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Perhaps I was just a bit bored today, but I started thinking about how many very good to great recordings pass under the general radar and under the radar of each of us. I decided that it might be interesting if members posted lists of 5 or less (to keep things under control) overlooked recordings that they feel should be heard. The recordings can be from any genre. Personally, I hope that some of our classical devotees will include some from that genre. I'll start it off: Sonny Simmons Trio: Live in Paris (Arhoolie) - Arhoolie doesn't issue many jazz recordings, but I'm very happy they put this one out. Inspired, exuberant blowing from Sonny Simmons in a trio setting. And don't be scared away by the fact that it's Sonny Simmons. Nothing too far out here - just some very fine freebop blowing. Junior Wells: Blues Hit Big Town (Delmark) - Starting in the mid-sixties, Junior Wells made a fair number of albums. All of them pale in comparison with this one - a collection of his first recordings, recorded as a teenager, backed by the Jukes/Aces, with special guests Elmore James, Little Johnny Jones, Muddy Waters, and Otis Spann. If you only have one Junior Wells record in your collection, it should be this one. Etoile de Dakar: Xalis (Popular African Music) - Etoile de Dakar was the band that Yousou N'dour sang with before he formed Super Etoile de Dakar and became a star. These recordings from 1978 have a quiet and gentle quality to them, and are generally less pop oriented than what was to come. Gene O'Quinn: Boogie Woogie Fever (Bear Family) - Fine honky tonk music that almost makes Hank Williams sound citified - I did say "almost". Roscoe Mitchell: Solo 3 (Mutable Music) - Fascinating solo music - though overdubs are used. I have the sense that I could listen to these three discs for years and not come close to absorbing all of what's there. It's music that demands attention, but once attention is given, I don't think that it's "difficult". Interesting and helpful liner notes by John Litweiler. I hope that others join in and post their neglected favorites.

Cannonball Adderley: Presenting Cannonball (Savoy Jazz/Muse) Probably others have made the same comment but, listening to this record, I was struck by the connection I heard between Cannonball and Benny Carter.

Veronica Pannonica Jerry Murad's Harmonicats

Sorry for the loss of your friend, Guy. It's a hard thing to lose someone who meant something to you.

There's a copy of the Brew Moore available on Amazon (from Newbury Comics) for $15: http://www.amazon.com/Brew-Moore-Quintet/dp/B000009NWG/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1336732309&sr=1-1

Sir Douglas Quintet: Together After Five (Smash)

Deep Harmony - The Sun Blues Archives Volume Three (Charly) Couldn't find an image. R&B and gospel vocal group recordings by Hunki-Dori, The Veltones, The Southern Jubilees, and The Prisonaires

Same here! He's good. With his music, I see the piano as an expressive tool divorced somewhat from Tradition, but with energy and soul to spare. He's also a very nice person. Plays with Mike Watt (Minutemen)! Does being divorced somewhat from tradition mean that he (or any of these out cats) have to be subsidized in some way to make up for that? Can they stand on their own feet? Am I being too harsh? Q Exactly what are you writing about???? Perhaps I'm dense. Please explain yourself. Seems clear enough to me, but just for you ... if they are divorced from the tradition in jazz, it (perhaps) means that few people listen, so therefore they (the musicians) may be subsidized by public funds... It happens in Europe all the time. Whether it should happen is something else. It didn't happen in the past... It may not happen with these guys ... Q To my ears, Cecil isn't divorced from "the tradition in jazz". If you want to look for someone who's subsidized, look no further than "Mr. Tradition", Wynton M. If "...It may not happen with these guys" - and who are "these guys", anyway? - why bring it up?

Same here! He's good. With his music, I see the piano as an expressive tool divorced somewhat from Tradition, but with energy and soul to spare. He's also a very nice person. Plays with Mike Watt (Minutemen)! Does being divorced somewhat from tradition mean that he (or any of these out cats) have to be subsidized in some way to make up for that? Can they stand on their own feet? Am I being too harsh? Q Exactly what are you writing about???? Perhaps I'm dense. Please explain yourself.

Trane Walter Johnson Paul Smoker

Ray Davies Terry and Julie Terrence Stamp and Julie Christie

Dewey Redman Quartet: The Struggle Continues (ECM)

Eric Plunk Doug Plank Sparky Anderson (Captain Hook)

The Dovells Ferlin Husky The Mighty Hannibal

Hamels is just plain dumb to have said what he said. You don't have to be smart to play baseball, but it helps sometimes.

Nestor Almendros http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2548856.A_Man_With_A_Camera André Kertész Robert Frank

Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter Nina Hirschfeld Ross Feld

Ben Webster: Atmosphere for Lovers and Thieves (Black Lion)

Happy Birthday!

I look forward to finally hearing it.

The article doesn't go into specifics on how he'll be used on special teams, but it seems crazy to be paying a guy that kind of money to get beat up playing on special teams. Maybe they have plans to use him in ways that I haven't imagined.

Richard Starkey Ringo Starr His mom - Blaze

Stuart Sutcliffe Brian Jones Florence Ballard

I had a similar problem and it turned out that I had a bad connection on one of my tonearm leads. Only ocurred (obviously) when I was using my turntable.

A Shropshire Lad The two yutes in My Cousin Vinny Brigham Young