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Hubbard's Ready for Freddie and Blue Spirits.

You are correct. The Danish Radio date is not on Holy Ghost.

Sequentially it doesn't make a lot of sense, but this is my favourite Mosaic Select. The two albums from '68 in particular are fabulous and should be heard by all AMG reviewers who think Patton is just another Jimmy Smith clone. I wish Mosaic would do another Patton Select, but since MC wasn't too excited by Blue John in the liner notes, that likely won't happen.

In most other Western countries, that youth pastor would be doing time in jail for this.

When, where did this happen? Just curious. It was around 2005. He gave the OK to a member of the Braxton Yahoo group, which then seeded the Arista recordings. I seem to recall his blessing applied to all of his recordings. He'd rather people be listening to his music. A lot of the Braxton Yahoo group members then chipped in some money as a 60th birthday present for Braxton.

:tup Excellent movie. One of my two or three favourite films of the last 10 years.

Onzy Matthews Select. Disc 1. One of the great lost albums.

Interesting read. Thanks for posting.

I picked it up too after the concert. Highly recommended.

Agreed. Bad CGI wrecked Smith's last movie, I Am Legend. Too bad, because he was really good in it.

That's sad, but a sign of the times. Last time I was there, I bought a Lucky Thompson CD and the owner (post-Bud) told me about the time Lucky came into the store.

Garth Drabinsky-era edifice where mainstream acts not posh enough for the Orpheum perform during the fest. The theatre itself is actually pretty nice, just don't drink a lot liquids beforehand because there's hardly any washrooms.

Gustafson plays here almost every year. I generally like him, but when he and Vandermark team up, they go off on this pointless 'father, son, holy ghost, been there, done that' shtick, kind of like free jazz's answer to the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.

I'll try to see Tim Berne, though it's tough getting out when you have an eight-month-old. Have you been to any of the concerts at the Centre? There you will witness a strange Vancouver phenomenon—someone once called it "the running ovation"—where audience members start fleeing during the pre-encore applause and even 2/3s of the way through a show.

I was at that concert. Great stuff, particularly Biber's Sonata 10. Would love to see Guy's New Orchestra again, but my small baby tends to perform around the same time.

I saw Medeski play with Electric Masada a few years back. I wish Tzadik would release something with that version of the band because they were awesome.

"JUST REMEMBER every time u listen to an ECM record, Big John Patton cries" – Chewy From The "ECM Sound" Revisited, post #15.

Well that brings my total to 11. Kooky list. Magma? A lot of artists represented by some of their more obscure titles. But a lot of enjoyable music there.

I wouldn't take New Grass to a desert island, but I would certainly leave it behind there. p.s. 6

I'm intrigued.

Hey, isn't that Avishai Cohen the bassist sitting in the passenger seat of that minivan in the distance?

Miles at Fillmore East is a good Bitches Brew follow-up. None of the sessions on the "Complete" Bitches Brew box approach the real thing. Beyond Miles, there's Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi, Crossings, and Sextant. Arni Cheatham's Thing kind of has a Bitches Brew vibe to it. Bitches Brew is unique. There's a lot of albums out there that people claim are "So-and-so's Bitches Brew" (such as Woody Shaw's Blackstone Leacy) but sound nothing like the real thing.

"Seasons in the Sun" and "Jump" are howlers. A dip into the Corey Hart songbook would also be fruitful for this thread.

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