Pete C

The trio of Barney Kessel, Ray Brown & Shelly Manne. I think they did at least 4 albums for Contemporary. But did they ever do live gigs as a working unit?

I listened to The Magic of Juju this morning and felt it doesn't hold up vis a vis some of Shepp's other Impulses of the period. I think the problem is that the texture of African percussion sets up an environment that isn't as conducive to dynamic interplay as a more standard (free)jazz rhythm section. Yesterday I listened to Life [sic] at the Donaueschingen Music Festival (MPS), and the interplay there is amazing (and it's one of Jimmy Garrison's finest hours).

Lots of places. Even in Malaysia and South India, where they make great, strong, brewed coffee, they assume foreigners would prefer Nescafe, and that's actually also what's saved for honored guests on special occasions. Go figure. Yeah, sometimes all you really want is a simple, light breakfast.

[KLM] Kai Winding Francis Lai Mai Zetterling

I can't drink strong decaf in the morning. It puts me to sleep.

Bent Axen Bent Fabric Nate Wooley

Steny Hoyer Cletus Boyer Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus

Willard Robison Paula Robison Paul Robeson

Deval Patrick Mitt Romney Danny Glover

Nat Peck Nat Pierce Nat Gonella

James Moody Hen Gates Rooster Cogburn

One reason I like Jack Kleinsinger's Highlights in Jazz concerts in NYC is because in that audience I feel young again. I think most of the subscribers were old 39 years ago when Jack started the series.

Marty Stuart Mary Stuart Donizetti

Isn't "Au Privave" Granz's or a Granz employee's phonetic misspelling of the song Charlie Parker said (out loud) he titled "Apres Vous"? It's called Apres Vous on this album: That German stab at Klactoveedsedstene sounds outlandish. I'm pretty sure it's just bebop onomatopoeia.

He also gave work to farm animals. I was fortunate to see him perform in Leningrad about 22 years ago. The pig was wearing military garb.

You can say that again. Talk about range:

Kansas Fields Georgia Gibbs Indiana Jones

Slappy White Punch Miller Kiki Dee

Oscar Wilde Brandon DeWilde Billy DeWolf

Carl Drinkard (born Drinkwater) Bobby Tucker Mal Waldron

I certainly agree about the relative merits of Lateef and Lloyd at the time they were with Cannonball. Lateef was already a mature player with a track record and was, IMO, of equal stature to Cannonball. But I actually do like much of the Fiddler album. The rhythm section is really tight, and Nat is particularly good on much of it.

Miss Otis Regrets Cornelia Otis Skinner Otis the town drunk

Does Ray's trade used CDs?

From: Francis Davis, (1986). In the moment: jazz in the 1980s. New York, Oxford University Press, page 47 http://wallofsound.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/misunderstanding-%E2%80%98flowers-for-albert%E2%80%99/