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Glad to hear the recommendations--I've been eyeing these for a while and maybe it's time to pull the trigger. ANy of the Hep volumes in particular that would be a good starting place, in terms of selection, sound etc? montg, I can vouch only for the 1944-45 set (3 CDs; found it online used & in great shape for $20) and EVENSONG, which covers the 1941-42 big band with strings. Both sets have good notes and sound. I'd still recommend the RCA SELF-PORTRAIT box if you can find it for a good price... Does anybody have the Hep IN HOLLYWOOD v. 1 & 2? I'm thinking about picking those up eventually as well.

Really enjoying this so far, wishing only that they'd included even more of his writing for CREEM. The two essays on Miles' 70's work & MAN WITH A HORN return are entertaining and illuminating. And hell, even when Bangs is wrong he's still fun to read.

There have now been 666 topics posted in the political forum. Somebody start a new topic--quick!

Hank Mobley, MESSAGES Replacements, LET IT BE Brian Eno, ANOTHER GREEN WORLD Lucky Thompson, LUCKY STRIKES Bill Smith, FOLK JAZZ

I have it on pretty good authority that the online All Music Guide is going to go to a fee system. Don't know about you guys, but this will be a tough call for me--I do use the site a lot for various searches. I'll have to wait and see what they charge for usage.

Deep Discount has it at $32.81 and free shipping, BTW. Is there any way to nullify CDUniverse's shipping charge--place an order over $50, etc.?

Looks tasty... glad to see they put "It's the Same Old South" on there. I had to dig out some old vinyl when I played that on a Martin Luther King day last January--it's one of the earliest anti-racism songs I know of in jazz (along with "Strange Fruit," of course).

At last! Anybody who has an interest in post-Parker alto sax should really give this set some consideration, IMHO.

Thanks for posting that. Good to hear that Grimes is getting offers to record again, too. I'm hoping to get a copy of the WKCR music through his website.

Aw, isn't that stuff just a buncha racket? Hell, those guys don't even know how to play their instruments! B) Mark, there's a good show here on our community radio station WFHB called MELODY UNASKED FOR. It airs on Sunday nights from 10-12 (8-10 your time?) Here's the link to the webcast: WFHB

Nisenson's book BLUE: THE MURDER OF JAZZ is one of the worst books I've ever read about jazz. Opinionated and wrongheaded throughout. I've pretty much avoided him ever since, although I still have a copy of his Coltrane bio (ASCENSION), which was pretty much a regurgitation of others' previous work.

Jimmy Woods, CONFLICT (at last! and damn, is it good!) Randy Weston, JAZZ A LA BOHEMIA June Christy, THE MISTY MISS CHRISTY Cedar Walton/Hank Mobley, BREAKTHROUGH Lennie Niehaus, OCTET #2 V. 3 Charles McPherson, BEBOP REVISITED Too... much... great... jazz!

Yes, he certainly is! I've become quite a Shaw fan in the last couple of years. For a guy who's constantly touted as being cerebral, his playing strikes me as very soulful, more so than Goodman's (though I like Goodman quite a lot too, and comparisons between the two, while inevitable, don't matter much). I'm sure there are many fine articles on Shaw out there, but I'd recommend Richard Sudhalter's chapter on Shaw in LOST CHORDS to anybody who's interested in reading more about the man and his music. The SELF-PORTRAIT box is a nice representation of his career (esp. the very-much neglected late 1940's/1950s recordings), but I've been snapping up the Heps of late; they provide a more complete picture of some of my favorite Shaw groups, including the 1941-42 big band with strings and the 1944-45 big band. And the 3-CD Hindsight box of live 1938 recordings is incredible--what I wouldn't give to have seen that band!

Was Coulson the one who recorded with Coleman Hawkins in the early 1940s and then just sort of vanished into alcoholism?

This is not the same Ian M(a)cDonald who wrote REVOLUTION IN THE HEAD, is it? That's the best book about the Beatles that I've ever read. He has a new book out, too, a more general overview of popular music, but I'm not sure that it's been published in the U.S.

Alfred Kazin, STARTING OUT IN THE THIRTIES.

I think it was during.

I thought we were all in the political forums. I'm still "normal," but last year I was at 22.9 and this year I'm at 23.7. As that wise diplomat Woody Hayes once observed, "I don't like the trend."

He plays a great solo on the live Lunceford version of "Yesterdays" that's on the BIG BANDS JUBILEE SESSIONS box-set. I'm working on a Webster CD-R for a couple of board members. Thanks to brownie for mention of the Auld solo--I'll have to try to run that down. Here are a couple of links that people might find useful: jazzedincleveland bestsound There's a selected discography of solos at the end of the second one.

Michael Fitzgerald and anybody else on the Coltrane list already know about this, but Robin D.G. Kelley, who wrote a fantastic book on African-American Communists in Alabama during the Depression entitled HAMMER AND HOE is at work on a biography of Thelonious Monk. Evidently he's been given great access to Monk's estate; this is the press release that was posted on the JC list: Man, I'd love to hear those tapes!

Julian Priester, KEEP SWINGIN' Benny Goodman, PLAYS FLETCHER HENDERSON V. 1 Hank Mobley, COMP. BLUE NOTE (disc 1, quartet date) Una Mae Carlisle, 1944-50

Rollermania, baby! I was a fan as a wee lad--but I'll save it for the "Secret Listening Pleasures" thread. They were my band until the Ramones came along. I've heard only the Carroll material that got re-issued along with some Mary Lou Williams by Koch several years ago, but your idea sounds cool, bebopbob. It seems that Mosaic has a lot of trouble licensing anything from BMG, though, which is a shame. A lot of great jazz languishing in the vaults.

Hell, YES David! I got that one, and it's a real shredder, 3 minutes of punk pop heaven, makes the original by the Byrds sound positively quaint and prissy. Another great Husker Du 45 in my collection: their version of "Love is All Around," otherwise known as the Mary Tyler Moore Show theme, which is on the b-side of the "Makes No Sense at All" single (released right around the time of the FLIP YOUR WIG album). Another winner. They could do no wrong around that period. I don't have the MTM theme B-side, Tony, but I taped it off a roommate at the time. You're right, it's wonderful! I was lucky enough to see Husker Du in '85; got into the Patio in Indpls. with a ridiculously bogus ID and caught 90 minutes of their exploding-crystal pop. The encore was "Eight Miles High." You could tell that speed rather than acid was Mr. Mould's drug of choice! The single itself was an outtake from ZEN ARCADE.

BREAKTHROUGH, the 1972 Hank Mobley/Cedar Walton date, is being re-issued by Savoy this Tuesday. Being one of those who missed the 32 Jazz version several years ago, I'm definitely excited. (Gotta have better cover art, too--one would think!) What's the IMO of Hank/Cedar fans who already have this session?

Since we're talking 80s here, I'll confess to having liked George Michael's FAITH and some of his Wham! stuff as well. Throw yer rocks 'n projectiles now!