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Isn't she Ravi Shankar's mother's granddaughter?

Since you asked ... Let My Children Hear Music - Classic, Perfect, etc. The CD has a totally unnecessary "bonus" cut and lacks the priceless essay that the early LPs came with. But get this puppy any way you can. It IS that good. Perhaps Mingus' most "fully realized" vision. Mingus Moves - Not my favorite, sounds a little disspirited overall to me. Certainly not a BAD record, just not a great one. Live At Carnegie Hall - more of a jam session than a "Mingus Record", but a good'un, no doubt. Plus, you get to hear the "lesson" that Rahsaan gave Adams that Red alluded to earlier (and I really do think that Adams grew up musically after that, coincidence or not). Changes One, Changes Two - Definitive, simple as that. I much prefer One to Two, but you goota have both. Cumbia Jazz & Fusion - Nice. VERY nice. Ambitious, and successfully so. Three Or Four Shades Of Blues - Three or four shades of ambivalence. Mingus accedes to record company suggetions and makes a record with "contemporary stars" added, also uses pickup on bass for first time (maybe due in part to his devveloping illness), has the best selling record of his career. Just goes to show you... Me, Myself & Eye, Something Like A Bird - a precursor to the Mingus Big Band, I suppose. Mingus is present but does not play. Not essential, but I've always found "Carolyn (Kiki) Mingus" a minor classic, what with Lee Konitz' superb reading of the melody and bittersweet improvisation. Two more from the 70s - MINGUS AND FRIENDS AT CARNEGIE HALL (Columbia). Plenty of good playing on this one, but sloppy recording and editing. Hopefully somebody will make it right (or as right as is possible) someday. The blues duet between Mingus and Gene Ammons alone is worth the cost of admission. And, whatever that Lionel Hampton-sponsored album was, it's pretty good, better to my ears than the last 3 Atlantics, and as far as I can gather, Mingus' last recorded session as a player.

On the old GIGO premise, make sure that your turntable is set up right, your stylus is in good shape, and your cartridge connections all good. And make sure that the vinyl itself is ok. Have you experimented w/different recording levels?

"Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love" knocked me out from Day One, and still does. I transcribed the tune, even used it for an arranging project. The teacher say, "DAMN, Jim - where do you FIND these tunes?" The first year after I heard Adams solo in it , I went around telling any and everybody who would listen that the "next 'Trane" had arrived. Ok, so I was wrong. But that' STILL one helluva solo and one helluvan album.

CHECK IT OUT!!!

At one point, Williams wrote an arrangement of "Scorpio," one of the movements from The Zodiac Suite, to feature three pianos: Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk and herself. This unrecorded arrangement offers moot testimony to Mary Lou Williams' adventurousness as a composer and arranger. http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/ijs/mlw/modern_1.html

MARY LOU WILLIAMS GIVING DRUM LESSONS

The first jazzman on tv? London, 1938!

All I have is a cassette dub. Someday...

On a more pleasant note (in several ways...), remember this?

Speaking of Rednecks...

The first bridge on "Just Squeeze Me" locks into about as perfect a pocket as I've ever heard.

I seem to remember something similar in the late 60s, only w/o the video game aspect. "Alpha State", "Biofeedback", or something like that. And isn't this similar to what Scientology claims to do, training your brain waves to reach a "clear" state, or some such? Be afraid, be VERY afraid... I'll stick to the tried and true methods , thak you very much. If you need a machine, that's too modern for me!

I hate it when cats use Miles' changes on the bridge of "Well, You Needn't" instead of Monk's. And speaking of Monk's changes and fake books, let's not... (the new "official" one excepted, of course)

Alto popped up for a quick minute in the mid-late 70s, as did another Rose label, Ozone. I grabbed as many as I could, which unfortunately, wasn't anywhere near all of them. The album titles were sometimes, uh, "different", as is the case with the one you just got. My all-time favorite Rose album title is a Monk item called "Spastic And Personal". Beat THAT!

Airchecks from Boris Rose. Rose's label. Don't have that particular one.