Joe

I too am a big fan and would love to sentence all Squirrel Nut Zippers fans to a Hicks marathon. To show how its REALLY done. WHERE'S THE MONEY?

Tim Gane of Stereolab has also nicked great stuff from Brian Wilson, The Silver Apples (compare "Mellotron" from PENG! to the SA's "Ruby"), Suicide, The Fall, and Sun Ra ("Cadriopo" is almost a complete rip-off of "Love In Outer Space). The thing about S'lab is that they steal from the best.

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

From AMG: Originally released as Twink in 1967 (and changed because of the unrelated connotations the word has been saddled with since)... TRAVESTY!

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...).

Some really fantastic stuff on the Rhino anthology. Nordine is much more Surreal than Jean Shepard, like some cross between DR. SAX Kerouac and Edgar Allen Poe (hey, come to think of it, the gap between the tweo is not all that wide anyway...) A piece like "Down The Drain" would work wonderfully on radio (well, it sounds good on an old mix tape I have). Interesting arragements on the Dot sides Rhino collected by Fred Katz. Horn solos by Paul Horn. The Asphodel label has recently reissued both COLORS and WINK, both of which are less "jazzy" than the earlier material, but both of which are more readily available. COLORS in particular is a fine, fine record; the accompaniments are quite Dick-Hyman-Sits-Down-At-The-Moog-esque.

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...)