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Perhaps those are tapes that weren't released by Verve? As you note, Granz seemed to hold on to some of the tapes of unreleased material.

My sentimental favorite is her Live in Europe album.

Hell, she barely recognizes her own son!

Just don't tell Chuck about this thread!

Any word on when?

I love this place! The warmth and good will just cheers me up...

I can't believe the left out Soft Machine and Gentle Giant! And I can't believe what Crouch said about Hatfield and the North!

I have the CD. It's Stereo.

Miles Davis - Round About Midnight: Legacy Edition - 2 CDs (Columbia/Legacy) May 10 — disc one features the classic 1957 album — disc two features previously unreleased 1956 live recordings with the lineup of Miles Davis, Philly Joe Jones, Paul Chambers, Red Garland and John Coltrane Another chance to spend some money. Wonder what's on disc two?

Put me down for a c-note. I'm in for a fin... I have a couple Loonies and a Two-nie to donate I believe Finland has longer Winters. Moving there would just give him an excuse to post more.

He didn't make that claim on Saturday. (Maybe he's said it elsewhere.) He did recommend his fellow Philly guys to Art, but I assume that Art's the one that hired them.

Brad, Yes, the box seems to have tracks that are not appearing on the individual reissues. There are eight "previously unreleased tracks" in the box, plus an additional four previously unissued introductions. By my count there are only four bonus tracks among these individual reissues. Four of the unreleased tracks in the box come from the Seven Steps sessions alone, so two tracks are clearly not making it to the individual release. An unreleased version of "Autumn Leaves" is not to be found on either of the Four & More/My Funny Valentine individual reissues. And I think there are three previously unissued tracks from the Antibes date (one of those tracks being an introduction), only one of which makes it to the individual reissue. I'm sure I'm leaving something out. Sounds correct. Now, if this was from Verve...

Do any of the Driggs' photos give credit to the actual photographer?

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Yes, it's true. Pepe's in Tucson. I can almost taste the salsa now. I might have to make a journey over there this weekend for a Saturday morning breakfast. Do they use spare tires as a fryer?

How could I forget I remember?

That must be "Barney Colt," the black sheep of the Colt family. We might have to send over his second cousin, Denny Colt, to teach him a lesson:

they'll get my evans set when the pry it from my cold dead fingers. If I had gotten one, I'd offer to sell it back to them for $500.00. ;

I agree with the other comments about his great storytelling. The show started with an interview with WRTI's Bob Perkins. He told the story of how Art Blakey 'tricked' him into joining the Messengers ("just stay for the next week") and Golson getting Blakey to replace the band with Philly's Lee Morgan, Bobby Timmons and Jymie Merritt. I remember thinking that he needs to write all this up, so I was happy to hear that he has a deal to write a 300 page book. His only problem is that he's written 1200 pages! Anyway, here's what I remember him playing: First Set 1. Horizon's Ahead 2. Take the 'A' Train 3. Along Came Betty (named for the girl he dated before he met his wife, Bobby) 4. Cherry 5. Peter's Moment Second Set 1. Whisper Not 2. Killer Joe 3. Beautiful Love (from the 1932 movie, The Mummy, with Boris Karloff [Golson remembers realizing that the Mummy's behavior could be explained by the fact that he was a junkie!]) 4. Tiny Capers (Clifford Brown) 5. Stablemates

Not as far as I know! I have a glasses, regular length black hair, and a goatee with a bit of grey. Actually I look a bit like the drawing of Mat Maneri that I've shrunken down for my current icon. (I don't look really look like Mat though.)

Here we go again:

I certainly wouldn't want to sidetrack a sales pitch!

There's a feature on Milford Graves's medical heart research and his music on today's NPR's Morning Edition. A Harvard Medical School professor comments positively on his work. Pretty interesting. Here's a link to the text: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4510912 (I assume they'll post the RA link later today or tomorrow.) Here's the preview text: Where Science Meets Art Music of the Human Heart May Hold Clues to Healing by Joel Rose of member station WHYY NPR.org, February 28, 2005 · In the 1960s and '70s, jazz drummer Milford Graves played with Albert Ayler, Paul Bley and others in the New York avant-garde. These days he's still a musician, but he also spends a great deal of time exploring how music can help heal the human heart. Some doctors say the research Graves is doing in his basement in Queens is just as significant as work being done in medical laboratories. Graves listens to the heart rhythms of volunteers using a host of diagnostic tools, including a custom-built stethoscope and sensors that pick up the electrical impulses that cause the human heart to beat. Software then parses the data, allowing Graves to focus on the micro-rhythms within a single heartbeat. Graves says a healthy heart -- like a good jazz drummer -- emphasizes the triplets (1-2-3, 1-2-3), not the eighth notes (1-2-3-4, 1-2-3-4). "If you've got a stiff heartbeat, that means your blood is like 'squirt, squirt.' Not a nice flow," Graves says. "I want to look at that and see what's happening." If Graves thinks something is wrong, he'll manipulate the sound, perhaps by speeding it up or slowing it down on his computer. He'll then use this counter-rhythm to try to nudge the heart back toward a more normal pattern. The manipulated sounds are put back into the volunteer's body, either through acupuncture needles or through their ears. Harvard Medical School professor Baruch Krauss says what Graves does isn't so different from what emergency physicians try to do for patients with abnormal heartbeats. Krauss stresses that Graves' work isn't ready for patient therapies, but he calls it "exciting, extremely original and innovative."

Speaking of Kansas City, someone stole the title of Pearson's book - a KC history is coming out end of March. Anyone know anything about these guys? Frank Driggs and Chuck Haddix - Goin' to Kansas City: A History of Kansas City Jazz (Oxford University Press) Mar 31 -- 320 pages; hardcover

18 lives? Happy bday!