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This is interesting... though I still am dubious of how doping will be dealt with, honestly. 2008 Tour Schedule

I don't know if I could come back from that one...

Indeed! May you outbid me to your heart's content!

I love Sound Grammar. It's kinda funny that one criticism levied against it is that it sounds "just like an Ornette record."

Is that BERIGAN on the right?

Awesome!

That should be an interesting read. I just got irritated with the previous tome. It didn't spend enough time with non-ICP Dutch jazz at all, and some of the "conversational" writing seemed too "hip" for its own good.

Mississippi Fred McDowell - Delta Blues - (Arhoolie)

Umm, okay. Think I was referring to beat-up vinyl, but whatever.

Sonny Boy Williamson - King Biscuit Time - (Arhoolie)

Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson - Kidney Stew is Fine - (Delmark) w/ Hal Singer, Jay McShann, Jacky Sampson, Paul Gauthier and T-Bone Walker

Thanks for that. I for one enjoy Ross's writings. He's quite informal in the best way -- kinda like Kevin Whitehead. And I like the low cringe quotient in his writings compared to other cultural critics. I've thrown New Dutch Swing at the wall more than twice...

Think that was somebody else, but thanks for the tip.

I've only done college radio (non-NPR affiliate) and therefore can only speak for that segment of the market. I was lucky to feel like I got a lot of psyched listeners on a Smiley Winters or Gerd Dudek trip, not to mention Ayler/Trane/etc., but hey, I wasn't one to play loads of Austin artists on KVRX, either, and probably should have (apart from a few in-studio live gigs and interviews). But it seems to me that of the PR affiliates that I have heard playing jazz, Laz is doing a hell of a lot better than, say, whatever the hell was going on in Chicago years ago. I almost shit my pants hearing Andrew Hill on KANU-Lawrence in 1999, and though I know they didn't try REAL hard most of the time, it was still about as decent as one could hope for jazz on the radio in those days. I mean, with all the satellite radio/podcast/what have you now, it's gotta be difficult to walk that tightrope on real "air," so Winston-gaffes aside, it seems to me like Laz is doing a helluva job. I don't think I could do anywhere NEARLY as well as he. And iirc Laz has posted playlists before, many of which escaped comment.

On deck next!

Any verdict on Speakers Corner? There are a few Impulse! titles I have thought about buying in this format.

For sure. Laz has always seemed uber-hip and knowledgeable to me, and I'm sure he hears a lot of things most people on this board (or involved in this music, including myself) do not.

Mal Waldron - The Opening - (Futura) Great solo date; Waldron's one of my favorites in the unaccompanied format.

Maybe this has been discussed already, but: Arjen Gorter?

I was down at a BMW repair shop in south Austin this spring and they had one of the 600s, pretty cool if you ask me. (though at 6'6" I wouldn't really fit in it...)

Sounds about like the Chicago branches of the USPS.

How is that Mazette Watts? I really like some of his ESP stuff. Very different from the ESP.

Sound.

Lowell Davidson - Trio - (ESP-Disk' orig) w/ Milford Graves and Gary Peacock. One of my alltime favorite ESP's.

Bob James - Explosions - (ESP-Disk' red-label orig) w/ Bob Pozar, Barre Phillips, Gordon Mumma and Robert Ashley