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Hunt down the CD of Brian's Violin Concerto! It's like Elgar on acid.

I truly believe I am with the silent majority who prefer cake.

As one of the four musicians on the Miles recording of Tune Up, Max was certainly in a position to know early.

How fitting. Somebody else's tune attributed to him on his tombstone. Now I'm remembering Eddie Vinson saying, "Here's a tune I wrote for Miles..."

Herbie Nichols, "It Didn't Happen." (Tunes that are mostly on one note fit my limited whistling abilities very well.)

The groundswell grows: Chuck, out with the Herschel and Mary Lou! My rarest might be the Vocalion 78 of "Jambled Blues" by Sonny Clay's Plantation Orchestra, 1923. Biggest heartbreak: I have an early 78 pressing of Pine Top Smith's "Pine Top's Boogie-Woogie"... with a big chunk missing.

I succumbed to their low price for the Jack Johnson box. But the five-week wait for it was very unpleasant.

Sometime in May, I think.

Pat granted interviews to some of us media jackals today. So I got a chance to ask him about the Song X reissue. Six new tracks! Not alternates. Different tunes, he says. Remastered. "Sounds 100% better," he says. Yeah!

The Texans in our midst might want to know this: I found both Embers volumes as cutouts at Hastings stores. $5.99 a pop.

Frank is a historian and collector who started this book a long, long time ago. Chuck runs the Marr Sound Archive at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. And now, back to our regularly scheduled bookselling...

Peter, I'll take that Willie the Lion if it's still available. (Sorry I'm late for the party.)

Insert Swiss Kriss joke here.

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My list: Clifford Jordan, "In the World" Lucky Thompson, "A Lucky Songbook in Europe" Abdullah Ibrahim, "Ekaya" And just about anything that was on the Horo label. (Hey, Marty: Nathan Davis' "Rules of Freedom" has been on a Japanese CD; Dusty Groove has had it sometimes.)

Hoy hoy! I'm pleasantly surprised by the depth of Captain fandom at Organissimo. Another reason to hang out in this place. Want Captain on video! Tonight let there be ice cream for crow.

The Willises are just fine, thank you. Both beautifully thought out and executed.

That Jeff Palmer title is highly recommended to all. Arthur Blythe and a B-3!

Ruby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also Jackie-Ing, I Mean You, Gallop's Gallop, Monk's Dream, Bye-Ya, Four in One, Monk's Mood... At various times, pretty much any of them except "Oska T."

What's the use of practicing on the bridge when you don't have the first 8 bars right yet?

Ayler?

Anyone else out there who unapologetically loves the "Oficium" disc?

Of this batch, "Happenings." But "Oblique" needs to be listed.

The Original Memphis Five, minus one?

We'll just sorta ignore the Art Blakey date from 1964, and anything before that.