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$3.08 at http://www.cybermusicsurplus.com/online_ca...sku_tag=BBR3503 Some of the most daring, gripping, and PERSONAL tenor playing I've ever heard. No shit, this is the REAL deal. I'll be deep into this one for YEARS to come. It's OOP, so carpe diem. You can thank me later.

Just got word from Red Trumpet that BOTH Gale BNs are slated for release on 4 Men With Beards 180-gram LPs. No date, just "Upcoming".

Taking a cue from my close friend Ornette, I'll be issuing no license for release until 2025. Wouldn't 1225 be more appropriate? Hey Ron, was that SOUL EYES thing European or Japanese?

Only know him casually. Played a few gigs with him back in the day. You're right on all counts. BTW, he was a HUGE indirect influence. Cat also has had a career as a jazz DJ. First heard him in the early '70s on KNOK-FM outta FW, featuring the omnipresent "Have YOU been to Mr. G's Motel?" ad ALL freakin' night. He did the all-night shift M-F, and I'd stay up all night, even on school nights, listening. The station faded in and out quite a bit (I was 130 or so miles away), so it was a hassle, but he played the best of the old and all of the new (good AND bad). Heard a lot of things, GOOD things, for the first time on that show. And some bad things too - he played the SHIT outta BLACK BYRD when it came out... He later had the afternoon drive-time show on the old KSAX-AM, a dawn-till-dusk all jazz station that was around in the late '70s. He'd play a BUNCH of then OOP BN stuff, long jams back to back to back, stopping only for commercials. Great times, those were. No bullshit, just groove. And in classic AM sound, no less. The kids today don't know what they're missing. Seriously. AM has a MOJO. Then he went to our now-defunct jazz FM station (can't remember the call letters right now, darn it), and finally was on public access KNON-FM, playing a lot of the same LPs he played on KNOK. I'd hear the scratches and think, "I knew you when!" Guess he finally retired from radio. Too bad. Yeah, Bob Stewart's cool!

This is the kind of stuff I'll end up buying used a few years up/down the road (which one is it, anyway?) when the trends have changed and it's no longer omnipresent. I'll HAVE to come to it. In fact, I've been contemplating a Public Enemy binge for a while now. LOTS of stuff in the used bins these days.

It ain't how high you can keep yourself that matters, it's how low you can keep yourself from going. That's true of a lot of things, come to think of it...

Taking a cue from my close friend Ornette, I'll be issuing no license for release until 2025. Please Joe, think of the children!

I dunno, Joe, maybe it's the good ol' "the tapes aren't in good condition anymore and besides we'd rather focus on issuing new material EXCEPT for the Rarum series and the old stuff that we KNOW is gonna sell big" ECM story. Stranger things have happened... I've always asked myself what kind of a complex I'd have had if I had been in Kuhn's shoes in the early/mid '60s. I mean, he's got the gig w/Trane, is probably ecstatic (who WOULDN'T be?), and all of a sudden Trane comes up to him and gives him his notice. He asks what he's doing wrong or can do better/different, and Trane says there's nothing really wrong, you're fine as you are, I just want something different. BAM - just like that, you've gone from being in the most exciting band on the scene to, uh, NOT being in the most exciting band on the scene, and you didn't do anything wrong, musically or otherwise. How do you think Kuhn must have felt watching from the sidelines as Trane's quartet did what they did after he left? Sure, a part of him must have understood that McCoy was the right cat for the gig, but another part of him must have been messed up by that. You can sort it out in time, no doubt, but I'd be VERY surprised if the cat wasn't buggin' for a while to one degree or another. Steve Kuhn - the Wally Pipp of jazz?

Didja try the board's PM or e-mail function, Hon? Or did you just fire off a note to the webmaster because it was easy and allowed you to feel some power? That's a rhetorical question, btw.

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Uh, Alex? What is "all of them"? I got teenagers, cable, and a radio and/or TV in damn near every room of the house, to say nothing of letting the kids have plenty of radio-control in the car. No need to come to it. It comes to me. (and yeah, I like lots of it)

When he wants to, he can still deliver the goods. Problem is, he doesn't always seem to want to. Bad pitch, over-reliance on some pet devices, seemingly just going through the motions ("playing" rather than PLAYING), these are all things that the Ron Carter of today (NOT the Ron Carter of yesterday) seems as likely to deliver as an inspired, meaty performance. I'm sure he's got his reasons, but don't we all? I still keep an ear on him, though, because a GOOD Ron Carter gig is someting worth hearing. Call him the Freddie Hubbard of the bass. It fits, in my opinion.

Was that Bob Stewart by any chance?

HIGHLY recommended. One "problem" - they left off the version of "The Christmas Song" that came out on the Palo Alto Christmas album. Of course, if the reissue the Christmas album, It'll be no prpblem at all.

LOVE WALKED IN has been released domestically on Sunnyside and has been in heavy rotation on KNTU. Sounds fine to me. Buster Williams is PUMPIM'!

The thing I dig most about those Horace trio sides is the intros. Cat wrote more music in an intro than most folks did in an entire album.

Brenda Bragg should do anything but...