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The depth of your thinking, Jim, is simply amazing. What an analytical mind you have!

Sounds fishy to me.

She sang, intermittently, with Duke Ellington's Orchestra for many years. I took a photo of Joya in 1964 and posted it on my blog.

infamous/famous, that's surely where the mistake was made. I once told Joe that he was the world's best known obscure musician.

No, that was Craig Johnson (CJR). I believe I recorded Joe and Clifford at WBAI.

I have been a personal friend of Joe's for about 45 years and what Alexander says is absolutely true. Joe is as wonderful a person as he is a player, and I have never understood why his work is appreciated more overseas than it is at home. Calling him "infamous" is simply ignorant. The only negative thing I can say about Joe is that he does not call often enough.

I tried to look it up, but all I have found is that there is a special panel, but no mention of names. I would imagine that the panel members wish to keep it that way. I recall the look on John Lewis' face when I asked him why he voted to award Wynton a Pulitzer for that awful "Blood On the Fields." He told me that it was a politically-based vote, and shrugged his shoulders.

You are absolutely tight, Tom,this decision, obviously a purely political one, makes a mockery of the award. If I had been an earlier winner, I would feel slapped.

In the late 60s and 70s I would have agreed with you all the way but I am not so sure anymore in today's overly P.C. world (P.C. that outside rap doesn't stop at the gates of the music industry either) anymore. I wonder if you really could get unrestricted airplay for "Keep On Churnin' Till The Butter Comes" or "I Want A Bowlegged Woman" or "Big Fat Mamas Are Back in Style Again" (remember how in a recent pop hit the exceedingly obese female type was oh so tactfully referred to as "BIG girls"? :D) etc. etc. on regular radio formats outside specialist/niche oldies programs or if this would be rejected outright as being "in bad taste". Not to mention the lyrics to "Cocaine Blues" by Billy Hughes (also on King, though it would rather fall into the hillbilly/Western Swing category and therefore not be on this particular King reissue series): "caught my woman triflin' and shot her down ... I heard a man call my baby's name, I opened up the door and I blew out his flame... etc. etc." Nuff said/quoted? Heard much US radio lately?

I bet the years, changed attitudes and more accessible minds have eaten away at the risque factor!

Let's see, how can we derail this thread? Oh, yea, I'll just post a silly non-related image and...hmmmmm, let me see, I can get further milage on my O-meter if I do another meaningless post....how about something from YouTube? Yeah, that's what I'll do.

Yes, that is a long list and it contains many people who are truly worthy, but when one considers that large number of great artists who created and fostered this music over the years, is it not way too early for the Lincoln Center game players to be scraping the bottom of the barrel?

What are they actually being honored for? Surely, it can't be the music. I'd love to know who sits on the NEA's Jazz Master's panel.

Blatant politics, I would say. ....and the ceremony will take place at J@LC!!! Blatant does not even cover it!

I met Ed Kirkeby fifty years ago, when he often held court on the sidewalk in front of the Brill Building. He was quite the character and he had retained the look of an earlier time, including a waxed mustache and spats. Here he is with Louis at WNEW's Second Annual Swing Festival, December 22, 1943. The broadcast was a tribute to Fats Waller, who had passed away 8 days earlier.

Near-beer might have brought on Alice.

This won't solve your problem (I don't think anything will, short of replacing the disc with a better one), but if you scroll to about the 4th paragraph from the bottom, you will at least find something pertinent to vinyl restoration. De-bumping American Music

At least it was good wine! Just one small sip of Ripple, Manichewitz or Brass Monkey could have resulted in...

Does it really matter who "lost" or "won" the Mandel trophy? If so, I wish someone would tell me what I am missing. Two simple questions: How has "winning" this thing benefited the recipient? How has not winning affected a career, income, ego? —well, skip the last one.

Ahhhh, hot beer! But, first they have to get Boehner to move over.

"Wanna dub?"

Just because you thought my response was lame, there was no need to come up with a lamer one.

"Yeah? So I'm a cassette bagger—it's still a lame excuse for a new thread."

Indeed.

Since Bill Russell's name keeps popping up in this thread, I thought a brief post on my blog might be mildly interesting to some of you. Here is a direct link.