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sheldonm (several times) Chuck Lazaro Bol (several times) Linn Tate (who rarely posts here) Saw jazzmessenger at the Benny Golson concert but haven't met yet Talked to Berigan once on the phone for several hours Talked to Barak aka White Lightning once on the phone for several hours A whole slew I'm hoping to meet at some point.

Brownian, I was just spinning that DeParis-Porter CD a couple of weeks ago! I'm probably going to use something off it for the Indiana jazz anthology that I'm working on (both DeParis brothers were from IN, as was Porter). I like the Mastersounds' KING & I and Silver tributes... also like Ran Blake's Silver tribute... um, let's see, Kenny Clarke Plays Hodeir from the Jazz in Paris series, any of the Herbie Nichols Project CDs, the Corea Powell tribute, Braxton's Tristano album, Ira Sullivan's Bird set... those are the ones that come to mind immediately. Oh, and Anita O'Day's TRAVLIN' LIGHT ode to Billie. And the 4-CD INTERPRETATIONS OF MONK... good topic!

I'm a V5 fan, and I'm interested in this box (don't know if I'm $129 interested), but I thought Clem's post was pretty funny--I mean, the tune dedication thing is getting to be more amusing (non-V5 fans would probably say irritating) than anything else. I was actually hoping that this box would be an overview of the V5's whole performing career, rather than a one-week snapshot... so the jury's still out for me on this one. Are they still together? Someone asked KV that on his AAJ thread, and he never responded... at least, not that I saw.

... a teenager or Charles Robb and Bill Clinton. There ya go, buddy--lobbed one to ya over the Great Political Divide!

You're a better man than I, Senor Catesta. I'd be mighty tempted to go along with their suggestion. The biker phenomenon is an interesting one to trace. When I was researching THE WILD ONE for a Night Lights program, I re-visited Hunter S. Thompson's book on the Hell's Angels (one of his best IMO--oh, and they beat him up in the epilogue) and read up a lot on the making of the Brando movie. Seems some of this culture emerged from working-class WWII vets in California in the late 1940s... ironically enough, the real bikers who worked as extras in THE WILD ONE thought Brando was a poser. Lee Marvin (who played the leader of a rival gang) was much more to their liking; they hung out with him, and Sonny Barger eventually bought the jersey that Marvin wore in the movie. I'd say these idiots you encountered sound more like the Green Day Angels.

I pop a Source of Life in the morning... sometimes another later in the day if I'm feeling a bit draggy. I think the key is to truly treat them as supplements to a good diet, filling in temporary nutritional gaps, rather than using them in place of a good diet.

To THE voice of jazz in the Midwest afaic... have a great one, man!

"Now you're talking my language" (Chu Berry, March 23, 1937) - I totally agree with you ! But please bear in mind that Classics has to be profitable, too. Shaw, Goodman, Woody etc. sells although most/all has been issued often before on LPs and CDs. However, I think it is tough selling an extended series of - let's say Les Brown CDs - no matter how desirable they are for a number of fans that read this forum - and myself !! Here's hoping, very much, that the series continues... and I'd definitely snap up any Jimmy Dorsey titles that come out, as his Decca material is quite hard to find on CD outside of the now OOP CONTRASTS compilation.

Chaney, Maren, Catesta, couw, et al, My regrets & apologies if you feel I was not sensitive enough to your grievances in this whole messy matter. Best, David

All right, man, but I'm running like hell from this free-fire zone! B-)

Erm... better placed in Politics, perhaps?

I done ordered it!

Wow! I missed that one--will put it on the to-get list. Assuming that would be the same band represented on the Hep 3-CD 1944-45 set... exciting news.

Hey, very well, Alejandro! Hope all's well with you. You know, I read that Gioia book about 10 years ago... I'll go back tonight and re-visit Chapter 8. That's probably where my "odd character" impression came from. Thanks for the tip.

Graettinger--supposedly an odd character, died quite young, too, I believe. Any good biographical pieces on him floating around?

>> DEEP was just a crazy road dog who was at once too hip and too crude for the room. Aric, well, Aric is Aric.<< Whatever redeeming qualities these guys had, they posted gay-baiting, racist things that were really awful. >> I told him that if he really wanted to stick around that he would just have to tough it out - acknowledge his miscalculations and his offensive (intentional or otherwise) beginings, let time heal the wounds, and that eventually his good intentions, if he really had them, would become apparent to most over time. << I told him the same thing in my PM exchanges. Almost exactly. >>That did not happen. Whose fault is that?<< He left of his own volition, which is possibly the best outcome for all involved. Again, no one has a right to be liked, to be treated in a warm manner, etc. Given that he was being called a motherfucker or its equivalent a great deal of the time, though... do you really think that's cool? I don't. And I tend to think of this as a pretty cool place.

Just happened across a very cheap used copy of McKusick's NOW'S THE TIME (which contains almost all of CROSS-SECTION, as alluded to above) and have it playing right now--whetting my desire to run down the Bethlehem quartet date.

I think you've found the grounds for a consensus, Randy!

Well, he pissed in my cornflakes too, so to speak, when he first came here. I had a pretty pointed exchange with him in some thread--I certainly understand the basis for his "annoying" rep. If I thought that was all there was to him I wouldn't have been as bothered as I was by the later attacks on him. Nobody has a right to be liked, or even to necessarily be treated in a friendly manner. I was just surprised and stung by the ugliness that came out in responses to him.

This week on Night Lights it's "The Art of Pepper: Art Pepper's Aladdin Recordings." In the mid-1950s Art Pepper had already served two prison terms on narcotics charges and was struggling to re-ignite the promising solo career he'd started several years earlier after leaving Stan Kenton's orchestra. 1956 was a spectacular year for Pepper, and the recordings he did for the Aladdin label, featuring West Coast greats such as pianists Russ Freeman and Carl Perkins and trumpeter Jack Sheldon, are still considered as some of the finest albums that he ever did. The program airs at 11:05 Saturday night (8:05 California time, 10:05 Chicago time); you can listen to it live or wait until Monday afternoon, when it will be posted in the Night Lights archives.

I did the same thing, Dave. I'll echo what I said in another thread: I think it's good that Jim and Use3D did not ban somebody simply b/c he annoyed some longtime posters. I hope his voluntary departure enables us to move on... whatever errors he made seem to me mightily trumped by the abusive--yes, abusive--invective that was hurled at him constantly, often on a hit-and-run basis in threads that had nothing to do with the comments the poster made. I know I'm in the minority on this issue, but I've spent a lot of time on jazz boards in the past five years, and I don't think I've ever seen somebody treated as badly as Che was here.

No kidding. Kudos to Jim and Use3D for not banning somebody simply b/c he annoyed a number of posters. His voluntary departure will hopefully help us to put this whole ugly episode behind us... I've never seen so much abusive invective thrown at a poster before on a jazz board. Some of it from people I really like and respect.

CNN--Chicken Noodle News. Yes, he's had a long reign and been quite influential, whatever one thinks of his theology/ideology... but c'mon, news folks, the Catholic Church has, uh...been through this a few times before.

Dammit, QO, get a new CD out so that I can nominate ya for our local nightly radio "cage match!" Cage match Particulary whenever they put up John Mayer (gahhh!).

...you don't get to say that a lot, do you! Ar, ar!!