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Belated best wishes from Republican-held Plano, Texas!

Don't know if I'd go "greatest ever", but it is a damn funny show and one of the better things on network right now. It and Curb Your Enthusiasm are the only really happening comedy series going right now that feature live humans.

Nah, I don't mind fusion at all (although I do mind FUSION, if you know what I mean...). It was just that nobody was digging into the material. The whole thing just seemed super-slick and pretty shallow overall. There's nothing on here that couldn't pass muster on a mainstream "contemporary" jazz radio station. All sheen and no guts. Definitely no danger (in these times, it's quite easy to play "advanced" music w/o breaking a sweat. That's what happens when "avant-garde" of all varieties - and electric Miles was definitely "avant-garde" - hangs around being stigmatized/ghettoized for 30-50 years - you can pawn it off to a society that's past-due to hear it as "exciting" and "fresh" when it's really antything but). That's no "tribute" to Miles, electric or otherwise! "Gimmick" is the word that kept coming to mind, like the producers and players were more into the concept than they were the actual music they put out behind it. That's gonna bug me no matter what the idiom.

Those were the first releases of "The Blue Note Reissue Series", and the only ones to bear that cover design. It was a one-shot release, as the series name was then transferred to the "paper bag" two-fer series (great name, btw, never heard it before!) and then to a release (or two?) that had the same concept, format, and design, only with "slick" covers. (Ironically, perhaps, the cheaper looking covers have been much less susceptable to wear than have the slick ones). It was in this second wave of "The Blue Note Reissue Series" that the concept of issuing previously unissued sessions came to the fore (the Turrentine from the first series notwithstanding - that album in no way advertised its contents, and it wasn't until just a few years ago that I found that out, much to my chagrin...). The two-fer then evolved into the single-album LT/"Rainbow" series (the actual series title was "Blue Note Classic"), which, along with the last few Horace Silver albums, were the last gasps of Blue Note until the label was rebirthed in 198?. I seem to recall reading somewhere that Cuscuna & Lourie viewed both the twofer & the LT series as a sort of "stealth" operation, a way to get as much unreleased stuff out of the vault as they could in as little time as possible. The LT series in particular focused on this, although it too contained a few straight reissue items, iirc. What I do know is that the first few releases got a lot of fanfare, and after that, little if any. By the time the LT series began, it was to the point where you bought 'em when they came out (and knowing when that was going to be required, in these parts anyway, having a contact at a record store to give you the heads up) or else you'd not see them again. literally.

I've heard that one and will not be buying it. Not even used. Not even for free. Didn't find it appealing at all. In fact, it got on my nerves and made me want to stop it before it was over. I resisted, but at disc's end I came to the conclusion that I shouldn't have. A very disappointing side for me. Pissed me off, in fact, and that doesn't happen all that often. YMMV, of course. The Yo, Miles stuff, otoh, I dig very much.

Jack Benny Milton Cross Joe Cullinan

What kind of stuff did you play w/Andrew Woolfolk? I've not heard him since vintage EW&F days, where he sounded like the kind of guy who might've been using the gig a cover to get his jazz chops really together. Studied w/Joe Henderson for a while, didn't he?

It's not. It's ok, nothing more. ← Well, there seems to be a difference of opinion about that as our new member seems to think "it's actually really good." It would be nice to hear it but that doesn't seem to be in the cards. ← Well, "it's actually really good" in the sense that these are all fine-or-better players, so their "off days" are going to have a resonance that lesser players' "good days" would lack. So if you wanna go there with it, yeah, sure. But trust me - KDs chops falter rather dramatically rather quickly, Davis' pitch is at least as "personal" as it's ever been, and the whole thing pretty much turns into a Grant Green session with "troublesome" horns about halfway through. Grant sounds just fine, but when did he ever not, at least in those days? If you get it for free, enjoy it for what it is. But if you'd paid good money for it, you'd feel a little bit screwed. MC's decision is a sound one, but hey - that's what all this underground shit is for.

Very perceptive. ← Well, yes and no. Autin certainly is "Texan". Nobody would/should claim otherwise. But the state is so damn big, and so dam geographically and culturally diverse that its only one type of "Texan". I.E. - I've played a few joints in (north) East Texas where the directons included the line "you come to the end of the dirt road and then you go..." Don't think they have that in Austin.

Error fixed, and thank you!

Don Cherry Oliver Stone Earl May

And detachable drum solos, if you can find the secret cuts!

Gladly. Free For All posted a rather clever parody of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven in which the Raven was replaced by Vince Wilburn I responded to the Raven/Miles reference with "Bye bye, Blackbird", another Raven/Miles reference Greg K responded by wondering if I was cryptically saying that the set had been cancelled I responded negatory, good buddy, and in the course of clarifing that the reference of my response to Free For All's post was indeed nothing more that a Raven/Miles reference, I referred to Free For All as FFA. Clem then took the "FFA" allusion as an opening to quote a Terry Allen song called "FFA", which in this case stands for Future Farmers of America, a venerable agriculture-training program that has been active in America's high schools since its founding in 1928. ( http://www.ffa.org/about_ffa/html/ffa_history.htm ) Clem seemed unsure of whether or not I would get the reference. I responded by assuring him that I did indeed get the reference, and I added that although Mr. Allen's song was spot-on for certain FFA types (usually suburban), there was another, less smarmy side to FFA, a side that I saw first hand while growing up in semi-rural East Texas. Clem agreed with me that an honest life in agriculture is an honest life indeed, and then referenced Mr. Allen's referencing Texas beers. He also asked if I had toured the Lone Star Brewery in San Antonio, a tour that ends with free samples being handed out in a room that is veritably saturated with mounted big(and not so big)-game "trophy heads. catesta, ever the beer snob , overlooked the references to some of the worst beers ever made in the history of the world, and made a joke about farming subsidies. I recounted that I had indeed toured the LS Brewery, which, btw, I believe is now defunct. Not sure about that one though. People apparently got confused. Clem made the tag in the corner and left the ring, but not before giving one of those local food tours for which he is so justly famous. So that's it in a nutshell. Typical, one might even say definitive, O-Board Thread Sidetrack. A proud tradition 'round these parts, and it happens all the time. The Cellar Door delay led to Poe, which led to Future Farmers of America, which led to Texas beers & brewery tours, which led to a Diner's Guide For The Truly Hip (as well as a call to the bullpen, if I may be allowed to cross-metaphorize) and here we are. Although, to roughly quote Duke Ellington, at this point is becomes highly difficult to tell exactly whom is enjoying the shadow of whoooooooooooooom....

It will take some time and some hunting, but I will certainly try.

Did when I was a kid. Free beer surrounded by trophy heads, hey - THAT'S Texas!

It's not. It's ok, nothing more.

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Dude, I grew up in freakin' Gladewater, Texas, http://www.gladewaterchamber.com/ Believe me, I know those blue jackets quite well. BTW - Mr. Allen's song is only partially accurate. Some kids really do want to live a life in agriculture, and more power to 'em. It's an damn honorable life if you ask me, and a good FFA program can give them a good grounding in what they need to go about it. We had such a program, and some such kids, at GHS back in the day. However, as with all such things, the GIGO Principal can not be avoided, and that's where Mr. Allen's song comes into play....

Jessica McClure Doug McClure Owen Wister

Nah, as in The Raven at the door as per FFA's post.

I was just about to say...

Welcome to the board, Stuball. I think you'll find this to be a veritable plethora of arcania concerning Sanford and Son (among other things!). Now could somebody confirm or deny that LaWanda Page is or isn't the cover model for Ray Nance's Solid State album Body And Soul?

Patty Waters Brian Wilson Duke Kahanamoku

Cybil Sheppard Sally Field Dinah Shore

Both of Jarman's BS sides remain favorites, as do all of Julius Hemphill's. Not a dud (or even semi-dud) in the bunch.