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Probably the Winter or Spring of '62. Accorsing to one of his (many ) biographies he stopped in Chicago on his trip to New York to find Woody Guthrie. He met up with Kevin Krown and scuffled around campus for a few weeks.

How come no-one ever mentinons Bob's borrowings from Warren Zevone. Actually I think they're more an homage to Warren Zevon. He used lines from Zevon's song Absolutely Like a Martyr as the titles of one song (Abandoned Love) and one Album (Time Out of Mind). Then he began covering Absolutely Like a Martyr (Along with a few other Zevon tunes) on the tour he did just before Zevon died. Warren was in the audience in LA for that tour and was thrilled.

As well as offering "Sound Grammar" the iTunes music store has someething caled "Ornette Coleman on Unique Jazz". Anyone know what that is?

Got this response from Jack Chambers today: "I'm sorry I can't give you firm news about the publication date for Twardzik. There was a flurry of activity in March and April, when the publisher let me work directly with his designer, and we got the book ready for printing. Since then, I have heard nothing."

Is this a new book? I thought I had all of Hammett. (Includng a book of comic strips he wrote.)

"This is Your Brain On Music". Great book.

I saw Brubeck in concert a couple of weeks ago. (It's been more than 40 years since I last saw him.) I enjoyed it but found that his piano style (for better or for worse) was not as distinctive as it had been earlier. He played a lot of standards ("Margie"??!) and ended with Take 5. I'd have preferred The Duke or In Your Own Sweet Way. He had a good saxaphone player but I sure miss Paul Desmond.

106.9 and 88.3! Are you in the Santa Barbara area?

Happy B'Day and many, many more!

After reading 2 bios of Evans I'm under the impression that he was in pretty bad shape near the end of his life. But his playing is very powerful on Consecration and Last Waltz-- as if he was able to get it together once he got to the piano bench.

Composers of music are paid (via their publishers) per unit sold. The rate is set by congress(!) and I believe that it is commonly called a royalty. If the Muddy Waters publishers can show that Dylan is using a melody on which they hold copyright then they are owed money for every disc sold or downloaded.

Excuse my ignorance, but I'm not familiar with Trouble No More; which Dylan song appropriates it? BTW Has Dylan ever given credit for songs he's "borrowed". He does discuss doing so, but for example does Dominic Behan (sp?) get royalties for God on Our Side which borrows the melody of Patriot Game?

I sent an e-mail in which (amongst other things) I asked about the book. Unfortunately I got an auto-reply saying he's away until the 11th.

Uhhh where exactly on the site do you find the programs?

I thought it was "Saran Wrap"-- at least that was what the 2000 year old man said and he should know.

Unfortunately I think "Let's Get Lost" is oop. and has never been available as a DVD. I avoided seeing it when it first came out because it sounded exploitative. Now I wish I hadn't been so squeemish.

I ordered the new Dylan cd from Sony so that I'd get a free cd with one of Dylan's XM radio shows. This "Theme Time Radio Show" is about baseball. At one point Dylan plays a song about Don Newcomb, then follows it by explaining how Sonny Rollins got "Newk" as a nickname. Then he plays Rollins's "Newk's Fadeaway". About a couple of minutes into the song it starts to fade but Dylan interrupts, saying "let's keep going". After a couple of minutes when it finally does fade out, Dylan says "That's Sonny Rollins with his big league sound, covering all the bases". Several years ago I went to see Jimmy Smith at an LA club. I thought I saw Sonny Rollins in the audience and pointed him out to my wife. Then Smith announced that there was a celebrity in the audience. Turns out the guy I thought was Sonny was Newcomb!

New release date -- August, 2006. We'll see. Where did you get this information ? Last week I called the publisher to inquire about the book's availability and found that the phone number was ' not in service ' . I then called the publisher's distributor and was given a different phone number , but that number was also ' not in service ' . I guess I should try and contact Jack Chambers directly , but the only email address I have for him is at the University of Toronto from which he recently retired I believe . You can still get him at his UofT e-mail address. I was in touch with him last week. Actually I owe a reply to his reply so I'll ask him about the book.

First time through I was a little underwhelmed till I got to the last 3 tracks. Then played it again from the beginning. Now after about 5 full play throughs I love it-- even if I do think that Dylan's starting to sound like Leon Redbone. Was playing it when I drove back late last night from LA. It's great late night driving music.

Actually I do have the video of Chet at Ronnie Scott's. To be honest I got it becaseu I'm a Van Morrison fanatic. I used to own "The Most Important Jazz Album of 1963" or whatever it was called. Didn't think it lived up to the title.

I'm surprised by everyone's preference (so far) for his later work. I don't know it well at all. As for his earlier stuff (except for the Mulligan Quartet) I only have The Best of Chet Baker Sings, the Anthology "Deep in a Dream" and the Chet with Strings on Columbia-- a record I've loved for nearly 50 years. Is his later work really better?

I bought my first copy of GO! in 1964 in Denmark from an attractive girl who had "moved on" from Dexter to Ornette! You don't meet many girls like that. I liked it a lot but after not playing it for a decade or so I couldn't place "Cheesecake" when it kept poppng up in my head. Then I got s Bluenote sampler called "3 Tenors". (a title I thought was very clever.)They were Dexter, Trane and (I think) Hank. It had Cheesecake on it and I was finally able to name that tune that had been haunting me for years. I didn't realize that "A Swinging Affair" was virtually part of the same session, but I get the impression from some comments here that I don't really need to get it. BTW What do people think of the RVG edition of "Go!"?

I downloaded this from the iTunes Music Store yesterday, burned a copy and played it while driving into LA today. All I can say is "Wow!!. Thanks for the recommendation."

To my knowledge, there´s no available Coleman Hawkins online discography. Is there a full discography available in any medium?

Stratemann has her joining the band in August of '42 . He replaced ivie Anderson with "a trio of girls. Phyllis Smiley, Joya Sherrill, Betty Roche." Smiley left shortly after, and Sherrill went back to school in the fall, leaving only Roche. On the other hand, the New Desor claims she joined in September '42.