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Age isn't necessarily a factor. The expression "political whore" has been around for a long time.

Looks like a bass sax.

Definitelynot Braxton. No cardigan.

Chuck is correct. Braxton held 60th birthday concerts in 2005. I don't believe he started using the contrabass sax until the mid-1970s. The first recorded documentation is in 1976. Braxton did play the Lighthouse with Circle in the early 1970s.

RIP. Space: 1999 just wasn't the same without him, though I think he was glad to get out before Fred Freiberger hacked his way through the show.

Winter & Winter has the Mystery Sonatas and Passacaglia for Solo Violin with violinist Marianne Rônez plus Arno Jochem [viola da gamba, baroque cello], Michael Freimuth [theorbo] and Ernst Kubitschek [organ]. I like it, but not having heard the other recordings, I can't tell you how it stacks up.

Amazon lists Big Band with the 2 CD track titles, though that may not mean anything. Wasn't there a 1 CD issue of Big Band and Quartet at one point?

Past playlists are here: http://www.koop.org/?page=schedule&sec...=mellowdowneasy It appears to be a blues show: Mellow Down Easy Do you bleed the blues? December 01, 2007 11/30/07 Doyle Bramhall - "Chateau Strut" - Is It News (Yep Roc) Norton Buffalo - "Let Me Be Your Man" - King of the Highway (Blind Pig) W.C. Clark - "Okie Dokie Stomp" - Deep in the Heart (Alligator) Arbee Stidham - "Mr. Texas & Pacific" - A Time for Blues (Mainstream) R.L. Burnside - "Poor Black Mattie" - Mississippi Hill Country Blues (Fat Possum) Brownie McGhee/Sonny Terry - "John Henry" - Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry Sing (Smithsonian Folkways) Robert Nighthawk - "Maxwell Street Jam" - Live on Maxwell Street 1964 (Bullseye) Magic Sam - "21 Days in Jail" - The Essential Magic Sam: The Cobra and Chief Recordings, 1957-61 (Fuel 2000) Junior Wells - "Universal Rock" - Calling All Blues (Fuel 2000) George Benson - "Rock-a-Bye" - The New Boss Guitar of George Benson (Prestige) Al Kooper/Shuggie Otis - "Bury My Body" - Al Kooper Introduces Shuggie Otis (Columbia) Robert Randolph - "Ted's Jam" - Live at the Wetlands (Dare) Doyle Bramhall II - "Smokestack" - Welcome (RCA) Roomful of Blues - "Stranger Blues" - That's Right (Alligator) The Groove Hogs - "Soul Infatuation" - Blue Rhythms, White Lies (Pixelmax) Andrew Odom - "Feel So Good" - Farther Down the Road (BluesWay) Johnny Otis - "Country Girl" - Cold Shot! (Kent) Hubert Sumlin - "Chunky" - Heart & Soul (

Sara Schoenbeck plays bassoon with Braxton's 12+1 and is impressive on the Iridium box.

It's pretty good. It contains Pictures of Infinity plus two CDs of live dates, one from the early 1971. Discographical details are complicated. See http://www.dpo.uab.edu/~moudry/disc_b.htm#48b for info. I'm glad I own it, but would rank it between the Shandar sets and Solar-Myth Approach in terms of priority. I have no issues with the sound. Funny that some people would considering it's Sun Ra we're talking about.

According to person introducing the band, it's Harry Beckett and Marc Charig on trumpets.

That's the 1971 date from Berlin that has circulated a lot on the web. It's a good one and should be in good sound.

Australian-born actor who starred in Brokeback Mountain, A Knight's Tale, et al.

Wonder if they'll reissue a record such as The Sermon, where you would have to turn the record mid-song.

http://www.tsn.ca/blogs/mckenzie/?id=227713 Bob McKenzie on Don Wittman: http://www.tsn.ca/blogs/mckenzie/?id=227713 There are many in the broadcast world who will have better stories of the life of the late Don Wittman than myself, so let me say this not as a broadcaster but as a long-time television viewer and Canadian sports fan: Don Wittman was Canada's finest broadcaster. At least he was for me. He was certainly the most versatile. Whether he was calling hockey or curling or football or track and field or swimming or any Olympic event you care to name, he was a sheer joy to listen to. For starters, he had the voice. A great and rich and deep baritone, just made for broadcasting. When he called the game, he did so in such as a way to let the event come to you. He never got in the way, never imposed himself on the game or event. Rather, he was the conduit for the game to get to the viewer. I cannot recall how many times I was watching something on CBC with ‘Witt' broadcasting and I remarked to myself how much I was enjoying the event, how Don had a knack of entertaining, informing and allowing the game to breathe. He made the game or event better. That may never have been truer than when I would be on vacation in the summer, listening to whatever Olympic Games they happened to be. If it got any better than Don Wittman and Geoff Gowan doing track and field, I'm not aware of it. Quite frankly, I never understood why he didn't do more hockey games because I would just as soon listen to Don do a game as anyone, to be honest. I only ever worked once with Don Wittman. It was the 1990 World Junior Championship in Helsinki, Finland, on the CBC. I was really just starting out in broadcasting, a part time gig for me at the time, and Don was calling the WJC with Scotty Bowman as his color man. Brian Williams was the host and I was mostly along for the ride, working with three legends, and doing a little intermission analysis. Don was a gentleman, easy to be with, easy to deal with and fun to be around. And they just don't make broadcasters any more professional, versatile and enjoyable to listen to than Don Wittman. He will be missed.

It's a mystery to us. We call it back bacon. Ask an American.

RIP. I agree about moving him off the Grey Cup--Wittman loved the CFL; Cuthbert doesn't have a dramatic flair.

In A Silent Way was issued in the same dimensions as the other metal spine boxes, but I don't recall it having an actual metal spine.

That's great news!

Defensive co-ordinator Richie Hall seems to be the favourite to replace Austin. It makes sense to hire within after winning a Grey Cup. Meanwhile, Roy Shivers is with B.C. He's a real character, so I'm looking forward to hearing some entertaining interviews with him next season.

Amusing to see several posts about Van Dyke Parks in a thread about Today's Popular Music. Fogey alert!

I'm with you on that! The title track "Out in Space" is some of the greatest space stuff I ever heard! That's a great CD! "Out in Space" is a classic; it goes on forever and Sonny plays seven different keyboards. Silva has this incredible cello solo on one of the sets. The CD was reissued in its original format--ie. no bonus material, which is silly.

That would make a great Mosaic. Check out all the unissued sessions in the discography!

That would be half rotten.