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I should have looked them up before I said anything. Yesterday I was at CD Universe and did look them up, and I saw that all four are available on CD, as well as the album by the first subsequent If group.

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If I remember right, Earl Turbinton was a New Orleans musician whom I met in the spring of '68. His brother Willie T led the jazz group on the piano. Prior to that, Willie T and the Souls had a hit r&b record with a song called Teasing You, which was re-recorded as Thank You John and became a staple of Carolina beach music.

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My favorites are his first three on Prestige - Soul Message Living Soul (available on the CD Spicy) Misty

I have Monk in France. It was included in a twofer entitled Two Hours with Thelonious, issued about 1969 when ABC owned the Riverside catalogue. No big deal, in my opinion. It's my least favorite Monk album. But then, his recordings with Charlie Rouse in the quartet are my least favorites.

One more vote for Thelonious In Action. It was my first Monk album, and still maybe my favorite, maybe because it was the first. The way I see it, I wouldn't have gone on to purchase many more Monk albums if the first one weren't any good. edit for typo

It's my bedtime, and I thought I would try something new for a midnight snack, so tonight for the first time in my life I had some Post Grape-Nuts. Eww! I know it's whole grain and good for you, but I can't understand why there has been a demand for it for almost a century. Next time for a change from my usual Uncle Sam, I'm going to go for that great European favorite Familia! Yum!

Get well soon!

I think that Indestructible will agree with me when I say that TO's best QB was Jeff Garcia in his prime!

It occurs to me that if Universal is going to distribute this, there's a good chance that BMG/Your Music will get it. My guess is May, four months after the street date.

I put on Carnegie Hall for the occasion.

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I received a press release about Sonny, Please today. It says in part: Oct 9, 2006 — Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins has just released Sonny, Please—his first studio recording in five years—on his own Doxy label, and has signed a licensing agreement with Universal Classics & Jazz International for worldwide distribution and marketing of the CD... Universal Classics & Jazz International will release the CD digitally in America and Europe on November 21, with a traditional CD release date to follow on January 23, 2007... Rollins recorded Sonny, Please shortly after returning from a sold-out Japanese tour in November 2005. The CD captures his working band “at a good pitch,” as he puts it. “Anytime you do a string of performances, it tightens up the ensemble, and the band was playing well—very high-powered. Toward the end of the tour, the group really began to come together, and as a result I began to be able to play much more fluently.”... Rollins intends to use Doxy as a vehicle for releasing choice items from his extensive archives of live recordings... “Before any archival materials come out on Doxy, however, I’d first like to do a new studio or live recording,” says Rollins. “Both are possibilities. I would definitely like to do some more playing before releasing any archival stuff.”... ***** I'm surprised that they won't release the hard copy CD before Christmas.

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I read in the paper this morning that the Tigers lost 30 of their last 51 games. I don't think it's out of line to say that going 21-30 is backing in.

Completely by coincidence, last week I was rummaging for the first time in ages through a box of unread books, and I found The Black Dahlia in there. I had completely forgotten that I had bought it. The only Ellroy I have read is LA Confidential, which I enjoyed. So I'll pick up Dahlia soon. When White Jazz was new, Ellroy was visiting Atlanta on a book tour. I bought a copy of the casette audiotape of it for my brother-in-law for a Christmas present, and had Ellroy sign it for him. I don't know if my b-i-l ever listened to it!

I said much the same thing a few weeks back, and Chuck said he pitied me!

Congrats, guys!

Thanks for posting those pictures, Alexander. I thought that the book I grew up with was a reproduction of the original, but what I remember was very obviously an Indian boy.

I've had it with My Funny Valentine. Maybe it's overexposure. Maybe it's just what Hot Ptah said. But whatever, I don't need to ever hear it again.

Don Larsen pitched his perfect game in the World Series. My parents had tickets to see My Fair Lady with Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews on Broadway, and they spent the day driving down to New York from Boston, listening to the game on the car radio. Some day!

I tuned in to the Cal-Oregon game just in time to see the first replay of the guy taking a flying leap and kicking the other guy in the head. Did you see that? No call!

My pick this month is Michael Franks - Rendezvous in Rio. I'm looking forward to this one. But I have a birthday coming up, so I plan to hold off till then to open it, and will give it to myself as a present. (I'm just making sure I get something I like! ) I think I have every Michael Franks album except Blue Pacific. Although he has recorded many songs which were subpar, every album has at least one song which is worth the price of the CD. I have seen him in concert twice - in Pittsburgh about 1978 and in Atlanta about 1990. I also met him and chatted briefly with him early in his career when he was in a record store signing albums. At the time his new album was Sleeping Gypsy, which is what he signed for me. Nice guy. CD Universe says that this was just released June 27. I saw it in the paper maybe three weeks ago listed as a jazz best seller. So it is pretty early in the game for BMG/Your Music to get it. This is his first album on the Koch label. I don't know how Koch is affiliated with Warner. He was with Warner for about twenty years. In 1999 he released an album on Windham Hill, which I think is a BMG label. In 2003 he released a Christmas album on Rhino, which I believe has been owned by Warner for a few years now. Koch has released Atlantic (another Warner company for many years now) reissues in the past. So it looks like Franks is back with Warner, but maybe not. Last November I got his Christmas album, called Watching the Snow. I played it a lot, and recommend it.

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