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Just a wild guess -- one of the Ike Quebec records featuring Milt Hinton?

ALUMINUM TUNES is as fine a Stereolab "sampler" as there is. IMHO, TRANSIENT is one of the finest guitar rock -- whatever that is -- albums of the 90's.

My vote for the best of these.

Comments on this one? Other soloists include George Cables and Carlos Garnett. Looks REALLY interesting... http://www.dustygroove.com/jazzcd4.htm#84712

Another vote for ALABAMA CONCERTO; some of Cannonball's finest work, IMHO... and Art Famer's too, for that matter. Can't pick just one, here are a few selections: Frank Lowe, EXOTIC HEARTBREAK Lucky Thompson, TRICOTISM [aka HAPPY LITTLE SUNBEAM] Abbey Lincoln, PEOPLE IN ME [props to Jim Sangrey...] John Stevens, BLUE John Carter, FIELDS Jack Teagarden, ACCENT ON TROMBONE [originally on the Urania label, most recently on CD courtesy of Drive Archive]

Mr. Grimes appears on the brand spankin' new Dennis Gonzalez release NILE RIVER SUITE. For more info... http://hometown.aol.com/dennisgonzalezx/my...page/tunes.html

Call me crazy, but how about Earl Bostic? And how about a Clifford Scott Mosaic Select? He recorded 3 LPs for Pacific Jazz / World Pacific in the 60's, and appeared as a "star" soloist on a number of others including a Gil Fuller / James Moody date, NIGHT FLIGHT...).

And here I thought this was going to be an "anti-circ" thread... http://www.nocirc.org/

So, ummmmm, where exactly did Mr. Manuel get these pics?

Nice cover. But too bad the slightly enigmatic Mr. Freeman Lee is not pictured... long wondered about that cat...

IMHO, just about anything with Tony Scott on it is worth owning. Even a pseudo-New Age record such as MEDITATION (a collaboration with Jan Akkermann... no, there is no re-make of "Hocus Pocus" on this record...) Some other Scott recommendations: (billed as Anthony Sciacca) (final 3 tracks only, but...)

That is the story I have heard as well; seems I've also seen photos from the SONNY ROLLINS AND THE CONTEMPORARY LEADERS session where the musicians are still partially surrounded by boxes and other evidence that the studio is in fact a storage facility. Yet weren't the early Hampton Hawes trio sessions were recorded in a high school [?] auditorium "after hours"?

I'm really digging Ornette's fashion sense.

Have the CELLO QUARTET on vinyl; have yet to quite warm to it. If you can find them, dig Kellaway's duets with Ruby Braff on Concord, INSIDE & OUT. Pretty magnificent stuff.

Two items of (possible) interest: | another review of ALL MUSIC, this one at One Final Note: http://www.onefinalnote.com/reviews/m/mars...e/all-music.asp | Warne's youngest son Jason (or someone claiming to be this individual), has posted a response to Derek Taylor's fine review of ALL MUSIC at the Bagatellen site: http://www.bagatellen.com/archives/reviews/000511.html

Man, this has already been a rough month.

http://www.palmpictures.com/videos/howtodrawabunny.html Fascinating film about the life and work -- the 2 are virtually inseparable -- of visual and performance artist Ray Johnson, a man who definitely went his own way. Worth seeing for a number of reasons, but board members here might want to se it most as the film's "score" is supplied by Max Roach. ("additional music by Thurston Moore", however...). Said "score" is really just a continuous drum solo, quite subdued, but very effective in concert with the filmmakers' (John Walter, Andrew Moore, others) visuals. Black Moutain School-Fu. Fluxus-Fu. Violent reprisals against cardboard cartons and blackboards. Postal-fu. No breasts. Gratutious portraiture. Joe Bob sez check it out.

Bertrand -- this same John Eaton is now a semi-well-known contemporary composer. He was also one of the first musicians to experiment with analog synthesizers; I believe he dubbed his own (pre-Moog) invention the Syn-Ket. As a jazz pianist, he billed himself as "Johnny Eaton". IIRC.

Boom bip-bip boom-bip-bip YEAH!!!! (...and my dog lies HIP-MO-TIZED...)

More Buddy Terry: More Buddy Tate:

True story -- I picked up an old Commodore 64 PC (for 5 bucks) at a garage sale about 6 years. The individual who sold it to me even threw in a bunch of accessories, including a tape drive and some tapes for info storage. To my surprise, the tapes were not blank, but still had some old files on them. It seems that the young man of the houe circa 1982 practiced his BASIC skills by writing nothing but programs related to Rush. One was a Rush discography, another was a Rush "quiz", and so on. Man, did that make we want to pull out a copy of SIGNALS and sit down to explore the world of ZORK... "be cool or be cast-out" indeed...

Some old vinyl... A live Martial Solal date, mid-60's, on Liberty (TRIO IN CONCERT [?]), with Guy Pederson and Daniel Humair. Why? I dig Solal, and this is a great trio. Also, I had never seen this particular recording before. David "Fathead" Newman, FRONT MONEY, a late 1970's Warner Bros. session. Why? I'm exdpecting anythig great with this one given the era in which it was originally issued, but it was recorded here in Fathead's hometown o Dallas, with old friends and Dallas jazz scene mainstays Roger Boykin, Claude Johnson, and W. A. Richardson.

WISTERIA on Criss Cross with Tommy Flanagan and George Mraz.

Go for the collaborations with Waldron first, then fill in with the other dates. Of individual albums, I have a soft spot myself for LONG DRINK OF THE BLUES, as it features that priceless "breakdown" take of the title performance. You also get to hear Jackie on tenor sax, which is pretty darn interesting...