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Sad to hear it. Don't try to lay no boogie woogie on the king of rock and roll!

I'm so out of touch, I was thinking of Christina Applegate, who is now on Broadway.

Yes, he is/was blind. I saw him in Boston with Larry Coryell's group Foreplay which featured Steve Marcus in August of '72.

I too enjoy this CD. I found it cheap at Borders in '99, and still listen to it once every couple of months.

My favorite is Perfectly Frank. I saw him in the mid-90s in Atlanta, and I loved the show. He did the same bit of singing a song without amplification.

Oh yeah, I have the Gunns also... forgot about them! Don't know why... I blew through most of those shows when I first got the sets for Christmas. Wish JOHNNY STACCATO would come out too. ← The episodes that I've seen have been much more film noir than I expected. I think I would like and recommend them even if they didn't have the famous music.

I think that GMT is five hours ahead of Eastern, so that would make it 3 am. But we are on daylight savings time. Are you too there in England? If not, that would make it 2 am I think! Somebody help me out!

About ten years ago my neighborhood Burger King in Tucker, GA, played jazz over the intercom. I remember well hearing Horace Silver's Song For My Father while I was having my morning coffee.

That's interesting about the traffic guy! Sounds like a lot of work.

Congratulations! What's a Traffic Coordinator?

Thanks again for your suggestions. I decided to go with Time's Mirror. I'm listening to it now. I enjoy modern big band from time to time, and I'm glad I picked this up.

Thanks, RonS! Do you recommend it?

Happy Birthday Randy!

Clandy, I'm glad you posted it. I wouldn't have known about it if you hadn't! Thanks!

God bless all of you in London.

Ron, I have a lot of fondness for Charlie Byrd. I saw him in Pittsburgh the fall of '76, and it was a lot of fun to see such a great talent make it look easy. I'm not aware of the album you mention. In fact, all of his Concord albums flew below my radar when they came out. I vaguely remember his making some albums with two other guitarists, I think Herb Ellis was one. He made plenty of mainstream albums, but my favorites are his bossa nova ones. About 1970 I picked up a compilation called Guitar Artistry which was an ABC reissue of mainstream Riverside material. I also bought not too long after that a Milestone (Riverside) twofer of bossa nova albums, one album of which was reissued as an OJC. That was good, but he was playing with a string orchestra, which is not my ideal. I heard a similar album with strings on Columbia around 1968 which was OK but didn't excite me. I can highly recommend an album he did on Fantasy about 1974 with Cal Tjader called Tambu. That was reissued as an OJC, and I should have mentioned it on Chuck's OJC thread. Great music! EDIT to give props to Jazz Samba with Stan Getz! But everybody already knows about that one.

As I've discussed elsewhere, I particularly enjoy bossa nova during the warm weather of summertime. I know that some of you prefer imported CDs of Brazilian bossa nova, but I prefer American bossa nova. So I want to give you a heads up regarding a 2 CD set Concord issued last year. It's called Byrd & Brazil, and it is made up of two albums, Sugarloaf Suite Suite and Brazilville. Sugarloaf Suite was recorded in August of '79 at the Concord Jazz Festival, and features the Charlie Byrd Trio, with Joe Byrd on bass and Wayne Phillips on drums. No surprises in the music. It's what you would expect from Charlie Byrd. It's well done and very relaxing. Songs include Triste, Favela, Saudade de Bahia and Gentle Rain. Brazilville was recorded in May of '81 at Byrd's club Charlie's Georgetown in DC. It features the trio with Joe Byrd again on bass and Charles Redd on drums, augmented by Bud Shank on alto. This is a terrific album. I saw someone list it as his favorite Bud Shank album on the One Artist - One Album thread. Everyone is in fine form. Songs include What Are You Doing For the Rest of Your Life, Zingaro, Speak Low, How Insensitive, Yesterdays, and something by Oscar Castro Neves I was not familiar with called Saquarema. I can recommend this to anyone who, like me, likes American bossa nova, but maybe is getting a little tired of the forty year old Verves we've had for so long.

Gary Puckett & the Union Gap played at my college homecoming dance my freshman year. They had the student MC instruct everyone there that they were not to dance during the performance!!! Everybody ignored that, of course. By the way, the student MC was Hillary Clinton's boyfriend at the time!

Lon, I had never heard of Morelenbaum before you mentioned her. Maybe I'll pick it up on your recomendation sometime this summer.

Today I opened up Herbie Mann At the Village Gate. It's one of those albums that I've wanted for years, but never got around to picking up. It's very mellow, and would be a good recommendation for a jazz newbie. Good music.

RIP. Michelot was one of those guys who never seemed to be on a bad recording.

Thanks Mike. Maybe I'll consider it if Your Music gets it.

Anybody know anything about the Kenton? Was it part of one of the Mosaic boxes?

Happy Independence Day!

Well, it's summertime, and it's hot as Hades here, so I'm in the mood for something appropriate. As I've mentioned elsewhere, most of what I think of as summertime music is rock and roll, and I've pretty much lost all interest in that. Back in the day when I lived in an apartment complex with a swimming pool, we would waste the day by the pool (those were the days!) and the radio often played Sade's Smooth Operator. So I think of Sade as a summertime act. I had a hard bop album next up on my queue, but I have changed it at the last moment and so now next up is... Sade - Lovers Rock I bought Sade's previous album when it was new back in '92, but she waited so long to put out her next album (eight years) that I lost interest. So now it's time to catch up at Your Music's prices. Anybody else picking up anything interesting for the warm weather?