paul secor

Theodore Simon Alvin

He was a true master of the trumpet and flugelhorn. Alone With Just My Dreams (Evening Star) is a fine example of his later playing. Thank you, Mr. Wilder. You'll be missed and remembered.

Hollywood SQUARES, baby. Joover Ehdgear and them. Eventually gooten by the Circles, no matter how much going for the block they try for. Can't tell the players if you don't have a scorecard. Commentating, not play-cat-ing. Turtle Wax, anybody? I think I need a translator. Or perhaps it's better not to know what this is about.

Margaret Dumont Groucho Marx George Fenneman

You should return it for a replacement. At fifty bucks a pop, Music Matters shouldn't sell warped records.

Chuck E. Cheese Chazz Palminteri Chas Chandler

Surprising he he didn't record with Dudu Pukwana, Mike Osbourne or Trevor Watts - at least not as far as I know Three pretty significant saxophonists of the 70's and 80's Don Cherry did record with Dudu Pukwana on Johnny Dyani's Song for Biko album.

The Early Days of Bluegrass Volume 5 - The Rich-R-Tone Story (Rounder)

Bob Dylan: Live 1966 - The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert - Acoustic (Columbia Legacy/Classic) Listening to this tonight, it sounded like a strange extended hymn.

Henry "Red" Allen: Feeling Good (Columbia)

Stanley Livingston Don Grady Tim Considine

The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve - the Recital sessions

Truck Turner "Tractor" Traylor Helen Hunt

Tiny Grimes: Callin' the Blues (Prestige/OJC) I think of this as a J.C. Higginbotham record as often as I think of it as a Tiny Grimes record.

Happy Birthday!

Complete Billie Holiday on Verve - the Solitude sessions

Hines Hines Dad

Hampton Hawes/Paul Chambers (w. Bill Perkins, Jack Montrose): The East/West Controversy (Xanadu)

Bukka White: Parchman Farm (Columbia)

I think that your take on Our Man in Jazz is similar to some of the feelings about the record when it was released, especially by the "music is logic" critics. I've always enjoyed the record - it was one of the first jazz records I bought and it took me a few listens to begin to hear some of what was going on - and I enjoy it now more than I did then. To my ears, Sonny sounds comfortable with what he's playing, and the group sounds like they're listening to each other, even though they're coming from different places. Sonny was exploring when the record was made and, even though he left the musicians (except for Bob Cranshaw) and general freedom of the Cherry group behind, I hear some of the exploration carried over into the RCA recordings that followed this one. As an aside, when I was going to school in Buffalo in 1964, Sonny Rollins appeared at a local club with a group that included Grant Green. Unfortunately, I missed that gig and I've wondered since what the group sounded like.

Ray Davies Napoleon The Duke of Ellington

Some very fine Tal Farlow on that set.

Jonathan - I'm very happy that you plan to issue the Joe Daley material. I'll definitely buy a copy as soon as it's released and I'll recommend it to others here and elsewhere. Thanks for what you've done and for what you plan to do.

Boris Yeltsin Boris the Spider Peter Parker

Sonny Rollins: Our Man in Jazz