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Alan, sent you an e-mail thru the Organissimo button.

God, if I'd have known that there was money in being drunk and horny, I'd have gottten an agent a LOOOOONG time ago...

Ironic, isn't it, that Hunter's last BN album marked the BN debut of Norah Jones. But Atlantic? I thiought that their jazz thing was kaput. Maybe this isn't going to be marketed as "jazz"? And maybe that means more promo $$$? And maybe that appealed to Hunter? Maybe he saw a chance at that "next level" of popularity? I'm just constucting a scenario in my mind. I have no idea whatsoever, and it's news to me as well.

And I may say to myself, "THIS IS NOT MY HOUSE! THIS IS NOT MY WIFE! But this IS my six-pack." Seriously man, I saw a head and a tenor in the tree, angling up and out. Guess I'm hallucinating, huh? MABEL!

To get to the other side? Sorry....

Is that a tenor player (Yusef? Mohawk-era Sonny?) I see up in the tree in the upper RH corner?

Thank you, sir!

Alan, I forget - is Charles Lloyd on that one? My mind says "yes", but my body says "no".

Well, come aboard!

Haven't they recently re-released that entire series? I honestly don't know about the ENTIRE Explorer series, that was a pretty large catalog (or at least it seemed to be to a neophyte back then). I know they just reissued some of the African stuff (one with Charles Earland playing tenor!), but the Explorer Series covered a lot more than African musics, LOTS more. And good luck finding 'em for a fin!

Dude, if you only knew...

Indeed - I've got the RCA, and it has some relatively "straight" Arabic material on it which for me comes of much better than the attempts at fusing the jazz with the other. Back in the day, you could go down to a decent metro record store and drop a fin on a Nonsuch Explorer Series LP and be well on your way towards a bit of basic knowledge. Not these days... It is a beautiful instrument.

Told ya'....

Not Daahoud, but...

Probably not, but once you have kids of your own it makes a lot more sense. That cut got radio play around here back in the day, and I used to wonder what the hell was up w/that weird-ass singing. Now, it's just Cal's kid, if you know what I mean.

We all want AGE OF STEAM to be reissued, don't we? GREAT record, that one is.

Damn straight we can!

So what was the deal with the pickup cover?

B-3er's already a "Veteran Groover" (sort of a jazz Sgt. Rock perhaps?), so I'm wondering - what are the various levels of advancement, and what the initiation rite for reaching the highest level involves? If you say grease, please elaborate, because that could be either very thrilling or very horrifying...

I thought it was Med Flory.

I'd not rule out the Weston so quickly, Kevin. I understand that the "Uhuru etc" vibe is not for everybody, but Weston has produced a significant body of work that, besides drawing on African motifs, also extends the musical concepts of Ellington & Monk in a profoundly distinctive fashion, and if this new MS hits on some of those works, you might find yourelf pleasantly surprised.

Think I videotaped this episode. Might be stashed away in the closet. Don't know if I got Miles' Honda(?) motorcycle commercial or not, though.

Mmmmm...steaks marinating....if not for the husband/wife reunion thing, I'd be over for dinner! Ron, I lived in Albuqueque from spring 1982-summer 1984. I played in a wide assortment of groups, ranging from kinda "commercial" blues bands, to the Albuquerque Symphony (one gig only, they did "Ebony Concerto" and needed saxophonists) to the Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra (or as I called it, The Garlic Band, due to it's being the AJO), to everything in between - rodeos, shows, society bands, grungy "non-commercial" jazz groups, pretty much everything. Big fish in a small pond, you could say. Played at Danbi's, the Cooperage, some club over by the university with the beautiful soul Jesse Sawyer (R.I.P.), and lots of other places whose names I can't remember, as well as the ever-otherworldly Madrid Jazz Festival. Did a fair amount of recording, mostly demo sessions as a hired gun, but nothing outside of Albuquerque proper. Played Santa Fe on occasion (again, can't remember names, one club was in a hotel, that much I can remember), and caught a few concerts up there. Beautiful cities, both, although the last time I was in Albuquerque (2 years ago), the apparent lack of zoning laws had really take it's toll on that city's natural charm. Hey Scott, what's for desert? Ice cream?

I'll second this praise - a well nigh perfect program of freshness. Great remastering job too - it sounds freakin' great in my car, and NOTHING sounds good in my car!

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