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Much less that they called him an academic!

He called you an alto player?

Yeah man, we still be the world.

Not sure why, but every time I read an interview with the "mature" Wynton, the name that keeps coming to mind is Claus von Bülow...

I got a Christmas card today with a bigass Blue Jay on the front. I was unaware that the Blue Jay was a Christmas Bird. But it looks like it is. So let us celebrate the Christmas Blue Jay!

I thought that it was shown to have been overdubbing for the first American release of the Tony Sheridan stuff , but nothing more. No?

Them's a good selection of records for to be a-playin'!

Yeah, that's them. Thanks for the memory! Any possibility that the items under discussion here are from them?

Isn't there some American company doing legit, inexpensive vinyl pressings? Seems like we had a discussion about it a few years ago. They're probably not using master tapes or anything, but they appeared to be on the up-and-up anyway.

Don't forget the Columbia recording of All About Rosie. It is probably my favorite. Never heard it, but wasn't Living Time on Columbia another? Yeah, forgot about that one!

Just checking my memory here, did Evans do three dates w/George Russell? The RCA Jazz Workshop thing, and then New York, New York & Jazz In the Space Age for Decca, right?

Hate to hear this. He was the possessor of a truly unique voice and his presence will be missed.

Again, thatnks to and for all of y'all. It was a good day. LTB fixed a killer meal, we decorated our Christmas tree (which, like LTB, seems to turn our prettier every year), a good Cowboys win, and then the luxury of staying home on a Sunday night, thanks to taking the day (night, actually) off from work. Like my late (maternal) grandmother was fond of saying, it's a good life if you don't weaken!

Evans w/horns has usually struck me as more "aggressive" than Evans without. Mileages might vary on that one though. One thing for sure - Evans was a great comper, so any chance to hear him play behind anybody besides his bassists & drummers is always a treat.

That one goes back to the 1957 Scott/Knepper session(s), actually.

For tha matter, the WB side w/Thielmans & Schneider (can't remember the name right now...) is a cut above, although it's later Evans, which is not really too much my bag.

Do you have his sideman dates w/Oliver Nelson & George Russell? Or w/the Tony Scott quintet w/Jimmy Knepper? Highly recommended, all of them. Some of my most favorite Evans, possibly my most favorite.

Vince Gill Huckleberry Finn Prunella Scales

The Jesus album is actually pretty astute and funny. It was made in the late-60s/early 70s, when JC Superstar/Godspell/Joseph Technicolor/etc and all the "God Rock" was big. Jesus comes back, is of course ignored and ostracized until some show biz people figure they can market him as the ultimate "God Pop" experience. Well, of course he's a huge hit at first, but then he goes and spoils it by talking about everybody giving up their wealth and all that, and then, well, you know how show biz can be. Meader sure did... The writing is pretty spiky in places, and the acting is first-rate. Don't know if I'd call it a "lost masterpiece" necessarily, but I've heard/read it dismissed as "wacko" more than once just because of the subject matter, when in fact it's anything but.

Geez, I just got in from a gig, and I feel kind of weasely about all this since I am the worst about (not) posting in birthday threads, but although it's early and although I'd not begrude anybody a "hey, that sonofabitch didn't post in my birthday thread, I'll be damned if I post in his..." uh, thanks to the earlybirds, and it should be a good one, and oh yeah - love the O-Board, even after all these years. Especially after all these years!