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Do you have a New Orleans gig?

Just listened to the cd driving to LA. Loved the way the last cut and hence the cd ended! Sonny Rollins' codas have nothing on you guys.

There's some material from the Royal Roost from February '49 with Miles on trumpet. I'm not at home but IIRC it was on a cd with some Miles quintet cuts from around the same time.

Bright Moments! And many more!!

I agree. Initial episode was great. The hand of George Pelecanos is apparent in the writing. I second that!

Jade Visions: The Life and Music of Scott LaFaro. I've only read the"life" part. I'm not as interested in the analysis of the music. He seems to have been an amazing guy. The index is screwed up (surprisingly since it's from a university press) and the discography is a bit weird.

Let us know when you're sure of the cost of shipping so we know what to paypal you.

Both cd and DVD have landed. Can't wait to hear/see them.

Last time I saw them they had people literally dancing in the aisles.

His Jazz Studio 1 was one of the first jazz records I owned. As a result it's always had a mythical status for me.

I was going to post something about that but then I started to wonder how he then supplies the music to Storyville for the DETS and other Ellington releases for which he gets credit? Did he donate it but still have access to it?

Happy B'day and many more!

Just finished "City of Thieves" by DAvid Benioff. Novel about the siege of Leningrad. Highly recommend.

Yes he was. Met Maria there. The Bix cd is very nice. New orchestrations and some compositions that Bix never recorded himself.

peculate. (I thought they'd left off the initial "s". ) Nope, it's in the dictionary.

BTW A few years ago I heard Peter Goralinick (sp?) say that one of the few contemporary bluesmen he liked was Geoff Muldaur.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a43ekkTiOIf8 I used to always read his stuff in Village Voice and various European publications when I was abroad. Felt I knew him a bit. (Maybe there should be an RIP thread. Sure are a lot this month.

Saw Buddy Miller twice as a backing musician: with Emmy Lou Harris and with Alisson Krause/Robert Plant in what seemed to really be a T-Bone Burnett band. My wife (the guitar player) liked him enough to buy a couple of his cds. I like them but don't think of them as anything but contemporary. Maybe I don 't hear enough contemporary music go know what it is anymore. (Most of the music I listen to is by dead people. )

Well the Drops "image" seems to me to be ironic. I mean when you call your record "Genuine Negro Jig" or whatever and dress like they do you've got to be doing it with humour. As to Kenny G-- why be sarcastic about him either? I've never heard him (actually I saw him do a number at the World Cup here a decade or so ago) and presume I wouldn't like him but I don't think that makes me superior to the many people who do like him. There's often a tendency for jazz fans to feel their taste is better than that of non-jazz fans, forgetting that most of the world thinks we're a bunch of nerds.

Nothing to do with my liking them. I'd say the same if I didn't like them.

"Chocolate Drips" Why get nasty?

I was able to find a copy on-line fairly recently (this past year, I think) though I have to admit at my age I consider recently to be anytime since the Beatles broke up.

Hmmmm.... Looks good.

The iTunes store has a playlist of songs in honour of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. One of the cuts is by Mingus and called Themes from Movies. Checking the iTunes store for Mingus I found a plethora a records-- many of which Sue would not approve of. However this song seems to be from another anthoology : The 10th Anniversary of the Jazz & Heritage Festival. Anyone know it's original provenance?

Gene Autry at the local hockey rink probably in the late forties/early fifties. First jazz concert may have been Sun Ra quintet in summer of '61. He played the Xmas song.