Big Wheel

Sincerest condolences, Tom. Hope you're hanging in there!

Thanks! I feel old. If anyone wants to give me a birthday present...I'm looking for a job! Failing that, I can send you my address so you can tell Mosaic where to send the Mobley set.

Part of the problem is welfare reform. There are a lot of single mothers out there who have to work two jobs and have no way to take care of their kids.

Ok, so a quick search says then that Michael Howell is on guitar, Henry Franklin bass, and Ndugu on drums....but I have no idea what the record is.

with Hampton Hawes??

D'oh! This is the SECOND time I've accidentally deleted my BFT answers before hitting the submit post button. I'll finish out my guesses later, but here's disc 2 number 5: 5. It took me 2 days or replaying this in my head to figure out exactly who this was. I've worked at a couple of radio stations, and I instantly knew that I'd heard this tune at one of them, but I couldn't remember which one or why or who it was. Finally, I got it: it's this guy.. Last year another guy at the station produced a program of his complete work, and this tune was used as the "bed" for the 30-second promo he made for it. I was running another program at the time and had to play the promo 4 or 5 times. Don't know what album it is, but I'm 99% sure it's him. Not quite gritty enough for my tastes, but a nice performance nontheless.

Randy, do you mean disc 2 number 5? I figured out that one but still need to type up the rest of my guesses.

If he didn't get an interview, how could they have known anything about his "demeanor"? My guess is that this guy came across as a snob and that Claypone is right--there's more than meets the eye here.

Same for me. Oddly, the iMac I use at work had no problems, but then I came home and every PC on campus that I tried wouldn't connect.

MTV articles, like all other texts, must be carefully deconstructed with a view to the specific discourses and narratives of their times. Until we look at the variety of multifaceted interpretations of such discourses of power, we will never be able to grasp their true depth.

Someone from something corporate is informing us of Something Corporate, a band who indeed toils for that same corporate something. It's all very postmodern.

Perkins is up and running now! BTW, special thanks to our own Daniel A for providing a hefty chunk of the material for this show!

www.cybermusicsurplus.com appears to still have the Monterose, and it's very cheap. Looks like they ship to Taiwan, too!

Up for the second half of trumpeters: On now: Booker Little (Time Records). Harold Land's The Fox is on deck.

No doubt, and I have a borrowed copy of Vol. 1 myself. But putting Real Books on Ebay and advertising them? That's practically ASKING to get busted.

In the fine print, does it say whether you have to shell out for the seller's bail?

Slight change of plans: it turns out I won't be able to get the VSOP Perkins material until Friday, so I'm pulling a switch--the trumpet show will begin tonight and finish up on the Thursday time slots; the Perkins show will run on Friday. So the new schedule is: Trumpeters tonight from midnight-1pm and Thursday 9am-10pm; Perkins Friday 1pm-midnight. (All times ET) Apologies to anyone who was planning on listening!

Horace Silver's BLOWIN' THE BLUES AWAY is one good starting place.

Any word on how many New Orleans sets are left?

Marcus, see here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=7065

I'm running two radio programs this week, one celebrating the music of LA pianist Carl Perkins, and the other featuring 4 trumpeters who died or disappeared from the scene too early: Booker Little, Dupree Bolton, Wilbur Harden, and Joe Gordon. Barring any last-minute changes, the Perkins show will start at 12 midnight ET this Tuesday night/Wednesday morning and run for thirteen hours; the trumpet show will start on Thursday at 9 AM ET and run until 10 PM; then it will resume at 1 PM on Friday and finish up at midnight. You can listen to both of these streaming at whrb.org .. I'm sorry the Perkins show got mostly buried overnight, but unfortunately I wasn't the one calling the shots on the schedule this time. And a crappy timeslot for people here is a good one for people in Europe and Asia!

Repetitive sometimes? Yes. But few albums stuff more funk into that trunk. I could listen to that version of "After Hours" every night for the rest of my life.

Complete list: here

I've got 5: Baker, Brookmeyer, Shank/Perkins, Amy, and Touff. The Baker is easily an essential. I would say the Brookmeyer is too but you may wish to hold off and go for the Mosaic instead. Really, you can't go wrong with these--the only quibble I remember hearing is that some people aren't crazy about the harpsichord tracks on the Earl Anderza (which is almost impossible to find, BTW).

Marcus, if you want to hear these before you buy I'll be playing about 4 or 5 of them on my radio program featuring Carl Perkins this Wednesday. I'll post more info when things are finalized, but we will be playing the Pepper Adams, Richie Kamuca, Oscar Moore, and Victor Feldman, and possibly the Piano Playhouse album too.