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Hey, Nate Archibald was NOT forgettable. OK, everybody else on the team was. But Tiny was the coolest.

Now get busy rounding up the matching Scully lathe with the Westrex cutting head.

Latest appearance I know of is on Randy Weston's "Spirits of Our Ancestors." Chops are a little frayed there, but the ideas are definitely not frayed. Anybody know of later recordings?

Kansas City, Mo., has Mary Lou Williams, Ella Fitzgerald and Basie streets. All very short and in a very violent part of the inner city.

Leo Parker Live at the Shady Meadows Rest Home -- Let Me Tell You 'Bout My Operation Ronnie Foster -- Two Headed Frappe

Lou Donaldson and the Ministry of Silly Walks

Lou Donaldson, "Everything I Play From This Point Forward Shall Be Immaculate"

Up, because I'm enjoying this one right now. Definitely an "on" night. At the end of "Dark Silhouette," the moment of deep, moving silence before the applause says it all.

"Undun" works a lot better than that Michael Franks tune at the beginning of the disc. Even Kurt sounds disgusted with that one.

Anybody know if there's a reissue series going on here? Or is it simply a case of "we got a distributor again"?

Maybe it's in one of his books, maybe it's in liner notes. Somewhere Ira Gitler maps out Doug Mettome's name: MET-oh-me.

A live performance of the Brahms Op. 38 sonata back about 1981 stands out in memory as one of the few really perfect concert-going experiences. When you guys are done with all this Shostakovich, put on the Britten Cello Symphony.

Once my dad sat next to Orville Redenbacher on a plane.

When I was a young newspaper clerk, I picked up a phone call for an entertainment writer. It was Warren Zevon.

At the same pawn shop where Timothy McVeigh bought his Glock, I bought a used copy of "A Love Supreme." (True story.)

True story: My 78-year-old father saw a copy of the Beastie Boys' "Paul's Boutique" in a thrift store and bought it simply because he found the cover so fascinating. (He probably threw the record away.) Gotta admit, the gatefold LP cover is striking inside and out.

The Clifford Jordan-Junior Cook "Two Tenor Winner" on Criss Cross has some very fine Junior.

Wonderful. Anybody have any idea as to who was doing the REAL bandleading here?

About three years back, someone tried presenting a jazz festival in Lawrence, Kansas, about 40 miles from Kansas City. They wanted a lot of Kansas City jazz musicians to participate. But they also insisted on some kind of wacky "no gigs within 100 miles for six months" clause in the contract. So nobody signed.

Don't miss the phenomenal Clarinet Quintet. (The cheap Naxos recording is actually better than some of the full-price competition.) Also the string quintets and sextets. More fun than the quartets. The more parts, the merrier.

A very healthy turnout last night. And lots of people I've never seen at these events before. (Fedchock said, "See, you just have to have two trombones on every gig.') Paul plays "Old Folks" fairly often, but last night's was especially beautiful.

Is there any more perfect drum performance on record than Jo on "Tickle Toe"?

Gee, that was my favorite photo of Bud...

You must be kidding Hmm...charming music decorated with a cover featuring a device designed to kill thousands of people. Just hilarious. See, we Americans ain't all nuke-happy. I think Claude was making a reference to his 'avatar'. Oh. Now I git it, when you draw me a diagram. Sorry about that. My day job is editing copy written by people who think that "nuke" is the funniest verb imaginable in a joking context. This leads me into arguments over nuclear metaphors and images quite often. As you can see, I'm getting pretty good at it.

You must be kidding Hmm...charming music decorated with a cover featuring a device designed to kill thousands of people. Just hilarious. See, we Americans ain't all nuke-happy.