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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!

And even if you subtract the interview discs, the set's available for a pretty darned good price!

Lee Morgan Fifties - Discs One and Two Includes some notable Benny Golson compositions and arrangements.

I'm hoping to get to the 3/18 Philly gig. Anyone else?

I'm afraid that like CDR trades, this is one discussion that should not have been done in public. Blue Note has read this thread and has decided to withdraw the entire set of March 1st RVG reissues, as well has cancelled plans for the Summer RVGs and the Fall Conns.

Ive hread taht you can raed ahtnynig as lnog as the fisrt and lsat lteetrs are crorcet.

Plus, the album title is obviously a reference to alcoholic spirits, which are forbidden by the Koran.

Did he actually leave ECM? I don't think ECM has exclusive contracts, but yes, Holland's Quintet will be recording on his new label. He may still do other projects for them as a co-leader (e.g., "Gateway").

I wonder how he'll look in blackface?

Probably not too great. However, I'm planning to get run over by a bus before I have any heart trouble...

17.

I hope not. I'm still nursing my disappointment over the Tyner Select... I'm grateful for the Select series and how it gives Mosaic the ability to put out sets that might not otherwise be economically feasible--ultimately, I want to hear the music. But the Selects are so relatively skimpy--usually containing only the original liner notes. Particularly in the case of the Boswells, I'd really enjoy reading a traditional Mosaic booklet. Mosaic has put out 3-CD big-box sets in the past (Thad Jones, Sam Rivers, to name just a couple off the top of my head), so the "three" number is not necessarily the Sign of the Select. Perhaps not, but I get the feeling that Mosaic doesn't think the smaller regular sets make sense economically. (I kind of understand -- they have less of a total price to spread out the cost of the box and booklet...)

Simulation. Please do not attempt.

For future reference:

Interesting aside -- The author of the song later adopted the Rosenberg's children after their execution.

True, although the released version will replace the original Uncle Remus with an animated Leonardo DiCaprio.