Niko

just a bunch of questions out of curiosity... since Mtume is Jimmy Heath son, why is his second name Foreman? Does pianist James "Hen Gates" Foreman who aplayed with Heath in Dizzy Gillespie's band (and also a bit later, around 1950) have something to do with it? When was Mtume born...?

just in case, some google finds Photo in a 1968 Ebony article on James Baldwin off-topic: Mike Zwerin interviews Elvin Jones in the Village Voice (1967)

omg - there are quite a few words in that list i have never seen before (such as "cartilage", "appendage", "dike")... guess I'll have to start my own board with a thinned out list...

so so deal online: just spoke to a friend who ordered one of the Old and New Dreams albums from jazzloft.com, he was unaware of the Haden Black Saint box - apparently, they are selling the individual discs without mentioning they're part of the sets... he was pretty pissed but in fact, if you own all but one albums, 13$ per album might be a good deal...

Robert Campbell and his co-workers identify Goon Gardner on numerous Sessions, they claim (and I guess they know what they're doing there) he was the only bop altoist in Chicago at the time besides Flaps Dungee; for example here in the Buster Bennett discography; most of that music can be heard on the Buster Bennett Classics CD (and here in some corners of the world, too), try Famous Door Boogie, for instance (which also can be heard on the Red Saunders Page)... what's the verdict on the Horace Henderson CD Brownie mentioned?

would be easier to agree if there weren't releases like those immediate rip-offs of Uptown albums which are - legal questions aside - plainly unethical... agree on the label names - can't believe that this is a serious help in escaping authorities...

if someone as obscure as Seldon Powell is included... is this a big chart? is there any way to see all of it online?

here is a detailed chronology of Lee Morgan which is associated (don't know how) with McMillan's Bio and (found through this chronology) here are some pretty cool photographs by saxophone player Peter Loeb, of himself sitting in with the Jazz Messengers (Morgan/Gilmore) and Roland Kirk/Don Byas

apparently 89 years old. There's a fine "enhanced discography" in the Red Saunders Project (there it says born 1920 btw) RIP

copied a sentence for you... "In conducting research governed by the rubric of Africana Studies as a holistic discipline, one often encounters detractors who claim that Black Studies research has no legitimacy, soundness, or technical process of inquiry." is that proper English? "The rubric of Africana studies governs his research." (I mean, it's grammatically correct but the usage of the word "rubric" I find a bit strange shouldn't it be something like "idea" or preferably a better word... looks to me like a not so clever author trying to write in the most difficult way that's available to him... but since there are other authors in the book...

just a heads-up that the price for this book is down to 3$ at amazon.com marketplace at present... it has it's faults but it is what it is (more discussion in other threads) plus this is by far the cheapest way to buy a new horace Tapscott Cd (with otherwise non-released material)

apparently there's a new type of project at ina with lenghty interviews up for streaming... so far only one jazz entry, 9 hours of Martial Solal, given my level of french, the best news to me is that there are transcriptions for reading along... http://www.ina.fr/grands-entretiens/video/Musique/Solal

Happy Birthday, Allen!!

and if you end up post-processing the recording on your pc, there isn't really a point to buying the cd anymore...

Alles Gute für das neue Jahr!

certainly rootsy and contemporary, maybe not enough americana: have you given espers a try?

my first concert was the Don Byron Quartet with Uri Caine and Billy Kilson at Stadtgarten, Cologne; guess this was sometime in 1995 when I was 14...

never ordered from grooves-inc myself (except via amazon marketplace iirc) but i know quite a few people here who buy most of their cds from them and are happy with it...

can only second that - i know several people who were diagnosed only after they had spent some time in mental institutions (and who are now happily outside again without any problems...) i wish you all the best for your recovery!

fwiw here's braxton being called a genius from 1974 (so before the Arista campaign?)

i am a big fan of Alela Diane, both of her albums but especially the EP Alela & Alina

earlier guitar with Miles is on some of the Bird Dial sessions... Top 1 would be a tie between Fontainebleau, it has prime Kenny Dorham on it among others, and the Dameron half of the Clifford Brown Memorial Prestige Album, nothing wrong with Mating Call ad the RIverside Big Band album either; easily overlooked is the Chet Baker/Richard Carpenter material on those three Fantasy CDs, (iirc Dameron actually "sold" Baker who was residing with him to Carpenter...), there's about 10 Dameron compositions in there, some not recorded elsewhere

RIP and a mention of those Dodo Marmarosa/Lucky Thompson Quartets with Mills

same here, have this browser at work where i can't install another one... it's ok as long as you stay in the upper part of the posting window... together with the other issues (threads are readable only until the first post from jim, joe or randy; some threads i can't read because they "kill" IE every time i open them)... it's not the only reason but it sure is one reason why i dont spend that much time here anymore... edit to add: can't find a compatibility setting either

Are you sure you got the right Wilbur Harden? According to Leonard Feather/Ira Gitler's "Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz", the first edition of the "New Grove Dictionary of Jazz" and AMG (All Music Guide) the jazz trumpeter was born in 1925, while Wikipedia has December 31, 1924 as his birthday. it's good that you ask must have been a somewhat cloudy moment, obviously it's the wrong wilbur harden... sorry, folks! the human mind, mine at least... WILBUR HARDEN 31 Dec 1924 Jun 1969 10026 (New York, New York, NY) (none specified) 424-18-8092 Alab