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Wolfgang's Vault has a few Mingus concerts but this one from The Jazz Workshop in Boston 10/12/72 is particularly interesting because it has a composition I've never seen anywhere else: "Blues for a Saw". (The vault lists it as an "unknown title", I got the name from a listener's comment. The vault also listed Billie's Bounce as unknown.)

And let's not forget Charles Mingus and Art Blakey. Wow. I'd like to hear that. I used to love Sonny Greenwich. IIRC I saw him play at Dunn's Delicatessen in Montreal. (Is that possible?) BTW There was a good obit on NPR this morning: http://www.npr.org/sections/ablogsupreme/2016/01/05/462061538/paul-bley-influential-jazz-pianist-has-died and I just discovered that the written version is different from what you hear when you play it. I always thought the written posts were just transcriptions of the audio. In any case they're both informative.

Did Paul Chambers do this? I remember he did a lot of bowed solos when I would see him live and have a vague memory of him humming along. (After 50 years, many of my memories are vague.)

And let's not forget Charles Mingus and Art Blakey.

The Occupation trilogy by the 2014 Nobel Prize winner. If you get this edition don't read the introduction till after you've read the novels-- too many spoilers.

I have that on cd but doesn't have that great cover.

I'm jealous.

Fats Domino, Chubby Checker, Billy Hart

I agree. There's a huge jump in the quality of his writing with The Deptford Trilogy. I was studying with him at the time of the publication of Fifth Business so I figured I'd better read it. I was shocked at how good it was. At the time he was better known in Canada as a personality than as a writer. His earlier work was considered rather provincial and nothing I had read (which wasn't much) didn't convince me otherwise.

After one listening I'd say a couple of the takes are quite different and they're all good. One might be tempted to ask how many versions of Gloria and Here Comes the Night do we really need but it's interesting to here how they loosen up. ( The original release of Gloria now seems fairly restrained.)

I was taken aback by how good this cd was, but the liner notes made it clear that the recorded Them was usually Van Morrison and a back-up band often made up of studio musicians.

Anyone here know where to find examples of Spanky Alford solos? According to Wikipedia he won 3 Grammy's for jazz guitar. (Does such an award even exist?) Someone posted a sample of him playing what is claimed to be The Lord's Prayer on Facebook but that's all I've been able find except some instructional videos. He played with D'Angelo and other people I don't usually listen to but I really liked the sample I heard. Anyone have some recommendations for me?

I was just talking about that book last night. Loved it when I was a kid. More recently discovered it was originally titled "Ten Little Niggers".

Wow!

The Man from Muskogee (sp?)

Little Richard, Tiny Parham and Big Tiny Little Leading to Big Joe Williams, Chubby Checkers and Fats Domino Surely this has been done before but in case it hasn't: Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Nat "King" Cole.

"Zal and Denny, workin' for a penny.." That song haunts me.

Davies was my thesis supervisor for many years. Glad people are still reading him.

That's insane! As someone who gets some money from the sale of films I helped make it's sort of disturbing. But if my shelves weren't already too full I'd probably get this.

I think the official story is true: he got busted and named his dealer which caused so much antagonism towards the group that they came to a parting of the ways. Plus, I think he was tired of "the scene". (He complained about it a lot--IIRC he especially complained about Phil Ochs.) When I met him he was driving a cab. Then he was briefly a disc jockey on a hip fm station but got fired for playing The Beach Boys and Buck Owens. He made one record under his own name and began producing (ironically with Jerry Yester who replaced him in the Spoonful), backed up several musicians including Kris Kristofferson and Tony Kosenic and eventually opened a great restaurant in Kingston, Ontario called Chez Piggy. He was still at that when he died. If you liked that I hope you've heard Fred Neil's version. He wrote it just like he wrote Everybody's Talkin' but never gets credit for either.

Produced by my late friend Zalman Yanofsky. Coincidently I just got a copy of Zal's only solo record: "Alive and Living in Argentina" from the notes of which I discovered he'd produced a Tim Buckley record.

I first head it by the Clarke Terry-Bob Brookmeyer quintet. I thought the name of the composer was some sort of in-joke.

It's great. Though I haven't actually heard this issue I do have this: which I think contains everything on the Mosaic except two cuts. Whenever I play this friends, many of whom aren't jazz fans, comment on how good it is.

Thanks.

Why would you do that just to read a put down?