Brownian Motion

Harry The Rat With Women Ratso Rizzo Mousie Alexander

Talia Shire Zhenya Gay Gaylord Schanilec

I can't speak to the entire list, but several important early jazz figures are missing entirely-- Art Tatum Roy Eldridge Bennie Moten Red Allen Bill Coleman Luis Russell Orchestra Cab Calloway McKinney's Cotton Pickers Benny Carter is here, but his work for Norman Granz in the 1950s lacks the brilliance of his 1930s sides. Fletcher Henderson's output cannot be fairly represented by a CD covering the years 1931-34. And finally, Pops "Plays W.C. Handy" is okay, especially since it gave Louis a reason to record some new material, instead of the same old stuff, but it's hardly essential.

If her angry vulgar question is her typical way of dealing with subordinates at the workplace, I'd say she should be reprimanded if not fired. As for taking responsibility--not sure she had any other credible options.

Class act.

The list is not of "all the essential jazz albums". It is a list of 100 essential jazz albums.

Anything that kindles or stokes an interest in jazz is a good thing, even a list that every member of Organissimo will have issue with.

Tampa Red Big Green Little Boy Blue

Chris, 1. Being a jazz "completist" is no sin. 2. Many, perhaps most, jazz fans are obsessed with trivia. 3. All history, including jazz history, is subjective. 4. Phil has paid his dues. 5. David Remnick is a fine writer.

Great ending to this piece: Phil visiting the 100 year old guitarist Lawrence Lucie in a nursing home. Lucie recorded with Jelly Roll Morton, among many others.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05...fa_fact_remnick

Clyde McCoy Henry Busse Nat Peck

Ashley Wilkes Ashley Olson Ashley Dupre

Paul, This is a nice one. Also check out "Early Morning Blues" by Albert Ammons, for its soulful Guy Kelly trumpet choruses.

Jim, My sincere condolences.

In the past, when shill bidders were unearthed (and proven) they were kicked off the site. Generally speaking, the shill bidder is either the seller under another name or an accomplice, so the seller would be booted as well. Ebay put out the welcome mat for shills when it designed the so-called "private auction" and then eliminated the possibility of correspondence between bidders. In a private auction the bidders are not revealed, so there is a lot more difficulty in establishing shill bidding, and no way to warn bidders who are being suckered. The private auction model worked so nicely for ebay that they have now, in effect, made every auction a private auction.

Cozy Cole Chill Wills Happy Caldwell

They realize it. Ebay knows exactly what it's doing. Shill bidding, especially when it's hard to detect, is most definitely to ebay's advantage.

Larry Young Charles Earland Mrs Mills C. Wright Mills Blind Willie McTell Alvin Dark

The New York Times Printer Friendly Format Sponsored By May 6, 2008 Mildred Loving, Who Fought Ban on Mixed Marriage, Dies at 68 By DOUGLAS MARTIN Mildred Loving, a black woman whose anger over being banished from Virginia for marrying a white man led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling overturning state miscegenation laws, died on May 2 at her home in Central Point, Va. She was 68. Peggy Fortune, her daughter, said the cause was pneumonia. The Supreme Court ruling, in 1967, struck down the last group of segregation laws to remain on the books — those requiring separation of the races in marriage. The ruling was unanimous, its opinion written by Chief Justice Earl Warren, who in 1954 wrote the court’s opinion in Brown v. Board of Education, declaring segregated public schools unconstitutional. In Loving v. Virginia, Warren wrote that miscegenation laws violated the Constitution’s equal protection clause. “We have consistently denied the constitutionality of measures which restrict the rights of citizens on account of race,” he said. By their own widely reported accounts, Mrs. Loving and her husband, Richard, were in bed in their modest house in Central Point in the early morning of July 11, 1958, five weeks after their wedding, when the county sheriff and two deputies, acting on an anonymous tip, burst into their bedroom and shined flashlights in their eyes. A threatening voice demanded, “Who is this woman you’re sleeping with?” Mrs. Loving answered, “I’m his wife.” Mr. Loving pointed to the couple’s marriage certificate hung on the bedroom wall. The sheriff responded, “That’s no good here.” The certificate was from Washington, D.C., and under Virginia law, a marriage between people of different races performed outside Virginia was as invalid as one done in Virginia. At the time, it was one of 16 states that barred marriages between races. After Mr. Loving spent a night in jail and his wife several more, the couple pleaded guilty to violating the Virginia law, the Racial Integrity Act. Under a plea bargain, their one-year prison sentences were suspended on the condition that they leave Virginia and not return together or at the same time for 25 years. Judge Leon M. Bazile, in language Chief Justice Warren would recall, said that if God had meant for whites and blacks to mix, he would have not placed them on different continents. Judge Bazile reminded the defendants that “as long as you live you will be known as a felon.” They paid court fees of $36.29 each, moved to Washington and had three children. They returned home occasionally, never together. But times were tough financially, and the Lovings missed family, friends and their easy country lifestyle in the rolling Virginia hills. By 1963, Mrs. Loving could stand the ostracism no longer. Inspired by the civil rights movement and its march on Washington, she wrote Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and asked for help. He wrote her back, and referred her to the American Civil Liberties Union. The A.C.L.U. took the case. Its lawyers, Bernard S. Cohen and Philip J. Hirschkop, faced an immediate problem: the Lovings had pleaded guilty and had no right to appeal. So they asked Judge Bazile to set aside his original verdict. When he refused, they appealed. The Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals upheld the lower court, and the case went to the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Cohen recounted telling Mr. Loving about various legal theories applying to the case. Mr. Loving replied, “Mr. Cohen, tell the court I love my wife, and it is just unfair that I can’t live with her in Virginia.” Mildred Delores Jeter’s family had lived in Caroline County, Va., for generations, as had the family of Richard Perry Loving. The area was known for friendly relations between races, even though marriages were forbidden. Many people were visibly of mixed race, with Ebony magazine reporting in 1967 that black “youngsters easily passed for white in neighboring towns.” Mildred’s mother was part Rappahannock Indian, and her father was part Cherokee. She preferred to think of herself as Indian rather than black. Mildred and Richard began spending time together when he was a rugged-looking 17 and she was a skinny 11-year-old known as Bean. He attended an all-white high school for a year, and she reached 11th grade at an all-black school. When Mildred became pregnant at 18, they decided to do what was elsewhere deemed the right thing and get married. They both said their initial motive was not to challenge Virginia law. “We have thought about other people,” Mr. Loving said in an interview with Life magazine in 1966, “but we are not doing it just because somebody had to do it and we wanted to be the ones. We are doing it for us.” In his classic study of segregation, “An American Dilemma,” Gunnar Myrdal wrote that “the whole system of segregation and discrimination is designed to prevent eventual inbreeding of the races.” But miscegenation laws struck deeper than other segregation acts, and the theory behind them leads to chaos in other facets of law. This is because they make any affected marriage void from its inception. Thus, all children are illegitimate; spouses have no inheritance rights; and heirs cannot receive death benefits. “When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom,” the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said in 1958. Virginia’s law had been on the books since 1662, adopted a year after Maryland enacted the first such statute. At one time or another, 38 states had miscegenation laws. State and federal courts consistently upheld the prohibitions, until 1948, when the California Supreme Court overturned California’s law. Though the Supreme Court’s 1967 decision in the Loving case struck down miscegenation laws, Southern states were sometimes slow to change their constitutions; Alabama became the last state to do so, in 2000. Mr. Loving died in a car accident in 1975, and the Lovings’ son Donald died in 2000. In addition to her daughter, Peggy Fortune, who lives in Milford, Va., Mrs. Loving is survived by her son, Sidney, of Tappahannock, Va.; eight grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren. Mrs. Loving stopped giving interviews, but last year issued a statement on the 40th anniversary of the announcement of the Supreme Court ruling, urging that gay men and lesbians be allowed to marry.

Botkin plays rhythm guitar with Krupa, Artie Bernstein, and Cleo Brown.

Louis Armstrong - If you got to ask, you shouldn't mess with it.

Horace Mann Manfred Mann The Man

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