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Nothing "dinky" about it, Guy. If you want to see dinky, you should see what my list would have looked like after a couple of years!

But I do have the recording. There were two cylinders?

But think of all the acts you'll catch after we're gone!

I have obviously left out quite a few, but here are some that come to mind: Don Redman Humphrey Lyttleton Louis Armstrong Wally Fawkes J.C. Higginbotham Lonnie Johnson Mickey Ashman Dinah Washington Bruce Turner Dizzy Reece Ken Colyer Billie Holiday Monty Sunshine Chris Barber Lonnie Donegan Charlie Parker Wendell Marshall Sarah Vaughan Hal Singer Dizzy Gillespie Bobby Donaldson Claude Hopkins Wilbur DeParis Zutty Singleton Elmer Snowden Don Pullen Tommy Bryant Jimmy Crawford Sonny Rollins Buster Bailey Lil Armstrong Wynton Marsalis Ray Bryant Herman Autry Jo Jones Cliff Jackson Ahmad Jamal The Heath Brothers Bill Evans Conrad Janis Percy Humphrey Wynton Kelly Ernest Cagnolatti Richard Groove Holmes Trummy Young Reggie Workman Branford Marsalis Dominic Duval Paul Jeffrey Preston Jackson Toshiko Akyoshi Garvin Bushell Roland Hanna Don Cherry Jim Robinson Duke Ellington Clark Terry Bob Wilber Lester Young Freddie Hubbard Preston Jackson Woody Herman Charlie Rouse Jabbo Smith Susannah McCorkle Peter Bocage Howard McGhee Jimmy Rowles Leon Thomas Jimmy Archey Jaki Byard Johnny Griffin Archie Sempel Oscar Peterson Benny Goodman Wes Montgomery Eddie Lockjaw Davis Rex Stewart Dede Pierce Harold Land Coleman Hawkins Alberta Hunter Chick Corea Thad Jones Benny Maupin Steve Lacy Philly Joe Jones Sylvia Syms Jan Garbarek Hubert Laws Mama Yancey MJQ Louis Cottrell Betty Carter Willie "the lion" Smith Ed Allen Red Garland Gary Burton Mary Lou Williams Paul Motian Cedar Walton Keith Jarrett Harold Mabern Jimi Hendrix Benny Carter Gene Sedric Curtis Fuller Ramsey Lewis Marian McPartland Chet Baker Adam Makowicz Danny Richmond Shirley Scott Walter Bishop, Jr. Darnell Howard Eubie Blake Gene Ammons Sam Wooding Max Roach Cannonball Adderley Meade Lux Lewis Ran Blake Herbie Hancock Tommy Benford Art Farmer Gigi Gryce Kevin Eubanks Blind John Davis Floyd Casey George Mraz Abbey Lincoln Cecil Scott Joe Lovano Clifford Brown Jimmy Rushing Horace Silver Ira Sullivan Thelonious Monk Earl Hines Bob Shoffner Max Kaminsky Bud Freeman Archie Shepp Stanley Jordan Kid Thomas Ida Cox George Adams Jack DeJohnette Frank Foster Vic Dickenson Sidney DeParis Hank Jones Carmen McRae Lew Tabackin Ben Webster Cecil Taylor George Benson James Moody Grachan Moncur III McCoy Tyner John Coltrane George Coleman Billy Taylor Junior Mance Victoria Spivey Charlie Shavers Albert Burbank Jim Robinson Jimmy Smith Al Cohn Mahalia Jackson Tony Williams Phil Woods Stephane Grappelli Wayne Shorter Ray Brown Jimmy Giuffre Dave Frishberg Brecker Brothers Kenny Barron Mel Lewis Sam Rivers Roswell Rudd Paul Gonsalves Lambert, Hendricks and Ross Junie C. Cobb Jimmy McPartland Joe Henderson Kenny Burrell Sonny Greer Dave Holland Sweet Emma Barrett Zoot Sims Doc Cheatham Hamiet Bluiett Ron Carter Herman Foster Art Blakey Joe McPhee Gene Harris Henry Goodwin Bobby Hackett Frank Morgan Paul Desmond Addison Farmer Marion Williams Gene Krupa Donald Byrd Chico Freeman Billy Higgins Miles Davis Buddy DeFranco Pharoah Sanders Helen Humes Yusef Lateef Gary Burton Budd Johnson George Russell Clifford Scott Sun Ra Harry Sweets Edison Joe Williams Samuel Penn Stan Kenton Al Wynn Dick Wellstood Elmer Snowden Blue Mitchell Buddy Rich Albert Jiles Mangione Brothers Charles Mingus Jimmy Cleveland Shelly Manne Gil Evans Mel Tormé George Wallington Sam Jones George Wettling Terence Blanchard Grover Mitchell John Tchicai Ella Fitzgerald John Handy Lucille Hegamin Junior Cook Gerry Mulligan Dave Brubeck Buck Clayton Lionel Hampton King Curtis Nat Adderley Jim Hall Franz Jackson Peggy Lee Lou Donaldson Babs Gonzalez Tommy Flanagaan Abe Bolar Henry Red Allen Mickey Roker Pops Foster Maxine Sullivan Lovie Austin Tadd Dameron Ray Charles George Shearing Teddy Wilson Barry Harris Rudy Powell Jimmy Rowser James Dapogny Julian Priester Chico Hamilton Little Brother Montgomery Ornette Coleman Earl Watkins Bus Moten Dexter Gordon Count Basie Lem Winchester Alcide "Slow Drag" Pavageaux Sammy Price Red Norvo Stan Getz Jimmy Crawford Ikey Robinson Joe Zawinul Sonny Stitt Chico Hamilton Milt Hinton Don Lamond Bob Haggart Jack Teagarden McNeal Breaux Red Saunders Oscar Brown, Jr. Stanley Turrentine Harold Vick Randy Weston George Melly Maynard Ferguson June Christy Lucky Thompson Nancy Harrow Anita O'Day Red Rodney Nat King Cole Elvin Jones John McLaughlin Jaco Pastorius Charlie Byrd Mike Longo Charles Davis Carlos Ward Billy Kyle Lester Bowie Beryl Booker Mal Waldron Red Mitchell Charles Lloyd George Lewis (trombone) Houston Person Etta Jones Joe Chambers Chris Connor Mary Ann McCall Rev. Gary Davis Vic Feldman Scott LaFaro David Murray

Could you give Ferde Grofe a call while you're at it?

Have Alfred Lions' remains spun past China yet?

I'm curious to learn if Philly stations WHAT and/or WDAS are mentioned.

Could be worse, Lon--I share my birthday with Heaney's beloved WM! HAPPY BIRTHDAY LON!

There was also a 1963 Louis Jordan album--Charles has cited Jordan as an inspiration.

A good point, Larsen. Of course we could be victims, too, if our PC friends, boards, etc. fall victim to the Windows smashers. Mark, don't toss your PC out, just sue Gates and get a G5!

From those wonderful people at Microsoft..... Concerns mount over possible big Net attack By Paul Roberts, IDG News Service August 01, 2003 9:40 am ET Security experts warn that a recently disclosed security vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system may soon be used by a powerful Internet worm that could disrupt traffic on the Internet and affect millions of machines worldwide. The vulnerability, a buffer overrun in a Windows interface that handles the RPC (Remote Procedure Call) protocol, was acknowledged by Microsoft in a security bulletin, MS03-026, posted on July 16. On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security updated an earlier warning about the RPC vulnerability, noting increased network scanning and the widespread distribution of working exploits on the Internet. The vulnerability affects almost all versions of Windows and could enable a remote attacker place and run malicious code on affected machines, giving them total control over the systems, Microsoft said. No user interaction would be required for machines to be compromised, prompting security experts to liken the RPC vulnerability to the buffer overflow vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) that was exploited by the Code Red worm in July, 2001. "I would compare (RPC) to Code Red. It doesn't require user interaction and the number of infectable machines is on same order of magnitude," said Johannes Ullrich, chief technology officer at The SANS Institute Inc.'s Internet Storm Center. However, where Code Red affected a component typically found on Windows servers, the RPC vulnerability affects a component found on both Windows servers and desktops, according to Tomasz Ostwald, a co-founder of Polish research group Last Stage of Delirium, which discovered the RPC flaw and reported it to Microsoft. That increases the number of vulnerable machines from a few hundred thousand systems for Code Red to several million for RPC, he said. Concern heightened last week when code designed to exploit the RPC vulnerability appeared on the Internet on July 25. Soon after the release of the exploit, known DCOM RPC, after the flawed Windows Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) interface, the Internet Storm Center noted an increase in scanning on ports used by the affected interface, Ullrich said. Much of that activity is disorganized, however, and does not necessarily mean that a widespread attack or DCOM RPC worm is in the works, he said. "Most of what we've seen is people using (the DCOM RPC exploit) as part of regular hacking activity: (Web site) defacements or people just compromising machines," he said. However, recent posts to security newsgroups suggest that hackers and computer security experts have been enthusiastically modifying and swapping the exploit code since it was released. Whereas the original DCOM RPC exploit code worked only on machines running English language versions of Windows 2000, recent modifications show that the code has been modified to exploit the same vulnerability on French, Chinese, Polish, German and Japanese versions of Windows 2000, XP and NT. RPC is at a stage similar to that of a widespread Microsoft SQL vulnerability after exploit code for that vulnerability was published by security researcher David Litchfield of Next Generation Security Software Ltd. in August 2002, according to Ullrich. That exploit code was later modified to create Slammer, one of the most widespread worms to exploit disclosed vulnerabilities. In its present form, the DCOM RPC exploit code that has been made public is probably not ready for wide distribution as a worm, according to Ostwald. The code is not fully developed and often relies on variables, such as the presence of particular flavors of Windows, to work, he said. In contrast, Last Stage of Delirium developed so-called "proof of concept" code for use internally that works against a wide variety of Windows platforms and requires only the IP (Internet Protocol) address of the vulnerable machine to create a buffer overflow, Ostwald said. Such code would be "very useful" to worm writers, making it easy for a worm to spread from machine to machine, he said. Hackers are also working on shrinking the exploit code, narrowing the exploit to work on a small set of platforms that will net the most compromised machines, Ullrich said. However, the release of a worm that uses DCOM RPC is unpredictable, he said. While it typically takes a couple months from the time of a published exploit to the development of a worm, the development of a worm that takes advantage of the RPC vulnerability may be influenced by other factors such as media attention or this week's DEFCON conference in Las Vegas, a popular gathering point for hackers and computer security experts, he said. "These things are really random. It just takes one guy to put in the effort," Ullrich said. In the end, the media attention given to the problem may prompt more administrators to patch vulnerable systems, blunting the effects of a worm once it is released, Ostwald said. In fact, the period of greatest danger from the RPC vulnerability may be now, before a widespread attack on vulnerable systems has been launched, Ullrich said.

I found too many factual errors and unfounded assumptions in Daniels' book to take it seriously. It's a shame that he felt a need to embroider to the extent that he did. I was left with the impression that he is not well-versed in jazz history, and I also sensed that his conclusions occasionally were shaped by personal ethnic bias rather than fact. That, IMO, makes this a flawed biography. It is one thing to present a theory as such--we all do that--quite another to present it as fact. Biographies inherently contain gaps and omissions that raise questions and call for assumptions, but the writer must, IMO, present them as such, give whatever facts are available, and allow the reader to reach his/her own conclusions. It's a shame that this is not a more honest book, because Daniels obviously put a lot of work into it, dug up much obscure--and, sometimes, important--information, and, through interviews, preserved recollections that otherwise would have been lost. No biography is flawless; this one will be regarded as a "good read," and, in many ways, it is, but I am still waiting for a more satisfying book on Lester Young. Undoubtedly, many readers say the same thing after reading my Bessie Smith biography--I certainly said it after taking a discerning look at my first edition, and I have already thought of ways to improve the recently published revision. And so it goes...

Thanks, GofM, it's good to know that Whitney is still writing.

Wish the timing had been better...I'll be in Ann Arbor, for one night, August 2.

I am among those who was about to e-mail you, mnytime, would have done so but I, too, took a respite from the keyboard--glad to hear that you are ok, hope your health continues improving. Jim, my own 5-day absence was mainy due having my computorium rewired in a more organized way--it had become a spaghetti tangle of AC/USB/firewire/ethernet cables and cords. You were close when you mentioned the G5--I was also at the MacWorld Expo to check it out. Looks like a cheese grater, works like a charm. B)

I served for 3 years (with Dan Morgenstern, Bob Porter, Ira Gitler and Phil Schaap) on a jazz panel whose members were selected by George Simon, then head of the NY chapter. There were also jazz chapters in LA and Memphis, I believe. Sometimes, rather than eliminate it, we moved a misplaced entry to a more appropriate category, and this same panel also dealt with blues. BTW I was never aware of any influence being exercised at that level--except for the occasional verging-on-pop item, our options were pretty straightforward.

Were it not for my Grammys, I would be reluctant to voice my criticism of NARAS (as I have done on a couple of occasions), lest it be interpreted as the uttering of a bitter deject (I know how certain posters have a tendency to read posts and invent twisted motives. )

Artists and record companies submit entries for consideration in the various categories. Panels of people representing various areas of music then go through the submissions to determine if they are eligible. Next, the membership receives lists of eligible releases and votes on nominations in categories to which they relate--for ex. engineers vote in the technical category, artists vote on covers, etc. When you get the final list of nominees, you are restricted to a handful of categories, the idea being that you vote in areas of your own expertise. Unless it has changed, to be eligible for NARAS membership one must have credit on six releases as artist, producer, liner-note writer, graphic designer, engineer, etc. I cancelled my NARAS membership several years ago, so the procedure may have changed, but that's the way it was when I was a voting member. Companies that have a large number of eligible voters on staff stand a better chance of winning, since most people will vote for a release in which they have some involvement, and it is not uncommon for companies to make "suggestions." Sometimes labels that are otherwise competitors get together and do a rig of sorts. I recall being in the office of Columbia's VP of promotion when he called his counterpart at Atlantic to suggest that he have his people vote for a Columbia release in a category whose nominees did not include Atlantic products. In turn, he would have his people do the same for Atlantic. It's a nasty business, really, but I think it's impossible to devise a truly equitable, merit-based system for bestowing these things.

Could it be that the BN people aimed their WMD (GregM) at us?

Rape has nothing to do with "stature" "looks" or the "need to force himself upon anyone" for sex. Rape is about power, using sex to force ones will on another. Saying that he is innocent due to his good looks and money is naive, at best. I threw that into the thread as something to be considered. Yes, rape is about power, but--by the same token--rape accusations are sometimes about a need to be recognized or rich. You are twisting my words when you imply that I said he was innocent. He may be, or not--the fact remains that the possibility of Kobe having been framed by an opportunistic woman seeking something other than justice is also highly plausible.

Also consider the fact that someone of Kobe's stature and looks, a man with no known history of sexual violence, does not need to force himself upon anyone. This would not be the first time that consentual intercourse has been labeled "rape."

More shameless self-promotion... Rocky Sullivans

No, but I hope it is better than Bob Weinstock's novel.

I'm surprised to hear that Odetta gave you a hard time. I have known her for over 40 years--she's really a very warm person.

Blood is not the first example of pretentious mediocrity, nor will it be the last. "Neither" is the answer I would have given to this poll--it should have been an option, IMO.