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If that is how he feels, I disagree with him; but that doesn't mean that his approach doesn't produce good music. I know my views aren't those of the majority, but when I buy a record, I don't feel I'm solely buying music. MG

Good! So come on Alexander! I seem to remember you're a history teacher, so spill the beans - ten "Presidents" in seven and a bit years must indicate something seriously different about what was going on. MG

I loved this bit from his wife I wonder if Nellie ever said that to Thelonious... MG

And very exciting stride piano. I'd never heard of her before. MG

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What a line-up! Wish I was there! It DOES look as though Hank Crawford is very incapacitated. MG

WoW! I'm coming in because this is very itneresting and I want to know when someone adds to the thread, but also to ask whether y'all want this moved out of the reissues forum into the audio forum. MG

I did get the feeling from the sleeve notes to one of the LPs I had - "Don Shrley trio" - that he propbably thought that he, or jazzmen, should aspire to the condition of (classical) music, which was probably one reason I thought I could dispense with his albums. But I should have realised YOU'D know about him, Allen. Major respect. MG

The Michel Ruppli Prestige discography lists all licensed material in a different section to Prestige's own sessions. And all Ruppli label discographies that I've seen do the same. Perhaps there is some kind of logic fault in Brian or whatever the discographical database Mike works in is called. It was, I guess, designed with the usual discographical purpose - artist discography - in mind. MG

Aloc posted this in the now playing vinyl thread [ed - hit the left-pointing arrer to see wat it was] I used to have a couple of Don Shirley albums in the early sixties. I bought his version of "Drown in my own tears" first - it was a 45 - then the LPs. Still have the occasional hankering to hear the single, on which he played piano and organ (either simultaneously or double tracked). Aloc is the first person I've seen mentioning him at all on the board. Funny that someone who was pretty successful and well thought of in the fifties/sixties should have completely faded from even jazz fans' consciousness. Or are there scores of secret Don Shirley admirers, who never play his albums, knocking around the board? MG

Interesting. I wonder if the firm perceives that there is a somewhat different market for some of these albums. Do they, for example, license the Mel Sparks, Houston Person, Reuben Wilson and other similar albums to Emusic? MG

We think in words so a fault in conception is usually referred to as a fault in the writing of it. MG

Excuse my complete ignorance, but I thought Washington was the first President. American history is (or was) not taught in British schools. And my subsequent readings of world history have not focused much on the trans-Atlantic ex-Colonies MG

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So you're not the genius behind that forum, then MG

OK CONFESS! What were you doing when you found that forum? MG

The Swanee Quintet had a different take on the Gospel swing. Rev Reuben Willingham was IT! When Johnny Jones comes in, and the tempo picks up, it loses a lot of the intensity. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG2UIsE_9dI Still... MG

Indeed it does! I think it would be nice for someone who knows Ken Vandermark's work well to hear it. Whenever I listen to it, I'm not sure whether Ken's just done his homework or whether that's what he really is like, (or how far along between the two this is). MG

Cor! There's a LOT of Gospel on U-tube. Here's Brother Joe May, the Thunderbolt of the Midwest. Another who knows when. MG

Wonderful! Thanks Allen!!!! MG

But that's what showbiz IS. What did you think of Dorsey? I have the whole TV programme (a Dorsey bio) those clips come from on a VHS tape somewhere, made when British TV was actively making some of the most incredible programmes ever. MG

Thanks Jim, isn't showbiz wondrful. I found this afterwards. More showbiz from Thomas A Dorsey, then well into his eighties but DYNAMIC! mg

See, I knew this would be a real good 'un! MG

There are some people who are just ADMIRABLE! Never heard of this geezer before. Never knew all those things were from the same firm. What a lot of joy they've brought to the world! RIP. MG

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