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Would you settle for a collection of jazz 45s instead?

Yeah, same here. Shouldn't be too hard to do for somebody who's already got the raw data in malleable form. Just dump it into a database or spreadsheet and sort by date. Formatting of the file might be a little cumbersome, but they got people who are real good and real fast at that.

That's "line" , not "lime"...

I must confess, Big John Greer was a name with which I was unfamiliar, but that was a flaw in my my knowledge base that has since been corrected. This cat can BLOW, one of the great R&B honkers who walked that line between grit and grace as finely (and skirted it as closely) as it could be walked. Recommended just for his playing alone.... BUT WAIT- THERE'S MORE! Sidemen include the Lucky Millender Orchestra (with Art Blakey on four cuts), Al Casey, Tony Scott, Tate Houston, Tyree Glenn, Cecil Payne,Earl May, Herie Lovelle, Rudy Powell, Skeeter Best, Idrees Sulieman, Connie Kay, Bill Doggett, Jimmy Crawford, Everett Barksdale, Budd Johnson, Al Sears, Joe Benjamin, Sam Taylor (featured prominently on the later cuts where the emphasis shifts to Greer as singer), Mickey Baker, Panama Francis, and other names you will recognize. They're mostly (but not always - Tony Scott's clarinet pops through in a moment of R&B near-surrealism) in a supporting, part-playing role, but the difference that players like this playing parts can make is not to be taken lightly. Simply put, this shit SWINGS from start to finish. Like a mofo. Also, all of these sessions were recorded for RCA/RCA subsidiaries and used RCA studios. So they're recorded clearly with that snappy sound that comes from old RCA sides. Apparently, there was a more comprehensive, 3-CD Bear Family set that covered all of this material, but best as I can tell, it's OOP. So this one will have to do until the real thing comes along. But believe me when I tell you that if you like that pre-R&R R&B, the type of thing that rocks and rolls and swings, and if you like tenor playing that is, to use the local cliche, greasyus maximus, hey, check this bad boy out. You'll not be disappointed.

A compendium of pan-cultural eye-witness accounts of Old Testament and pre-Old Testament times.

You Must Be's credit's on AMG: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...jpftxqyhldfe~T4

Well, ok, I finally got around to hearing this, and gosh it's good!

That might be stretching it just a little...

What if you bug somebody by not trying to bug them? Does that count?

Damned if you can get pork chops out of a cow, but oh well about all that now.

http://www.cybill.com/jazz/album_vanilla.htm

Also available: http://www.celebritytradingplace.com/catal...327/2198008.htm

Two highlights for me: 1) Garland Jeffreies was a guest. Snyder intorduced him as a purveryor of "Reggie" (sic) music. 2) Leo Sayer was a guest. Snyder compared him to Otis Redding.

Is that due to a lack of usage, or because of the size of the payout-per-hit?

Judge for yourself: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?p...p;GRid=15613318

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Does aloc perchance grow roses?

Not to sidetrack the discussion, but this caught my eye, since Kitty was the label for whom Monday Michiru did most of her Japanese work. Any idea who was behind that label & just exactly how...diverse their offerings might have been?

For anybody looking for a potential deal on the masterwork 4 Seasons, there's a copy that just went up on eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...=ADME:B:SS:US:1

From that page: Whatever. This wasn't doing that in 1982, never mind 2007. Then again, this was just a rehearsal, sort of a jam. The album itself: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...10:djfqxqraldte would appear to be significantly more focused. And Murphy himself: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...11:kifqxqugld0e has certainly been around. But please, the "boundaries" here had already been pushed - and pushed hard - long before 1982. Now, having gotten that out of the way, Jimmy Lyons was one of the true giants of this music. It was a true pleasure, honor, and blessing to see and hear him. Karen Borca never fails to amaze me either. My god, what facility! And some good ideas to go with it too.

No doubt. But you sure live in a weird-ass world.

Welcome to Post-Bush America, where the appearance of a fully-formed turd in an ocean of diahrhea is cause for celebration and proof that things aren't all that bad after all. Oh, it's The Onion. No wonder. :g But still...

Welcome to Post-Bush America, where the appearance of a fully-formed turd in an ocean of diahrhea is cause for celebration and proof that things aren't all that bad after all.