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Well it sure fooled the young people. Wasn't Head Hunters a big hit with them even if It wasn't with old guys like me? (I'm not sure I ever heard it.) And Rockit was all over MTV. The video is still considered ground breaking. Don't you mean to say "it sounds like an old guy's idea of young music to me."? Or is that to be presumed.

Much as I love him I find some of the early Granz dates (with Hank Jones and John Lewis) weak, as well as his playing on Pres and Sweets. Yeah, but those recordings are worth having for Sweet's playing.

Got an e-mail today from True Blue advertising the above mentioned cd of broadcasts from 1951. Anyone have or know it? Should I immediately order it? Is there such a thing as a bad Lester Young cd?

His recent record "Electric Dirt" is pretty good too.

I may have to get this just for Davenport Blues.

Very nice, and informative, obit in the LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-andrew-love-obit-20120414,0,7128536.story

A friend of mine who lives in Sag Harbor told me McKusick was leading a local band a few years ago.

Saw her last night. I had seen her once before at Jazz Fest and enjoyed it but not as much as this time. Her band is called The Professionals and they were. At one point she stopped the show to lecture someone she noticed surreptitiously recording it. Asked him how he'd like it if she stole his pay checks. She asked for requests and people knew way more of her songs than I did. She's in her seventies but I can't believe her voice was ever stronger. Great show, unfortunately not in a hall that made it easy to dance-- despite her encouragement to do so.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/musicnightlife/2017932770_jatp08.html

If you don't have it, buy it.

Hey, he studied with James Booker. (And Ellis Marsalis too I think.)

Yes and we should go metric and stop printing paper dollars too. Fat chance of any of that happening.

Happy B'day and many more!!!!!!

Wow. I just saw Chris on Saturday night at a gumbo party in SF. (Fund raiser for New Orleans musicians.) Apparently he's mainly doing Mexican music now.

I saw him in the motorized chair at Disneyland! Same reaction as you. Same for me, though for some reason I also never saw Coleman Hawkins, Pee Wee Russell or Louis Armstrong. I think that the first jazz show i ever saw may have been Sun Ra with a small group.

The Canadian performing rights organization (whatever it's called) does it the English way. Or at least they did years ago when a folk singing friend of mine listed the same non-existent song after every concert to see what the performance fee for a song was. It wasn't substantial but it did exist. And he wasn't stealing from anyone else-- he wrote virtually everything he performed so he was getting all of the small amount of money anyway.

I couldn't find the 'mp3 bargains thread but anyway, the 3 Mainstream records (minus one cut) by the Terry-Brookmeyer group are available as one record for $8.99 on mp3s from Amazon under the title "Essentials". However if you look up the records individually they're listed as being by "Clark Terry and Bobby Brookmeyer."

Second best concert I ever saw was Bruce in 1976. (Best ever was Ellington band on his birthday in 1964.)

But I thought the JSP Patton was supposed to sound better. (Can't remember where I read this.)

Hey great analysis of the record which I haven't read anywhere else. I like it a lot but find a couple of tracks over-produced.

Interesting. Ellington makes a longer version of the speech about McLuhan on the studio version of the suite. I mentioned this once to McLuhan's daughter who said Duke and her father were friends though Ellington always seemed to be flirting with her mother.

Uhhh IIRC Seven Steps to Berlin is the name of the box. BTW How long did "The Trio" work with Wes? I thought the Half-Note was a one-off. I saw the trio a couple of times in Montreal and didn't even know about the existence of the quartet.

Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugayan. It's a novel that has appearances by Luis Armstrong, Bill Coleman and John Hammond amongst others. Highly acclaimed and best seller in Canada. Definitely worth reading though I would claim that it takes place in some sort of alternate universe where Louis Armstrong is living in France in 1939 and spends days working on one recording.

Just finished two very different books about music: "Down that Lonesome Road" Mark Miller's book about Lonnie Johnsons's years in Toronto and Tommy James' "Me and the Mob and the Music". Both highly recommended. The main jazz connection in the James book is that Morris Levy, owner of Birdland and Roulette Records, is a major character in it. It's a great book for anyone interested in Rock even if they're not a fan of The Shondells

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