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An unconditional apology should have been immediately offered, no doubt. But other than that, it sounds like they're trying to do the right thing. As for how any of the bad stuff happened, hey, shit happens. Might've been a new employee who fucked up, or somebody who carelessly filled your order while being distracted by something else. Who knows? For that, they should apologize. But if it was me, I'd accept their offer, consider this one episode in light of past performance, and move on. Now, if it ever happens again...

Hear Marchel & Roger play "Cold Duck Time": http://www.dustygroove.com/warehouscd5.htm#72707 Believe it or not, he and I work for a few of the same bandleaders - cats who play lounge gigs for older crowds who want to dance to standards & R&B all night long, and don't really care to think about the difference (if they even know that it's supposed to be different, which I seriously doubt ). To the JAZZ WORLD, we're as different as we can be - Marchel the virtuoso hard bopper, and me, the freaky "out" player. But when the lights are low and nobody from that world is around (hell, they don't even KNOW about these kind of gigs), our mutual love of old-school R&B cum jazz (or, as I like to call it, "Bluebop") keeps some spending money in the pocket, and everybody is happy. The roads diverge rather severely further on up, but they begin in the same place. Definitely.

Are they willing to pay for your return shipping?

Contrast and compare: Anthony: Toni: http://www.vaisseaux.net/photos/Toni_Braxton_01.jpg You tell me if there's ANY doubt about who's smoother.

Well?

This label started interesting and shows no signs of slowing down! Just received via e-mail: Greetings from Pi Recordings, We here at Pi Recordings hope that Spring has arrived wherever you might be. We would like to take this moment to tell you about what has been happening here thus far in 2005 and what the rest of the year looks like. Firstly, we are pleased to announce our first release for 2005 Marc Ribot's Spiritual Unity. Spiritual Unity is a group formed by guitarist Marc Ribot dedicated to re-creating and re-imagining the music of the great saxophonist Albert Ayler, one of the pillars of modern jazz. Ribot (Lounge Lizards, Los Cubanos Postizos and countless other bands) is a longtime fan of Ayler’s who has spent years listening to and internalizing the communicative group process integral to Ayler’s music. Ribot describes playing Ayler’s music as a “ritual process, through improvisation, of experiencing and presenting the rawest moment of musical creation.” He knew that the time had come to realize his long-time dream of forming a collective band to play this music when the celebrated bassist Henry Grimes, who played on many of Ayler’s seminal recordings from the 1960s, returned to the jazz scene in 2003. Grimes’ amazing reemergence after 30 plus years away from music is now one of the great stories in the annals of jazz. Spiritual Unity is just the second release and the first studio recorded release to feature him since his return. This recording, for those who haven’t had the good fortune to see Grimes play live, finds him playing as strong as ever. He is obviously the perfect bassist for this music. Ribot displays his obvious passion for this music. His playing ranges widely from delicate beauty to wails and shrieks and everything in between. Trumpeter Roy Campbell exhibits his incredible versatility. He sports his free jazz hat and delivers the combination of lyricism and whomp that he brings to every musical context. Drummer Chad Taylor (Chicago Underground Trio) plays with muscle and verve, propelling this difficult music forward. Spiritual Unity features one original by Ribot and four compositions by Ayler. Ribot’s “Invocation” opens the album and immediately conjures Ayler’s spirit. This is followed by “Spirits,” one of Ayler’s catchiest and instantly recognizable tunes. “Truth is Marching In,” another of Ayler’s signature tracks, featuring a long, mournful intro that suddenly breaks into a warped march. The spacious “Saints” bridges to the album closer “Bells,” a 15 minute tour-de-force recorded live at Tonic the night before the studio session. Spiritual Unity could easily be overshadowed by comparisons to Ayler’s original work, but the intentions far exceed a straightforward canonization of Ayler’s music. Using Ayler’s vocabulary as raw material, Ribot, Grimes, Taylor and Campbell combine their disparate influences to fashion their own distinct work of art. Pi is proud to present Spiritual Unity. July sees the release of Pi16 Fieldwork's (Feat. Vijay Iyer, Steve Lehman and Elliot Humberto Kavee) Simulated Progress. The CD is the band's second and the first with new member Steve Lehman, who has recently released the critically praised, Artificial Light on Fresh Sounds and Camouflage Trio on Clean Feed. The band will be performing at the Jazz Gallery on Monday May, 2nd with new member Tyshawn Sorey before embarking on a brief European tour. In the fall we will be releasing Steve Lehman's debut on Pi (Feat. Vijay Iyer, Meshell Ndegocello, Jahi Lake, Eric McPherson and Tyshawn Sorey). Other releases for 2005 will be announced soon as we are still in the process of finalizing our release schedule for the year. In other label news we will be having a three day Pi Recordings festival at the Jazz Standard July 19th-21st. Liberty Ellman, Rudresh Mahanthappa and Fieldwork will be performing. Expect some special guests as well as the premiere of new material. Before that though, this week sees the premiere of a new music by Rudresh Mahanthappa, May 5-6 & 8, at the Asia Society. The piece features Kadri Gopalnath and the Dakshina Ensemble. We will be updating the news section of our site as details emerge on the rest of 2005 so please stay tuned. As always thank you for your continued interest and support of our music and the musicians. Pi Recordings _______________________ http://www.pirecordings.com 212-222-6140 PO Box 1849 Cathedral Station New York, NY 10025 Well, well, WELL! Henry Grimes and Meshell Ndegocello on the same label. Nice to see somebody doing something like that!

Just an urban legend, that's all.

Lane never played Mr Dithers, however as allmovie.com says "Lane has been a familiar figure in movies (and, subsequently, on television) for 60 years, portraying crotchety, usually miserly, bad-tempered bankers and bureaucrats." Did he ever play Mr. Dithers on any sort of Blondie TV show then? I have a childhood memory of him doing so, or so I think... I mean, the guy looks almost exactly like Mr. Dithers.

You want sideman appearances as well?

Lift Every Voice

There's a bukkake joke in here somewhere (probably in Japan), but it would be in extremely poor taste to make it.

I'vot audio-from-tv (replete w/hum) of the Ellington tribute shown by CBS on the night of his death, as well as some of the performances from the first PBS (Soundstage?) Down Beat Awards show - Sonny Rollins, McCoy, & Rahsaan come to mind. I've also got some other stuff, mostly reel-to-reel, but I couldn't tell you what it is. Whatevr it is, it's all grom the 70s on, so I'd think it would be preserved, and better, elsewhere.

Red with anger? Green with envy??? A Christmas thing???I am confused by the color reference, but it may be because I haven't been to sleep yet! It's a New Mexico joke. Much of the food there is served w/chili "gravy", and the question is always "red or green/", as in what kind of chili do you want on your food. I always go green myself - red is supposed to be spicier (but isn't, always), but green's got the FLAYVA!

I had heard the album years ago, and, yes, I discovered that mislisting then. FWIW, albums like this, that have been on the "looking for" list for 20+ years, aren't ones that I've been obsessively looking for. They're just ones that I've heard along the way and have decided to pick up if and when I stumble across them. I like having such a list, and I like letting things fall into my lap, so to speak. It's good to always have something to look forward to.

CALLING ALL CARS! CALLING ALL CARS! The Fallout Lounge has agreed to a trial run of live original jazz for the month of May. Quartet Out will be there May 4 (THIS WEDNESDAY) and May 18. Flipside Trio will be there May 11 & 25. Let's hope that this thing can take root. All it takes is a few hours time and a few dollars spent on food and/or beverages. If any of y'll who are in the area can spare those things on one, some or all(!) of the above nights, it would be greatly appreciated.

Did she ever?

Red or green?

Some brief info on Doris Duke's Canyon album: http://66.232.131.72/MoreInfo/CDKEND242.html

So it is. And by John Litweiler no less. So, again, that settles that. Can you find review dates for the Brown?Roach & other Emarcy reissues? Those are the ones that brought Trip to my attention, and if I find out they started in mid-1974, I'm going to start looking into assisted-living facitlites or something... A mind's memory is a terrible thing to waste, and mine might well be on its way. Guess I shoulda taken notes along the way... Is the Wally Roker of Canyon Records the same Wally Roker who was in Shep & The Limelights?

KAY-reh! YAY-uh!

That would seem to settle that then.

An interesting array of artists, to be sure. The roster seems to be aimed at a particular demographic, one which reminds me of more than a few people I've known over the years who dig Walter Wanderly, Nina Simone, and Swamp Gogg in equal measure. Sounds like , I know, but I swear, they're out there!

I'm still not convinced about 1974. If the DB article was from 5/75, that was when the mag was still bi-monthly, right? So a lead time of no more than six weeks, tops, for a "new" item like this is reasonable, I'd think. Note also the wording - "has leased" and "has begun", which might imply, in the context, that this was a brand-new venture of a news article. As for the 100 releases thing. I defintiely remember that once Trip started issuing, they did so torrentially. Don't know that 100 in less than a year would have been an unreasonable figure, since the stuff was literally coming out faster than I, a college student on a budget, could keep up with it. The operation might have begun pre-release business in 1974, but if they actually released anything then, it would have been very late in the year, and I really don't recall anything coming out before 1975. Fall of '74 was my freshman year in college, and my first steady exposure to a record store w/a well-stocked and up-to-date jazz section, and I really don't remember seeing any Trip albums until the Spring semester, at the earliest. My memory is not always totally reliable, but on this one, I'm holding my ground in a non-adamant fashion until positive proof can be provided otherwise. Now - who is/was Wally Roker?

No, not with any certainty to be sure, but Strata-East was at leasr one lable that wasemplying the technique of making the year of issue a part of their catalog number. So probably not, but also not with any certainty. Seems like a technique that a small "boutique" label might employ.