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By Mark Dresser!

Green with envy. If he got as close as Atlanta, I'd have to give it thought, but finances are low.

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I looked into helping get a stone for Larry Young's gravesite and I was told that Young and by extension, his family, did not want one. In Young's case, it might have something to do with his Muslim faith. Thanks for info.

Johnny Griffin - Change of Pace

Your mind is on vacation and your ... fingers are working overtime!

Worthy cause. Does anybody know if a similar situation with Larry Young was ever rectified?

You could always listen to Jimmy Webb. Start with Land's End and the astonishing Orbison without a voice production Just This One Time. He got what he needed out of his pipes.

No, it was way too good a song to really suck. I mildly prefer Allen Toussaint's original even though he tried a liitle to hard to hide his vocal limitations with production.

Anybody who doesn't object in principle to a touch of rock/r&b in their music has GOT to hear G-Man, either in the album of the same name or in the aforementioned Silver City compilation. Go find a 30 second sample on Amazon or Allmusic.com and play it twice. There is a strong possibility you will have to have it RIGHT NOW. We're not talking Grover or Sanborn here, just energy and simplicity and groove. The closest comparison that comes to mind for me is McCoy Tyner's Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit.

I have dipped into the Alto Rhapsody disk and the Clarinet disk so far, quite nice. About halfway through the Rubenstein/Chopin, albeit with varying levels of concentration. Glad I got both.

Not off topic. I love the piece, fully aware that there are many scoffers. Neoclassical has also been used to describe Prokofiev and is indeed a subgenre firmly within Classical Music. Elitists flame away! However neoromantic seems more accurate than neoclassical for Gorecki's third.

Funny, my first thought was Verve.

I was browsing the web and found an enthusiastic review of Johnny Guitar Watson by a jazz lover. I definitely considered his music ultracommercial when it was first released and did not check it out. But after the review a band was listed with Paul Dunmall on sax. This is precisely the situation that the acronym WTF was coined for. Sometime or other I'll have to give that a listen. It did bring to mind George Adams stay in the Fatback Band and Arthur Rhames in Slave. My mind flashes to Sonny Rollins with the Stones and I realize we''ve done this thread before. But still, Paul Dunmall was a pretty unexpected name to find there.

Art Pepper recorded a couple, Tears Inside is the one that jumps to mind first.

If you buy a CD or lp, and then research to find out if you should spend valuable listening time on it ... you too may be a shopaholic!

Warne Marsh - Red Mitchell

http://thanksifyouhere.blogspot.com/2009/0...an-hawkins.html

I went with the DG. Also ordered the Rubenstein Chopin collection.

I won a $200 Amazon gift card in a side competition at the National Scrabble Championships and I've decided to get one of the Complete Brahms boxes. The DG has bigger names, older recordings and is a bit cheaper ($65). The Brilliant ($82 up) has 14 more CDs and at least a few works that aren't on the DG. Anybody have any thoughts on the relative merits. I already have the Szell symphonies.

I like Honesty from 1983. Mellow, more toward Al Green than Superfly, but definitely Curtis.

Yes a good read and certainly has enhanced my appreciation of the lady's music. I did procure the available Classics mp3s that I didn't already have, so I'm down to those 5 tracks that are on 1944 but not The Asch Recordings to take me up to 1954.

My absolute favorite among Cash songs, because it came out when I was very young and rebellious and dug the hell out of an older guy respecting and standing up for a youthful point of view. I bought a 3 CD set mainly to get at that one song.

The well has been mostly dry since the late 70s. Reissue availability is quite a bit better than it was then. And the exceptions to the rule would make for a fine weekend of listening at least - 80s Andrew Hill, Greg Osby, Mark Shim, Kurt Elling, Particia Barber, Javon Jackson, Dianne Reeves ... Stefon Harris, Jason Moran ...

Honestly, I think if you paid Chuck Nessa minimum wage to answer your question, he couldn't answer your question for less than $100. Many of the Chonological Classics are out of print and commanding hefty prices. From Half.com: 1930, Vol. 2 Duke Ellington CD, 1996 $171.22 1945-1946 Duke Ellington CD, 1998 $91.49 1935-1936 Duke Ellington CD, 1996 $50.69 1938 Vol. 3 Duke Ellington CD, 1996 $58.08 1924-1927 Duke Ellington CD, 1996 $59.85 1931-1932 Duke Ellington CD, 1996 $62.49 1945 Duke Ellington CD, 1997 $63.15 1935-1936 Duke Ellington CD, 1996 $64.64 1941 Duke Ellington CD $65.14 1938 Duke Ellington CD, 1996 $74.37 1939 Vol. 2 Duke Ellington CD, 1998 $84.09