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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.

Check out "The Carolina Chocolate Drops". Historians as well as great performers.

Mazel Tov!!! (And congratulations!>)

BTW Does anyone know where and when he might have played with Ellington?

A friend of his recently gave me a book of his work. He took many great photos of jazz musicians before he he began photographing rock stars. There's a very nice photo of Gil Evans in the book I've never seen anywhere else but I couldn't find it on his website.

Great record! I feel (not really think) that I've heard it before with words. Is that possible? (It does remind me a bit of Wimowhe (sp?) or The Lion Sleeps Tonight-- which I guess, as done by the Weavers-- would be the first AFrican music I ever heard.)

I just noticed that the Nat King Cole Trio Complete Capital Mosaic is available at the iTunes store! Are there any other Mosaics there?

I'm the right age to have loved DAvy Crockett a a kid, however living in Santa Barbara when I hear "Fess Parker" I think of hotels and wine.

Chuck (and others) turned me on to Von Freeman. But Chuck alone produced the record.

Those are just the jazz holdings. They also own tons and tons of other imprints in other genres. (Other EMI jazz labels off the top of my head: Liberty, Jubilee, United Artists, Solid State, Aladdin, Jazz West. I thought they also owned Elektra Musician but Wikipedia suggests it's a Warner holding. Maybe they only got part of the EM catalog like the Bird and Diz Washington concerts?) Pretty sure it's Warner's. Elektra is the "E" in WEA.

Probably available many ways, but I have it as part of this compilation. The Sound of Miles Davis This compilation actually lives up to it's title: The Greatest Jazz Films Ever.

Happy B'day Mr. B. Anette Hanshaw?!! For some reason I have about 20 songs by her on my computer. You've given me the impetus to listen to them. Black Bottom on right now. Good stuff.

Without having seen or used one can't really comment on the iPad but I think it might be useful as an e-book reader. The Kindle which I use for work is not as ergonomically well designed as almost any Apple product. (I can't believe that "ergonomically" got through spell check. Is it really a word?)

These are DVD rips, mostly... What DVD would this be on?

Thanks so much. I really enjoyed this. Where do people find something like this to upload?