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Morrow Cronkite Rather

Lame.

Gazoota!

Inefficient!

Unfortunate.

Bummer.

Outstanding!

Tragic.

Purdie's contrribution to the lone recording by Bleeding Gums Murphy is one of his finest moments.

The Castaways The Hathaways Donny & Lalah

Not if it meant not having to live in De-"Watch It Die Before Your Eyes"-troit. We don't have that problem in Dallas, It's always been fucked up here.

That's a damn good question.

A legendary film. Available on DVD (w/the Beach Boys footage restored!): http://www.thevideobeat.com/store/product_...products_id=467 You'll also want to see the "copycat" TNT Show produced by Phil Spector: http://www.thevideobeat.com/store/product_...products_id=467

David Frye Rich Little Mr. Big

A longtime fave. Definitely, I think, the most "accessable" of the coloborations w/Moncur. Downright playful in spots!

Just picked up Moods, and Chris Potter puts in an incredible cameo on one tune. I don't even care for Chris Potter (personal preference only, certainly a great player). But DAMN does he sound good here, loose and very intense at the same time. Dave Kikoski, a player I like a little more, has also done what I think is among his best work on a Monday side, Episodes In Color. Which has me wondering... Why is it that this type of music (I've been informed by my road partner Ira Bassett this evening that it CAN'T be pop because it's too good ) seems to open these players up in a way that "regular jazz" doesn't? I'd like to say that maybe it's because "regular jazz" is sorta, uh... not really relevant to these guys but they just haven't figured that out yet. But that seems a bit smug and harsh, even if it might accidentally be true... And if it should accidentally be even only microscopically true (which is probably the point, because, after all, "regular jazz" is forever going to be relevant to every living soul on the planet from now until the end of time, right?) , what might that mean for all the other youngish folks who keep running around trying to establish "straight ahead" cred in the 21st century? Maybe all it means is that it's easier to be yourself when you don't have the jazz police looking over your shoulder. Yeah, that's it. NWA had a point after all...

Cappy Dick Slylock Fox No Shit Sherlock

Jim, the new Collectors' Choice catalogue arrived Wednesday, and I see that they are offering The Hi-Lo's - Listen!, "their debut album for Starlite, which appears here on CD for the first time anywhere in the world! Includes June In January, Little White Lies, Fools Rush In, She's Funny That Way and more." I don't have any of those songs. By the way, it's $15.95. GREAT! That leaves one more Starlite album and one more Trend single.

Sick mind, Texas mind, same thing...

Not necessarily.

The Bobsey Twins Betty Boop Jessica Rabbit

A Mosaic Select type set of the Hi-Los pre-Columbia material (all of it owned by MCA/Universal/Whoever) would be kickass.

Hammond's attitudes towards thigs racial were (and still are) not at all uncommon among "white collar liberals". A weird, well-intentioned but ultimately insulting combination of a sublimated "noble savage" mindset, a less sublimated sense of envy that "these people" have what their life lacks in things "visceral", and the inevitable arrogance of presumed "rightness" on all things socio-political that comes from being in a position of privilige. That last onejust comes with the territory, it seems, and is found across the ideological spectrum. "Patronizing" is probably too weak a word to describe all the levels of wrong inherent in attitudes like Hammond's, but given the real lack of malevolent intent involved, I guess it'll do.

Never knew that Buck Hammer toured the Orient...