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Suppose that credit is due to Mike Fitzgerald if I have indeed correctly identified the session and the "mystery man". I used his on-line Shaw discography and ruled out BN sessions where I knew what everybody looked like, and then tried to see who might match that face. I'm still not 100% certain that it IS Ponder, so if anybody knows or feels differently, step right up! Great resources you got there Mike!

Dave, check your e-mail.

Very glad to hear ALL of that. Thanks!

Ain't NO-body oozin' no orange, nor anything ELSE into MY milk, dammit!

Somehow, "The Electric Wyler's Acid Test" just doesn't have the same ring to it. But try telling that to the kid with the buzz coming out of his head...

NO POT TO SOIL!!!

Intriguing, no?

The news, posted by Mike Fitgerald, that Shirley Horn MIGHT have been dropped by Verve has me wondering if they might have dropped Abbey Lincoln too. Anybody know? Thanks in advance.

So does anybody have a definitive answer about the status of her Verve contract? If it's indeed over, it's been one helluva run.

There is no "right" amount of sugar AFAIC. Whatever it takes to (at least) balance out the tartness, which seems to vary from flavor to flavor. Dude - check out this site! http://members.tripod.com/~NightGarden/packa.html

Rooster, are you hip to this one?

Glad to hear that!

How much you pay for a gig like that? $8 You obviously didn't book it through the AFM!

Dude, does bad luck follow you EVERY damn where? I thought I'd been on a losing streak lately, but GEEZ! Sorry to hear about that most unpleasant outing. It shouldn't be that way. And most importantly - here's wishing the VERY best for your daughter.

Same here!

Oooooh, nice call, Lon. Are you thinking that that would have gone great on one of those Verve sessions w/Ben & Sweets?

Does "CD" stand for "Cute Derriere"?

R.I.P., Walrus Of Love (to use Franklin Ajaye's classic sobriquet). Barry was good up until the end, and "Practice What You Preach" was the kind of "comeback" hit that proved that it was the audience who had gone away, not Barry's talent. Say what you will about disco, but the very best of it moved with a groove that was absurdly human in its irresistability. Barry White's best work had this groove to spare. And those raps on top - my God, you COULDN'T do that any better than Barry White did it (and only Issac Hayes did it AS good). You think it's simple? Try writing one yourself, one that's not a parody, and see how simple it is! So long, and thanks.

Just read in the new Jazz Times that Ms. Horn has had her right foot amputated due to complications from diabetes and is no longer playing piano, even though she is still singing and touring. Hadn't seen this info posted here, but if it's "common knowledge", I apologize. She's got a cat named George Mesterhazy accompanying her now on tour and on her new album (on which she's also accompanied by Ahmad Jamal for 2 cuts), and she states delight in his abilities, but if you're like me, it's a major drag to think that we'll never again hear Shirley's own magnificent accompaniments to her equally magnificent vocals. At least we'll still have the vocals...

Giddins wroter the 5-Star Down Beat review of CONSTELLATION. I think you'll appreciate what he had to say.

How much you pay for a gig like that?

FWIW, Norman Whitfield did the same thing to Marvin Gaye to accent the anguish in such songs as "I Heard It Through The Grapevine". Gaye claimed to have disliked the technique immensely, but the results speak for themselves, no?

I wanna know where that catcher's mitt came from... Happy-sad indeed - imaging having to run out a grounder in those heels!

This ought to be a fun, if meaningless, exercise. And since this is jazz, you can use dead guys too! I got the idea back on The Board That Time Is In The Process Of Forgetting when I asked if Johnny Griffin had ever recorded "Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You". The answer came back negative, and I'm thinking to myself, "Well dammit, he SHOULD!" So that's one to get the ball rolling. Here's another - Hank Mobley, ca. '61-62, would have made a great take on "Come Fly With Me", I think. Those changes, especially on the bridge (ESPECIALLY on the bridge!) seem tailormade for the SOUL STATION-era Hankster. In fact, I've got the performance so etched into my brain that it pisses me off royally evey time I go to the shelves to pull it out and it's not there. Bad Blue Note, BAD! This kinda ties into Lawrence Kart's teenaged dream he had about hearing a record that didn't exist, so feel free to come up with all sorts of configurations. But the bottom line is this - nobody's recorded everything, so what tunes and what artists are (or in the case of the dead guys, were) a match waiting to happen? Anybody comes up w/an entire album by a single artist, replete w/appropriate backing, is elligible for a grant! (but not from me...) Ok, one more - The Dewey Redman/Keith Jarrett group doing "Jealous Guy". No doubt out of sync w/where their heads were at then, but in theory, it coulda made for a really good record, and if Dewey & Keith ever reunionize (imagine a day when Dewey tours with The Standards Trio ), it maybe still could. That's enuff from me for now. Your turn!

I dunno, SOME cheese has a lot of deceptively simple depth to it.... I've always dug GEMINI myself, especially "How High The Moon". Some totally wack (in the best possible way) stuff to be had on that little gem of an album.