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I'll take these, if they're still available... Phineas Newborn - Harlem Blues - OJC - $7.50 shipped Phineas Newborn - The Newborn Touch - OJC - $6.50 shipped Dewey Redman - Living on the Edge - quartet - Blck Saint - $6.50 shipped Thanks!!! Edit: Just sent you a PM...

I know that general opinions are mixed about Charles' lone Strata East date (Two Is One), but count me in the "the glass is definitely half full" camp on this one. Not every cut works equally well, but those that do (and there are several) - are pure magic in my book. I'd give it a pretty high reccomendation to anyone at least half interested (if only it weren't for the royalties issues with the only(?) CD issue ). Our own Brandon Burke wrote the review for Allmusic...

Definitely the various Sun Ra versions I've heard on record (or video). No idea what releases they came from, but I remember there being at least a couple different Arkestra versions that I've heard.

← Well done, sounds awfully good to me. I'll have to go back through the Prestige discography. I must have missed that one amongst the Freddie McCoy's and Melvin Sparks's, etc. that seemed to define that period for Prestige. ← What?? Something else with both Larry Young and Woody Shaw?? How'd I ever miss that???? And who the heck was Buddy Terry?? Not a name I've ever heard before today.

Somebody wanna educate me about what "the 1940 Parker Kansas City transcriptions" are?? (And when were they discovered?). This something you have, Spontoonious?? Are they Parker's very earliest known recordings??

I totally agree. In some ways, what I do like about these stories -- is how they're really NON-stories. Like when Michael Stipe came out a few years ago. I think most people see the headline, and are like "Oh, OK, whatever".

Can't say I've always had a hunch that Takei was gay, but sometime 10 or 15 years ago - I saw a couple interviews with him, and my 'gaydar' started to go off a bit about him. Sulu was always one my favorite Star Trek characters and I think his finest hour was in Star Trek 6 - The Undiscovered Country, where he was shown as Captain Sulu - captain of his own starship, the U.S.S. Excelsior. He later reprised that same role (as captain of the Excelsior) on an episode of Voyager. There was some talk a while back, about a new weekly TV series, with Sulu at the helm of the Excelsior. It would have followed Voyager (or overlapped by a couple seasons), but they decided to go with the Enterprise series instead (with Scott Bakula). I sure wish they had gone with the Sulu-centered series instead. Could and would have been great!!

(TOS, short for ST:TOS = Star Trek: The Original Series) From CNN.com. George Takei, 'Trek's' Sulu: "I'm gay" Friday, October 28, 2005; Posted: 10:43 a.m. EDT (14:43 GMT) LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- George Takei, who as "Star Trek's" Sulu was part of the Starship Enterprise crew through three television seasons and six movies, has come out as a homosexual in the current issue of Frontiers, a biweekly Los Angeles magazine covering the gay and lesbian community. Takei told The Associated Press on Thursday that his new onstage role as psychologist Martin Dysart in "Equus," helped inspire him to publicly discuss his sexuality. Takei described the character as a "very contained but turbulently frustrated man." The play opened Wednesday at the David Henry Hwang Theater in Los Angeles, the same day that Frontiers magazine featured a story on Takei's coming out. The current social and political climate also motivated Takei's disclosure, he said. "The world has changed from when I was a young teen feeling ashamed for being gay," he said. "The issue of gay marriage is now a political issue. That would have been unthinkable when I was young." The 68-year-old actor said he and his partner, Brad Altman, have been together for 18 years. Takei, a Japanese-American who lived in a U.S. internment camp from age 4 to 8, said he grew up feeling ashamed of his ethnicity and sexuality. He likened prejudice against gays to racial segregation. "It's against basic decency and what American values stand for," he said. Takei joined the "Star Trek" cast in 1966 as Hikaru Sulu, a character he played for three seasons on television and in six subsequent films. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1986. A community activist, Takei ran for the Los Angeles City Council in 1973. He serves on the advisory committee of the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program and is chairman of East West Players, the theater company producing "Equus."

So, how in the world is it that these details aren't already worked out well before a release comes out?? I mean, surely the Cellar Door sets are probably already made (physically), and are sitting in some warehouse somewhere. And then, somehow, on the eve of it's release -- everything gets hung up. Again, how is it these details aren't already resolved BEFORE they even get to the point of physical production??

WTF??????

Couldn't this have been combined with the beaver thread?

I presume it refers to this... more here...

Then again, the new Monk/Trane thing went from "first-ever discovery", to "available-in-every-store under the Sun" -- in what, less than a year!!! So it's no like all those hoops have to be all THAT difficult.

Surely those live Miles things from late '67 would be worth jumping through all the hoops. I would think they'd have some serious sale potential (relatively speaking).

So, anybody know what's gonna be on Vol. 2??

How about 'them' (Columbia probably) releasing some of that live Miles 2nd Quintet material from the Fall tour of 1967!! Wouldn't that sell like hotcakes too?? I sure think it would. (Yeah, I know, Columbia doesn't own the tapes. But surely they can be bought, no?) Actually, if I can steer this thread in a slightly different direction -- what known grey-market and/or "private" recordings (that are already floating about), would make the most sense to see released, both in terms of potential sales, and/or simply on artistic merit??

I see the line-up of the Land includes Joe Sample ( ) . From allmusic... Donald Bailey - Drums Bobby Hutcherson - Vibraphone Harold Land - Flute, Sax (Tenor) Joe Sample - Piano Buster Williams - Bass How does it compare to Hutch's San Francisco?? (Never been a big fan of SF, for which I credit/blame Sample -- fairly or maybe unfairly.)

Very interesting. Listening to a bit of the interview with George Takei at the moment. Thanks!!

Can't remember if I own this one, or borrowed it recently from Spontoonious (and too lazy to go look and find out). Either way, it's a relatively solid date, though a bit uneven. By all means, get it if you find it for a decent price -- but (IMHO) it isn't worth a special order all by itself.

Ain't that the truth. We'd all be lost without you. And I won't mention any names, but you put all your competition to shame. (Why do they even bother to try to reinvent the wheel?) Arguably one of the most important jazz sites on the entire Internet.

OK, early 70's then. (Could have sworn it was '69, but my memory of that stuff is real fuzzy.) Edit: I think this is the cover of the first issue of the series I'm talking about. What year would this have been from??? (In case the image doesn't apear, then click here.)

I should have said the first 8-10 issues of the re-issue of the series, circa 1969. (I had forgotten that there was an early Legion from 10+ years earlier.) (I'll search for an on-line cover of what I'm talking about, later on from home.)

The Legion of Super-Heroes! ← THAT'S the one. Used to have (or have access to (via the neighbor kid) -- I forget which), the very first 8 or 10 issues the Legion of Super-Heros, circa 1969. Probably nothing truly great, in the wider spectrum of comic books -- but I sure did like 'em.

Not to cause a threadjack, but can somebody point me to the Harold Land "Jame Bond" thread?? Spontoonious was telling me about that one over lunch a couple weeks ago, and I've still never found the thread. (I done did half-a-dozen searches on things like "James Bond" and "Harold Land Bond" - and I ain't done found it yet!!) Thanks!! ← 2nd request. Somebody PM me the link, and I'll delete all my clutter about this from the thread. Thanks!!!