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Three, Dude. Unless you already have that NEW ORLEANS DRUMS disc. You'll want that one too (and not just for Dodds!). Trust me.

What's the status of the Pete Townsend case? Haven't heard anything since the initial arrest.

Because to the victor goes the spoils?

BIRTH & REBIRTH w/Max.

There are several such links, including Ernie Henry,

For a long time, I heard Hadi as a soul/R&B/gospel player who through some quirk of fate found humself playing with (and being turned out by) Mingus, a sort of King Curtis w/o the bright tone and the chance to play on Coasters records. For years I thought that this was a guy coming to jazz "from the outside", so to speak. Then I got to finally hear the "Symposium" side, where Hadi plays throughly honest and convincing hard bop, and his contributions to the Mobley BN stuff, where he again does the same. It's now quite tempting for me to think that Hadi came to Mingus as a totally conventional mid-50s jazzman and "found himself" to a degree far beyond the usual Migus sideman. He definitely found something in Mingus' music that had a fundamental personal resonance. It is tempting to think that Hadi took Mingus' "figurative" (maybe not the best word...) allusions to blues and gospel quite literally, and ended up genuinely looking at the mainstream jazz of his day from the outside. I mean, once you've found a true voice of your own, it's hard to go back to playing the same stuff everybody else is, even if it means speaking less fluently in your own voice than others do in somebody else's. Sometimes when you go your own way, you end up doing it alone... It's tempting to think that maybe the Mingus experience is what brought about the end of Hadi's public music career, that he got so in touch with himself that it took him away from having any desire to be a jazzman in the generally-defined sense of the day. But not knowing even remotely if that's true, it's a temptation I'll resist.

Even if your life sucks, as long as you'e alive there's a chance for it to get better, so be thankful for that, like Patricia says. On the other hand, if you're an edible fowl, you're pretty much s.o.l.....

The Mobley Musician article is in my closet. I'll see if I can find it.

It's always a doctor...

Yeah, dude, that's the American Music stuff. Excellent indeed, and damn near essential in my opinion.

I think Hank was scheduled to play but was too loaded. There was a posthumous "appreciation" article in Musician magazine (a good one, at that) that mentions this. He was wearing some sort of leisure suit, either bright green or bright orange, can't remember, and was both too sick and too loaded to play. That's what I remember reading, but somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

Reports of the impending death of the Organissimo Board are greatly exaggerated, I think. The thing about Wingy/DEEP/Danny In Disguise is simple - he's a player, and he has a player's sense of humor, for better (sometimes) or worse (sometimes), and doesn't feel the need to modify it for public consumption. That's his choice, and I for one have no conflict between laughing my ass off at a lot of what he says and at the same time thinking/knowing that it's the kind of stuff thast not everybody's going to get, and might likely be highly offended over. But that's his call. Bottom line - the guy is who he is, and if you've ever served time in the trenches, you can dig where he's coming from most of the time, regardless of whether or not you think he's trying to fit a round peg into a square hole by bringing Full Frontal Attitudinal Reality into arenas not really designed for such. If you take his shtick too seriously, you're missing the point entirely. And if you think that confronting him will back him down, forget about it. Again, you're missing the point. The guy's operating in the realm of Don Rickles & Pat Cooper, where confrontation and trading (yes, TRADING) insults is the object of the game. The best way to not be subjected to possible offense is to ignore him, skip his threads and his posts. If that's not possible for some reason, just don't respond. If THAT'S not possible, maybe, just maybe, the possibility needs to be considered that 7 steps to heaven might be 5 too few. Impulse control is a bitch, but it's not impossible. Many of us have remarked on the "after hours club" vibe of this board, and I know it's the #1 reason I've made this place my cyberhang of choice. A board where musicians constantly feel pressured to "act right" is too much like a wedding gig. You DON'T want to be there. A board where they feel no obligation to show discretion of any type is too much like the hotel room after the gig. Lots of fun (and more), but the things you do there are things you don't want anybody but your closest friends (or people you pay to be your temporary closest friends) to see you doing. The administrators of this board are not idiots who think that jazz is a totally lovely music made by totally lovely people who lead totally lovely lives and who have totally lovely personalitiies. They know what's up. They're not pussies either, so if worse comes to worse, they'll do what they have to do. They have before, and they will again. It's their club, not their hotel room, and if we all know going in that some wild stuff's gonna happen, we also know that there's gonna be a limit to how wild it's gonna get. The party just got a little livlier, a little friskier, and a lot noisier. There's room for that, and there's room for ignoring it. You just gotta trust the hosts to bend but not break. I do.

I didn't know it had been on CD either, Lon. I'd been hearing for years about the legendary Baby Dodds Folkways side where he taked and played, but had no luck finding the thing. Folkways had kinda become one of those labels that popped up in school libraries and no place else, at least in my neck of the woods. So when I came across the American Music CD (the result of one of my periodic bug-up-my-ass searches to find this stuff), I carpe diemed, and added the NEW ORLEANS DRUMS CD to the purchase for the solo drum sides contained therein. I just assumed that the AM stuff and the Folkways stuff were one and the same. I mean, how may records of Baby Dodds talking and playing could there be? More than one, apparently, and as soon as the Atavistic order arrive, I think I'll have everything available as far as Baby Dodds talking and playing solo drums, which makes me really happy, becasue the cat was a BAAAAAADDD mothaphukker. If there's more, I wanna know.

21 is a magic number (I've seen it twice already), so no problem!

Yep, and I've responded. You're on the list, no problem.

...except for Al Jolson, Danny Thomas, and Neil Diamond.

Gigs AND big time performances? Cool! But what if I can't really play, how will that effect my chances? Not too much? Even MORE cool!! How nice of these people to offer these opportunities and not expect anything in return!!! !!!!

A little more restrained and a lot less frequent. But not cause for complaint.

'twas in the mailbox this afternoon.