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Billy Root The Home Team The Teeming Multitudes

Charlie (Clap hands, here he comes!) The Monkees (Here they come, walkin' down the street!) Foxy Lady (who should look out for Jimi Handrix, because he's coming to get her!)

Chairman Mao Charlie Lau Tony Dow

Same here. "Rugged Jungle"...the way the band sounded in those last years...I had to check it out. Here's a sample, found quite by surprise, which got me to looking. Kind of intense in a lot of ways...

Greatest Ellington-related quote ever, possibly, in that third link: Hear Ellington's phrase fully, and in context, and enjoy!

I think most of the focus in arguments from Black musicians is culture and social history, not race per se. As I understand it, Peyton talks about the 'authenticity' of a Black American social response to music as being different to a non-Black one. I think he is saying the divisions between soul and jazz and hip hop and blues etc are not as categorical in the minds and ears of Black Americans. The music is heard in a more holistic way. I think the music of the sixties and seventies from Black musicians exemplifies that. I think Payton is trying to get more "jazz musicians" to get back to that. I also think he's right to do so. I also think that everybody is going through the "growing pains" of the possibilities of assimilation made possible by about 35-40 years of relative non-segregation. Finally, I firmly believe, and will believe into infinity, that "jazz" = "Black Music" in that no matter who did what when to what extent, it was always in reaction and/or in relation to to something "black". I have no problem with accepting that and then going on about my business, having no desire to "own" or "claim" anything other than myself inside myself, and as Duke said (more or less), it's highly unlikely at this point that we will be able to determine "whom is enjoying the shadow of whom" up/down in there.

That was one helluva LP & one even more helluva CD. Thanks Jim, that's helps a lot;-) There's a $38.95 buy-it-now on eBay. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nows-the-Time-Recorded-Live-at-Jazz-City-by-Richard-Bass-Davis-MINT-CD-/220961781315?pt=Music_CDs&hash=item3372593643 But - it's also one of those "Best Offer" things. I'd come in at 20 and stand firm on 25, see what happens. Haggle! Sorry, you said "lousy" sound, not "terrible". My bad. Not sure what the difference is, though. And I could have separated the issue of sound quality from that of performance. Again, my bad.

Early 70s live recording, don't know if I'd call it "terrible" or not, though. Everybody was on fire that night, Clifford & Joe Bonner in particular. Add an incendiary-fairly-fresh-on-the-scene Marvin Peterson (he wasn't Hannibal yet) and sparks fly pretty much from jump.

Oh, I think the resemblance is pretty strong! Here's the young Cathy singing with her dad's band ( I think she was 12 or 13):

Let the light reflect of the underside. CDRs will have a greenish tinge to them, usually.

Ok, thanks anyway, and good luck!

That was one helluva LP & one even more helluva CD.

Further hint - here dad & Sinatra worked together in the 1940s as members of somebody else's band, and then again in 1982 as more or less co-billed headliners (Sinatra always was top bill).

Hoping that you land on your feet, and stay there. Do you have a Maynard CD set you'd want to part with, by any chance?

I think I hear Ernest stifle a chuckle once or twice...it's got to be some kind of joke, although getting anybody to publicly admit to it might be next to impossible...

Della Street Del Reeves De La Soul

Sir (to whom, with love) Cupid (from whom, love) Sam Cooke

UH-oh...looks like the Snets are getting International Competition!

Ok, took a trip to the shelves...the actual label that released all the CP Label stuff in the late 70s was AJ Records, which was "distributed" by ALA Records, 4010 West Jefferson Boulevard, Los Angeles California -90016 The series was called Archives Of Jazz, and the covers all looked like this:

I can confirm that many of the Royal Roost airshots were available long before Savoy issued them. On Everest, for sure, not sure about CP Records. Also pretty sure that some were available on real bootleg LPs even before that. The missing link in the label chronology is ALA Records...who IIRC correctly had the same mailing address as the legendary Alamac records.

There were two sides to Lynn Hope - the ballads and the standards, which were eerily tranquil and idealistic, and the hard blues side, which was pretty damn nasty. It was like, under that turban, there was a .45. Look out!