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I've got a Fresh Sounds CD that's half Lee w/Jimmy Heath in 1962, and half Lee w/Billy Harper in 1972. Then htere's the Lee/Clifford Jordan Left Bank thing.

Yes.

Better than you might expect. Definitely better than the cover would lead you to believe...

Wow. I've never read about all the dark experiences of the early days. Incredible. I remember a thing in JAZZ magazine ca. 1979 where they did a Q&A wit the Brecker Brother, and the question was asked "What about drugs?". I think it was Randy who said something like, "If you can get by without them, good."

Yoni.

Thanks, & you got mail!

Funny, but...

Re:"Jazz Dispute": http://youtube.com/watch?v=gSvdcKxWDqc

That Rusty Bryant stuff is sweet! Dot is now part of the Universal/Verve/Etc group, and has been for a while now, back to the 70s, maybe even the late-60s. The Verve Limited Edition Slim Gaillard Rides again was a Dot side.

That's what the heat sinks are for.

And I'm sure that this is strictly a matter of personal taste (i.e. - no sense arguing about it), but I thoroughly enjoyed the few "poppish" tracks. There's a lot of this going on in the "dance underground", Afro/Latin/Brazillian grooves being brought into the mix, and unlike such attempts of decades past (remember Manolo Badrena's solo lp on A&M?), I'm hearing/feeling assimilation w/o extermination. To me, that's a healthy thing, especially when you consider the possibilities of the opposite dynamic as it's being played out culturally across the world today. Sure, you lose a bit of "native authenticity", but what's gained in terms of society moving ahead is not to be dismissed, I think. Staying seperate except by destructive means is going to prove to be impossible for almost all of us, and coming together is just so damn....easy if we just relax, let it happen, and keep it on the good side spiritually.

Mike's got the chango thing happenin' , doncha' know.

Yeah, sorry 'bout that. Them machines, hey, they'll play whatever they wanna play. Just plug'em in and turn'em loose!

Late 60s, actually, mostly. On cheapie Collectables two-fers. They're paired kinda weird, though. Forgot to mention Live at The Whisky A Go Go. That's got the band that Mike saw, and damn is it rude!

Impossible! I like dance music & the new technology.

For Losers on CD

I saw that band live - Herbie, Steve Marcus (in place of Roy Ayers), Sharrock, Vitous, and Carr - the latter a vastly underrated drummer, loose and totally his own man. Bruno Carr was (is?) a groove unto himself. Highly underrated in-DEED!

And yet, there's a bit of unintendec dark humor in this Amazonian offer:

Is that Barney Wilen on #12?

Envy the angels? For what? Dude - everybody dies. Some go sooner than we'd like, and sometimes it really hurts when they do, even if they go peacefully after a long life. But the bottom line is that we're still alive until further notice. The angels will come soon enough. Until they do, let's make some shit happen here and now, and let's not think twice about doing it.

Fathead Newman and Sonny Sharrock, both doing their thing in umimpeded bliss. Bruno Carr gets his groove on. 'Nuff said.

Irawaddy-Daddy-Diddy Dolphin-Ditty Doo.

And most of them don't get (or care to get) our generation. So let's everybody get on with being who we are, whatever that is, and let's make it - whatever it is, as good as it deserves to be, not just good enough to get the gig.

Dense indeed. But in a good way. No fluff, filler, or other bullshit. These cats are playing!