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Yeah, I caught your reference to Kinuta! Excellent that the cool sounds of Blue Lake are now going out all over the world. I have to track down some of that Jordan Steeplechase material.

Cool, too, to hear Bennie & Gene on "Walkin'"... I just listened again to the first 2 CDs of the BG Mosaic Select last night. And always good to hear Jordan--it's been far too long since I've listened to him.

Got you tuned in right now, Lazaro... and happy b-day once again! Someone's on a mighty bass run.

Hey, thanks, kinuta, glad you enjoyed it! Sorry the Art Pepper isn't up yet... a bit of a misfire that I've informed the webmaster about, and he should have it fixed by tomorrow a.m.

This is starting to sound like "jazz fan personals."

I have a couple of friends who follow Modern Drunkard religiously. Jazzmoose, I'm with ya... at least I still curse with some regularity. Can I be trusted if I packed a lifetime's worth of drinking & smoking into ages 13-30? B-) Nowadays my main vices are drinking too much coffee and buying too many jazz CDs.

Love 'em as a band--only here to pass along an anecdote. Don Glass, a longtime WFIU station exec/program creator, came here to IU in the mid-1960s to teach at the School of Music. In one of his classes was a quiet, sharp-dressed African-American student who was always out of town for long weekends... Don, immersed in the world of classical, didn't know who the guy was till later. Said guy was Booker T., and he was away on the weekends gigging and recording for Stax. Fave track: "Chinese Checkers."

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?

Mystery solved. There are no such sessions, and it's not a re-mix. From an online account of BLACK CLOCK's second issue: Bah! Cruel teases... -_- B-)

Surely this is a misunderstanding... my wife just called to say that she'd happened across an article in the magazine BLACK CLOCK describing a forthcoming 3-CD set of Hendrix & Davis in the studio together. I'm guessing it's actually a tribute "what-if" CD of contemporary mixes... it's called DAMBALLAH RISING sessions or something akin.

>> 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.