JSngry

Keep an eye on Pi.

The boy already has a Johnny Cash-esque sneer. He's a natural!

Just ordered it directly from the Atavistic site: http://www.atavistic.com/artist.cfm?action...&ThisArtist=151 $13, plus unisured free shipping, $2.75 for insured shipping. Best price by far from a cursory search.

I thought the American Music stuff WAS the Folkways stuff. Thanks for the tip, Chuck. So...that's one that I don't have (but will order within the next few minutes) and another one that Johnny needs to order. Good news for all! Be back soon - gotta go spend some dough...

Not me, dude, I haven't voted yet! I run into older cats who played in Ruby's joints and who hung out with/around him for many years before November of 1963. By all accounts, he was not even remotely high on the "hierarchy", if you know what I mean, but he definitely was not the type to suddenly get a bug up his ass to go out and kill the man who killed the President. Just telling you what I've picked up over the years from the type of people who aren't going to be interviewed for publication. Bottom line, though, barring some major discovery/revelation, we'll never REALLY know the truth. It's time to move on. What happened happened. Now, Squeaky Fromme - it's not too late for HER!

Oh, btw - what issue did you order? Is there a new one out? My American Music CD dates from 1993 and has a totally different cover.

You're welcome. AND you're in for a treat.

Franks Wess & Foster still walk amonst the living. Kenny Burrell. James Moody (another popular seller for the label in the early-mid 50s, from what I gather). Sonny Rollins (and if you land that one, I AM coming along! ) Percy Heath. Donald Byrd. Gotta be some more...

You think the Famous Chicken was ALWAYS famous and ALWAYS a chicken?

I know THAT'S right!

Texas-sized Beaver:

Dead Beaver:

Julia in action:

Women’s squash star Julia Beaver. REALLY!

Lonely Beaver? Worry not!

Wham, Bam, etc...

Recruiting ad for Heidi Fleiss:

A tribute to Warren Beatty.

The beaver's tail is so heavy that it defies the effects of weightlessness in outer space, the beaver's tail does!

Menagerie A Trois

Portrait of George Washington as a Young Beaver:

Corporate beaver: Looks like a vacation is in order.

One stop shopping!

And the Northern girls, with the way they kiss, they keep their boyfriends warm at night.

Yeah, they did, but I bet that Gene Ammons outsold them both, combined, at least at the time. The Miles/Trane Quintet albums were widely staggered in their releases, and I don't think that the last one came out until, when, 1962? Prestige, remember, had "hits" early on. "Moody's Mood For Love" was a notable one, and I'm pretty sure that Jug was a big seller all through the 1950's, especially by the time that "Canadian Sunset" and "Angel Eyes" hit big. When I say "hit big", I don't mean "Top 40" big, but big in the blue collar African-American community. Those records were HUGE in that demographic. Given the relatively low overhead of the indie jazz label back then, anything that caught on outside of the hardcore jazz community would turn a nice profit, especially if it became a "jukebox hit". I think that companies made (make?) money on jukebox play, but I could be wrong. But I'll tell you this much - Gene Ammons was popular outside of the "jazz connesieur" contingent in a way that few post-Swing Era jazz artists have been.