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Best tipping situation I found myself in was on a New Years Eve gig where a bunch of jazzers were booked to play "oldies". The rest of the guys had the most basic stuff covered lyrically, but some guy came up with a hadful of $100s and started requesting stuff like "Flip, Flop, & Fly", and other R&B hits which the other cats had never heard but with which I had a reasonably passing lyrical familiarity. I'm no singer, but for a c-note a pop, I sure as hell played one on TV that night.

And don't think we don't love you for it!

Not sure what they are either, but they serve as references for the various skin schemes. The more they blend in with a certain skin, the more...whatever. To each their own. so far, green is the most perfect blend, peach the least. Which is why I'm sticking w/peach.

We have a vinyl set of it here at the station and you're right, Jim, it's excellent. ← Just to make sure - you're talking about the FD original with the "full frontal" cover, not the RCA/Bluebird reissue of the same name but totally different contents, right? Finally found a scan of the "full frontal" cover: http://www.dougpayne.com/onbbb1.jpg Not quite full frontal, but close enough... Why this cover was selected for this album is beyond me.

No, but I have heard that RCA still has hours of material from the Village Gate dates that produced Our Man In Jazz safely tucked away in the vaults...

Jeremy Irons Lex Steele Ron Silver

And that's fine. Tips in club settings are entirely optional (and entirely for "local" bands - if you saw, say, McCoy Tyner in a club, you'd not tip the band) , and usally come when a customer is "reached" by the music to a more-than-normal degree, and/or if "special" requests are made. But if you just have a good time from afar, no expectations are in place, none whatsoever (although most club dates pay such that a little sumpin-sumpin certainly don't hurt anybody, if you know what I mean...) But if you do tip, make it something useful, or at least something not insulting.

Kenny Drew, NHOP, & Albert Heath.

That blew up good.

The competition...

Bet he was on vacation. From Dallas.

I had to bail a band I was touring with out of jail in Salinas.

Truthfully, every one I've heard has had much to offer. I've not catalogued those that I have (and relative to what I understand is out there, I have but a handful) by date or location, so I can't tell you what's what, just that if you have a chance to get some, carpe diem. The difference between family and business associates?

Am I missing something? Aren't these going to be regular retail reissues?

For the same reason that guys hesitate to come out of a really cold swimming pool?

Saving that for the "What's Your Favorite Bean?" poll.... (all puns intentional)

Gene Quill Leonard Feather Hugh Downs

http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section...18&archive=true

Yeah, if you're talking truly private recordings as opposed to grey-market issues, that's a whole 'nother thing...

It's always fun playing, and Greg busted his ass putting this thing together. But apparently asking people to pay $25 to hear what they usually get for nothing (or next to it) is just too much of an imposition (even if the money is earmarked for a more-than-worthy cause), especially when the competition is the NFL and mild weather (both of which I'm a big fan of, btw). There's a few brave souls (less than eight, I'd guess) who xontinue to support live creative music in Dallas on an ongoing basis (the O-Board's Joe & Rod are among them, and Big Al does pretty good for a family man from the mid-cities ). But really, this town is for all intents and purposes dead. D-E-A-D DEAD. The fact that the musicians of the area aren't (yet) is a testament to either our indefatigable spirit or our obtuse stupidity. Still trying to figure out which it is...

If that's the same Mark Gilbert that wrote all those "barbarinas at the gate" liner essays for Prestige back in the late-60s/early 70s, his opinion of this music neither surprises nor interests me. He's wonderful when writing about music that is within his niche, but this music ain't in that niche, not even slightly...

I remember these ads in the back of comic books, yet I have never seen a copy of Grit, nor do I know anyone who has! I saw 'em in the back of comic books too, and I've never seen a copy of Grit either! Maybe it was a front for child slave labor. In the small town where I grew up, there was a newsstand that actually sold Grit for a while. I bought a few copies, just to check out what all the comic book ads were talking about. Seemed to be a weekly newspaper for people who found Reader's Digest too cynical...

To whom it may concern - "Dallas Jazz Community" is an oxymoron. With the emphasis on moron.... Signed, Bitter Bastard, Seeker Of Lost Causes