Joe

Margaux Hemingway Denise Crosby Victoria Sellers

Ice Cube Ice-T Vanilla Ice

Mayor McCheese Ray Croc Steve Irwin

David Koresh Jim Jones Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Rosanna Arquette Roseanne Roseannadanna Rosie The Riveter

That's what has stood out to me as well. Sonny is throwing some serious shapes on this gig.

Bugs Bunny Bunny Berigan Bob "The Bear" Hite

Fernando de Noronha Björn Ulvaeus Murray Head

The Monkees The Bugaloos The Heights

Flaco Jimenez Falco Christopher Boyce

Jonny Quest Brock Samson Elaine Benes

Two I've owned / own but routinely pop up on want lists. Carlos Ward's LITO (Leo), a quartet date with Woody Shaw. Babs Gonzales, WEIRD LULLABY (Blue Note).

Yes, from Dusty Groove a couple of weeks back. As noted, everyone one on the gig seemed to be having a very good afternoon. Nice sonic restoration (I think this has a bit more clarity than the Left Bank material that showed up on Label M back in the day).

Monty Stark Ted "The Mad Stork" Hendricks Larry Stortch

Slim Goodbody Richard Simmons Little Richard

Sam Posner Tony Soprano Kate Bush

Stretch Armstrong Skitch Henderson John Stetch

Dane Cook Mickey Finn Bill Cosby

Yes, that's a good description of what I'm hearing. It sounds Rollins-ish to me, too... but without (the greater) Sonny's personal sense of melody. Bop phrases, by and large, but Red is collaging or bricolage-ing them into new assemblages. Less Alexander Calder, more Robert Rauschenberg.

It helps to contextualize that Sonny Red Mainstream date in ways I'd not anticipated. The way he's constructing his solos here sounds rather different to me -- less bop, more... what? -- than it does on his Jazzland and BN dates. But I do understand what you're saying.

Quisp Quake Cap'n Crunch

Cliff Huxtable Theo van Gogh Vanessa Redgrave

Clarence Dean Derby Beany Wilhelm von Homburg

I think it may technically be a bootleg, or at least "grey market," but if you are willing to do some Internet spelunking, this date is worth an audition as well.

Another thumbs up for RELAXIN' AT CAMARILLO. MIRROR MIRROR, another date with Chick (plus ROn Carter and Billy Higgins), is also fine Also worth tracking down is BARCELONA, an "in concert" trio date on Enja. Maybe not names you would recognize on bass and drums (Wayne Darling and Ed Soph, respectively), but they help to inspire some tremendous extended performances by Joe. And let's not forget those Griffith Park Collective records either...