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Oil the breast!

Owl the best!

Awl the best!

All the best!

It depends. Can they be Ring Girls as good as they can be boogaloo sisters? Remember, Archie Bell & The Drells could dance just as good as they walk. The bar is high.

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

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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