Joe

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...

Rusty Warren Rusty Wallace Rusty Bryant

Yeah, when those Philadelphia cops were beating Bud senseless -- and forever altering the course of his life -- I'm sure they were paying no attention whatsoever to the color of his skin.

Dante Jay Silent Bob

Thanks so much for the close reading! If you visit my personal website, you can find additional links to poems from this collection (as they appear in the pages of various literary journals). http://www.slowstudies.net/jmilazzo/the-habiliments/

Charlie The Tuna Peter Gunn Maria Gambrelli

Adrian Toomes Dr. Otto Gunther Octavius Dr. Victor Von Doom

Thanks!

Hi all. Happy to announce that my debut volume of poetry, THE HABILIMENTS, will be available for purchase later this month. Here's what the publisher, Apostrophe Books, has to say about the collection. "An odd paradox underlies all of the poems in THE HABILIMENTS: the 'habiliments' or 'clothing' of the title refers simultaneously to dressing and stripping bare. The accouterments, costumes, objects, and trappings in which we construct identity are woven into a tapestry of memory, dream, forgetting, and, ultimately, grief. Milazzo uses allusion, antimeria, neologisms, conversions, and logical disruptions, as well as a deep attention to the elusive uncertainties of language to explore how words simultaneously succeed and fail to express emotion, describe reality, or make sense of our relationship with others. Quotidian reality wears a new syntactical and semantic garb as each poem seems to unravel language and a circadian rotation of "dreams": ambiguously of sleep, of aspiration, of nonsense, of the fantastic, or of the banal. If Milazzo's poems are a kind of 'dream song,' they are constructed in radically different ways than John Berryman's (though there are formal echoes of that poet's phantasmagoric layers). In these dream songs, Berryman's angst and sorrow collide with John Ashbery's metaphysics of erosion, Rosmarie Waldrop's semantic drifting, and John Yau's surreal atmospherics." More information about the book can be found via its distributor, SPD. http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780979362774/the-habiliments.aspx ... Or at Goodreads, if you are active on that platform: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29395188-the-habiliments

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The Gangster of Love The Space Cowboy The Joker