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For all you frustrated guitar players, here is BLESSED RELIEF!

But, Kevin, do we know that he "screwed" buyers or could something have happened to him?

This, I am happy to remind you, is not Jazz Corner!

Patricia, we have been wondering what happened to shrugs, so you gave me a start when you wrote "shrugs just mentioned." His post dates back to March of last year!

I find it very difficult to find a good, aged cheese in the U.S. Even the French Camembert sold here tastes blah. My favorite is a Danish cheese called Gamle Ole--it is very funky, drives people out of the room, but it sure caresses my palate. I can't get it here, it is apparently not bland enough, so I ask friends to bring it across the pond.

Here is an e-bay ditty.

Ron S, I forwarded your suggestion--with a link to this thread--to Terri Hinte at Concord/Fantasy. She is passing it on to the people who handle reissues. Thanks, again, for the idea. Terri sent me the following link--I had not seen this before: A review of the N. O. Living Legends series

Why they didn't turn this into an action movie, I'll never know. Thanks, Jim, not only don't they write such notes anymore, they never did--except once, I think.

Why did you not mention Safari? Unless you are using an old OS, I highly recommend Safari or Firefox. I am more familiar and very happy with the former, but I also have the latter installed. The problem with browsers like Camino and--to some extent, Firefox--is that they are still in a relatively early stage of development. Netscape gave me much grief when I used it, although it was never as troublesome as Microsoft's Internet Explorer. BTW, if your OS is too old for Safari, it's time to upgrade.

I am happy to say that you are wrong re "the tone of this thread." Any thread that focuses on a single performer or group is bound to contain pros and cons--it is only when these get out of hand that the tone becomes regrettable (and the thread loses validity). I sense none of that here, just honest positive and negative opinions, expressed in a civil manner. It is when critique is confused with "bashing" that threads on this particular player turn sour. This one need not go bad and any suggestion that it has is--as a Pentagon thug likes to say--unhelpful.

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Thanks, everybody--I have passed this information on to my friends in Brooklyn. Will keep you posted. Chris

Interesting. There was a time when his lack of emotional involvement bothered me less, because he had the technique and I thought the rest would come. IMO, it never did. I should say that I still have only heard 1 track from this album, but it left me cold and I was--as always in recent years--bothered by Wynton's strenuous attempt to sound earthy--by that, I mean his exaggerate growls and other effects, which are, IMO, overdone and poorly timed. The Vanguard set had some decent tracks, but I still have not heard any recordings (or live performances, for that matter) by him that in any way moved me. As for the killer album that will turn opinions around, didn't they say that about the first Blue Note set? You know, the one everyone has forgotten.

AND HOW ! Any date on that, Chris? Thanks for the nice words, Lon and Harold. The ad is from the Baltimore Afro American, September 18, 1918.

Oh, to have been in that audience!

A friend of mine is the director of a day care center in Brooklyn. I made a poster for him urging people in the community to donate goods. The response was wonderful, so now there are 35 cartons, all neatly packed and marked with listing of content. I have contacted the Red Cross and Salvation Army, but they are only interested in money and they make no referrals to other organizations. Does anyone have a suggestion? If so, please post or send me a PM. Thanks, Chris

Not a valid/working link.

I had never thought of that, Ron, but it makes a lot of sense to me--of all the sessions I have done, these have a special place in my heart. Perhaps I should take your idea to the Concord people.

I'm glad you like the cover photos. After seeing some of his stunning photographs, we hired Ralston Crawford to take pictures for the covers. He was an interesting man who had been an artist at the Walt Disney studios, was primarily a painter, but took up photography in the late 1930s. He had been photographing the French Quarter for about ten years when did the cover shots, and we used some of his earlier ones--including, as I recall, the steps to Oliver's house. Ralston was also present at every session, shooting inside the hall, although we had hired Florence Mars (from Philadelphia, Mississippi) for the interiors. I wish we had used Ralston's--it was amazing to see how two photographers could cover the same event with such different results. Florence was a good photographer who snapped indiscriminately and constantly made one aware of her presence, Ralston moved around discreetly and framed each shot with an artist's eye before pressing the shutter release. I think the choice was determined by the budget--it had not been an inexpensive project and no one expected vintage-style New Orleans music to sell many albums. Bill Grauer's decision to send me down there was dictated by his strong love of the music.

In view of the Bush mob's nosedive, perhaps he's too ashamed to show his pixels.

Thanks, I think I've tried them all, including NumbA-Toe™, which is mostly used by PayLess Shoes customers. Someone recommended a solution of finely ground horse radish, sardine oil and acetone, so I will be trying that this weekend. BTW, the photo was taken during a India ink treatment that didn't work.

No, they don't glow. I do have to use a different shoe size for each foot, however:

He was paid more than Woody, but his record sales were very disappointing--I would be surprised if the label broke even, but Wynton hype certainly generated publicity for Columbia, not to mention a good job for him. Columbia dropped Wynton because he wasn't making money for them. I know that you like his work, but not enough jazz record buyers did.

Lon, what makes you think Wynton made money for Columbia?

I doubt it--other than skinless toe-tapping videos, of course.