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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/21/technology/antipiracy-case-sends-shivers-through-some-legitimate-storage-sites.html

agreed

That's fabulous, with one of my favorite versions of I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry. About the only Tete recording I didn't like was the one on Concord with Tana & Reid--Tana being a much too heavy-handed a drummer for him. My favorite bassist for Tete is NHOP. I like the duo and trio sessions. The two volumes of duos with Mundell Lowe are fantastic too. Interesting, but I've never heard either in his playing. I find his touch very similar to Chick Corea when Chick plays standards.

If Lloyd brought his band we could have heard what Jarrett & DeJohnette would have sounded like with Miles...Oh, wait...

I'd love to have heard more Sonny Sharrock with Miles in the 70s. I think Pharoah Sanders might have worked well in Miles' sound of the early-mid '70s. I like the idea of Jackie McLean being added to the 2nd quintet and making it the 2nd sextet.

I don't know if you were responding to me, but Megaupload also had a free option. If it was Dan, the free option didn't pre-empt their profitable offerings. On the blog Inconstant Sol I'm now seeing files listed as being on Multiupload.

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Yeah. I suppose my sending files to 4 or 5 people using YouSendIt is technically infringement too, but it's not public, not searchable, and nobody's making any money. Didn't Rapidshare change their rules drastically only a short while ago? I suppose in anticipation of this sort of thing.

http://news.yahoo.com/legendary-blues-singer-etta-james-dies-calif-163709371.html

Maybe they'll redo it with a kinder, gentler Jack Johnson.

No, they don't. One can search the catalog: http://cinema.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First Here's a list of libraries that own VHS copies from WorldCat (NYU has a film copy): http://www.worldcat.org/title/jack-johnson/oclc/46973173&referer=brief_results It appears that it was released in 1996 on VHS by MPI Home Video. By doing a search on "Jack Johnson" and "MPI Home Video" I discovered it was released as "Jack Johnson: Breaking Barriers" (regarding the title, see http://milesdavisonline.com/culture/miles-davis-the-boxer-3/ ), and there are some copies for sale: http://www.amazon.com/Legends-Ring-Johnson-Breaking-Barriers/dp/6304097034 The 88-minute length is further confirmation it's the same film. I used to have a VHS to DVD dubbing machine, but no longer. If anybody has the wherewithal to buy a copy and convert to DVD, I certainly wouldn't refuse a copy in appreciation of my research efforts

One inaccuracy: Update 9: Major record label BMI is down for the count.

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Here we differ. I prefer the Roulette studio dates because here Basie's use of the cream of the crop arrangers, which started in the Verve years, hits full force. These are real writer/arrangers' showcases. The Verves are sort of transitional from the Old Testament to this. Amazing work from Hefti, Quincy, Foster, Wilkins, Thad, Benny Carter. For me Atomic and Chairman of the Board are simply two of the greatest big band albums ever. There's so much duplication of tunes I find it overkill.

No but to write a biography requires lots of legwork, research, interviews, travel and--heaven forbid--the ability to write a coherent sentence within the rules of standard English grammar, orthography and punctuation, a tall order for some, I'm afraid.

Why do I suspect the above "query" is spam?

If that's a ginko pod, I don't want to breathe.

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If you plan on writing a book I'd suggest you do some major woodshedding. I like him well enough as a player (when he could still play), but it's his composition talent that makes him one of the undersung greats. His two albums on Blue Note and the ones with McLean (where Moncur is really the main force behind the music) are among the greatest albums of the '60s, IMO. I wouldn't be surprised if Lion and Wolff felt that he belonged in the lineage of Monk, Herbie Nichols and Andrew Hill, all of whom they were so taken with. Anyway, I must say I do find it weird that Mobley has a kind of idolatry that even Wayne Shorter can't come near touching, if we're talking Blue Note--at least as far as jazz board denizens are concerned. But yes, it's all a matter of taste. I'm a Hubbardite, and little of Lee Morgan before the bands with Harper and Maupin does much for me, which I'm sure sounds like heresy to many here.

Personally, yes. Maybe not disposable, but dispensable. I can name at least 50, maybe 100 tenor players I prefer. The only Mobley album I ever owned was The Turnaround, mostly for Freddie's brilliant contribution.

The cult of Grachan Moncur III I could understand...

The song is "The Jealous Kind" from Stingray (1976), also on the Millennium collection. Sam is on soprano, though I'd never have guessed it was him. from Wikipedia (cached, since the site is "black" today): Personnel * Joe Cocker - lead vocals, guitar * Eric Clapton - guitar * Cornell Dupree - guitar * Steve Gadd - guitar, drums * Eric Gale - guitar, arranger * Albert Lee - guitar * Gordon Edwards - bass * Richard Tee - keyboards, organ, arranger, associate producer * Sam Rivers - saxophone * Felix "Flaco" Falcon - conga, percussion * Patti Austin - backing vocals * Bonnie Bramlett - backing vocals * Lani Groves - backing vocals * Gwen Guthrie - backing vocals * Phyllis Lindsay - backing vocals * Brenda White - backing vocals * Maxine Willard - backing vocals * Deniece Williams - backing vocals * Tyrone Downey - arranger * Peter Tosh - arranger * Marco Aglietti - associate producer * Baker Bigsby - engineer * Neil Case - engineer * Bernie Grundman - mastering * Bob Cato - design * Lee Jaffe - photography

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I just told a coworker that if somebody with a cursory knowledge of jazz, someone who has probably heard of Coltrane, Getz, Hawkins and Young, started reading jazz bulletin boards he'd be startled to learn that Hank Mobley was the greatest tenor player in the history of the world. Personally, I don't understand the cult of Mobley.