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Let me advocate for this once more. I've seen her do it live and it was intense.

If not Joe Lee Wilson, Leon Thomas? Oh my, #5, I just realized what that is. Seems like one that might sound more familiar to me than it really is...good energy. True on all counts. Pay attention to Burnett Anderson, he's the one really playing.

Having a quick listen, here's what I recognize, or at least recognize as generally familiar, TRACK ONE - Joe Lee Wilson, although with who, I can't say. No matter, works for me!! TRACK TWO - Charles Earland w/Hubert Laws and Lee Morgan, doing that Chicago tune. They played the hell outta this on the overnight jazz radio show I listened to as a teen, and it's good to hear it again. How 'bout that Billy Cobham, eh? IN there! TRACK THREE - oh geez, I know I've heard this one...Harold Vick, maybe? Sounds like the guitarist's date? Eric Gale? I like it when they made records that sounded like this, people today bitch about the direct bass and all that, screw it, that's what it sounded like then, people were playing, and this...oh hell that's Charlie Rouse! Calo Scott & David Lee! Thew Strata-East record. Yeah, okay, yeah I like it when records sounded like that. Go swimming in all that bass, that's what it's there for. SWIM! TRACK FOUR - Recognizable from literally the first note, Hank's Breakthrough album, not my favorite cut, but nonetheless, listen to Billy Higgins, DAMN! I love this record, it's kinda scary for me at time, I mean Hank is just about as raw nerve, bloody even, as he ever was. There are those who don't "like" this album all that much. I guess I can see that, but hard reality is not always fun. If you want fun, go to Disney. Just sayin'...And Charles Davis is speaking. TRACK FIVE - Seems like one that might sound more familiar to me than it really is...good energy. Is that Billy Bang? TRACK SIX - Remember when it was really cool for everything to start with a bass vamp? I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess Chico Freeman? He made a lot of records early on where you could here that he was juuuuuust on the brink of his chops being really there, but not quite. But he played with a strong feeling then, and got over enough to keep him viable until he did. and he did. Now if this isn't Chico Freeman, I don't know. But this is a really good trio, the backing goes ahead and gives it up. Everybody should be able to carpe diem like Chico Freeman, I really admire him for doing that. TRACK SEVEN - Blakey early 70s Prestige, one of those records..Anthenagin, maybe? Woody Shaw/Carter Jefferson, wait, no, hell no, that's Elvin with Thad and Hank, one of the At6lantic records. Midnight something or other, right? Yeah, that['s didn't sound like Woody, and that couldn't be anybody but Hank. It was the Rhodes and the press role that threw me. Dam, I must be getting old to not get that right off the bat. That Rhodes riff should be unforgettable! I played the hell outta that record when I finally got it. It took a long time, too long, not until somewhere in the early 90s, I think. TRACK EIGHT - The unmistakable sounds of Count Basie! No, just kidding, Ra, maybe? He made soooo many records, I don't even try to hear them all. Eventually maybe, I mean, I take them as I find them and got the "basics" back in the day. But I don't know if this is Ra or not, to be honest...that's NOT Gilmore on tenor for sure. It reminds me a little bit of Roscoe, but Roscoe is usually more adamantly stubborn about his articulation than this...I give up. I like it well enough, sure. I will say this though - the recording sounds like early digital, and I do not like it when they made records that sound like that. Give me the fuzzy Rhodes and swimming pool bass over the pointy ping, please. Is that Don Pullen? And that sure sounds like Lester Bowie, so it's a keeper, just because. Ok, I was unaware of this one, that would be Jarman, and this is the record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_Destiny TRACK NINE - Haven't really dug too deeply into the South African/Brotherhood Of Breath thing, to be honest, but I have heard some things by them that put me in mind of this. I like it a lot. But then the alto starts sounding like Gary Bartz, so I don't know. Yes I do, that's Woody on trumpet and I hear applause, so that's gotta be Home. STRONG. WheredaCD? TRACK TEN - This why young people need Kamasi Washington and old people don't. "Everybody" needs "this", it's just a question of who's going to do it in their time. The tune itself reminds me of a Doug Carn tune, "Revelation", but I don't think it is, although the vocal group seems to have Jean Carn in the mix somewhere. I love those Doug/Jean records, this one here, maybe not so much. It's not Carlos Garnett, is it? TRACK ELEVEN - It's love. It's the Rascals. It's Hubert Laws. Hubert Laws is on a lot more Atlantic records that might be casually assumed. Hey, haven't had a lot of time to do the BFT thing lately, no going to have much more this month (t'is the season!), but I ahd a window today, so...carpe diem, right? This was enjoyable. This is all, to one degree or another) music that is one type of musical "home cooking" for me. Thanks!

The club date CD is crazy, Lucky Thompson starts getting wound up on "Lady Bird", and then on "Strike Up The Band" he just FLIES. I've been listening to Lucky Thompson for decades now, but every new (to me) record of his I hear makes it feel like I'm hearing him for the first time. What a marvelous player (and writer) he was.

I hear a walking bass?

Holy shit, on my YT anyway, this comes next. Don't think I've heard it, but talk about "wow"!!!!!

I think the best outcome of this reissue was the unreleased studio session that came after it. That was more or less splendid. I wonder will there be some more?

I kinda look at "Mosaic" and "individual CDs" as different things. Oh, covers, Muse vs 32 Jazz...Muse ftw, imo. They had as distinct a look oi the shelves in their day as anybody. You're flipping through and you see a Muse, you knew it was a Muse.32 Jazz was just like, hey, whatever, we got a guy with a computer and he does this for free, if you really passed up the LPs, that's on you, and if you didn't, hey, take it or leave it.

For such a simple song, it has a pretty involved history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Cucaracha https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2315/what-are-the-words-to-la-cucaracha/

Not commonly heard in these parts, but at least it's logical language, a queue being by definition explicitly related to waiting. Now, waiting on lime, that makes sense, I've had that experience more than a few times.

fwiw, the January 1943 concert was released as 3 LPs. But that was probably because of "Black Brown, and Beige", the full performance of the piece as originally written. It would be sweet if we could get an authorized collection of all the material from all the 1940s Carnegie Hall concerts.

"Wait on line"...that's a pet peeve. When did it stop being waiting in line? It's not like we're bits and bytes, nor is it like on those Fidelity(?) commercials where there's a literal line that you walk on. #grumpyoldfart

If you don't know the game all that well and also need to budget, you might want to consider sitting in the 205-211 area. You'll lose a good bit of the intimacy/immediacy, but you will also be able to watch how everybody moves when the ball is in play. Many of the earliest TV broadcasts used this view as their default, although more out of necessity than anything else. Caveat - it it's a pitcher's duel and the ball isn't put into play a lot, you're not going to have a lot to look at. But if there's a lot of offense, watching everybody on the field execute can be quite entertaining. Ah, Brad offers the same advice!

I'm not sure how "all in" I'd go on Levant as a pianist, but as part of a total picture (which has to include a good dose of his film/tv/radio spots) of a unique figure in mid-century American culture, yeah.

Oscar Levant was a character.

You've never had a Dynaflex LP?

You know what was fun? To have two copies of Stick It, and use one to play along with the opening triangle of "Space Shuttle". It took a little practice, but those Dynaflex LPs were good for not a whole lot more.

Like another illustrious American, I'm not taking anything off the table...

Is this an annual thing? I remember one for a few years (or more) ago. It was an airshot from the radio show. Not complaining, not at all. Good to see the old guy still being remembered and appreciated by more than just record collectors!

Maybe it's not a scratch. It might be a piece of trash got onto the record. A close visible inspection is called for, perhaps?

I've been practicing waving like that. It's easier on the shoulder.

Slept on this one for too long...slept is not the right world, I was oblivious to its existence. But started in on it today. CD 1 is excellent beyond words. Thompson's soprano playing is really in a class of its own. A totally unique sound, and intonation that would make a strobe tuner freeze in its tracks.

Preliminary inqquiry sent on Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton Revenant box $137