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Hey I just heard a A Prairie Home Companion from Cincinnati in which Garrison Keillor did ten minutes on Sid Nathan.

something abou the color of the performer, and your average country music fan of the 60's to be exact. Downtown where? How could you live anywhere large enough to have a downtown and not know Ray Charles wasn't White. What'd I say and Georgia on my Mind were all over the radio and even some tv previous to the country records.

I don't remember the cover. What didn't people like about it ?

Where? I really like Geoff Muldaur and much to my surprise he showed up in Santa Barbara at a church hall with a $10 admission fee! The place almost full but that was only about 50 people.

I'm back. It was awfully good.

I dunno. My 17 year old writes a lot better than this. And so do many of his friends.

I keep reading about the differences between the 2 but no ones seems to say defintively which is best. Also is there a good monitor with no receiver or speakers available?

In 2 hours: Charlie Haden's Quartet West.

President Ralph Kaffel. I once met Saul Zaentz and thanked him. I guess I thanked the wrong guy.

Yes it does! Just happened to me.

Having heard Lou on records with Art Blakey and Brownie and really digging him I got "Natural Soul" and was underwhelmed. BTW is there a reason it's not included in the Mosaic?

So do I. Jazz '34 has the performances at full lenght without interruption by the film cast. Why was the VHS tape rejected? You can see a fragment in my web log !! ( Keep swinging web log ) Keep swinging Durium I think it was because they had paid the musicians and crew for one film, not two. Or maybe because it was done as a PBS broadcast and they were only paid for that. THE AFM frowns on that. As a result there's never been a legitimate release of The Sound of Jazz.

I don't care much for Kansas City but love Jazz '34. Unfortunately I think it's never been released on DVD and was only available on VHS briefly before being withdrawn for legal reasons.

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0647,hentoff,75078,6.html

I'm going to test this right now. Hey it works!! I originally wrote "I'm ging to teste this right noww.

Maybe it's because the sets are out of print and the music is available elsewhere now but I'm surprised that no-one has mentioned the Mulligan/Baker or Mingus on Candid sets.

I presume that the JSP set is not just a rip-off of the Mosaic. It should be a good price but if not and you just want to test the waters I wouldn't scoff at a greatest hits package. I used to have a good one from Telarc I think before I got the Mosaic set. The first volume of the Columbia gives you most of "the gretest hits" but not Davenport Blues or River Boat Shuffle. (They aren't on the Mosaic either.) Personally I wouldn't start with the Goldkette or Whiteman recordings. You gotta have Singing the Blues and In a Mist.

Is the Dragon release the one with the Trane interview? I thought it also had another take of So What with Trane.

I think it came out and was a 2 disc set which included some broadcasts from Cafe Society as well. But the original Ember 4 disc set of the Birdland material is amongst Bird's best. I'm curious: has anyone heard any Parker recordings they think are not worth having (for musical, not sound, reasons. ) Even the notorious Lover Man session on Dial has always seemed pretty interesting to me-- though maybe only for biographical reasons. If it were the only Bird available what would we think of him?

I guess I'm going to have to start using FireFox to access Organissimo.

I may have posted this earlier but a couple of months ago I was there! The Camarillo State Hospital has been turned into a college and I gave a seminar there. I made reference to Relaxin' at Camarillo and no one knew what I was talking about.

Which records supposedly had Gil Evans' arrangements on a couple of tracks?

Been listening to the music in my car for the last two days and just watched the documentary. Will watch the concert disc soon but it looks like a lot of the concert footage was excerpted in the documentary. Interesting how the music affects me differently when I see the perforance rather than just listen to it. BTW I met Ranni once. Had dim sum with Ron Mann and a bunch of other people. Were you by any chance there Adam?

Saw Dexter at LAX once. Looked great: Long Tall Dexter walking all alone with his sax case. Saw Anthony Braxton on the street in Paris, Charles Loyd on the beach in Santa Barbara and Charlie Haden at a restaurant with his son-in-law Jack Black but that was before a Keith Jarrett concert so does it still count? Similarly I've seen Horace Silver several times but always in the audience at musical events. .

Guess what I'm getting for Xmas!?