Pete C

An OK Day in Boston.

I made a carbon copy of the Fresh Sound disc, but I can't get it to play.

Nor should we forget that other wannabee:

Yes. http://www.camjazz.com/home/mal-waldron.html The Rouse/Shaw group is also available on DVD: http://www.amazon.com/Live-Village-Vanguard-Vol-Waldron/dp/B00019GHJS/ref=pd_cp_mov_0

Grady Sutton Og Oggilby David Ogilvy

Arthur Whetsol Freddie Jenkins Bubber Miley

Maxim Gorky Maxine Gordon Dexter Gordon

Great stuff, But the dates with Ricky Ford and Sonny Fortune are even better, IMO.

You like diphthongs? I'll give you a diphthong. Oedipus Jocasta Laius

Reynolds freebases hyperbole.

Graeme Edge Denny Laine Denny Cordell

This is one of my favorites: http://www.amazon.com/Live-Haig-1952-Wardell-Quintet/dp/B00000B2EH But it seems to be more currently available and cheaper under Hampton Hawes' name: http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/6729731/a/Memorial.htm

Mike Ledbitter Mike Lipskin Rumpleforeskin (a Paul Krassner pseudonym)

Is there another person obscured behind Jim Neumann, to the left of Bob Cummins?

I believe Porter produced a number of dates for Prestige in the "soul jazz" vein. He's had a radio program on WBGO for years. He looks a lot like Garrison Keillor in that photo. http://www.wbgo.org/profile/bporter

Yes, yes.

Just go to akhaba.com instead of clicking the link, if it concerns you - the site looks kosher.

Interesting. I hadn't heard that. Those Philly tenor players are pretty good.

Walter Cronkite Chet Huntley David Brinkley

I doubt there are any these days.

Well, speaking of Clifford Brown jam sessions, you can get his final recordings, from the night he died, for $3. The last 3 tracks of The Beginning and the End are that Philly jam session. You can skip the first 2 short R&B tracks that he makes a brief appearance on before his first jazz recordings. http://www.amazon.com/The-Beginning-And-End/dp/B00138HAGA/ref=sr_shvl_album_1 Mingus in Europe, $2.67 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002LD41JU/ref=sr_1_album_45_rd An Evening With Joe Henderson, Al Foster, Charlie Haden, $3.56 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001O0VDLA/ref=sr_1_album_7_rd

Yes, I remember "Honest Tom" Pomposello. I believe Oblivion records did an album of his. He died fairly young. Did you also listen to Cowboy Joe's Radio Ranch (Paul Aaron)? Is that the same Ashley Kahn who writes the books about famous jazz albums?

Not if you talk back to the books.

I had a creative writing student once who was full of malapropisms. On the first day of class I always asked students what writers they liked enough to read multiple books by. This woman rattled off a long list. "You read a lot," I said. "Oh, I'm a ferocious reader!" she said. I may be the only person whose favorite Mad series was "Those Horrifying Old Cliches," where a cliche would get a grotesque illustration. I remember Incurable Romantic: it was a little bug wearing a gladiator's helmet and sneezing: an incurable Roman tic! That series may have been my introduction to bad punning, which I adopted with relish (unfortunately, mustard was not up for adoption at the time).

Boobus Americanus H.L. Mencken Lord Baltimore