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Thanks, MG! I have several hats, including a shallow porkpie like Prez's. Will post them if the board is modified to accept a picture gallery, like Myspace etc. The hat in the pic was stolen by a chick in a club about three weeks ago, lol. The next week, she fessed up and I told her she could keep it if she would wear it. The girls drive me mad, wanting to wear my hats in the clubs. Two stolen so far, and a couple more were hard to grab back. Why can't people buy their own hats?

In my house, the mouse was stirring on this occasion.

Thanks, MG! Farm3 didn't work, but Omploader did. D'après Prez

I love this session. Tina and Jackie Mac sounded great together. I still have an extra, unopened copy of the "Connoisseur" CD of this, if anyone wants it. But it's not really rare. There might be an RVG by now, and there certainly was a TOCJ.

Thanks, MG. Photobucket won't let me sign up. Its software thinks that my email addy is a fake, spam one. They have good taste - I wouldn't let me join either. So, you guys will have to live without my nice pics taken at Banff, Alberta last March.

He sure is! Mark, that's a gem, and it also gives a link to his impressions of Bogie and Cagney. A few years back, an English channel (not to be confused with the English Channel, or Pete King) arranged a reunion of Sid Caesar and people, including Mel, who had been on his show. That was awesome. Mel recalled a time when he was walking through Manhattan with Sid and a group of nuns passed them. He said that Sid turned to them and said "You're out of the sketch".

Warum sagst du das? Ich verstehe nicht.

Charlie was one of my favorite altos. He is particularly effective on Elvin's Impulse album "Dear John C". (A fantastic album. Check it out.) In particular, in an era when there were several altoists recording with intonation that ranged from mediocre to absolutely terrible, he played in tune. (Blue Note was a particularly bad culprit when it came to that.) I don't really know what the problem was; it's not exactly difficult to play the alto in tune.

I second that.

How do you get around the size limit for pics? (I know about thumbnailing, but I want a bigger pic.)

I second the post about all Dizzy's BN recordings being great. Don't forget Duke Jordan's "Flight To Jordan" - that's where I first heard Dizzy. It's a superb album all round, sadly not often mentioned. Veree tasty!

That would make two Halloween costumes.

This was pretty routine for months up in Ottawa, Ontario, and New Brunswick, where I logged a total of 4 years combined. We regularly got a foot or more, and the plows quickly brushed it aside. That was enough for a lifetime, for me.

I like many types, but my current favorite (at a bar) has camembert and red bell pepper. Yummm. I also make a dyamite one at home, with the usual on it. If at a fast food place, I like Jack in the Box and Fuddruckers, and, occasionally, Wendy's. But NO MacDonald's or le Roi du Burger.

This sounds wonderful! Jim, can you put some sound samples on your Myspace?

I didn't care for his sound at first, be he grew on me. Now I like him a lot - you have to respect him as a musician. Get the set, Colin. It won't cost you much. I love the last track on the first session. It is a long, slow groove. The collection gets more interesting after the first session. As someone else said, his work on John Patton's "Blue John" is very good. That's my favorite Braith session.

I once heard an interview in which he was asked "What's the difference between you and Benny Goodman?". He replied "I'm still alive!". He said he thought that Benny was stupid. I sure wish I was as stupid as Benny! For the record, Benny is easily my favorite clarinet. (And I think his 4 sax section, led by Hymie Scherzer, was the best ever - and I include the various Ellington sections in that.)

Vielen Dank, Nico.

Lol, Wynton waiting for his prince to come.

These are the CDs with soprano solos: Candid CCD 79035 Lucky Thompson - Lord, Lord, Am I Ever Gonna Know? ensayo ENY-CD-3471 Lucky Thompson - Soul's Nite Out Fresh Sound FSR-CD 199 Lucky Thompson - Lucky Meets Tommy And Friends HighNote HCD 7045 Lucky Thompson - Lucky In Paris Original Jazz Classics OJCCD-194-2 Lucky Thompson - Lucky Strikes Prestige PRCD-24144-2 Lucky Thompson - Happy Days *Vogue 74321 55950 2 Lucky Thompson - The Complete Vogue Recordings Vol. 2 and his last sessions on Groovre Merchant. If anything proves to be OOP, drop me a PM! He indeed recorded on soprano before Coltrane. Very unique conception. Steve Lacy, Pony Poindexter and Lucky were the first to record modern jazz on soprano sax, before Trane. When did Lucky first record on soprano? We know that Trane's first recording on it was in the summer of 1960 - the session with Don Cherry (before "My Favorite Things").

Thanks to you, Jim (and your helpers), for the fact that this board exists at all. It's far and away the best board for jazz.

Drunk and TV at 4?? I thought it was bad that they do it at 10 or so, but this has to be the ultimate case.

There are lots of superb air shots, but I vote for the date with Fats, Bud and Art Blakey. The sound isn't the best, but it's still ok, and Bird is just on fire. For my money, Bird was the finest improviser ever. No-one even comes close.

What a tasty piano player! Check out the "Preminado" album (Riverside, motherfucker), with Elvin. The title track is so hip.