Spontooneous

Lou Donaldson -- Mr. Shingrovsky

Blue Mitchell -- But Deep Inside, I'm Still In Favor Of It

Oh, yeah ... wasn't that the sequel to "The Assistant Manager"?

Everybody remembers those and forgets "San Franisco," "Circus" and "Montana."

Lou Donaldson -- Stop Oglin' The Pretty Girl On The Cover And Buy The Damn Record

Rejected for being too similar to Grant Green's "Talkin' About the Transcendental Dialectic."

The Grant Green Memorial Album: Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb?

Is this a good place to recycle my Booker Ervin "Tex Book Depository" joke?

Art Blakey, "Holiday for Shirts"

Back about 2000, there were at least two dozen copies in a surplus store in Kansas City. I only grabbed one, of course.

Freddie Hubbard, "Ready for Freddie." Oh, wait a minute ...

Can't vouch for the septet, but I saw the trio (with Moffett and Gravatt) last weekend (10-21). It was a magnificent musical experience. McCoy looks gaunt, walks weakly, and talks in a mumble. But he was playing far better than he played the previous time I saw him, in '95. Less rococo, much meatier. The sets were short but intense.

You weren't the drunk guy yelling at the band because they weren't a blues act, were you?

I can truthfully say the same thing. But the solo I'm thinking of wasn't at the 18th and Vine Festival in '95 or '96 (yes, I was there). It was about 1990 at the Grand Emporium, of all places. It was a Murray quartet with John Hicks and Fred Hopkins. They closed with "Mr. P.C." Cyrille played one chorus on every part of the drumset. One exclusively on the snare's head, one exclusively on the snare's rim, one exclusively on the side of the snare, one exclusively on the snare's stand, etc. -- all the way around the set. Each cymbal was soloed on for one chorus with sticks -- then he grabbed each cymbal and bent it rhythmically for a chorus. When he'd run out of drumset pieces, he beat out one chorus each on his chest, his arms, his hands, his legs. This display went on for 10-15 minutes. The 12-bar chorus pattern remained clear throughout. The tempo was way up, and he bent it only a little. Besides being a great drum solo, it felt like a great blues performance too.

It's very good, and all-instrumental, until the last cut. Then the racist poetry begins.

St. Louis '69 is a great choice, Lon! An all-time favorite of mine. If anybody ever finds a better version of the Cryptical/Other One suite, let me know about it!

And if you can't catch a cow, you can catch a cold.

Correct. (Hey, kids, let's start another KC BBQ fight!)

shnflac.net just put up 3-31-73. Highly recommended, for a second-set sequence that seems to surprise the heck out of the band.

For a look into the man's soul, get "Simple Isn't Easy" on Sunnyside.

Crap. Maybe I shouldn't have traded off those Buddy Belden cylinders after all.

Get "Blue's Moods" first! Then get all the rest.

"I got the blues, ever since Great White kicked me out of the band."

Tried it. Didn't like it. But it might have worked with a more interesting tenor player.

IIRC, when that show was rebroadcast later in the season, the Ornette segment was clipped out and replaced with a Leon Redbone performance.