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I love Toussaint, but that album just doesn't do it for me.

I never knew the music of the Bley-Swallow trio before I saw the group at the Montreal Jazz Festival in 1991, I think at the beginning of their little comeback (after a while Peacock started subbing for Swallow). In a sense, not knowing what to expect made it that much more sublime.

Captain Jack McCarthy Officer Joe Bolton Uncle Fred Scott (you have to have grown up in NY in the '60s)

Songs We Taught Your Mother. I had that LP when I was a teenager. Keith Relf Paul Samwell-Smith Chris Dreja

Squeezebox is also Spotify compatible, IIRC.

Saturday night I shared a cab from the airport with the author of a book about the Franklin scandal, which I hadn't heard of before. Sounds intriguing. I just started reading the Kindle edition. http://franklinscandal.com/

I just watched the DVD on a flight. Fabulous!

Winnie Mandela Peg Bracken Joan Jett

Well, I'll have to disagree with MM. I think the Electric Bebop Band was a fine group, and the trio with Frisell & Lovano one of the great small groups of the last 20 years. Technically the trio with Bley & Peacock was a cooperative group, even if most people think of it as Bley's trio. And that, IMO, is THE great piano trio of the past 20 or so years.

Nice guy indeed. I had the pleasure of chatting with him for a while when we ended up sharing a table at Birdland during a Kenny Wheeler big band gig. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Paul Motian Birth name Paul Motian Born 25 March 1931 (1931-03-25) (age 80) Origin Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Died November 22 2011 Stephen Paul Motian[1] (25 March 1931 - November 22 2011, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and raised in Providence, Rhode Island), is an American jazz drummer, percussionist and composer of Armenian extraction. This page was last modified on 22 November 2011 at 15:52.

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?