paul secor

LP 6

Gary Trudeau Uncle Duke Lacey Davenport

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

King Sunny Ade Sunny Murray Sunny Ozuna

LP 5

Hope you have a Very Happy Birthday Jim!

Forgot to mention: August Kleinzahler: The Hotel Oneira

I'll never forget hearing Cecil playing shortly after Jimmy Lyons' passing (I believe that it was the same week he passed) - bittersweet.

According to this, the sources are from Tony Williams and Spotlite Dial has had a checkered existence in terms of ownership and the original lacquers have been missing for 60 years. What is remarkable about our set is the work of Steve Marlowe and Jonathan Horwich. Using the best available transfers of the label's current owner, Tony Williams' Spotlite Records, they have done an amazing job of restoring and remastering these masters.

Billy Strayhorn Dennis Brain Milo Minderbinder

Some books I enjoyed reading in 2014: Murakami: 1Q84 Simenon: The Bar on the Seine Best Poems of Stevie Smith Elizabeth Spencer: Starting Over Aminatta Forna: The Hired Man Antonio Tabucchi: Pereira Declares: A Testimony Elizabeth Taylor: The Devastating Boys Vance Bourjaily: The Man Who Knew Kennedy P.G. Wodehouse: The Code of the Woosters Rohinton Mistry: Family Matters The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy Belinda Rathbone: Walker Percy: A Biography Ross Macdonald: The Wycherly Woman (Actually a reread, but it had been so many years since I read it, it seemed new no me.) Murakami: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Reginald Hill: A Killing Kindness And two that were ok but I expected more: Steve Lowenthal: Dance of Death: The Life of John Fahey, American Guitarist Penelope Lively: Dancing Fish and Ammonites: A Memoir

Looks like Miles, all his life, saw where the leading edge was and reacted against it. Bop, Parker? Miles invented a contrary modern jazz, birth of the cool. Hard bop, with its soul and little big bands? Miles' contrary music was the Gil Evans works on the one hand, his evolving quintet, including the radical Trane, on the other hand. Was Ornette's freedom now the leading edge? Folks, here are modes, easier for your digestion. Yet in spite of Miles' nastiness toward Ornette, Miles' quintet, as Hancock pointed out, evolved to become Ornettelike. The subsequent years of fusion adventures, nearing half of his musical life, were a retreat of sorts. Leading, retreating, so what. He played a lot of the best music ever. I'm pretty much with you on this one, John.

Ran Blake - Jaki Byard: Improvisations (Soul Note)

Donovan Donovan Donovan

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2014/12/09/remembering-sam-cooke-50-years-after-his-death/?mod=WSJBlog

A propos your comment on Earl Swope probably having been influenced by Lester Young, I'll just mention that he recorded with Pres on one of the 1956 Washington, D.C. recordings.

Why the hold up in releasing some of this?

Some discussion here:

Clifford Gibson: Beat You Doing It (Yazoo)

Dear Prudence Julia Sexy Sadie

Steptoe and Son Sanford and Son Gorilla Cookies

Art Pepper: Intensity (Contemporary)

Chicago Piano Plus (Atlantic)