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The Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner. " Dreamin about my TV Momma/The little girl with the big wide screen"

A nice miscellany of Live, Small Group, Big Band, and Vocalists on 4cds. Highlights include: Festival Blues with Roy Eldridge, Johnny Griffin, Milt Jackson; CB Trio-"Baby Lawrence"; Joe Turner-"Corrina, Corrina"; amo. Granz recorded so much late Basie that a set like this-currently available from an Amazon affiliate at $8 plus S&H-is valuable for further direction. So live Ella in decent sound at a bargain price, none of which I owned previously-$9.99 Newbury Comics via Amazon-how could I go wrong? Answer: I didn't. Especially fond of the Greatest Jazz Concert In The World set. So here's to many happy hours... Peace, Blue Trane

Alexander Hamilton Saw Buck Buck Rogers

Dear Red- I envy you. Here in St Louis, I'm going to see one of my favorite jazz/blues singers Kim Massie as part of a free concert series at the St Louis Zoo.

Discs 5 & 6-including Tenor Madness Discs 3 & 4 - including The Sermon and Back At The Chicken Shack Just set the CD JUkebox on Shuffle and let 'er rip.... Peace, Blue Trane

Miss Clinkscales Rudolph Saxe Connie Kaye

Woody Allen: The Night club Years 1964-1968 (2 lps/UA) Three Hours Fifty Nine Minutes Fifty One Seconds with THe Marx Brothers (4 Lps/Murray Hill) $1 each at a garage sale. Peace, Blue Trane

I'm making my way through the Three Musketeers saga as well as which is so far a fascinating read about the troubled year immediately after the close of WWI-Red Scare Labor Unrest Racial Conflict and Government Spying-some of this is eerily familiar.

Classic Lester Young with Count Basie on OKEH and Vocalion, Disc 3 Beautiful and important music. Peace, Blue Trane

So I'll cheat a little and opt for the Savoy and Dial Master Takes as reissued on a compact Savoy three disc set. Honestly, this is as bad as asking for a single Coltrane set, or a single set by Beethoven, Mozart, Ellington, Miles, IMO. I'm grateful I don't have to really make this choice. Peace, Blue Trane

How good could one man get? Bill Evans left plenty of recorded evidence of his constant striving to express the broadest and deepest canvas of emotional coloring possible. Aside from his 1961 Village Vanguard recordings with Lo Faro and Motian, this is my favorite live outing, taken as a whole. The selection of tunes is superb and Bill is in rare form throughout. Peace, Blue Trane

9. The Stan Getz Dynasty is pretty fabulous. Taken overall, the list just tells me how ignorant I am of "European" jazz and really isn't helpful without reviews that might give me clues-rather like cataloging a chef's pantry and not providing recipes. Peace, Blue Trane

4 hours of this period of Sinatra's career is enough for me and reasonably representative.

Some of my favorite West Coast Albums include Music For Lighthousekeeping and all six volumes of The Terry Gibbs Dream Band especially Volumes 1 & 4 which features some of the greatest playing by a big band ever. I'm not sure whether it qualifies but Harold Land's The Fox really burns. Peace, Blue Trane

A difficult read just as The Gulag Archipelago was difficult. The horror of this massive self destruction of the spirit is brought home time and again by the witness of Journals and Letters as well as the objective tone of the narration. The difference between the two works is the deep irony and rage of Solzhenitsyn's book-it is somehow more personal in tone. In an age when there is a widespread attempt to whitewash or distort the historical record we owe it to ourselves and others to master the basic facts of what is otherwise seemingly unthinkable.

Disc 1. Basin Street Blues. An amazing track-smoky and full of dramatic spaces. Victor Feldman's solo is a gem. Miles' playing is on another planet! This is probably my favorite track from this particular Miles aggregation.

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Freddie Hubbard: Sky Dive; First Light; Straight Life. Straight Life was a disappointment on my first playing of it. First Light is lyrical and well worth the money-it merits a second listen today. Sky Dive is up next. Charles Mingus: Let My Children Hear Music. Classic Mingus. VSOP: The Quintet. A classic Miles rhythm section with Freddie Hubbard in the trumpet slot. I'm a big fan of this group. It still sounds as great as it did when first released. Clifford Brown/Max Roach. The Blues Walk, Joy Spring. Great bop, great Clifford. The Lester Young Mosaic Box. I've only listened to Disc 1 so far and the set is up to Mosaic's high standards-excellent audio quality and a great booklet! Immortal music.

Music is essential.We find it in all human cultures, playing a central role in both religious and secular settings. Art in general is a necessity. I'd assign it a spot in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs under the category of self-actualization. Once we get past the immediate need for food, clothing, shelter, or perhaps even arising with it, music stakes its claim on our attention. In my urban High School, even the poorest seize every opportunity to listen, sing, drum or dance-sometimes driving their teacher crazy. Students who groan at the first appearance of poetry memorize line after line, verse after verse of popular songs without hesitation. Collectors like ourselves occupy a specialized niche in this age of Future Shock. We listen to performances that in other times would have vanished without a trace. Eras and styles of music jostle together and then settle into our possession. The variety of music we hear is a luxury, as are the vast numbers of books and films, concerts and plays we absorb. Our passion for the arts is in part a spiritual passion and in part the clamorings of greedy children for novelty, for distraction. There are certainly worse enterprises to invest in-collecting jazz recordings at least support the artists and the people that enable its creation. Peace, Blue Trane

Professor Longhair: Ball The Wall Maria Muldaur: It Ain't The Meat (It's the Motion) The Fugs: Kill, Kill, Kill for Peace Frank Zappa: Pajama People

George Herbert George Gordon Gordon Sumner From the sublime to the ridiculous...

Courtney Love The Four Voices Fourplay

The Complete Norman Granz Jam Sessions ( Jams #7, #8, #9) with Eldridge, Gillespie, Webster et al Of interest in High Times Hard Times was Anita O'Day's observation about his Personal Supervision, as consisting largely of his mere presence at the session and she gave him no credit at all. She also wrote with some bitterness to the effect that he took advantage of, or in some sense exploited the "hypes" (addicts). Certainly he deserved credit for keeping them gainfully employed and recorded, often when the world wasn't exactly beating down the door etc... In any event, I'm glad that he recorded these sessions as it's the closest we'll ever get to the cutting contests and after hours sessions.