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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?

Uhhh...where do I find "New Posts"?

I paid for mine (25 cents?) at a brick and mortar Towers.

RE: Fargo. agree, though I'd say more anti-climatic than cool.

Happy B'day!

I loved this book despite the silly subtitle and that it's more than I really wanted to know about Sam Phillips. Amongst other things I learned: Sam used Phineas Newborn on at least one of his early recordings.

PM re: Pops and Blues Singers.

I downloaded "Sue" from ITunes a couple of days ago. I'm a big fan of Schneider, but though this is recognizably her, it's far from her best work.

I still haven't listened to this, but a friend on Facebook who I don't think is a a big jazz fan wrote the following: "I almost never discover music on airplanes. And lately, frankly, I've been finding it difficult to discover exciting new music anywhere. But yesterday, on my way back from Warsaw, Poland to Pittsburgh, PA I did. These days, it seems to me, record labels are using airplane "stations" to promote whatever they want to promote. (They've probably always been doing that.) So most of what you get to hear on planes is just that -- the tracks the labels want you to hear, which is of course whatever they think will find the largest market, which isn't necessarily what's most interesting. (Duh.) But can be. The classical channel tends to be filled with "greatest hits" that I know backwards and forwards. The classic rock channel -- same thing, and most of it, I don't like. The hip-hop, pop, etc. channels -- well, you get the idea. So, as often happens on these flights, I ended up on the jazz channel. And there I discovered this new record by a guy named Kamasi Washington. The record is called "The Epic." I listened to it twice all the way through, a third time, partially. It blew my mind. Sometimes I like to share my enthusiasms." What I think is interesting is that my friend wasn't influenced by any "hype", he just heard the record and liked it.

Happy B'day!

Long Short story with references to Sonny Rollins practicing on the Williamsburg Bridge. http://harpers.org/archive/2015/11/williamsburg-bridge/

I saw him at Massey Hall in Toronto in the '70s. He was great but his accompanist wasn't too good. I told my friend Josef Skvorecky who was a Czech dissident in exile in Canada that I thought it was nice he obviously used a friend even though the guy wasn't too good. Josef scoffed and said "That was the KGB agent whose job was to make sure Rostropovich didn't defect. "