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In that vein, there could and should be a book on Indianapolis jazz musicians, and another on the Detroit scene. (BTW, the fact that two of the most pre-eminent baritone sax players---Carney and Chaloff---came from Boston has long fascinated me. What does it say about the Hub, I wonder? Probably signifies nothing. Just one of those things that your mind can't help thinking about, like a tongue exploring a missing tooth.)

Better than The Blue Dahlia? ("Da monkey music! Da monkey music!") B-)

Great score by the late Elmer Bernstein in that movie.

He does a good job, unsurprisingly. Just imagine that the real Phil Collins was abducted by aliens or permanently relocated to the Himalayas sometime between 1978 and 1981. Guy ← Hey, purely as a musician, I've got no problem with the guy... Just don't ask me to buy any of his albums.

Thanks, Jerry.

Don't remind me.

Well, Bartok is one of my favorite classical composers, but looks like everyone's covered about every recommendation I could make. Rock on, dude!

Sorry.

I found a used copy of this at Streetlight Records a few years ago, and thanks to a mention in Gioia's West Coast Jazz book I knew it was worth a listen. Never regretted the purchase.

This is a surprisingly good album. I stumbled upon it used some years ago and got it mainly for Sonny Clark, but everyone shines on it. Also, another plus about Blue Lights and At the Five Spot is they both have some Tina Brooks on them. to that. Come to think of it, I have yet to buy a Kenny Burrell album that disappointed at all, and I've got about ten of 'em. You almost can't go wrong with the guy.

I like his work on Eno's Here Come the Warm Jets. Come to think of it, I believe he appears on Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy and Another Green World as well. And doesn't he play on Bowie's Heroes album too? So it would be fair to say that Fripp appears as a sideman on some of the best (rock) albums of the 70's.

He was great in that Star Trek episode; it was no fault of his that it was one of the worst Trek episodes of all time. His Riddler laugh really creeped me out when I was a kid. (Anybody see him in CSI last night?)

Care to send that (or a copy of it) my way sometime?

Probably a bit of both.

What about Spanky DeBrest?

Please do. You won't be sorry.

Wouldn't it be nice if this was for real?

How about Lester Young?

I pretty much talk about anything I want to in front of (or in ear shot of) my kids. We'll see how they turn out... They certainly don't seem to have a good opinion of President Bush for some odd reason. Hmmm.....

Couldn't stop myself from moving on to The Thin Man next. Oddly, while reading Nick Charles's dialog I DON'T picture William Powell...I wouldn't have predicted that. (BTW: "Miles Archer"--"Lew Archer" What's up with that?)

Maybe it's on backorder already because too many copies were bought by painfully hip little record stores in places like Harvard Square...

When is Kalo gonna do one?

Hi y'all...I think I'm supposed to do the May 15 AOTW, so my choice is the Donald Byrd double album At The Half Note Cafe which was RVGed last year. Includes Duke Pearson, p, Laymon Jackson, b, and Lex Humphries, d. I chose it simply because I was listening to it a lot a few weeks/months ago. It seems to have a lot of staying power, because I certainly listened to it a lot when the reissue first came out last year as well. I think it ranks with the best studio material on the Mosaic Byrd/Adams box. At one time I was a little put out that the live stuff wasn't inluded on the Mosaic, but now I think I appreciate it more by having it separated out like this. Anyway, it may not be an all-time, five-star, changed-the-course-of-jazz CLASSIC, but it's a damn good album that deserves some notice, which after all is what the Album of the Week is all about, no? (And dig the "Theme From Mr. Lucky"!)

Yes, I've noticed. Personally, the Voice has given me less and less reason to read them as they've given their contributers less and less space. A damn shame, really.