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Number nine... number nine... number nine...

I love the Crispell and TURNING POINT... haven't yet had the pleasure of hearing the other two Bleys. Wingy Manone, Mosaic set disc 5 J.J. Johnson, GOODIES (least appealing of the RCA re-issues I've picked up, but interesting to hear J.J. in a mid-60's jazz/pop context) Nat King Cole, TV SHOWS V. 1 Jaki Byard, OUT FRONT!

Well, this has been at the tail end of Alan Lankin's upcoming-releases list for many months now, in the "2004 and beyond" category. Whether Verve will actually end up doing it (or lease it to Mosaic instead), I don't know, but there's evidently something in the works:

Love the big-band record. Too bad the '66 Henderson-Dorham big band evidently never got caught on tape. I'll give a second (or third, or whatever) on the Milestone box. A lot of frequently overlooked great material on it. Near the end it gets a bit dicey. POWER TO THE PEOPLE, THE KICKER, & LIVE IN JAPAN are the standouts, IMO.

If you do eventually donate the car, try Volunteers of America. They'll give you full blue-book value for the tax write-off, no matter what condition the car's actually in.

Duke Pearson, THE RIGHT TOUCH Mysteries of Life, COME CLEAN Vulgar Boatmen, WIDE AWAKE Joe Henderson, LUSH LIFE

Marcus, If I see it again I'll snag it and send it to you for cost plus shipping.

Gotta admit that I loved Oasis early on (DEFINITELY MAYBE & MORNING GLORY). Like the Smiths, they brought back the excitement of the single in the first two years of their career; they had a new one out every three months, often a non-album track. Saw them in Indianapolis in 1996 and they were outstanding. As was stated earlier, even the B-sides from this era are wonderful. However, I think they kind of lost their way with 1997's BE HERE NOW, which sounds like just a little too much cocaine went into its production. A few good songs and a LOT of wanky guitar solos and repetitive choruses. To my mind they've been wildly uneven ever since, and I haven't been too crazy about Liam's writing efforts. Re: the Blake Babies, I knew/know those guys! Not Juliana, but John Strohm and Frieda. Yeah, they were a great band, and I always thought that Juliana and Strohm were better together than they were apart. Juliana and Frieda are forming a new band called Some Girls. (I just interviewed Frieda's husband, Jake Smith, on the radio today; he and Frieda lead a very good underground pop band called Mysteries of Life.) Bands/artists from the last 15 years that are favorites of mine: Elliott Smith (see Elliott Smith thread) the Pixies Nirvana Sleater-Kinney (esp. ALL HANDS ON THE BAD ONE) P.J. Harvey Uncle Tupelo/Wilco/Son Volt Galaxie 500

Great news, Chris--thanks for posting it. I'm going to order it next month, along with the new Nina Simone box-set.

Geez, enough already! I can't take no more! Stop it! Next we'll be hearing that the Keynote set is imminent.

Any word yet on what exactly the Amy will include?

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Marcoliv, I just picked this up from Barnes and Noble's bargain music rack for $6.99. You might want to call any B & Ns in your area and see if they have it, as those bargain titles are usually shipped in quantities. Good luck!

Herbie Hancock, COMPLETE BLUE NOTE SESSIONS, ever since starting the Blue Note pianist poll yesterday. I haven't listened to this in ages, and man, is it a pleasant re-visitation.

Uli on Jazz Corner posted that George Lewis is going to write a book about the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, better known as the AACM. Chicago jazz history and improv fans, take note!

I was 13 when IN THROUGH THE OUT DOOR came out, and my older cousin was going to take me to see them in Chicago. Mr. Bonham's untimely departure put the kibosh on that.

--Fast Times at Ridgemont High After that excellent advice he goes on to play Kashmir from Physical Graffiti instead of side one of IV. I don't think many people caught on to that joke. Yes, that was classic. At first I thought the film-makers had made a mistake, then realized it was deliberate. As for makeout music, I guess I'm from the Roxy Music Avalon generation.

I went on a rockin'-out kick just a couple of weeks ago with the following: The Ramones, first five albums Rush, SPIRIT OF RADIO, MOVING PICTURES, and an anthology of their 70's music Van Halen, VAN HALEN AC/DC, HIGHWAY TO HELL/BACK IN BLACK Ash, 1977 Velvet Underground, WHITE LIGHT/WHITE HEAT Sonic Youth, BAD MOON RISING/EVOL Various, NUGGETS II Led Zeppelin, EARLY/LATTER DAYS ...I also love 70's Bowie, Nirvana, the Kinks, 60's garage rock (possibly my favorite genre outside of jazz), the Pixies, Husker Du, the Replacements, the Jesus and Mary Chain... I don't listen to this music nearly as much as I once did (used to be several albums like this a day--the way I am now with jazz). --Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Truly music to my ears! (And I'd definitely go for the Pullen set as well.)

Ah, well, time for me to get my lumps for the names I omitted, inadvertently for the most part. I guess I associate Tyner so strongly with Coltrane's 1960's sound--which, on the surface anyway, does not seem to resemble the "Blue Note sound" very much--that I neglected to put him in there. Ammons and Lewis, whom Jim Sangrey mentioned, did cross my mind, but they--along with Johnson and Hodes--represent the dawning years of the label, and while they helped set the template in some ways, they don't represent what I think of as the Blue Note sound. (Ouch, I feel the flames already!) In retrospect I probably should have included Tyner and one of the Ammons/Lewis/Johnson/Hodes coterie, and dropped one or two of the iconoclasts. I voted for Hancock, by the way, after the initial Silver/Clark twinge. I think Herbie's range touched nearly every aspect of the BN aesthetic.

Thanks for the review, Mike. I e-mailed it to several friends of mine who are Grimes followers as well. An imminent CALL reunion, who woulda thunk it? Amazing!

Nice post, Mnytime. It's the old saw of "America gave you all these rights--how dare you use them!" And actually, it seems like the political forum's been fairly quiet lately.

A big thumbs-up from me for this one. I bought it last week because, well, it's Cannonball, and because I've developed quite an interest in 50's/60's musical concept albums. (Interesting that, according to the liner notes, this LP was Cannonball's idea.) The CD was even better than I'd hoped it would be--the first two tracks, in particular, should be a delight to anybody who loves the classic modal hard-bop sound of early-60's Adderley. Planning to listen to it again this weekend. The re-issue is fleshed out with four short (but different) tracks that were recorded for 45's around the same time.

I think Alan Lankin got a copy of this as well--I noticed several days ago that he had posted it in the "May listening" thread. Didn't the 60's quintet and Bitches Brew boxes come out just a few months apart?

Up for broadcast--just started.