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A cool track, but according to a poster on YouTube: " This is a lovely track, but Kippie Moeketsi, Victor Ntoni and Danayi Ndlovu (check spelling) are *not* on this recording!! The personnel is Tete Mbambisa (piano, composer and arranger), Barney Rachabane (alto), Duku Makasi (tenor) Basil Coetzee (tenor), Sipho Gumede (bass) and Gilbert Matthews (drums). The photograph is by Ian Bruce Huntley. "

Recorded at a May 1, 1970 concert in Bern. Mr. Webster appears on 5 of the 11 tracks while Mr. Wilson is on all of them. If one can get past the very prominent thudding of Isla Eckinger's bass, the two masters offer up a "Stardust" to savor. The main flaw of this disc is it's over so quickly, but each track is a delight.

Just by looking at the title, "Limbo Jazz" is now stuck in my head, it is that powerful an earworm!

The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Cheesy Movie Circus Tour came to town last night, so I got to see Joel and the new bots riff on this awful film: This was a suitable flick for the MST3K treatment because it is a really bad movie. A plastic surgeon on the lam (perhaps a former Nazi?) comes into control of a third rate traveling circus. Over the years, he meets a series of deformed young women and uses his surgical abilities to make them beautiful. Then he makes them perform in his circus. His circus becomes famous and successful and when any of beautiful his young patients/performers threaten to leave, he has them killed in an unfortunate performance "accident". This was billed as Joel Hodgson's last MST3K tour, so I'm glad I was able to attend. The jokes around the movie were really good; the stage bits they did in between the film riffing was kind of weak. (Really disappointing to see The Avengers -- not those ones, the real ones -- producer and man who brought us Emma Peel, Julian Wintle, associated with this film.)

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Arrived in today's mail:

I liked the way they sometimes played with the opening credits "Ain't nobody gonna pay no attention to what's goin' on long as they got them names up there."

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Is it at all possible he is merely pining for the fjords?

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Fortunately, the canned applause is omitted on this CD version of In Person.

It seemed okay for a "live" recording from 45 years ago. Dave Holland's bass is a little too prominent in the mix for my taste (at times he sounds like he must be the co-leader of the group) and Richie Beirach's piano is a little distant. But I overlook all of that in a second for the sake of Stan Getz's breathtaking (it literally was that for me, at least) performance of "My Foolish Heart". As Joel Dorn states in his liner notes, "Everything you'll every wanna know about him is in that song".

Sad news. I've enjoyed his playing and composing, although I must admit I really haven't gone into the kind of depth in exploring his recordings that his long and illustrious career deserves. I must correct that. I got to see him perform as part of the Heath Brothers at Stanford maybe 20 years ago. He seemed like a cool guy. May he Rest In Peace & Jam With Percy!

Here with Richie Beirach, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette

There's a lot of great photos at the site Hardbobjazz linked to in the original post. I love this one. That makes me nostalgic for a place and time I've never experienced. One can almost hear that photo. Wonderful. It kinda looks like the start to a great 1950's mystery/comedy TV series about the fun-loving adventures of a millionaire heiress with a penchant for solving crimes and her jazz musician "companion" who goes along for the ride to get her out of the tight spots -- with both the criminals and the authorities, usually in the person of Inspector Haverman, played by William Demerast -- she so often finds herself in. Tonight's episode: "Crepuscule With Murder." Interesting to learn that both Club Zanzibar and Bop City were in the Brill Building.

Drummer & singer Dave Tull is also a pretty handy songwriter. I guess he is sometimes compared to Dave Frishberg in that he can write deftly humorous songs (I think most gigging musicians will sympathize with the protagonist's plight in the title track) as well as ballads and more seriously themed songs.

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Mel & Maggie weren't exactly Bing & Rosie, but they made an agreeable partnership on this album. The drawback is the material. The Broadway season of 1960 must not have been a cornucopia of riches. Of the four shows represented here, only Camelot has really endured. Three songs here are likely to be familiar to the average listener: "Hey, Look Me Over", "If Ever I Would Leave You" and "Make Someone Happy". The other songs are largely forgettable. The CD adds 8 bonus Broadway originated songs taken from albums made by each singer around this period.