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I had begun to read Down Beat when Shaft came out, but had yet to subscribe (our high school library did, though), so maybe I missed that letter about Shaft. I you find it, please share!

I have a CD of this. Made it myself from the download!

Ed Bickert Throwing this one out there again - Sophie Tucker or Ethel Merman?

Jaws is an assassin for hire.

Does this sound familiar? DB October 26, 1972. Does that image show up here?

Sun Ra - Marathon In Milwaukee 06.14.1960 My own personal project to rebuild the Saturn albums from the Chicago period into session, rather than album, groupings. Going by the Robert Campbell page: http://campber.people.clemson.edu/sunra.html I'm eliminating the albums produced by Tom Wilson (there's three records there, I'm surprised that a Euromusiporn CDRecordcompany hasn't bundled them together, it's a nifty and not wholly aritrary conncept for bundling...), but everything else is fair game. I'm going to have to leave out that 14 CD Tranpaency set because...I don't have it. But, check it out, this one day (previously ascribed to a session in Chicago) yields 26(!) cuts, one of which is an "unreleased 45 rpm single version of "Lights on a Satellite," which features the engineer's title cue at the head followed by the album performance drenched in heavy reverb." Track order is apparently impossible to ascertain, but oh well about that.

Right...but I don't know that they actually used the Smile tracks, or just remade them. Maybe "Our Prayer", but I think I've read that even that one was remade somehow...don't know how much credence I give that, but there was the whole "Brian burnt all the tapes" or "Brian destroyed all the tapes" or "we'll NEVER hear it!!!!" mystique-narrative going on that fed on itself for a while until somebody (I forget who) said, no he didn't, they're all still in the can. After that, coincidentally or not, you started getting trickles and downpours of bootlegs proving that at least some it still survived, and today, oh yeah, looks like it ALL survived. I never heard a "fan mix" simulating a "final album" that really worked for me, though. It was never truly finished, and it sounds that way. Brian's is the only version that sounds truly finished to me. The other stuff...too much "wishful thinking" projection going on there.

This recreating of different Smile pieces is something they would do for a few years.. "Cabinessence" was as close as they came to using anything exactly, and they even "tampered" with that some...

Same drum "beat", ok. Not sure if it is the actual track or not...but it kind of blows my mind that they recreated themselves doing that for the coda on the album version of "Surf's Up"..seems like a lot of work....

On Friends?

I do, it was Johnny Pate and it was about Super Fly. I have the issue and it's a long weekend. Would you like me to go find it?

I distinctly remember Johnny Pate doing that about Curtis Mayfield and Super Fly. Don't remember anything like that about Shaft. The Shaft LP did give credits for arranging and orchestrations...not prominently, but they were on there: Mayfield maybe dressed it up more than Pate like, but Pate did get credit:

Yes, TODAY. It's a damn good record.

Mine arrived today, also from Squidco. How did that work, Braxton House Bandcamp working as a broker? Win-win?

Which version? This one or Bobby Vee's? I mean, fuck Bobby Vee, ok?

Oh wow... the comments here talk a bout "Robbie Vincent" playing this when it first came out. I have no idea who Robbie Vincent is/was, but apparently a very popular/inluential UK DJ who aimed at a dancing crowd. So that explains the UK 12" single for the discos! All we got over here was ansgst-y prematurely dead white critics moaning about "Sonny ain't what he used to be", and over there people be DANCING to this record. It's true what they say, right? That dancing keeps you young? Sonny's younger than I'll ever be.

Do not jump to conclusions. Mel Cooley holds up really well, even if he never did win a Pulitzer. And do note that not only was he Mel Cooley, he was also Fred Rutherford. so, this "dual identity" thing that Mel Powell had, not as unique as we might think. Just let it marinade for a while, that's all I'm saying. Sophie Tucker or Ethel Merman?

It would be hard for me to imagine having a good seat in the room for that gig and the music NOT being "in your face"....that's kinda what it was supposed to be.

You know not to walk out on Victoria Spivey next time you see her!

For you and me, yeah. For other segments of society, maybe not... Mel Powell or Mel Cooley?

For the brands "Lee Morgan" and maybe "Harold Mabern", yes, it will be, if it is. in fact a good year for them.

The CD does not duplicate the original LP. The extra Tolliver & Moncur cuts can be found on this LP: The original LP is: https://www.discogs.com/Various-The-New-Wave-In-Jazz/master/199879 John Coltrane Nature Boy 8:58 Albert Ayler Holy Ghost 7:21 Grachan Moncur Blue Free 6:43 Archie Shepp Hambone 11:41 Are you aware of any additional Ayler recordings from this concert? If so, please share!

It's a UK product, a 12" 45. No indication that it's an extended mix, Happy to see that I'm not the only one who danced to it...only I danced alone, because...that's just the way I dance.

Frank Wright Larry Clinton or George Clinton?