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All the best!

Uh....ok.

Lou Gehrig finally getting the rap and decides to come back to say "dammit, I thought it was going to change names to Charles Mingus Disease, but NOOOOOOOOO, shoulda known that a freaking JAZZ musician couldn't get it done. So here _____________________, you're getting it now and you better make DAMN sure they start calling it YOUR disease. You hear that Steinbrenners? I'm not stopping until y'all get this shit off me. Let The Pride Of The Yankees REALLY rest in peace!" I mean, I know the odds og that happening are pretty small, but I bet they got algorithms in Yankee Heaven too!

Speaking of Big Bird - if you're a Van Dyke Parks buff, look for a copy of Follow That Bird, a totally delightful Sesame Street feature-length picture with a equally totally delightful score and songs by Parks. We bought it for the kids back in the day, but I found myself sitting down to it myself more than once, just for Parks' music.

I bet they're using algorithms.

Not record labels, but estates, perhaps? There might be an accounting trick to write it off? An incentivazation to the Goodman estate, perhaps? No matter, I see that Christian fathered a daughter, now deceased (as is the daughter's mother), so the odds of there being any tangible estate are slim and none, with slim reportedly leaving town last night.

I initially preferred "Neighbors" myself, but you know, hearing Sonny Rollins in the mall on multiple occasions is/was a powerful persuader. Still not sure if he was aware that he was recording a tune called "Slave", though...

Any idea what the timeline is on doing Roscoe and/or Threadgill and/or Braxton? Surely there's something in the works!

Driving a rental the last few days, and am having a blast just scanning the AM/FM dials to get tastes of all the variants of Tejano/Desi/SE Asian/Gospel/Country programming styles that there are. Unlike Rock/Pop/Hip-Hop, it's a pretty diverse musical menu at your disposal. A week is about all of this I'll enjoy, but it's been a fun week while it lasted.

Yeah, I know. I'm just wondering what kind - if any - estate Charlie Christian had/has.His name is a strong selling point Probably no legal obligation there, but if there is an estate (and there very well may not be), they might reasonably appreciate some little consideration relative to the degree which the name would be used to pimp the merch.

Is there a Charlie Christian Estate as well? Just wondering.

"this is one that's a little different for me...."

I dunno, if they get you high, might be fun. If they make you die, though, not so much fun. Me, I figure I'm living on borrowed time already, no sense pushing that envelop any further than it have done been pushed, so yeah, avoid a loss, make the toss.

Deepest sympathies. I know it hurts.

Nope.

If you're digging Nicole Willis, maybe consider Jimi Tenor's later work.

It's good enough from the big band's perspective, but the quintet pieces are what's rightfully legendary from that gig, imo.

IMO, the Gillespie big band of the 40s was best captured on live recordings, notably from Salle Pleyel & Pasadena Civic Auditorium. There's some earlier (and at least one later) gigs that are good enough, but those two are transcendent, whatever that means...

These algorithm things, next thing you know, they'll be getting into other sports!

Yeah, this Get Pocket thing frequently pushes older stuff to me. But that's ok, mostly.

Apparently these algorithm things can be useful!!! https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-gambler-who-cracked-the-horse-racing-code?utm_source=pocket-newtab

What I need to know is that being a person who understands that giving is better than getting is the proper way to live. Live your life now in a positive way. Help people if you can. Don’t hurt people. That works perfectly for me, man. Hey.

The Mongo selection is a good one, and from a band sandpoint it's as good as any. But for me, Up From The Roots (Atlantic, 1972) is the Mongo album, period, just for Side 1. The closest thing to it (to my knowledge, anyway) is, sorta, Patato y Totico on Verve. The band cuts on Side 2 are neither better nor worse than anything else, but that Side 1is something else altogether! and then, to close out the side: You're either gonna turn the record over that or else play that side over again. I almost always go the latter route, but Side 2 does get you what I think was the debut recording of "Little Angel" which sorta became a Latin-Jazz standard", or did for a while: No matter...Mongo had been making "crossover" records to one degree or another for about 10 years before he dropped this one on a perhaps unsuspecting market (unsuspecting, and if its ubiquity in the cutout bins before too long was any indicator, uninterested). This was also his last for Atlantic, and from there he went to Fania subsidy Vaya for the rest of the 70s, after which...he kept making more records! I don't know if he ever again made another "roots" album like this one, for any label. Not that he needed or wanted to, but the ones he did make were something special indeed.

His last two YouTube videos were corkers!

The series actually ran through 1966! Dave & Ricky each got married (as did Wally, iirc), and Dave, at least, had kids. That show ran a looooong toime! I suspect they added that ending to the older episodes for the syndication package b/c by then (whenever that was), The Irrepressible Ricky was now a Teen Idol, so episodes where he was a kid (literally!) needed some kind of a then-"real time" connect less the people forget.