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The Nairobi Trio The Ahmad Jamal Trio Gen. John J. Pershing

Y'all got Ring Girls?

Ornette, Dewey, & Charlie. Drummer optional.

Just try and sell it to a player, not a "collector". Please.

All I asked for is Ring Girls. The rest of the details can be worked out. Have your people call my people. You'll find them to be quite reasonable when it comes to things like appearance fees and sharing publishing points of everybody's pieces. And don't let them bluff you with the "win or lose, Jim takes everybody's points" bullshit. That's just a negotiating strategy I tell them to use to seperate the pretenders from the players. They'll come down to as low as 75% if you string'em along just right.

Craig Breedlove Charles Lindbergh Randy California

Big Daddy Roth Little Brother Montgomery Grandpa Jones

I meant it more for sentimental reasons, as in that it was my intoduction to Basie. When I was a kid, "April in Paris" was often on my father's turntable and it always brings back fond memories. I'd certainly agree that it was the definition (or one of them) of the New Testament band. One of my favorites. I much prefer it to the "Atomic" album, actually. Not sure if anybody's mentioned the latter-day Pablo small group sides. Overall, a mixed bag, but there's some good stuff there, often w/Lockjaw Davis on hand to get frisky.

John Kay Connie Kay Murray The K

I have a 45 of "Dew Drop Inn" that is absolutely killer. Don't recall what's on the other side though. Is this tune the exception or the rule?

Only if catesta gets to pick the Ring Girls.

Maybe it'll be paired w/Live From Los Angeles in Volume II!

Let's go!

Ah yes, STUDIO. Right there in front of me. My bad. Although, it does leave a void, since the rest of Nelson's Impulse! work was either small group and/or (more)commercially oriented. And it's definitely one of the most "traditional" big-band albums he ever made. And if the unreleased material still exists, it would be grand to hear, even if some titles are repeated (I doubt that Frank Strozier played "I Remember Bird" the same way every time). But it does say STUDIO. Right there in front of me. My bad.

Yogi Berra Yogi Bear Paramhansa Yogananda

Well, ok, good, but where's Live From Los Angeles? That one totally features "standard big band instrumentation", and according to the Doug Payne site ( http://www.dougpayne.com/on67-75.htm#LIVE%...20LOS%20ANGELES ) there's a buttload of unissued material. I know it's recently been reissued in original form, but if Universal's not releasing the rights to it for this set, just freakin' say so. Maybe The Kennedy Dream is supposed to be compensation? I'm getting this set anyways, but jeez, sometimes the Mosaician logic is beyond my grasp.

Hank Ketchum Maria von Trapp Sting

Damn straight!

The Mighty Sparrow Eagle-Eye Cherry Steve Swallow

Damn straight!

Somebody please keep us informed as to when this actually gets released.

Well there you go. "Smooth jazz" doesn't have to be synoymous with barf, but it's become that in the wake of G's mega-success. He's become the de facto "industry standard" of the genre. But Grover would always give you good slink if he didn't give you anything else, and good slink is the link between this stuff and "regular" jazz, the swing/groove factor kept alive in a format that "everyday people" of the post-JB era can groove on. To use but one example, Ralph MacDonald produced the hell outta Winelight and gave it layers of rhythmic and textural seductions that made it slinky like a mofo. It ain't "meaty", but it's alive, and elegantly so. There's some shit happening there. G don't give you slink, he gives you stink. Not stank, which would be cool, but just plain Caucasoidial stink, the odious odor of nothing exerting itself past its point of effectiveness in an attempt to assert its supremacy by celebrating its lifelessness as a triumphant alternative to somethingness. There's some shit happening there, some very real evacuation of that which is already dead. It shouldn't be so.

The question of what Mosaic will have at their disposal in the future as all the "obvious" material slowly but surely gets covered has been answered, it seems to me.

Well, you can always buy, beg, borrow, or steal that live Albright side and that Earland side. Neither one will rock your world (although the Albright has enough genuine groove to at times almost bring to mind a latter-day Bill Doggett vibe), but neither one will imperil your innate love of life either, which is more than you can about the rest of their stuff.