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I've not yet heard any Hershel Evans that compelled me enough to lock in to the intimate details. But his reputation is such that I've always figured that he was a better player than ever got recorded. I'd really appreciated the opportunity to find out about that.

Make sure to get this one while you're at it:

Don't make me buy a bunch of Benny Goodman (with or without Charlie Christian) just to hear some Coleman Hawkins & Lester Young. For that matter, put all the Herschel Evans on a single disc, that'll work too. Even better - make it all available as single track downloads. Yeah, do that. I'm not nearly as ravenous as I used to be. But I still have appetites...

Mr Fine, who always rode in front Miss Whizzlebutte, who always was beside Lacey May, who nerve rod with them, except back at the stables when they were alone and the mood was enticing

The Rev. Charles Powful Chaumpers w/the Fort Pow-Pow Junior Mass Choir (Sister Olinguia Posippitee, director) - GOD IS MY TOOTHBRUSH!!!

Lester Young & Coleman Hawkins...so much of then comes "as jazz", but so Little of it is jut that, if at all... Life, that's what it really is.

Where in Texas was he from?

Then you'd be fueled by indefatigable superhuman strength to live in a world of endless mendacious mediocrity. Kind of a blessing/curse thing...

There's an even weirder Reece album than that called The Hidden Words of Bahá'u'lláh. It is definitely NOT worth seeking out. Samples!!! http://www.amazon.com/The-Hidden-Words-of-Bah%C3%A1ull%C3%A1h/dp/B002MVU3YS/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1282102044&sr=8-16

Ralph Branca injured his back the next spring by falling off a chair and landing on a soda bottle (this from an old interview in Sport magazine, ca. 1965-66) & never was the same after that. Even allowing for the possibility that he was drunk and landed on a beer bottle, that's still some pretty fucked up luck. #13.

Seek and ye shall, etc... Everybody's hitting hard on this one, & Charles Davis' tenor work GOES THERE. But everybody is ON for this one!!! Find it!

I have no idea what the first music I heard was. We had music playing all the time in the house when I was a kid, and I've had a record player of my own as long as I can remember. all I can say about the matter in question was that one of the records that got played in the house was this one: Don't know if you can see what all's on there, but it's a little bit of everything, a whole lot of nothing. 60 Years Of Music America Loves Best, hey. What I do remember is that for as long as I can remember hearing that album, the one Duke cut on it, "Take The A Train", always stood out, just the sound and the vibe. Even before I knew the whats and whys, I knew that Duke Ellington Music as not like any other I'd yet to encounter. Still isn't. Then I saw the guy on TV with that longass head, the hair starting toi curl up in the back, and I knew then this guy was a freak of the best possible kind. Then I actually started listening for real...

What if it wasn't? I really don't understand the question. Because, in my experience at least (and I would guess in Chuck's as well), music as rich as Ellington's can teach you something right quick about the richnesses of music in general. For instance, thinking of those '40-'42 Ellington pieces I heard early on, the possible unity of fascinating "music" music detail and sweeping drama, as in the plunging, wailing dissonances of "Ko-Ko" or the "overheard" muted trumpet figures and the rest of the dancing panorama of "Harlem Airshaft." Of course, there are countless other routes, but Duke's way, if that's the way you happened to travel early on, was quite something. Well sure, but it wasn't the first music you ever herd, nor was it for Chuck. So just what is the question really asking? Is it taking a poll or is it asking us all to speculate? Franky, I don't think that the question - as -asked - knows what it means anymore than I do.

What if it wasn't? I really don't understand the question.

Jim seems to be into some stuff that makes me wonder...... As long as it makes you say "Uhhhh....", it's all good. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NFGqfqiGBEQ/RYWVM70sfSI/AAAAAAAAAA0/uQBmHavuXT8/s1600-h/donttouch2+copy.jpg

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