Rooster_Ties

Amen to that!!

Pardon my french, but... Holy Shit!! 35 million, EVERY DAY???!!!!!

Of what? - if I might inquire. Sounds like a great festival!! Sure wish there was a festival even half that good here in KC.

I just got the Collectables version of these two dates in the mail (from The Bastards™), and am really diggin' both dates. And it's one of the better Collectables issues I've ever heard. Funny, three tunes from the Oliphant date with Green and Patton also show up on Patton's Got a Good Thing Goin' -- two originals "The Yodel" and "Soul Woman" (supposedly co-authored by Green and Patton, cited as such on both the BN date, and the Atlantic), along with "Ain't That Peculiar". Which date was recorded first?? I would maybe guess the BN date (29-Apr-1966), but the Collectables issue just says "released in 1967" - with no recording date listed. Funny how more than half of that BN date (3 out of 5 tunes) appeared on two different albums, all within the same year.

When I hear Tom Cruise's name on TV, and I immediately hit the mute button. Been like that in the Roster household for about six months, or whenever it was he did some stupid-ass thing on Oprah.

No kidding. With service like that, why be in business at all??

Can't cite specific refs right now (thought there's probably something in John Szwed's book on Sun Ra), but I know I've read multiple places and heard discussed here and back on the old BNBB -- that Trane picked up some technique things from John Gilmore. And a couple quickie search hits on "John Coltrane John Gilmore" reveal that Trane took formal lessons from Gilmore in the late 50's (mentioned in Gilmore's Wikipedia article).

Yeah!!!!! Any idea if Billy Harper will be on board?? Oh please, oh please, oh please - let it be so!!!

Great, but where's Duke's Pulitzer?? I'm still pissed Wynton got one (WTF?? ), while Ellington got passed over -- for years, if I remember correctly -- because they couldn't decide if any one individual composition of his was deserving enough. I don't own a whole lot of Ellington, but in my opinion, if there's any one single jazz artist that really deserved to have won a Pulitzer (especially during his lifetime), it was Ellington. (Or maybe Pops, but there's just something that seems so right about Ellington getting one.)

Is the trumpeter maybe Benny Bailey? (Perhaps a wild guess, but hopefully at least a plausible one.)

I'm in complete aggreement.

Has Chuck ever tried to take off the hat in recent years?

When did Chuck (Mangione, not our Chuck ) start "wearing the hat"?? Was the process gradual, or sudden?? Where there any interesting (or even moderately interesting) "partial-hat" recordings -- dates that straddle the pre-hat and post-hat eras?? I must admit that I know next to nothing about the man (the hat) - Chuck Mangione.