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Charles Brown (Black night is fallin', gee how I hate to be alone...) Charlie Brown John Goodman

Hooray for Herbie.

Another Davis on the street for Prestige with a tinted b&w photo.

I agree. There's something so edge of your seat about the tightrope walking empathy of this group. It's not so common to find this quality in a quintet, IMO--much more likely in some of the great sax/bass/drum trios like Surman/Phillips/Martin, Air and Rivers/Holland/Altschul.

Absolutely. That was a good deal of what I did when I studied with Nanette Natal.

Ascension isn't one of my favorite Trane albums. Once every five or ten years is enough for me, but I do find Tchicai one of the highlights. Crescent is probably underrated. I love Sun Ship, but I prefer Transition. Having been a Monk coverer myself, I must say there are lots of Monk covers I like, but especially Lacy. I find most of Braxton's standards albums a total bore. He sounds like a poor man's Konitz on these to my ears.

Maybe she thought she was in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Winnie Mandela Howard Mandel Gregor Mendel

Thomas Hardy Oliver Hardy Francoise Hardy

Maybe one of those monks was the fifth beatle.

I'm interested. Will the link come via PM?

I've seen scarier monsters.

Thanks, Brooks. I never made the "Dang Me" connection before!

Thembi would have been a great response to that Buddy Rich cover. I'm not a big Rich fan, but I love that lineup. I'll have to search for it.

Antwerp is really intense, Paris is really loose. That's what amazes me about that band, how they could make a totally different show out of the same tunes, and not just the usual jazz variations.

I only discovered Allen Lowe a couple of months ago.

I actually owned this once upon a time.

Yes, that was the gig. Louis looked frail but played brilliantly. George was a *little* tipsy. The friends are Lee Feldman (singer-songwriter, pianist) and Renee Miles (singer, still lives in Indiana--her husband Billy Foster is an excellent pianist, coming out of similar influences as you).

The Drifters (the edition not mentioned above ) Luke the Drifter Hank Williams