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Fantastic. Has this been circulated before? Was anyone expecting to hear this? Listening to Naptown Blues now. Here's Wes from the actual performance.

No. It's well and truly an Australian thing as well. Plenty of dice on rear view mirrors (still). Although it was more related to the Australian 'shaggan wagon'. A hotted up panel van beloved of surfies and other freewheelin bottle blonde Aussie men. My link Actually, the stoic Kombi van is still seen on the highways and byways of OZ too. Hippie woman often have crystals and other New Age paraphernalia dangling from the mirror. Actually I seen one recently. On the back of the van was also graffitied 'I love Cognac'. Possibly a New Age Jimmy Smith fan?

17 days to go! I hope they haven't gone out of business before they release the Holy Barbarian

Sharrock said whenever he took a solo in that band, it would ruin the mood Well, I haven't got those. (Sung to the tune of 'One meat ball') You get no sleevenotes with one download. Can you scan them, Jim? MG I'll try to get to them this weekend, Will email them when done. Is that REALLY a Ray Ellington album? MG Uhhhhhh.... In addition to being a good drummer and a charming singer, Ray was the voice of Major Bloodnok in the Goon Show, and sang a song during each show (I see that Ray Nance guested with him on this once). Actually, I rather think that Ray was my real introduction to jazz, in terms of something that I heard regularly while I was a kid. MG If you put an afro on this guy he'd be a dead spit for Phil Lynott from Thin Lizzy

Yep. Excellent concise piece of writing. The avant-gutbucket description is a bit hackneyed but otherwise a great read. Maybe there's going to be an Electric- Harmolodic revival. I better go and tune up the axe

Does anyone know the history of the Mintons/Monroe source. Does the original source still exist? Who has it? Are the re-issues from copies etc? It was interesting to read of a speed corrected Swing To Bop (Topsy). But fake applause? I have never felt the sound quality to be a barrier in this priceless recording. Almost the opposite in fact. CC's guitar sound is all Blues and balls.

And far too young for you. Dirty old man

Crap singer, crap comedian. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Starr MG And an even worse leg spin bowler.

Crap singer, crap comedian. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Starr MG I prefer to remember him as the singer of Merseybeat group Freddie Starr & The Midnighters. Nice for what that group was as part of that particular music scene (most everything that runs under "Merseybeat" has cult status among diehard collectors), nice for fans of the music but irrelevant to others who are musically and/or geographically unconcerned (a bit like mid-60s US Garage Punk or early 60s French "ye-ye" was/is irrelevant to those who are NOT fans/collectors of that particular genre). As for his later doings ... phew ... I see. The Merseyside/Liverpool scene. These are the fans/collectors who argue if Pete Best was a better drummer than Ringo. On the Hoffman forums there was a guy doing a Masters course on the Merseyside history. He was claiming it was common knowledge that Pete Best was the best drummer in Liverpool. I think it was the old guys of Freddie Starr's generation who were the experts/guest lecturers for these courses. I've read some interviews with King Size Taylor who also claims to be the expert in these matters. There was a recent book exploring the influence of the Calypso community on the young Beatles, but nobody seemed to be interested in that. I s'pose it doesn't make money for the old geezers club.

Earlier thread that answered some of the Caravan Of Dreams questions. my link

Great! Maybe it will get an encore run over here. 25 years after its illustrious one shot screening. I was there. It screened as part of a Jazz double bill with a Sonny Rollins concert doco. All the way back in 1987? I remember Ornette rambling about the difference between Male and Female and Men and Women???? Or something like that. Keep an ear out for it

After Gary Glitter last week, Freddie Starr has been taken in for questioning in the Savillle and others investigation. Bad stuff. What is Freddie Starr famous for? Is he a comedian?

The singer is from my town. I saw her playing in a club years ago. I hear her a lot on Public radio. Kinda the queen of the local Soul scene I gather. Great big diva like voice, but more of an old school vibe than the younger singers who have probably grown up in the digital age - if memory serves.

That doesn't remind me of Prestige much. What's the music like?

I can't be sure, but I think I heard that Gregory Green, Grant's oldest son, who works as Grant Green Jr, got that guitar in the end. MG I hope so.

I believe you. I have been immersing myself in Syreeta for the last couple of days. Made myself a Spotify playlist. Don't know if One To One is on there yet.

Is this the one with the remake of Born Again? And I see it's not. It's this one...

"Considering the times being what they were, we did very well and got a lot of money". Does George Benson really need the money? I was wondering that myself. It seemed like a bit of a crap thing to say really. Kinda cheapens the legacy of the instruments. Especially considering how much he goes out of his way to honour the mentorship these guitarists gave him.

Yeah Zappa could count real well, but for someone with such a dirty guitar sound he sure spawned a lot of antiseptic Fusion. And the awful Steve Vai Hair Metal -in complex time signatures genre.

That's a most unusual story that a cowboy would show an emerging Jazz master his first steps towards playing Rhythm Changes. Here's a more usual story regarding Wynton Kelly sharing a jazz language system with an army buddy, Willie Thomas. Here's the quote...from from here My link "I'll start with a little history about my discovery. It started in 1953 when I was in an army band with Wynton Kelly, the piano player with Miles Davis in the 50's. After our daily jam sessions in the barracks, I would always corner Wynton in a practice room and start the "hey, what scale was that and what chords are you thinking about when you played that." With his gentle demeanor, he would always respond, it's not what you name them it's the way you organize and play them. Then one day, he sat down and showed me these simple melody chains that he used to connect his lines through the changes when he was developing a new tune. Once he found these little melody patterns, embellished them and connected them with chromatics he was off and running. These little melodies, I later discovered were a part of the Pentatonic system and the DNA of the jazz language, a la bebop! Here's the basic system. These two little notes I call Pentatonic Pairs, form melody chains that are easy to hear and play through the changes. There are 5 of these Pentatonic Pairs in every major scale. For my purposes, the Pentatonic Pairs on the II-V-I are the most important. If you continue to connect these Pentatonic Pairs, they form a melody chain through the entire Dominant cycle. The best way to understand is for you to experience them youself" And here is Willie Thomas demonstrating the 'knowledge'.

Did the barn get blown down MM?

Here's a picture of Wes's guitar before and after post-fire restoration.My link there is a more comprehensive article in August 98 Guitar Player magazine. George Benson had Grant Green's D'Aquisto at one point but has since on sold it I believe. My link Actually it seems like Benson had the Montgomery and Green guitars at one point. The interview below suggests Pat Metheny owns the restored L-5 while the Green D'Aquisto has also been on sold... "You recently auctioned off some instruments you owned that originally belonged to some pretty famous people. GB. Yes. Pat Metheny bought Wes Montgomery’s L5 at auction. I didn’t know it until I ran into him in Europe and he said, “George, I got the Wes guitar.” And I’m happy, because now I know it’s in good hands. I worried about it when I auctioned it off. Also, Grant Green’s guitar. That’s one of the best-sounding instruments I’ve ever heard, but it was in my closet and I was afraid the termites were going to eat it up. Considering the times being what they were, we did very well and got a lot of money". My link

"RC: You know, I just listened to The Real McCoy, maybe for the first time since I made it. I had the original album still wrapped in cellophane. (I probably should have not taken the cellophane off: I could have gotten a fortune for it on eBay.) But someone was telling me that it was one of the great records, so I took off the cellophane and listened to it. I was taken aback. Wow! We really got to it there. I was like: let's try to get there again!"

My ashes after I have been cremated. Or some good fertiliser, if I prove not to be so.