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And what would the 'previously unreleased recordings by Monty Alexander, Kenny Barron, Horace Silver, Les McCann and Chick Corea' be?

Indeed! But you know, I wonder about Bethlehem's recording policy. Seems like they let tape run when a lot of other labels would have shut off. The reissue of Johnny Hartman's Songs From the Heart is just downright bizarre in the that respect. The guy clearly hasn't learned all the songs yet, but Bethlehem has take after take of him fucking up. And they eventually released them! Was "runthrough" not in their vocabulary?

Except... There's a Japanese issue of the big band material that includes a lot of false starts and between song chatter (including some disgruntled "AGAIN?" type stuff). It would appear that Blakey's chart-reading skills were not immediately up to the task at hand and that the band was forced to wait for him to figure out the charts by playing them over and over until he did.

Not much interest in the Philology material? Or is it under/off the radar of most fans?

Sounds like a job for something like ArtistShare, only for reissues that desperately need to happen. As far as I know, there's no such thing. Yet.

Ornette Coleman/Don Cherry - Where Is New York Now? Ornette Coleman live in Baghdad - The Empty Spiderhole

Bo Jackson A Jackson In Your House Tom House

Ornette Coleman - Booty Call

Peter Nero Floyd Cramer Father Tom Vaughn

The Penguin Guide To Jazz: Hey.

Wasn't it the Williamsburgh Bridge?

Matt Pinto Red Green Jose Lima

So, it sounds like this is basically functional music made with the attitude that "nobody's gonna be looking". That could be interesting....

No matter how bad it gets sometimes, life is always good unless the alternative appeals to you more. In which case, kindly do it in private, please.

The fact that Baron-Cohen is "an observant Jew" also adds the Kaufman-esque layer of the theoretical possibility that by posing as an Eastern European who would probably be assumed by most "clueless Americans" to be Muslim, that he's really playing a "Jewish propaganda" game to make Muslims in general look backwards, barbaric, & idiotic. So then the ADL's condemnation of the character then takes on a whole 'nother layer of irony! I have no idea if this cat's as personally off the hook as Kaufman was, but his comedy sure is!

Whoever's selling it on eBay is cheating themself by not mentioning the personnel.

Well, I didn't grow up w/a piano in the house, and ours wasn't a pre-television home, but I am old enough to have witnessed the "community sing" go from a fairly commonplace event undertaken wholly un-self-consciously to a kinda creepy thing that only the old folks did to something that only really weird people did to being ran through the societal wringer of increased focus on self to be reborn as karaoke. Really, there was the whole "follow the bouncing ball" thing in the movies/cartoons, and before that, as indicated above, people just got together and sang because it something fun to do as a group. No love for Mitch Miller here, the shit's pretty hard to take, but I will give props to the concept, and wonder if a society that has evolved from being content with singing as a group to one where it seems that everybody, no matter how bad, now looks forward to having the stage to themself has moved in the best of all possible directions.

I've been curious about it. What say you?

Bryant Gumbel Gumby Art Clokey

Tee Carson Ted Curson Tab Hunter

How hard whould it be to tell the difference between the Mobleyizer & the Macerodon on any but the most decrepidated tape?

Ok, I was supposed to keep this a secret, but it's so absurd, y'all won't believe me. Besides, sometimes you gotta use the absurd to point out the obvious, right? And anyway, we be talking all this hypothetitheorhetorical "in principle" bullshit that's gonna get morphed innumerable kinds of viable ways once it hits the streets anyways, so what the fuck ever, ok? Here's the deal - I know this wacky "loner" type guy who's invented a machine that'll duplicate damn near anything. Cat lives in his mom's garage and shit. No girlfriend, wears smelly flannel shirts & nastyass chucktaylors all the time, etc. We all know the type, right? So let's say that I buy me a nice new Lexus, drive it for a while, say, 100,000 miles, and decide to get me another one. Them's some damn good cars, them Lexuses, but I likes the thrill of a new ride every wonst in a while. I sell the first one to a friend, and for a damn cheap price, because this cat and me go way back and we be tight like that. One sale, two owners, only one "royalty" paid. And this on a car w/100,000 miles on it. Lexus don't even get pissed. Hell no. Now let's say that I buy me a nice new Lexus, drive it for 100,000 miles, decide it's my car for life, don't never want to get rid of it, but I do want my best friend to check it out. I can feel the love just thinking about it (me and his sister had a really hot 'n' nasty thing going on back in the day, and he was totally cool when the shit took a hard left. Now that's a friend!) Maybe he'll buy himself a new one, maybe not. So I take the ride to my wacky "loner" type buddy, get a near-exact replica made of it (only flaw in this cat's machine is that it doesn't do exterior paint, so everything comes out flat grey) and give it to my homeboy, while I keep mine. Same deal - one sale, two owners, one "royalty" paid. And this on a car w/100,000 miles on it. Granted, it's a Lexus, but still... Lexus still don't get pissed?

Wally Gator Willis Jackson Todd Bridges

Because as much as you know, there is still more to find out. Hell, I'm more than twice your age & I'm still learning. It never stops, and be thankful for that. When it does, it's time to die. Now, chewy - do you know Tom Archia?

Not me. Solid happens to be one of my favorite Grant Green albums. Same. Everybody talks about Grant & (insert name here), but What about Grant & Elvin, huh? For somebody like Grant whose phrasing was all about the rhythm, you gotta look at Elvin.