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Maybe Water will reissue those Kenny Cox Blue Notes...

The recently re-issued STUDENT STUDIES contains prime C.T. from the mid-60's, with Lyons, Silva and Cyrille. Essential listening, IMHO; one of the most welcome reissues of 2003.

Pretty cool. http://www.michalevy.com/gs_main.html

For later Shepp...

The original side one (Waltz / Monk's Mood / In Your Own Sweet Way [which swings like mad]) of this LP is about as good as it gets with KD. Also, don't forget his contributions to this one!

Well, as someone who writes (in part) for a living, there are some things I posted on the BN BBS that I'd like to get back into my portfolio. Some thoughts / ramblings / lucky occasions when, in retrospect, it seems to me I hit on something like I might like to use in a future writing project. That said, I won't pretend that I'm not a minority in this respect.

Many, many happy returns.

Now: (well, about 2 years and some facial hair ago; my employee ID pic...) and then:

Of the Yales... Volume 2 consists of live shots from Basin Street circa 1955, and features some fine work by Ruby Braff, Paul Quinichette, Mel Powell, and Teddy Wilson. Volume 7 (?), already mentioned, is also worth picking up, for Phillips and Harris alone. There are also some big band circa 1959 - 1960 recordings in this series, with Joe Newman and Zoot Sims among the soloists featured. Very much worth hearing.

As far as the over-renditioned "Knockin' On Heaven's Door Goes" -- for me, the definitive version is Television's (hear THE BLOW-UP).

I have an old VHS copy. If you are a Tristano-phile like myself, its essential viewing. Its a rather short concert (29 minutes or so [?]) but watching Tristano freely improvise several of these pieces in his inimitable manner, at perhaps the very height of the "free jazz" explosion -- 1965 was the year of ASCENSION, after all -- is just fascinating. For those further interested... http://www.lennietristano.com/

My budding musical career was cut tragically short the day my sister grew exasperated with the incessant rehearsing and put her foot through my

Ah, yes, the fond, fond memories this one conjures up...

Of the Fairport versions, I'm most fond of "Percy's Song".

They aren't showing STALAG 17, LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON, SABRINA and ACE IN THE HOLE (aka THE BIG CARNIVAL)? Hmmmm... Agreed that both ONE, TWO, THREE and THE LOST WEEKEND are among the best of his output. The former is one of the most relentless comedies I've ever seen. Ed Sikov's ON SUNSET BOULEVARD is a fine bio of Wilder. Several compendiums of Wilder interviews have also been published, inlcuding Cameron Crowe's CONVERSATIONS WITH BILLY WILDER.

Didn't Hot Lips Page record some trio sides with Teddy Bunn and Leonard Feather in the late 30's? Though recorded in the early 1960's, this is rather much in the idiom Chuck mentions...

Lynn Hope was black power before there was Black Power...

Seriously, what's the story behind the man's sky piece / topper / lid / bonnet? Is it a form of homage to Hammond organ pioneer Korla Pandit? http://www.spaceagepop.com/pandit.htm

I'll stump for: | Frank Gratkowski Quartet, SPECTRAL REFLECTIONS (Leo) | Fathead Newman, THE GIFT (Highnote) | Jeff Parker, LIKE-COPING (Delmark) | Charles Davis, BLUE GARDENIA (Reade Street Records) | Julius Hemphill, ONE ATMOSPHERE (Tzadik) | Wadada Leo Smith / Anthony Braxton, ORGANIC RESONANCE (Pi Recordings) Re-issues: | Bobby Bradford, LOVE'S DREAM (Emanem) | Cecil Taylor, STUDENT STUDIES (Fuel 2000) | the Bud Freeman sessions on Fantasy (ALL-STAR SWING SESSIONS) | Elmo Hope, SOUNDS FROM RIKERS' ISLAND (Audio Fidelity / Fresh Sounds)

I have the Novak Quartet readings on Phillips. The Amazon reader isn't too fond of them, but I find their slightly clinical, Boulez-esque interpretations make it easier to really examine the architecture of the work. The recording I heard most often growing up was this one: but its been ages since I heard it. I do know the Juilliard Quartet built their legacy in part on their performances of these quartets, and that my father never gave up his old Juilliard LPs, including those 1963 recording of the Quartets.

Thanks for the plug, all.

Paul Desmond also recorded a couple of fugue pieces for fantasy in the mid-50's.