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I'll admit upfront that my chronology in this matter is not what it should be, but it seems like Max followed producer Bob Shad to Time from Emarcy (just as he followed Bruce Lundvall from Columbia to Elektra to Blue Note), and that the string of Max-related albums on Time were all from the turn of the decade, 1959-1960. WE INSIST! was recorded in 1960, right? So why did FNS end up on Candid? Did Shad nix the project for fear of controversy or, perhaps. a lack of interest in its themes? Or was the Shad/Roach relationship already over due to other, non-related factors? Roach seems to like working with certain producers, no? His involvement w/Hentoff might have been a long and productive one if Candid hadn't folded so quickly. From Candid, he went to Bob Theile and Impulse!, a label that would seem perfect for his work of the era, but that didn't last too long. I wonder why? Then there's the Mingus factor. The former partners in Debut sometimes crossed paths labelwise, including, especially, the Candid days & the subsequent Impulse! ones. Did Mingus have any sway with Roach about bringing FNS to Debut [edit: I of course mean Candid here] (or Roach w/bringing Mingus to Candid)? Any info in this matter would be greatly appreciated. As always, thanks in advance,

Her two Novus things might still be available in deeper cutout bins. Don't bother unless you want to hear slick, pop crossover attempts. Actually the first one, AMINA, is not too bad for what it is attempting to be, but neither album are worthy of her greater talents.

This CD contains remakes, not the original recordings: AMG review. My bad. Scratch that from the list, then.

Of this, I know nothing...

For Mr. Litwack:

Listening to the Moonglows set that J.A.W. so rightly recommends above, I noticed the Red Holloway makes some my-t-fine solo contributions, and that one one session, the backing is by James Moody, Dave Burns, Sadik Hakim, and whoever else was in Moody's band at the time. As well, the into to the tune "Penny Arcade" seems uncanilly like a premonition of a Brian Wilson production. The Moonglows need to be heard!

I didn't know there WAS a cure for British bacon... (JUST KIDDING!)

Speaking of Doo-Wop, does anybody remember a thing by a group called The Medallions called "The Letter"? Whoever that was who did the spoken part in the middle sounds like a real "uh, he was always kind of a loner" kinda guy, if you know what I mean. But OTOH, you GOT to love any record that uses a word like "pizmotology" and talks about the "pompitudes of love" (a phrase later co-opted by Steve Miller!). I came across it on a Collectors Records cassette (oh, the irony!) collection of Doo-Wop singles from the Doo-Tone label (yeah, the same label that did Redd Foxx, Curtis Counce, & Dexter Gordon). There's some GREAT stuff on there.

Some people call me Maurice...

Partch was stilll very much a cult figure when I "discovered" hum for myself in the 70s. I'd say that by any reasonable deinition of the term, he remains one today, unfortuately... Aric, next time you get a chance to see the original "Mothra", check out the song the two girls sing in their cage. Pretty darn interesting. Now if you want to talk about "exotic" music and Hollywood, remember that California, and the whole Pacific Coast area, historically had an influx of Asian peoples and cultural flavors a lot earlier than the rest of America did. Probably a geographic matter entirely. But I'd think there had to be all these "exotic" strains in the air that had an effect on the overall esthetic of the region, just as the American South is steeped in African-American influences and the American Northeast is in the various European immigrants' cultures.

Glad to see everybody back. Let's all stay on it. Weiz, best wishes to and for your wife. Did not know about that. Gotta be rough. Keep the faith.

If you see it, buy it!

Nah. With tenor and organ, we're talking one of nature's great combinations, like ham and eggs or Jack and Coke.

Your parents played?

I thought it was some Rastafarian thing.

Actually inDEED!

A six-pack is more of a breakfast-through-lunch continual thing, not a breakfast by itself. Pacing, a lost art?

Ra was into all kinds of "exotica", and I don't doubt but that he had heard this.

And may I say how nice it is to once again hear the term channel!