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Seems like she had a thing for trumpeters...

I can believe that. But hey, so far, I've actually purchased nothing, so I'm digging it anyways And that Ankh thing is really pretty cool in a "Bob Porter Takes It To Scotland" kind of way, and if that doesn't appeal to you, I certainly understand...

Well, who the hell is voting? Depends - do you live in Ohio?

Did he play mostly bagpipes live, or mostly sax, or mostly both?

http://www.whippedcreamlady.com/ Other album covers featuring Dolores Erickson: http://www.pronetcomponents.com/subsites/dolores/?pID=albums http://www.pronetcomponents.com/subsites/d...es/?pID=albums2

Here's an alternate take I bet they didn't include:

"Women" is plural. Just having some fun w/your typo. Feel free to return the compliment some day, since my piss-poor typing skills will give you more opportunities than you can handle! Otoh, if it wasn't a typo, uh, better go have a talk w/yer old man...

Not really my place to impinge on what is by all rights parental territory, but you need to know that they're called "breasts", and , as is usually the case, they both belong to the same woman.

All you really need to know about this package (other than that Allan Toussaint penned the title tune, the knowledge of which enables one to hear the implicit/suppressed/whatever Second Line elements that are buried all over/inside it's groovy-turned-kitsch funky/unfunky little self...). http://www.swinginchicks.com/dolores_erickson.htm http://www.showandtellmusic.com/pages/gall...eamarticle.html

Welcome to the way the world really works a whole lot of the time!

No, about his use of serial techniques to encode and convey highly-sensitive German intellegence data during WWII. It was all over the Internet a few years ago, so it's gotta be true.

I thought the Pistons/Pacers brouhaha was a major step in that direction...

When it comes to things that distract people from paying attention to live music in clubs, I'd rank pussy and booze ahead of televised sports, and I'm a big fan of those, too.

Well, whatever the real truth, I'd let the Widow Harris hold on to her reality as she knows it, unless she gives signs that whe's doesn't mind giving it up.

Well, if you play Webern too loudly, you can expect to recieve secret messages (and maybe even visits) from the SS. You know that, don't you?

Where do Lee Konitz, Sonny Stitt, & Anthony Braxton rate in all this? The stats from CDU are probably seriously skewed by all the P.D./grey-market/greatest hits/best of repackagings of some of the same materials. I gurandamntee you that if you order all 416 Ellinton items that you're going to have a helluva lot of duplications of material!

Well, I've since heard this one, and, believe it or not, it's quite nice. The organist is Bill Mason, the grooves are deeply funky, and the whole thing wouldn't be at all out of place as a Legends of Acid Jazz reissue, except that it's primarily got bagpipes as the lead instrument. There's also some really cool varitoned soprano that is most funky. But the bagpipes are the primary focus, and they ain't bad. Plus, there's some really trippy production effects involving the sound of a baby's crying, which at times sounds for all the world like a precursor to some of Zawinul's later effects. Yeah, folks, this puppy is something "out of the ordinary" and in a GOOD way. And guess what - DussyGoove carries it.

On my "still haven't found what I'm looking for" list: Eugene Chadboune gives a good review on AMG. I had a college buddy who spent some time hanging with Thornton in Europe in the early 70s. The portrait that he painted was that of a sincere and intense guy very much involved in "the struggle", as it was often referred to then. Most memorable second-hand Thornton quote - "You white guys want to be jazz musicians, and that's cool. But for a lot of brothers like myself, we got no choice, What else can we do in this world that's not a slave job? Really, what are our options? We have to be creative musicians if we want to be somebody in this world." I've pondered that quite a bit over the years, and it remains one of the more significant statements about the entire "extra-musical" elements of jazz I've yet to hear. It was also through this guy's retelling of Thornton's stories that I first heard the notion of Sun Ra "killing" Trane but putting a curse on him (yeah, that's right - first heard), as well as other tales of "underground" jazz lore.

I'm gonna live forever!

Happy Birthday, and, again, thank you.

West Bishes!

Too hip for the room, dude.

Pretty damn good. Piano's a bit funky, nut Hope's playing is wide open, sounding not at all unlike he's a step or five away from crossing over into early Ceciltaylorland. If I exaggerate, and perhaps I do, it ain't by much.