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Link to product & description 20% off through Monday. It's a Warner Archive item, so note that what you get are DVD-R.

I'm sold!

Yes, those are the ones without substantial backup. http://www.beatlesagain.com/breflib/purdie.html

footnotes referenced in highlighted copy: 8 ^ Everett, Walter. The Beatles as musicians. Oxford University Press US/Google Notes to page 202-212. 9 ^ Gottfridsson, Hans Olof, Sheridon, Tony and Beatles. The Beatles from Cavern to Star-Club: The Illustrated Chronicle, Discography & Price Guide 1957-1962. Premium Publishing (1997). pp. 222, 310, 313, 333, 341. 10 ^ Miles, Barry and Badman, Keith. The Beatles Diary: The Beatles years. Omnibus Press (2001). pp. 129.

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Often jams are just jams. Curiosities, but of questionable lasting merit. Like those jams with McLaughlin, Hendrix, Larry Young, etc.

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Haden recorded with Shepp, and in the notes to Mama Too Tight Shepp says he'd love to be able to get Haden in his regular band, so it's quite possible that Haden gigged with Shepp. [i can't believe I remember minutia from liner notes...]

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It couldn't have been a Chinese number. All those 8s would be very lucky. Was this woman's ex-lover one of the unlucky customers?

Here's the explanation about Purdie from Wikipedia: In 1961 he moved to New York and played session with Mickey and Sylvia and regularly visited the Turf Club on 50th and Broadway in New York, where musicians, agents and promoters met and touted for business. It was during this period that he played for the saxophonist Buddy Lucas, who nicknamed him Mississippi Bigfoot. Eventually Barney Richmond contracted him to play session work.[5]. In the same year original Beatles drummer Pete Best and guitarist Tony Sheridan recorded tracks in Hamburg with the Beatles. Later Bernard Purdie added drum overdubs to tracks from these sessions,[8] including "Ain't She Sweet", "Take Out Some Insurance on Me Baby" and "Sweet Georgia Brown".[9] The main reason for this was to give them a punchier sound for the US market. These tracks were eventually released on January 31, 1964 by Polydor.[10] Ringo Starr's physical approach to drumming was probably influenced by Purdie's Motown style.[11]

There are some amazing full programs here: http://www.thirteen.org/soul/

No news yet about a next Jazz Icons series. In the past the first press release came in April...

Do you remember who was in Shepp's band? Maybe Shepp's band in '68 was the same band he had on "The Way Ahead"? Did Miles play with GM III, Dave Burrell and Beaver Harris? Now that would've been something! I think back-up meant opening act in this context...

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Shepp's version of Hipnosis on A Sea of Faces is one of my favorite post-Impulse tracks, but the rest of the album is pretty much a throwaway. Of his free work, I think my favorite is Life [sic] at the Donaueschingen Jazz Festival, which also has some of Jimmy Garrison's most amazing playing.

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From Gene Ludwig bio (emphasis mine): "Gene grooved harder than the others... I really do love everybody that sits at that bench... no matter who they are or what kind of music they play... but somehow, those who reach the audience quicker and with the most passion, leave me with the more lasting impression. It didn't take me long to figure out what Gene did to that crowd that night to get the response that he got and win over so many new fans: HE PLAYED THE BLUES... That's what those folks came to hear. They wanted to be taken back in time to the old days of the 'Organ Rooms' where every club had a B-3 on the stage and smokey, inner city soul jazz was the gravy of life. When Gene kicked off with Jimmy Smith's 'The Sermon', he was telling that crowd that there's still truth in this music... it hasn't left us and never will... and more importantly, he wasn't afraid to play Jimmy's sound. As an admitted disciple, he was reminding us just how important this is to us all. Gene Ludwig has always been that kind of a player. He knows where he came from and how he got where he is... no frills, nothing pretentious... just SOLID ORGAN GROOVE... That's Gene Ludwig." http://www.geneludwig.com/pages/bio.html

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