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No, I was home in New Orleans slaving away as a Mosquito Control Inspector each July!

Mike, I believe that was a different show. I don't believe that any vocalist made an appearance. I also don't recall any guitarist. I also believe that the show I saw was during the following school year, but I could be wrong about that.

I have the CD. I never noticed any listing of personnel. It's ensemble, without a solo worth purchasing. I enjoy it. It is on the same CD as the soundtrack of the tv show Mike Hammer, starring Mickey Spillane.

Al Hirt - Honey in the Horn and Sugar Lips Pete Fountain - New Orleans at Midnight Mark Murphy - Rah Dick Morrissey - If's penultimate album

The AP obit appeared in this morning's edition of my local newspaper, the Raleigh News & Observer!!! This is an example of why I am much more confident about my opinions than I was years ago. The belated praise given to someone (or some album) I liked when I was young suggests that I was "right" all along, and that I should trust my own tastes, and not be buffaloed by what the writers and polls say.

Ron, I used to live in York. In 1983 I was a charter season ticket holder of the Philadelphia Stars, with four on the fifty, second row of the upper deck. I have fond memories of that! Of course, the new Philly stadium has a jail for the drunks, but let's consider that just planning ahead!

Quincy is right. I hadn't noticed that the first song is the second track. The liner notes discuss how there was a power outage, causing the taping to cease for a brief period.

My copy is fine. It looks like you need to return yours for another.

I've opened it up today. Let me think about it a couple of days before I make up my mind!

Noj's mentioning Mingus, Mingus... spurred me to add it to my queue. While there, I saw that Joe Henderson's In 'N Out is running low. So I moved it up to #1 on my queue.

I was thinking along the lines of...The National Geographic crew spend their lives in the jungle photographing primitive women who go around topless all day, and for something different they visit Philly and are impressed with the existence of a museum, so they write an article about how great Philly is.

I'm listening now to Count's Jam Band Reunion, which was recorded in late 2000 and came out in '02. Larry Coryell and Steve Smith are on it. It is Steve's last recording that I know of.

RIP, one of my favorites in college. I shook his hand after a Herbie Mann show at the Cellar Door once! I can vouch for Tomorrow Never Knows and Count's Rock Band, both of which had Mike Nock on piano and Larry Coryell on guitar. I think they are both forgotten classics which should be appreciated by all jazz fans.

AK, either you're the biggest McCoy Tyner fan in the world, or you downloaded all those Milestones from eMusic! Whichi is it? Chuck, what is the other Milestone album besides Sahara that you think is so good?

I haven't heard too much of McCoy Tyner's 70s recordings. I'm not sure of precisely when he started and stopped recording for Milestone, but I gather the relationship was for about that decade. In the early 80s I found for a buck each cut out cassette tapes of Together and Inner Voices, and I have enjoyed them, although not often. I also picked up Supertrios about that time. I think the album I have listened to the most over the past year has been Wayne Shorter's JuJu, which has Tyner on it, so I had a positive attitude toward getting Passion Dance when I saw that it would be issued as a new OJC, even though I didn't know anything about it. Passion Dance was recorded live in concert at a Tokyo festival in 1978. It has five songs, three solo piano and two with Ron Carter and Tony Williams. Moment's Notice and The Promise were written by John Coltrane. Passion Dance, Search For Peace and Song of the New World are Tyner originals. They all seem familiar, so I'm guessing that the three originals were released on other Tyner albums. As I recall it was in his autobiography that I read that Miles described McCoy's playing as "banging the hell out of a baby grand piano". He certainly does that here. I opened up the CD on Friday, and the first time I heard it I didn't like it. But over the weekend I have been playing it more, and it has been growing on me. Maybe you have to be in the right mood. Now I like it. I was planning on getting the Tyner Select when it comes out, but now maybe I'll wait a while. A little of this goes a long way. Anybody have any comments on Tyner's 70s playing, and how the OJCs and Milestone reissues may differ from his 60s Blue Note recordings?

I'm saddened. Don Adams was one of my family's favorites, especially my father's, when he was a frequent guest on the Steve Allen Show in the late 50s. I remember one line when he was a defense attorney addressing the jury: "Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury. For the past hour the prosecuting attorney has stood before you and made a complete ass out of himself. Now, it's my turn." I also remember the Tennessee Tuxedo cartoons, which didn't really catch my fancy. During the late 70s I watched Get Smart weeknights on a new UHF station in Pittsburgh which was running a number of old shows. I was struck by something that I hadn't caught when I was a kid watching Get Smart when it was new. The real humor of that show was watching the Chief doing a slow burn. I too went to see The Nude Bomb. But without Ed Platt, it wasn't the same. By the way, Buck Henry wrote the scripts for the first three years. When he left, the show went downhill. First they spent a year engaged, leading up to their marriage. Then they changed networks, a rarity, going from NBC to CBS. Then they spent a year dealing with a baby. As I recall, the show was created by Buck Henry and Mel Brooks. Edit: And also by the way, the saying from the show that I find myself using fairly frequently is "...And loving it!"

Zitro was a major part of the Charles Lloyd Kapp album of 1971 called Moon Man. This was an attempt by Lloyd to capture the white jazz rock crowd. I believe that he was on Lloyd's follow up album Warm Water as well. That album had The Beach Boys on it.

Congrats guys!

Wow! $350 is a lot of money, but it sounds terrific. I hope the famous guys are not too old to do their thing well.

I see that CD Universe has this for only $20.98. That's only $6.99 per disc. The more I listen to this, the more I like it. I find Disc 2 to be more appealling, less dry, than I did before. I'm getting a lot more enjoyment out of this than I ever got out of the Sunday or Debby CDs.

I got The Hummus League.

Circus Peanuts!

FWIW, Sonny's percussionist four years ago at the 9/11 concert was Kimati Dinizulu.

I'm surprised that Edward and Charles have fallen so far down the list. Perhaps the popularity of Brooklyn has something to do with the fact that Posh Spice and her husband Beckham named their daughter that, because she was born, or maybe conceived, there.

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