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Moose.... I thought we were tight.. ← Oh, okay; a serious answer. I don't know about "greatest" but one great American would be Eugene V. Debbs. ← Second that nomination! Mr. Debs hailed from just up the road--Terre Haute. I'm driving over there to visit his house around the Fourth of July.

Library of America is about to bring out two volumes of his earlier work. I'm actually more interested in the later works that you mention, Kalo.

Of course, we have a new King George to rebell against these days...

Oops... haven't listened to that one in awhile. (Not the Half Note sessions, anyway.)

Neveronfriday, Are you referring to the Politics forum? You can ask Jim to have that forum blocked from your view... and it will become totally invisible, including the "Active topics" listing.

This week on Night Lights it's a Juneteenth Jazz Jamboree, with music in celebration of the African-American holiday (commemorating the end of slavery in the United States) from Louis Jordan, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach ("Freedom Day" from the Freedom Now Suite), Duke Ellington (his "Emancipation Proclamation" from The Black, Brown and Beige Suite), and more, including a historic meeting of African-American cultural figures--Count Basie, Paul Robeson, and Richard Wright (pictured above) for "King Joe," a song about boxing champion Joe Louis. "Juneteenth Jamboree" airs on the eve of Juneteenth--Saturday, June 18 at 11:05 p.m (9:05 California time, 12:05 a.m. NYC time). You can listen live, or wait until Monday afternoon, when the program will be posted in the Night Lights archives. For more information about the Juneteenth holiday, visit Juneteenth.com. Next week: "Ain't He Funky Now: Grant Green in the Early 70's."

And what about your various pseudonymns, Jim?

Trigger!

Yes! I picked up yet another BEST OF THE BIG BANDS, this one an Elgart CD, through either BMG or Columbia House... I'll be spinning some tunes from it on a Big Bands program next month.

Big Al, your story makes me want to become a father... and that's sayin' something, believe you me. Thanks for sharing it.

Yes to all of the above! Just recently got a CD of Bobby Sherwood radio broadcasts, w/Zoot Sims featured on a couple of tunes. I love Thornhill and Raeburn... as you well know... and Butterfield's another bb that I enjoy. I have BEST OF SAUTER-FINEGAN and hope to eventually track down more.

Wow... that sounds bad. Do you have IMPRESSIONS: THE VERVE JAZZ SIDES? I think that has most, if not all, of SMOKIN' AT THE HALF NOTE, minus the strings AND the fake announcer.

Crunchy Pecan, though I'm trying to wean myself off it in favor of our local co-op's "New England Splendor" granola.

I have that one as well... I also have the Columbia BEST OF THE BIG BANDS comp as well as THE UNCOLLECTED LES BROWN V. 2 on Hindsight, which has a couple of interesting "bop-influenced" numbers (can't remember the name of the pianist--Joe Lippman? Whoever it was behind those numbers really sparked my interest). Thanks for introducing this topic--I tried to raise it a couple of years ago and failed miserably in my attempt to get a bite! G. Schuller really does speak well of the band.

Tonight on The Big Bands it's "Movin' On: Jimmy Smith and Wes Montgomery." In the early 1960s organist Jimmy Smith and guitarist Wes Montgomery both left classic jazz labels (Blue Note in Smith's case, Riverside in Montgomery's) to work with producer Creed Taylor at Verve Records. Both artists had traditionally recorded in small-group formats; Taylor placed them in big-band settings with saxophonist and arranger Oliver Nelson, and in 1966 brought them together for the sessions that resulted in the albums The Dynamic Duo and The Further Adventures of Jimmy and Wes. We'll hear music from those sessions, as well as Smith and Montgomery's separate efforts in front of a large ensemble, including Montgomery's "Naptown Blues," Smith's "Walk On the Wild Side," and more (Smith doing Nelson's "The Blues and the Abstract Truth," for one). The program airs Friday, June 17 at 9 p.m. on WFIU.

Thanks, man! Getting ready to tape "Jazz Studio 3 & 4" next week (should air the first Saturday of July). If I don't make it up to Indy Jazz Fest, enjoy the nice weather and good music...

Our jazz director played a nice track from this just yesterday... looking forward to hearing the whole CD.

Hope the reading goes well!

Jack Schaefer, SHANE.

Patti Smith.

Up.

Christgau's review in the new issue of The Nation.

Way late, but hope it was a great one--and thanks, as always, for the info & updates.

Keep on spinnin'!

I think so too. I find myself going back to this one more than I did WHAT GOES AROUND.