JSngry

Muse would have been connected to Prestige in the sense that a lot of the artists that Don Schlitten produced at Prestige followed him to Cobblestone, and then when Fields and Schlitten split, some of those same cats went to Muse. Or so it seemed. Jimmy Heath, Sonny Stitt, who else, if anybody? James Moody never went to Cobblestone, but showed up on Muse after his run at Prestige (via Milestone?). Too much math for R&B, but it was a good label w/a diverse catalog. They got a little predictable in some ways, but they were showing signs of tapping into a new scene centered around young guys like Graham Haynes, Gary Thomas, Kenny Garrett, Lonnie Plaxico, Cindy Blackmon, Geri Allen, Wallace & Antoine Roney, etc. A lot of M-Base cats doing "straight ahead" dates that might have grown into something substantial, but maybe not. We'll never know, because the label folded before the players had a chance to grow and solidify whatever it was that they were working on with their work for the label. Try and imagine what would have happened to all the Blue Note heavyweights of the mid-60s if that label had folded around 1959 or 1962 - where would they have gone, and would they have been able to grow like the did? Who knows? Tell you what, though - it was a label that put out a LOT of stuff. Reissuing it all would not be simple!

I do, and the sequence is as listed.

Does Jesse Jones, Jr. always sound so much like Hank Crawford, or is it just on this one track?

Bill Fenohr is a great human being. Happy Birthday, and hope al is well.

Now, howsabout that WEARY BLUES date w/Langston Hughes, where the Mingus band (w/Mingus) is credited as being led by Horace Parlan?

P-PIE?????????????

That's not Popeye, that's Brew Moore.

P-PIE?????????????????????

I...don't...want to know. REALLY, I don't....

P-Pie????

HEY!!! "Apparently dumb" would be asking if you file your Japanese CDs "right side out", with the Japanese title showing on the spine. or "backwards" with the English title showing.

Which Bill Evans?

Solid, Gate!

P-Pie?

Well, geez, why would we want/need to be separate? Doesn't the world accept us and affirm our worth just as we are?

That photo always saddens me.

That would have been my first pick. And if you can find it, there's a live Enja thing (from november, 1988) by the "Proter-Praskin Quartet with Sal Nestico" (which makes 5) called SONNET FOR SAL that is heartbreakingly beautiful. Possibly his last recording (the last that's yet to surface, anyway), and you can tell by the cover photo that he's on the way out (kinda like those photos of Bird his last few years - they're both bloated and have a "see ya later" look). No standards w/pickup rhythm sections, or gunslinging tenor for hire (and although I never met the man, I get a distinct impression that that was a role that he was never able to shake, although he might well ahve wanted to, just a hunch) work here - the music is original, thoughtful, and Sal gets into in a way that he didn't always do post-Herman. He's SINGING on some of the pieces, so soulful is his playing. It's Enja CD 8026-2 if you want to sleuth for it. It'll be a birchandahalf to find (I got a burn from a friend who had been looking for it for years before finding it), but damn if it won't be worth it.

Jerry Gonsalez and his brother Andy have made consistently interesting "Latin Jazz" music that's far more inventive (and are deeper into BOTH idioms than most of their peers in the idiom - no nice, happy runthroughs of tired bebop cliches over a smiley-face mambo beat for THESE guys) for about 30 years now. They're very good musicians, far more adventurous than people who wear suits (or whatever). and they are smack dab in the middle of the NYC scene, which most likely has a little different vibe and culture than North yorkshire. Whatever "jive talk" Jerry spoke, he came by honestly, I assure you. And believe it or not, that "look" is not that unusual in some places, amongst some people. Do you have many Nuyoriquenos in your neck of the woods to compare Gonsalez' behavior to, or are you just reacting to a "stereotype" to which you have no real-life experience with which to evaluate it by? Check out some of his music and then get back to me, ok?

I don't know about that....

Yes, Jim, there was: http://www.dalitstan.org/journal/brahman/b...1/brah0112.html

Funny, I always feel better after I lose it...

Cool. Now where are the answers for BFT 16?

Wasn't there a (short-term) Prime Minister of India in the late 70s who was an advocate of this?

A world of hurt, if I'm reading it right...

A few more years standing in front of bashing cymbals and "imagining" is all I'm gonna be able to do...