopefully, enhancing the quality of life in some way. Or, with some greater goal in mind. I've seen this dozens of times, and it never fails to move me. He fought. That guy, whoever he was, had it right. MG

A wonderful selection of videos, Aparxa - thanks very much! MG

Happy Birthday, Bruce! MG

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Couldn't find an Etta James thread. Bad thing to start it with sad news. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/feb/01/etta-james One of my earliest heroes. MG

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Most interesting site. Also the shop signs. Thanks WB3. MG

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Many happy returns - and many more of them. MG

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I like it too. That is Ajaramu. what i hadn't known until a few minutes ago that it was also Ajaramu aka Joe Shelton, the drummer on the Sonny Stitt album with Buster and Johnny Board... I didn't know that, either. Didn't know about Ajaramu Shelton, either. MG in George Lewis AACM book it says that Gene Ammons advised Joe Shelton to utilize the more show-biz like Jerol Donavon which later became Ajaramu for afro-related resons i guess... here's a pretty interesting interview (also by Lewis) with Amina Claudine Myers partly about her time with Ammons ("I hated those jam sessions at McKie’s in Chicago"...) http://bombsite.com/issues/97/articles/2857 Thanks - very interesting interview. MG

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6 Got track 6 now. I know this. I’ve got it somewhere. It’s Phineas Newborn, but I’m damned if I can put a title to it. This is REALLY irritating! Nice one, Doc. MG

AH! "Manteca"! That's the quote I didn't recognise. Thanks Thom. MG

BFT72 disc 1 This is a pretty interesting bunch of music. Thanks Doc. 1 Daddy let me lay it on you Georgia White with Les Paul. From That Devilin tune. Ive heard some other stuff of hers, a good bit rougher, that I like a bit better than this. But this is nice all right. 2 Nice bit o hard bop. Sure Ive heard this tenor player, who reminds me of Joe Henderson so much that Ive just got to say it IS Joe. I dont think Ive heard this piece before. Its nice. Must be a Blue Note. Has that right sort of period thing. Pianist? McCoy Tyner? Yes, McCoy. Oh, and a guitarist. I dont recognise the guitarist. Bourelly? 3 Got you under my skin by a thirties guitarist. I want to say Teddy Bunn, but I really dont think it could be him. But the dramatic solo just makes me think of him. 4 Oooh, this is NICE! I get a Roy Ayers type of sound from the vibes players. And a kind of Harold Land feel to the tenor player. Trumpeter sounds like Carmell Jones to me. Some kind of mid-sixties biggish band from the West Coast. But NOT Gerald Wilson, though the solos feel as if they ought to be on a Gerald Wilson album. The arrangement is completely different to his style. Nice bass solo, too. In the tag the tenor player keeps quoting something dreadfully familiar, which might be the title of the tune, but I cant put a name to it. 5 Cant say I like the sound of this band. And the tune is deliberately spiky. Tenor player has a nice sound a bit Booker Ervin-ish but not as Texas as Book. Trumpet player a bit Hubbard-ish. This whole thing doesnt really grab me. This is a quintet! Its the tune and voicing that puts me off this. 6 Can I have a separate link to track 6 of disc 1 please? There was something wrong with the file and I can't get it out of the zip. I can't face another hour and a half trying to download the whole disc. 7 Skylark wonderful intro! Lovely big sound to the trumpet player. But they lose it with the piano/bass duet. The bass clarinet (or bassoon) player should have had a solo there. I love the idea of this cut, but they didnt, quite, make it. 8 Right off my radar this one. 9 Nice blues. Starts like Please send me someone to love. Dont know the trumpeter. Who the hell is that guitarist? Sounds like Paul Gonsalves. Funny sound to the trombonist. I like him a lot. Yes sir! Oh, it must be Al Grey. And maybe the guitarist is Al Cohns son, Joe. Clarinet surely must be Buddy deFranco. I like the tenor player a lot, too, but I dont know who that is. Nice piece, which will grow on me a lot, I suspect. Strong need to know what this one really is. 10 Almost like being in love by a lady singist Ive never heard before. Quite nice, but not really special. 11 Tune up From an unpromising start, this turns out to be a bit of an interesting Latin/Afro thing, slightly outside. Not so interesting that its gonna send me out to try to buy it, but its a nice thing to listen to once. Well, the trombonist is rather boring for me. And the pianist. Well, it seems to me these guys are just doing the regular outside thing, but with nice percussion, and no ones got a story to tell. 12 Original ballad played by trumpet and piano. Pleasant but doesnt convey anything. On to disc 2 MG BFT72 disc 2 1 Well known bop tune (cant think of the title) by a very ACTIVE and exciting pianist. Is it Cecil Taylor? Hes all over that keyboard! Zowie! Oh, what about Phineas Newborn? One of his characteristic phrases came in during the tune. 2 Another spiky modern piece. Alto player has the facility of Sonny Criss but not his sound. European. Clarke/Boland? 3 I think I recognise the tune, once the solo piano bit is over, but not quite. I can stand a lot of this pianist. I shouldnt be surprised if I havent already got some of his albums. Theres something of a Les McCann feel to the tune, thats why I think I know it. But its not Les. And its not one of his tunes, either. I think Id know this if I had it. Very nice. 4 This is nice, too, but in a MOR sense, it seems. Really nice bass player. 5 Money is honey by Mary Ann McCall, with Dex on tenor. Very nice. Never heard her before. Never even heard of her. Ill have to get some of her stuff, though. 6 Well, this is nice, once they get past the too clever by half bit. No, its a bit too much like jazz for me. 7 Arthur Smiths Guitar boogie? No idea who this is. Very nice, though. Mickey Baker? Ah, there was a sound just at the end I recognised. Lets try that again. Yes, its Billy Butler, away from Bill Doggett. Edit 19 Feb - Changed my mind about this - I think it's Tiny Grimes. 8 Gone switchoff. No impact whatever on me. 9 This is pretty, but I keep waiting for Illinois Jacquet to come in and blow the others out of the studio. Is it Jack Wilson on piano? Something familiar about the altoist. The first altoist. And the second one sounds like the same man, but only to start off with. I think I prefer him. There are parts of this arrangement that are every bit as punchy as Gerald Wilsons work. But the way the thing hangs together or doesnt really is not his style. And there are bits that are as un-Wilson-like as Ive ever heard. Its more like a Clare Fischer arrangement. Dont know who these guys are, but for me theyre not getting there, quite. 10 Getting sentimental over you and a very nice rendition. Could this be Teddy Wilson? Some bits sound like him, other bits sound too modern. I havent heard anything of Wilsons later than 1940, but I rather suspect Wilsons chops and understanding could carry him over into modern jazz with ease. Except this guy is a bit too forceful. Damn good. Oh, well, Monk? 11 Yesterday. Bloody ell! That is the way to deliver a song! Shoot! Trombonist isnt delivering. Nor is the bass player. Fabulous singer!!!! 12 Love supreme bass vamp, with a feel of Pharoah to it. Is that a cello or viola? The cello/viola is very Coltranesque! This is fascinating! John Hicks on piano? And the drummer is driving them all home! Ah, a cello and a violin. Oh, I REALLY want to find out what this is! 13 Pretty tune played by a pretty-sounding altoist. Art Pepper? Phew! Some really NICE stuff Doc. Many thanks. MG

Whoever designed that KNEW what it would look like and managed to get it through senior management. I wonder what Urlaubs means. MG

pffft. That's nothing. Idiot me put a pillow with a small tear in it in the washing machine once. Then, despite little bits left behind in the washer, put it in the dryer. ... With other stuff. That's when the real fun began. Well, my Great Moment In Laundry was when a tube of lip balm made it to the dryer and then opened up, ruining about six pairs of pants. My wife managed BOTH the other day! Not lip balm, but a piece of chewing gum wrapped in tissue. Oh BLEEDIN' 'ELL!!!!!! Fortunately, only one pair of her knickers was affected by the gum, though everything in the dark wash had bits of tissue on them. It took her several days, but eventually managed to get the gum off with white spirit. MG