Pete C

Blanche Lincoln Blanche DuBois W.E.B. DuBois

I'd have thought the Chet Bakers were perennial sellers, especially The Route and Sings & Plays.

Klaus Barbie Klaus Kinski Dr. Kinsey (too lazy to look up his first name, but when I do I'll report)

I'd be living in Dogpatch.

Yeah, how would Coltrane make post-Coltrane music in a world where he had never existed until it was time to do that? He'd have made post-Ornette or post-Ayler music.

Ivan Karp Saul Bass Zebulon Pike

Shana Alexander Jack Kilpatrick Jane Curtin (remember Ackroyd in the point-counterpoint parody?: "Jane, you ignorant slut.")

The Amazing Randy The Amazing Kreskin Rumpleforeskin (a Paul Krassner pseudonym)

Richard and not Art?

Something might have happened in Paris or Algiers. Trane may well have attended the Pan African Festival that resulted in all those BYG Actuel albums.

Mason Reece Dizzy Reece Diz Disley

Tracy Stallard Sylvester Stallone Tweety Pie

Never knew that. Perhaps I should look for those. Is one of them "Symphony for improvisers"? MG Yes - classic album. He also played on the very good Where Is Brooklyn. Guy Very good, but not in the same league, IMO, as Symphony for Improvisors, which is closer in form and style to Complete Communion.

Lincoln Chaffee Edith Prickley Archibald Cox

Gerry Hemingway Mark Dresser Marilyn Crispell

Tina Brooks is in Ray Charles' band on the video O Genio. IIRC, he has one nice solo on an instrumental and also has a "chase" sequence with Fathead.

I didn't know that, but here's an excerpt from an interview with Giddins: JJM You quote Coltrane as saying, "The main thing a musician would like to do, is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe." Where do you believe Coltrane was headed with his music? GG Isn't that the $64,000 question? When he died, it was like reading a mystery thriller and the last chapter had been torn out. Where in the hell was he going? Clearly, there was a greater and greater accent on a kind of religious, cosmic, thematic undercurrent. This, I confess, loses me, maybe because I am not particularly religious. Whereas I don't believe you could ever say of Coltrane that he made a political work at the expense of the music, I think there were implications in Alice Coltrane's work that music is secondary to some kind of religious notion. One of the few Coltrane performances that I find very difficult to listen to was Om. I just don't believe it. That may be where he was going. We don't really know. We do know that he was planning a trip to Africa, so he might have been on the very first wave, along with Ellington and the pianist Randy Weston, of a kind of world music synthesis. I don't think he would have gone toward fusion. I find that unbelievable, but that could be my own prejudice. I think he would have made a kind of truce with his past as most musicians have done, and we would have seen him playing a lot of ballads as he did in '62 and '63. I don't think you can have an entire lifetime of Ascension. I do think that Coltrane was running on borrowed time. I don't think he had any doubt that his days were numbered. I think he was trying to make the loudest sound he could make in those last moments. http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page=giddins-coltrane.html

For a long time Kulu Se Mama seemed an anomaly in Trane's catalog. Then the release of The Olatunji Concert suggested the he may have been interested in pursuing that direction. Considering the fact that guys like Pharaoh and Shepp's Impulse albums after Trane's death relied heavily on African rhythms and percussion, I'd bet Trane too would have explored those possibilities further. I don't think his aesthetic would have been compatible with going electric, but who knows, I might have said the same of Ornette if Prime Time had never happened.

Though more inside, Down Through the Years by the Clifford Jordan Big Band has some overlap in mood and is a great album. If I were Pandora I'd throw it at ya. And speaking of Tapscott, Sonny Criss's Sonny's Dream for good measure.

If one had found the snot after the guy had left, rather than having witnessed the nose blowing, it would just be snot. It could have been the snot of a young, hunky white guy.

Do you have "The Cry of My People." By similar sound do you mean outward-leaning all-star big band with deep blues roots? Maybe some of Muhal Richard Abrams' albums? 8 Bold Souls? For me, the AACM guys tend to capture that mix well.

Ngo Dinh Diem France Nguyen Anatole France

I love the Jobim material because it's Sinatra without the swagger of the swinging albums, and with good charts. I don't love the Gordon Jenkins charts much on the ballads albums--too lush for me.

Most likely my final Lala spin.

John Cameron Swayze Patrick Swayze Sammy Kaye