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See Jim's post #1.

Just wrote my check. It will go off tomorrow.

I was just corresponding with a friend about Gene Ammons & Dodo Marmarosa: Jug & Dodo - originally issued as a Prestige LP 2fer and later reissued by Fantasy on CD. There is no recording engineer listed - just Rudy Van Gelder as remastering engineer on the Prestige LPs and Kirk Felton as remastering engineer on the CD. Also, no producer/a&r person is lsted. I got to wondering if this was material that was recorded by Argo/Cadet that had to be turned over to Prestige because Gene Ammons was under contract to Prestige when the recordings were made. I think that may have been the case with Gene Ammons: Live! in Chicago also. Though if that were the case, I wonder why Prestige ended up with the Marmarosa trio recordings that are a part of this set. I doubt that Dodo Marmarosa was under contract to Prestige. Any thoughts or information?

Joe Albany with Warne Marsh: The Right Combination (Riverside Japan)

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Glad to see that R.A. Dickey won the N.L. Cy Young Award. He deserved it. Without him, the Mets probably would have been the worst team in baseball. Of course, now there's talk that the Mets may trade him.

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I only know his playing from the recording he did backing Little Sonny Jones (CSA and Black Magic). According to the liner notes on that one, he also recorded with Dave Bartholomew. That's all I know of his work, but he evidently was another in the long line of musicians who played their parts well. R.I.P., Mr. French, and thanks for what you gave us and left us.

Jim Buss has become the Jim Dolan of the Lakers. It's obvious that Kupchak has no power.

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Someone should go for this. It's o/p and on Amazon it goes for twice the price. This set introduced me to Patton's BN sides.

So, you would not agree with this blurb off Amazon: "An intimate epic, a NorCal Middlemarch set to the funky beat of classic vinyl soul-jazz and pulsing with a virtuosic, pyrotechnical style all its own, Telegraph Avenue is the great American novel we've been waiting for. Generous, imaginative, funny, moving, thrilling, humane, triumphant, it is Michael Chabon's most dazzling book yet." I'm still debating about getting this one, it would be a nice trip down Memory Lane, to relive my six years in Berkeley, but I'm not overly fond of Chabon, I completely gave up on The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (in fact, threw it in a dumpster, I was so frustrated by it), might go into a used book store in a couple of months and buy it -- bring back memories of Telegraph from back in the day, and when I was much younger. I guess if you were there, the book might bring back some memories. I wasn't, and the book didn't do much for me. I wouldn't even recommend it to soul/funk jazz afficianados. What's written about the music is fairly superficial, imo.

No, I haven't any records with him as leader - have him on some Lester Young sides - but I did see him play solo piano in a Manchester pub on a tour arranged in the 70s by British record producer Tony Williams. Didn't Spotlite put out an Albany LP at the time? In fact, I think I've got it buried away in one of the racks.. Spotlite released two Joe Albany LPs - Joe Albany at Home (Spotlite JA1) and Proto-Bopper (Spotlite JA3).

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I never read restaurant reviews, but I can't imagine a bigger pan than this place got. Hilarious.

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The Chiefs are one of those teams that will always find a way to lose.

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