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July 7, 1947 sides with Wardell Gray (with or without Dex) Hunt (1)(Rocks & Shoals) Hunt (2)(Rocks & Shoals) Hunt (3)(Rocks & Shoals) Hunt (4)(Rocks & Shoals) Hunt (5)(Rocks & Shoals) Hunt (6)(Rocks & Shoals) Hunt (7)(Rocks & Shoals) Hunt (8)(Rocks & Shoals) Disorder at the Border (1)(Bopera) Disorder at the Border (2)(Bopera) Disorder at the Border (3)(Bopera) Disorder at the Border (4)(Bopera) Disorder at the Border (5)(Bopera) Disorder at the Border (6)(Bopera) Disorder at the Border (7)(Bopera) Backbreaker (1)(Rifftide) Backbreaker (2)(Rifftide) Backbreaker (3)(Rifftide) Backbreaker (4)(Rifftide) Backbreaker (5)(Rifftide) Backbreaker (6)(Rifftide) Byas-A-Drink (1)(Bopland) Byas-A-Drink (2)(Bopland) Byas-A-Drink (3)(Bopland) Byas-A-Drink (4)(Bopland) Byas-A-Drink (5)(Bopland) Byas-A-Drink (6)(Bopland) Cherokee (1) (Jeronimo) Cherokee (2) (Jeronimo) Cherokee (3) (Jeronimo) Cherokee (4) (Jeronimo) Cherokee (5) (Jeronimo) Cherokee (6) (Jeronimo) Cherokee (7) (Jeronimo) Cherokee (8) (Jeronimo) Blow, Blow, Blow (1) Blow, Blow, Blow (2) Blow, Blow, Blow (3) Blow, Blow, Blow (4) I'll try to provide more if I can get my hands on my discography.

Unfortunately, I don't have a 'live' example in my head, and my research abilities are limited as I'm traveling, but it seems like some of the Young Lions of the late 1980s and 1990s had some mighty impressive sidemen/women along on their first dates. For me, it always seemed like a symbiotic relationship - old masters who might have been hard pressed to find dates as leaders as the Young Lions stole the limelight - at least for that brief period. Some of the YLs were, of course, former Messengers, which helped the connections. Can anyone help me out with a specific example or two? Harrison? Blanchard? Watson? Hollyday? Harper?

Well, here in the Sahara... And no, I'm not kidding.

I have many names. Names of splendor. Names of shame.

For better sound quality, I´d recommend one of the smaller, budget oriented companies like Music Hall. (Unfortunately, I´m out of the country and short on details right now. If no one else offers up thoughts in the same vein, I´ll post more when I return to civilization.)

netmagazines.com has it for $19.95. Visit their site and you'll probably get a pop-up for $5 off. Alternatively, there are a million coupons around. Try a coupon site, or use: DC3243 for 15% off any order DCPACK04 for 20% off on a package order Still looking for a repeat of the 2-year subs to Down Beat for $20 they had a few months back.

I file under $.

It's night (here). I'm in Tunisia. For what that's worth, I offer the best of A Night In Tunisia to Organissimo board denizens.

Oh, I suppose I could have given him a straight answer (...heck, yours is the only CD I've bought in three years), but I suppose I was looking for something a bit more enticing. I gave him your website URL, said you were a great band (my Italian is quite limited) and told him you were 'maximum organ'. Obviously, the genesis of his question was the Italian sounding name.

I'm standing at an internet kiosk in the Roma airport. Apparently Italian guy looking over my shoulder. (in Italian...) 'What is this Organissimo?' (with sharp Italian pronounciation of the final word).

Did you say 3? I'd love one. bebop@fresnomail.com

Moody. James Moody. Some of his best stuff - from the 70s - is out again in reuissue. There's some nice Herbie Mann stuff that came out on Savoy - flute and tenor sax; The LP was entitled Be Bop Synthesis. I also like flute (and tenor) man Sam Most. Check out his Bethelehem and Xanadu sides.

1. Assume you are driving 100kph/60mph on a roadway. A pedestrian steps in front of your car, 30 meters/100 feet ahead of you. Do you: a. apply brakes b. sound horn c. neither a nor b I suspect most Americans would choose 'a', while a greater portion of Italians would opt for 'b'. In Burkina or Benin, 'c' might be the favored answer. I offer this up as an unscientific anecdote from the lest few weeks of my life. My belief is that there is no correct answer. What's important is that drivers behave predictably and in accordance with local custom. It's easy to call the West Africans calloused because they do nothing; my impression, however, if that the haven't been raised in a society where people are assumed to be stupid and/or unable to protect themselves. They would probably assume that the pedestrian had timed things in a manner such as to be removed from harm's way without driver action. Sounds fair enough to me.

As a retired professional athlete, a continuing semi-pro athlete, a coach to accomplished athletes and a person who cares a lot about EVERYone's health, please learn about nutrition before undertaking something like the Atkins diet. Giving up carbohydrates (the only fuel for muscle and mind) is no more effective than giving up all foods containing the letter 'g'. (Note, I've listed my credentials more for disclosure purposes than to build credibility; I am not a trained nutritionist.) I'm sorry to get on the soapbox, but this really disturbs me. I'll say no more in the public forum. Contact me privately, if you wish to discuss further. I wish everyone all the best in achieving good health.

Rules seem to be proliferating. From the benign to the ridiculous. Moral, legal, social... One can't follow them all, can one? (This one certainly can't.) So, where do you toe the line, and where do you cross it? I jaywalk and cross against the traffic light...when safe. In doing so, I break one rule (legal) while adhering to another (common sense/self-preservation). I don't speed, I've seldom any reason to. (Look! He ended a sentence with a preposition!) I've revealed the soles of my feet to a Buddah image more than once - a product of clumsiness, more than lack of discretion. I shave with hot water, to my father's chagrin. And I typically throw clothes and laundry detergent into the wash simultaneously - my mother would be ashamed. I begin sentences with conjuctions. Horrors! I never (never!) skip my twice daily exercise routine. Ten years without 'peaking' or 'periodization'. Sorry coach. Oh wait, these days, I'm the coach. But I don't take the hairdryer into the bathtub with me. And all my mattresses still have their tags. (Actually, I don't have any matresses, so there!) Read the ending of a novel before the beginning? No way. I'm not looking for murder confessions here. Or, worse yet, admissions that you store LPs horizontally.

Ah, Pres! I can hear him now, if only in my head. It lifts my spirits.

eBay's a great source. Every bloody record listed is 'rare'.

I subscribe to a total of 73 magazines (and yes, I read them all, cover to cover +- 10%.) Probably 5 music mags among them. My favorite non-music mags are Reason and Atlantic.

Five or more hours of sleep. Ten minutes spent awake, but not working and not traveling. Access to jazz, even lackluster jazz.

In answer to the broader question - is musical taste inherited? - I answer: thank goodness, no. I don't look good in a straw hat.

Second: Eddie Henderson and Charles Tolliver Still Pondering: Luis Gasca (aka Johnny Spain) Add: Red Rodney (still playing well in the 80s), Nat Adderly (in the shadows for too much of this period), Wilbur Harden Underrated?: Woody Shaw, Blue Mitchell, Booker Little Anyone for?: Bill Chase?

http://www.bordersstores.com/features/feat...=coupon_survey1 15% through 8/29. (10% on electronics and video games) Live it up.

72% of my music is by dead people... I assume this means "now-dead", rather than "dead at the time of recording".

Since I've neither a home nor an office, this thread leaves me both troubled and fascinated. I may go four months without hearing a lick of jazz. The, miraculously, my recorded music collection (in a storage locker) and I are reunited for six hours. I suppose it's like being away from one's wife; hopefully, the mood will be right. Fortunately, my typical time away is more often four weeks than four months. But the reunions are short. And frustrating. Thank goodness for the occasional jazz station (in the States or Europe) or a half-decent shortwave broadcast.

JamesJazz (aka Jim Gallert) has registered here, but posted only once--he's involved with one of the websites that Mike posted, and is co-author of BEFORE MOTOWN, a book that you really should check out if you want to delve into Detroit jazz: BeforeMotown I'd just come back to this thread to mention the book. Beaten to the punch. Second the recommend.