B. Clugston

The Argos announced that the 43 year-old (or is it 44?) Damon Allen will be 3rd string this week, behind starter Michael Bishop and back-up Mike McMahon as the Argos play the Ti-Cats. 'Bout time IMHO. Allen is now too slow to avoid the pass rush, and he can't throw the ball deep anymore. Every move he makes seems to be in slow motion. Last week the Argos gave up five sacks when Allen was at QB and I don't recall that Bishop was sacked at all. Even if Bishop isn't the answer, it's time for Damon to gracefully retire. Damon Allen is a grandfather. Great career, but he's no longer starter calibre.

From Wild's web page. http://home.att.net/~dawild/jcdisc61.htm#610701 610701 JOHN COLTRANE QUINTET:: Personnel: Coltrane, ss, ts; McCoy Tyner, p; Art Davis, Reggie Workman, b; Elvin Jones, dr. Location: 'Newport Jazz Festival', Newport RI Date: 7/1/61 Engineer: a. "Impressions" J. Coltrane 6:06 Private tape; MJ(I)2MJP1051 b. "Naima" J. Coltrane 4:05 Private tape c. "My Favorite Things" R. Rodgers - O. Hammerstein 16:27 Private recording; MJ(I) 2MJP1051 NOTE: Information about the release of this recording on MJ is per Fujioka

"Let's Call This."

Tomorrow I'm seeing......Sonny Rollins!

Worst album I ever bought was Bob Dylan's Live at Budokan. I took it back to the store claiming it was warped. Fortunately there wasn't another, so I exchanged it for the Grateful Dead's Dead Set.

That's the only one I've heard, though isn't that the version that turned up on the Gabriel compilation? Or is there another version?

The Braxton solo is my favourite of his alto solo albums. Certain Blacks has never been a favourite of mine and I've never heard the Fontella Bass one. Improvisie is time warped in an enjoyable sense, but not enjoyable enough for me to buy it. With 11 down, 4 to go, might as well pull the trigger on all of them.

Half of it ("The Lowlands") turned up on some shady Swiss or Andorran bootleg along with the Art Ensemble of Chicago's Certain Blacks in a CD attributed to Chicago Beau. I liked what I heard from it.

Any hair metal album from the 1980s would qualify.

I think Chick's work with Miles Davis is outstanding. He's a clever pianist, full of ideas, though his career has been all over the map. I prefer his more aggressive days with Miles and Circle, but also like the later stuff with Gary Burton. Haven't heard much of his later stuff--whenever there's a whiff of L. Ron, I flee.

No kidding. The packaging of Joe Chamber's The Almoravid is so bad, it would be an insult to all children to call it child-like. The covers look like they were done by some computer illiterate who discovered an '80s graphics program on their computer.

Song of Songs and Concert Ensemble at the Berliner Jazztage are musts. The latter was coupled with The Iron Men on a 32 Jazz release. Rosewood is pretty good, though it has a dated sound. The CD reissue also includes three songs off of For Sure! The other CBS stuff remains un-reissued other than the Mosaic set and Stepping Stones. Also, pick up Larry Young's Unity.

I'm sure the Andorrans will release this soon. A Giuffre Verve Mosaic would be welcome. Giuffre is always interesting to listen to, no matter what the content.

Here's some more info from the Gebers' site: Owing to the ongoing violation of the contract the licence agreement was cancelled without prior warning in February 2003. After an objection was filed on behalf of the licensee, action against the notice of termination was pronounced in May 2003. A judicial ruling is still pending. Independent of this decision the last four productions of the label were completed in 2004. As a result of these developments, continuation of the label is no longer possible. The lawsuit of the licensee against the summary dismissal of the licence agreement was dismissed by judgement of May 15, 2006 at first instance by the district court. The licensee Schleif filed an appeal against this decision at the Supreme Court of Appeal. During the hearing which took place on November 21, 2006 it was determined that the termination of the licence agreement without notice on February 16, 2003 was justified. The costs for both lawsuits have to be borne by the complainant Schleif. Furthermore FMP-Publishing has given her until December 31, 2008 to sell off her remaining stock of FMP CDs.

Unlike the last two finals, these are two teams that look like they will be contenders a year from now. Both Ottawa and Anaheim's younger players will only get better from the experience. Nice to see Selanne hoist the Stanley Cup.

Can't wait for the Greatest Blakey DRUM Album thread.

Odd, but may be a rights issue related to the FMP blow-up.

That's a shockingly bad logo. What a waste of money. What an inept design firm. What an out-of-control Olympic organizing committee.

This article tells of Jimmy Page's exploits in appropiating other peoples' songs. The theft of "Dazed and Confused" is quite shocking. http://www.furious.com/PERFECT/jimmypage.html

Wadada Leo Smith has played electric trumpet in recent years, mostly with Yo Miles, but also on Lake Biwa. Toshinori Kondo is another trumpeter who is often plugged in. Lol Coxhill used to play his sax through a Gibson Maestro fuzzbox.

Speaking of stolen horns, this from Leo Records: "A double CD recorded at the Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Art four days after the series of performances at Phonomanie VIII in Ulrichsberg, Austria (Leo Records CD LR 468/471). On the inside photo one can see Anthony Braxton playing bass saxophone. However, very unusually, Anthony only payed alto saxophone in Glasgow. His rare f-alto was stolen from the luggage on the trip from USA to Austria, and his baggage with his sopranino and soprano was lost on the way from Austria to Glasgow. It was delivered only after the performance. Such events could devastate any musician, but not Braxton. The members of his trio are Taylor Ho Bynum on cornet, flugelhorn and trumpbone, and Tom Crean on guitar."

The New York Times is a dinosaur. Some good things sometimes, but too many stories written in a pompous neo-baroque style so the writers (and select readers) can feel self-important.

Uri Caine's recent Mozart album is superb. Also a big fan of the live 2-CD Mahler, Toys and the surprisingly unbombastic Wagner.

Those Mosaic, CD Universe and Downtown Music Gallery orders have never felt so good.

The other two discs are great! Sonny Dallas does just fine. Konitz' work may even be more interesting than on the released disc.