GA Russell

Today I was driving south on I-95 below I-40 about 2:50 pm, and I was passed by a large bus that had on its side "The United States of America" and a seal which appeared to me to be the Presidential seal. On the back of the bus it said "Motorcoach One". This was immediately followed by a large bus with the word "Winn" painted on its side and back. For the secret service agents, maybe?

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Joe!

Happy Birthday!

As I recall, Mark Murphy's first and third Muse albums, Bridging a Gap and Sings, include organ. Prior to that, his second Riverside album from I think '63 called That's How I Love the Blues has organ.

I've never owned a Pontiac, but I did have an Oldsmobile for a few years.

I'm 18 minutes late, but Happy Birthday Mark!

I "bought" a couple of albums this weekend: yesterday, Cal Tjader's Latin Kick; and today, Charles Tolliver's Emperor March.

Happy Birthday Aggie!

Happy Birthday Ubu!

Right on! That was my first Chet Baker album, which I got when I was a freshman in college. It was called Comin' On with the Chet Baker Quintet, and was the third issued of the five in the series.

I'm sure that I've posted this before, so not to beat a dead horse, but my recollection is this: What I call "jazz-rock" is the playing of jazz with a rock beat. That was the creation of Larry Coryell. (And I think that he should be in the Downbet Hall of fame because of it.) The first jazz rock record that I'm aware of was the self-titled album by Coryell's band The Free Spirits on ABC from I think 1966. It is a rock album by musicians who are obviously jazz fans. Then Coryell recorded with Chico Hamilton and Gary Burton. He then recorded (released in '68 and early '69) two albums with Steve Marcus - Tomorrow Never Knows and Count's Rock Band. At the time of the two Marcus albums, in England Manfred Mann and Mike Hugg formed Manfred Mann Chapter III and issued two albums, and Dick Morrisey formed If and issued four albums by that band's original lineup. Soft Machine made its name touring with Jimi Hendrix in '68, and developed rapidly from a rock band to a jazz band. Their friends from the Wilde Flowers Canterbury group formed Caravan, which hit it big (relatively speaking) with their second and third albums from '70 and '71, If I Could Do It All Over Again, and In the Land of Grey and Pink. Those two albums put the Canterbury scene into gear. Meanwhile, back in the States, Randy Brecker had left BS&T and formed Dreams with brother Michael. BS&T was founded by Al Kooper, who was inspired by listening to the horns on an album by The Buckinghams. It was BS&T's first album that was first called "jazz rock" to my knowledge, but that may have been more due to the Columbia Records publicity department than musical developments. Anyway, as you can see from all of this, jazz rock was white music because rock was white music. Prog rock was also white music. Fusion was often black music, and was not based upon the rock beat that kids of the 60s did the jerk to (That's a dance, for some of you youngsters.).

ss1, the last NFL retiree who decided to finish up his pro career in the Canadian league that I can remember was Fred Biletnikoff (who played one year with the Alouettes)! Andre Rison also finished up his pro career with the Argos, but it was his intention at the time to return to the NFL.

Lala: Cal Tjader's Latin Kick My favorite Tjaders are the Skyes and the Verves; but this might be my favorite of the rest.

Lala: Bud Shank - Live at the Haig The Return of Art Pepper

Happy Easter everyone! This year's Hall of Fame inductees were announced this week: Alondra Johnson, Glen Weir, Rudy Phillips, Jim Mills and builder Tony Anselmo of Calgary. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/New...9041321-cp.html

Happy Birthday BM!

Happy Birthday!

I heard some of the Thornton interview today on the Sirius CBC channel. It made me uncomfortable, and I switched to something else.

Lala: Various - The History of Blue Note, 70th Anniversary, songs 47-70 (the end) Tracks 49-58 reminded me of why I didn't listen to much jazz in the 70s. ***** Red Garland Trio - It's a Blue World

Lala: John Coltrane - Live Trane - The European Tours, disc 7 Charles Brown - Sunshine in My Life

Happy Belated Birthday Kyo! Hope it was a good one.

Happy Birthday 2009 Allen!

I remember one called Spooky. I remember that it was released shortly before the Classics IV's recording hit the New Orleans airwaves.