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I'd like to hear (or read) those improvised lyrics! Glad you guys liked the show, and thanks much for the remarks. Looking forward to doing the "tenacious tenors" followup at some point. And still grateful to Mr. Vega for pushing the program to the folks at Blue Lake. The Michigan LP has always felt like my second home state.

Well, lemme tell ya, after what happened in 2004, NY could be 10 games out w/12 to play and I still wouldn't breathe easy... and the playoffs are a whole new season. Still, I'll admit it's pretty impressive for NY to come into Fenway and take five. I don't remember that ever happening. This article sheds a little light on the history of five-game sweeps:

Yahel plays piano or organ on every single track of Madeleine Peyroux's new CD (Larry Goldings was the keyboardist on her last CD).

Wow--Yanks were down 5-3 in the bottom of the seventh and the Bosox had runners on first & second when I turned in last night. Still, how can you give up, Dan, after 2004?

thank you. i will be checking my library tomorrow. If you get The Duke Ellington Reader, be sure to check out "The Hot Bach"--a three-part piece on Duke that ran in the New Yorker around 1944. Great portrait of Ellington at work in his prime.

Not next week... not sure when it will air, but I like the "ten tenors" concept. "Ten Tenacious Texas Tenors," perhaps? (Try to say that three times fast...) Budd Johnson Arnett Cobb Illinois Jacquet James Clay Marchel Ivery Buddy Tate Don Wilkerson David Fathead Newman King Curtis Booker Ervin That a good list? ...and btw, "It Came From Texas" is already archived.

Addendum: has anybody seen the bridge? Hey guv'nor, your PM box is full again! Sent you a message courtesy of e-mail instead.

Yeah, a # of us have been waiting/hoping for an "Arista Quartets" Braxton Mosaic for a long time now... the Sony/BMG merger initially was supposed to be good for Mosaic re: access, but who knows now? If the rumours swirling around the Miles releases are true, the BMG bean-counters have gotten the upper hand.. you'd think that might make them more likely to lease material they themselves will never deign to reissue, but logic isn't something I generally associate with the music industry.

John Cavanagh's Piper at the Gates of Dawn entry in the intriguing 33 1/3 series.

Six holes in and TW has opened up a three-stroke lead.

Terrible news. He & Shawn M were my favorite moderators over at AAJ--really sorry to hear he's passed.

Looks like a great board, Tom! The blues equivalent of Organissimo indeed.

I picked up this set last weekend at Landlocked, THE cool record store in Bloomington, IN (have I said that enough yet on this board? ). Anyways, they're available again: R. Crumb's Early Jazz Greats Fantastic little set! Especially for a former baseball-card freak like me. How about a "hardbop heroes" followup?

Hey all, I'm looking for articles--or, better yet, a good book--on Afro-Cuban jazz from the late 1930s into the 1950s. I'm currently perusing Gene Santoro's Latin jazz article in The Oxford Companion to Jazz and hoping to find yet more info; seems as if I heard within the past year about somebody doing a dissertation or book on the topic & era about which I'm inquiring. Also, are any recordings from Machito's early band the Afro-Cubans currently in print or readily available anywhere?

Don't leave LV to hear Arnett! Arnett won't show up till the "Texas Tenors" show. I had to keep them outta this one... crazy guys woulda overrun the program!

Any word from Alan lately? Is this just an extended hiatus, or is it (sniff) the end? Reason I ask, some folks over at Yahoo Songbirds are lamenting the loss of Jazzmatazz as well. I've tried using the AAJ page, but it's just not as reader-friendly IMO. Even with (or because of?) the alphabetization, my eyes just tend to glaze over...and it doesn't seem to go as far forward as Alan's page did either.

Up for broadcast on WFIU now.

It’s one of the biggest states in the Union, and throughout the 20th century it was a wellspring of musical vitality, producing artists such as Ornette Coleman, Scott Joplin, Hot Lips Page, and Jimmy Giuffre. We’ll hear all of those musicians and more, including Amos Milburn, Charles Brown, Jack Teagarden, and John Carter, as we take a Lone Star State journey this week on Night Lights with “It Came From Texas,” airing Saturday, August 19 at 11 p.m. EST on WFIU. The program will also air at 9 p.m. Central Time on WNIN-Evansville and at 10 p.m. EST Sunday evening on Michigan's Blue Lake Public Radio. The program will be posted Monday afternoon in the Night Lights archives. (Note: Those wishing to learn more about jazz and blues from Texas might want to read Dave Oliphant’s Texan Jazz. A future Night Lights program will be devoted solely to the vast topic of Texan tenor saxophonists.) We are also continuing a drive for support of the Night Lights archives, with a goal of raising $500 by the end of Labor Day Monday. This support will be used to help maintain the archives, subsidize production of future programs, and widen distribution for the show. We're off to a good start--if we continue to get just one or two $15, $25, or $40 contributions a day, we should make it. Thanks so much to all who've contributed so far! Next week: "Ain't He Funky Now: Grant Green in the Early 1970s."

I think that's where I'd come across the story before. The story about his hospitalization came, I'm pretty sure, from the booklet that accompanies the Uptown CD. Lots of background info there, plus an actualy latter-day interview with Dodo done by Sunenblick.

Many, many thanks to those who've made a contribution so far--one of our web people just sent us the first batch of donations. Much appreciation for the support; we're off to a good start! I often work on programs even after I come home from work, just because I love doing them so much, and after I saw those e-mails, I really got fired up and thought, "Man, I'm gonna work on shows and the schedule for the next few months all weekend long!" Well... I'll probably take a few breaks here & there, say hello to the rest of the household & feed the cats, all that sort of jazz... Did someone say jazz?

I've come across mention of this story before, but I've never read the original article--thanks for posting, Randy. Poor Dodo... in addition to this, he evidently received pretty horrific treatment when he was institutionalized sometime in the late 1940s (during his Army spell?). Somewhat reminiscent of Bud Powell's downfall IMO--brilliant bebop pianist who never quite recovered from early beatings and abuse.

Lots of love here for Bill Holman. Even in minor places, such as the Mark Murphy Capitol sides circa 1960, I find his presence to be immensely beneficial. Wish I'd gotten that Mosaic Kenton once upon a time, though some of the material has since been reissued on single CDs.

Look forward to hearing this--has Fly (Turner's trio with Larry Grenadier) put out anything else since their debut?

Listening right now, LV--nice to hear some live jazz on late-night radio.