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Kevin -- thanks, as always, for the skinny on all this. IMHO, a sad, frustrating and frankly kind of absurd development. Plus ca change...

Really looking forward to your Clarence Sharpe release, Luke. Thanks for the update.

(Sound of Horshack laughing.) I was talking about the guy making the funny face. And holding the drumsticks.

Dunno. Looks like a tyrant to me...

I think we could expect a WHOLE lot more Toby Keith records. [shudder.]

Uh-oh. I feel a "What if Reid Miles had worked in political advertising?" thread coming on...

Whoa. Thanks for that link.

I dig 'em. But Kevin Shields is as 'Merican as apple pie, hot dogs, and cheap mescaline.

IIRC, Ross Russell's papers ended up at the Ransom Center in Austin, TX. http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/home.html http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/russell.ross.html

The original Fairport Convention are making a late rally.

Dashing and daring, a drink he was sharing, With wicked Felina, the girl that I love.

Recently stumbled across a CD version of THAT'S THE WAY I FEEL NOW, the Hal Wilner-produced Monk tribute. This has to be a very early CD; the original recording was released in 1984, and it has never been reissued to the best of my knowledge. (Verve had plans to in the recent past, but they were scrapped for reasons I don't remember). A steal at $7.99!

I still say you shoulda gone with a pic of Louise Brooks...

Not my choice as "best", but I found the IN A SILENT WAY box the most ear-opening, and the one that most changed my original opinion of this "stage" in Miles' career. As far as buying for your friend, it is kind of hard to go wrong with the 65-68 box.

Either Lonnie Donegan and His Skiffle Group or The Fall.

I am by no means a huge Andre Previn fan, but I do think this is the finest record he ever made:

Not a bad article. Have found little replay value in The Bad Plus' releases. But I do think Iverson is an interesting player, heard to better effect on some of his own dates, like THE MINOR PASSIONS.

Do the spoken-word bits from the Hal Wilner WEIRD NIGHTMARE project count?

I would advise all board members to cease and desist with the public commentary on this whole LaRoca issue and concern themselves instead with removing all traces of this recording from their personal collections:

Eh... Still not terribly happy with this...

You better believe it!

Lucky Thompson, maybe? Unique tone on the instrument. And he picked it up in a "modern" context either before or about the same time that Coltrane and Lacy did, IIRC.