Spontooneous

Now yew see why we stand agin that evolution nonsense in Kansas?

Yes, thanks, Chris. Griff is one of the few players who always make me smile.

Great news, Chuck! My copy of the LP is showing the signs of having been spun too many times. Some great Johnny Griffin in these grooves too, folks.

The tunes seem to be duplicated (in the same sequence) on the fairly recent Machete label CD, "The Fantastic Jimmy Smith."

Different performances.

This material has been released so many times it isn't funny anymore. Often under Wynton's name. With a little scrounging, you can assemble it all from cutout editions for a lot less than the $16.

(Sigh.) I wish every day could be Paul's birthday.

If AMG can be believed on this, Chris Woods was in Sy Oliver's band. I think y'all got a match here. In less than two hours.

OK, I'll go along with the Sy Oliver crowd here.

Trumpeter has too little hair to be Benny Bailey, who kept most of his until the end. I'd guess Bill Coleman, but he looks a little stout for Bill.

Hats in the Sky ... In A Silent Hat ... Chapeaus de Kilimanjaro ... Bitches Hat ...

It's not a Dameron dream band without Fats Navarro. Mine has Johnny Hodges and Harry Carney. Gotta dream big.

Trane held on to his music from the "Mating Call" session. The pages were in the big Christie's jazz auction a few months back.

Does anybody know if a better-than-TV-quality audio master even exists? The show was broadcast live, so they had plenty of other issues to worry about besides the sound. If a better tape exists, it would probably be a legal nightmare to work out a legit release with all the estates (Basie, Monk, Holiday, Hawkins, et al.).

I know Columbia did at least one lp/cd with performances from The Sound of Jazz.

Ratliff's reaching back to the '20s. Steve Brown was a mofo bassist who made an enormous difference in the sound and feel of the Jean Goldkette and Paul Whiteman bands.

It was September '97, and Jay Mac brought his sextet (former students all) to the Gem Theater in Kansas City. In the first set, they played "'Round Midnight." In his cadenza at the end, Jackie suddenly stopped, raised his head and shouted, "Thank you, Thelonious, for the most beautiful ballad ever!" And finished the cadenza beautifully.

It's just like the shite in the Ken Burns movie about how Bix must surely have learned to play by hearing Louis on a riverboat.

Yes, but I don't think Crouch is making that case. He's just looking for a quick way to get through writing the obituary. (This viewed through the lens of someone who's had to write thousands of obituaries.)

Allen's right about that "experience in the South" BS. And Crouch wrote more paragraphs about the heroin years than about the decades of mastery that followed. It's another piece of Crouch hack work.

And if "Garcia's Salmon-Colored Toilet" isn't a band name, I don't know what is. Obviously, I don't know what is.

Ever mindful of Kansas City's reputation as a jazz center, our local PBS station has buried this show in the coveted 12:30 a.m. time slot.

Let me get this straight. Albert King played the Flying V guitar, and Freddie King had the Flying V collar, right?

He wrote a tune for a friend of mine. The framed sheet music is his prized possession.

Aww, I kinda liked the piece. It's over the top and wrong, but I think Lebrecht knows that. Does anybody else think the instruction at the end to "Play the Leningrad Symphony" is ironic?