BeBop

Well, it's not really hi-fi, so maybe he was saying "Go to hell." Funniest thing I read all week.

As "despicable" as I find doping to be, I absolutely agree: let it go and worry about today...and, most importantly, the kids who will be tomorrow's peleton.

That would explain the guy in the audience (presumably) yelling "Go Wardell".

Damn, there goes ol' BeBop, in the throes of senility, down Memory Lane with his walker.

Speaking of Montreal, for one of the great, modern United States bicycle racing stories, too often forgotten, Google "Montreal" "1976" "George Mount". Mount was a "big brother", hero and inspiration to me, both as a cyclist and as an iconoclast. THE American before LeMond...and Boyer and 7-Eleven.

Hmmmm. All I remember is cobblestone roads in poor condition and covered in manure and standing, fetid water. Perhaps I should have looked up. ;-)

I came within an inch or few of a 1980s doping scandal. Fortunately, there was little chance I'd get involved. I was so slow that all the doping in the world wouldn't have made me a contender. Still, I raced for more than 30 seasons (amateur years included, obviously.)

I'm headed the other way. Cycling was once my life (and livelihood). It got "dirty" enough that I quit and haven't looked back. I'm genuinely baffled why I peeked into this thread; probably the same reason I can't resist poking at wounds.

I made a carbon copy of the Fresh Sound disc, but I can't get it to play. I ran mine through the mimeograph machine and now I can't get the original or the "copy" to play.

Looks like the Great Day in Harlem (Art Kane) photo. Well, almost.

I spent about 35 years as a Wardell Gray completist. I got to about 99 percent of all issued material (under anyone's leadership). Then I "bagged it" and really haven't listened since. Burn out. The hazards of "obsession". The internet, active reissue programs and the expiration of various copyright protection has made it a lot easier to be a completist. Perhaps if this had been the situation back in the 70s and 80s, the gathering process wouldn't have been so fatiguing.

Best birthday blessings from BeBop,.

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Happy Birthday, Ray...from out in the Inland Empire again.

I agree, that "feels" about right for the solid, student-level horn that Bundys represent. I see them sell on eBay way-too-cheap (for my sensibilities) sometimes. So your ability to get what the horn is worth may be tough in a market where they're abundant and people are "letting them go" cheap.

I'm on my Fire right now. No problems. I even logged out and back in.

All the news that's fit to print out.

I'm no longer involved in the biography (not that was ever deeply involved), but I will send an e-mail to the would-be author.

For what it's worth, they don't have a physical address in Graysville, or a local telephone directory listing (paper or online). Edit: There is a listing in Dayton, TN, nearby. Looks like they're on Facebook and Twitter. And in a local newspaper article http://rheaheraldnews.com/story/19731

One of several stupid Times articles on technology today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/technology/personaltech/the-secrets-of-a-high-quality-vinyl-record.html?_r=1&ref=personaltechspecial

I haven't heard the album, but if the Seattle shows supporting it are any indication (albeit with a bit less band freedom) it seems like this would be a good one, at least for people with more love for vocals than I happen to have. (That's a compliment with no "backhanded" implied.)

Late to the party, but best wishes from ol' BeBop too.

I want to see this one: http://detroitmusichistory.com/W_Anderson.pdf <<(Willie) Anderson’s recordings have never been reissued and, like Anderson, were popular only in Detroit. Had he chosen to make the move to Manhattan with Gillespie, Hawkins or Goodman this article would be unnecessary. Most of his recordings will be included in a forthcoming CD compilation on Uptown Records – Detroit Jazz Before Motown, 1945–53: Rare and previously unissued recordings featuring Wardell Gray, Barry Harris, Tommy Flanagan, Kenny Burrell, Willie Anderson and others. Lars and I hope a worldwide audience will hear and appreciate Willie Anderson. He deserves a place in the pantheon of great Detroit pianists.>> C'mon Uptown!

If I'm ever reunited with my collection for a long-enough period... I'd worked with Coover Gazdar a bit before he passed...just before we were to get together again on this project at an IAJRC convention. I know he'd have wanted me or someone to carry on, but for me, it just became impossible.