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I often wondered how Miles felt about Herbie being so successful with the Black audiences that Miles claimed he wanted to reach. IIRC when Miles did that concert in Paris where he was joined by old bandmates, the only tune they played that wasn't associated with Miles was Watermelon Man which he played when Herbie came on stage.

For me it was Rubber Soul. I liked them after seeing A Hard DAy's NIght but wouldn't have thought of buying a record until Rubber Soul.

Summer of 64 would've been Eric 'Slowhand' Clapton with the Yardbirds, then Beck '65-66, then beck & Page v. breifly, then Page 67-8 Thanks. So I guess I heard Clapton even before I went to the first ever Derek and the Dominos concert and kept asking "who's Derek? Where's Eric Clapton?' The 2nd guitarist at that show was Dave Mason, not Duane. I think it was before they recorded. And I guess I didn't hear Beck until the '80s when he was in a movie I was working on. I realized he was important when grips kept coming up and thanking me for letting them spend a day listening to Jeff Beck.

I saw him perform Ziggy Stardust at (IIRC) The Rainbow in North London. At the time I may have been more impressed by Roxy Music who opened for him. I didn't get a lot of Rock and Roll at the time.

IIIRC I met Lundval when he was at Columbia and we were doing an Lp for a movie called Heavy Metal. I was surprised to learn that he was a jazz fan. Dealt with him again when he went to Blue Note and we could stick to talking about jazz. I'm sure he knew who Jeff Beck was. Speaking of Beck: when was he with the Yardbirds? I heard them in the summer of'64 at the Marquee Club. I thought they were going to be a jazz group.

I have a cd of his playing in Sag Harbor but I promised the guy who gave it to me not to circulate it because McKusik had asked him not to.

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.)