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"Working knowledge?" OK. "... many if not all of jazz's best musicians were themselves steeped in?" A little fuzzy on that one. How steeped? And what's with the were? Is it over already? You may be 100% correct. Or you may be 100% correct 50% of the time. Big difference, especially as you seem to be hanging your criticism of the guy in large part on this. ("what's at stake ...")

uh ... that was ... kind of ... uh ... . IMHO Oh ... OK. Second one is dandy.

email sent on the smith. thanks.

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Listened to pretty much the whole show. Great music and conversations. Enjoyed the story about hearing Ayler in NYC. I'm curious Larry, I'm not sure I got the title correct, but is "Luminescence Live" the Josh Berman, Keefe Jackson recording you referred to during the broadcast?

Here's the link

It's underpriced!!!! And Allen, what's wrong with it??? It's got the All Star Blue Lou, and a live track of I Found A New Baby with Tommy Dorsey from 1940. I enjoyed it, and got it for a fraction (tiny fraction) of the cost just a few months ago, as you know. Today there's a used copy listed for $11.94. Those amazon marketplace prices are all over the place. The "collectable" is listed for $25, and the "new" hanging tough at $168.55. Here's the description for the new copy: What could go wrong?

Hentoff gets laid off huh? Join the crowd. Best way to cut payroll: Get rid of all the experienced employees with fat salaries and health care needs. Replace 'em with college grads for a fraction of the cost. Kids hardly ever even visit a doctor, let alone require a prescription.

Thanks for these comments. I can only imagine how gratifying/frustrating/rewarding/exhausting/enriching it must be for folks like Chris, yourself, Larry Kart, and others here, both musicians and writers, to have contributed in such meaningful ways to the music. As a listener, thank you to all of you.

Fantastic. Thanks for the heads-up.

One aspect of this, which many others here can speak to with far greater insight than I, is that the music walks hand-in-hand with the history of its time -- the depression ear, segregation, the war years, post-war, the 60s, etc. So, thinking of the music that is being made today one might think of how it speaks to, or reflects, our current times. They certainly seem to be important times socially and politically, but only history can judge that. This period we're in is also significant because of globalization, and I think some of the music today reflects that. There are musicians who look to influences beyond the blues, and the story of jazz doesn't end at the shores of the U.S., nor does it end whenever the blues might leave. IMO. It may be just beginning! Just thoughts.

Nice. I'll be interested in the smith.

Happy birthday. Eat cake!

I see. Getting more attractive all the time.

Curious about this one. Has anyone jumped on it yet?

Yep. I gotta disagree. There's some great music being made today. It ain't necessarily hard bop, but the music would kind of be in trouble if it were, no?

Yeah, I would suppose that this period, the period of the beginning of recorded sound -- which in the looooong term we may still be in -- will always be of interest simply because it's the period of the beginning of recorded sound. Imagine what a gold mine that historical documents such as the ones Allen Lowe puts together will be in another 50, 100, 200, 500 years. (One can only imagine what they'll fetch on amazon. ) And imagine if today we could hear for ourselves recorded performances from the 17th or 18th centuries?! I'm guessing we'd be listening, collecting, comparing, but most of all marveling.

Oh man. I forgot about that. Gotta run now and check it out! thanks ...

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Now there's a good thought! ... MG?

I like the cavemen better. But that's another company. Back to that comedic genius, tricked out nametag girl ... what about the one where the husband and wife go to the counter and he has boxes of insurance for a motorcycle, boat, etc. "Surprise!," says tricked-out nametag girl. "I'll just ... put ... these ... yeah." I KNOW every man has seen that look that the wife shoots. There's no recovering from it.

A few years ago I'm afraid I paid somewhere around $140 for Braxton's Dortmund. I don't regret it, but I don't think there are many recordings that would fall into that group for me.

Go ahead, disappoint me. That's kind of the point.

I'll kick it off with this head-turner: Bunny Berigan -- "Pied Piper: 1934 - 40" new (allegedly) at amazon marketplace for the bargain berigan prices of $168.55.

Thought I'd bump this up for anyone who's interested. I was listening to Brown's "Complete Blue Note & Pacific Jazz Recordings" last night. Amazing music, unreal energy, especially the Blakey at Birdland. Wow! ... So I noodled around as I listened, found this thread and hopped on a couple of recs here from the past: "At Basin Street," "Brown and Roach, Inc.," and "The Historic California Concerts, 1954." Settled on these three. I noticed some excitement about the California Concerts, so I'm very much looking forward to that one. What an amazing player this cat was. cheers and happy 2009! BTW, I don't know what it originally retailed for, but a new copy of that EmArcy box goes for $375 over at amazon. Used, $209.