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That's really, really wanting him gone... If you'd seen him pitch for your team over the past two years, you'd really want him gone too.

Yanks saying sayonara to A.J.?

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Betty Carter (Bet-Car/Nadja Trio Japan) Sometimes I think I like the idea of Betty Carter more than the reality - if that makes sense.

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Bobby "Blue" Bland: Woke Up Screaming (Ace) Roy Gaines' guitar on "It's My Life Baby" always shakes me up.

New news on the quincy front

Chicago Piano-ology (Chess/P-Vine Japan) Some interesting sidemen on these recordings: Eddie Chamblee with Little Walter (Walter on guitar) on the Eddie Ware sides; B.B. King and Jody Williams playing guitar with Otis Spann; and three Henry Gray sides with harp player Henry Strong, who was murdered the next year and didn't record again after this session (with Gray and Morris Pejoe).

Hope it's a great birthday!

Coleman Hawkins Vol. 2 (Keynote/Mercury Japan)

Horatio Hornblower Hubert Horatio Humphrey Humpty Dumpty

Al Capp The Scraggs Randy Johnson

Cedar Walton: Piano Solos (Clean Cuts)

Thanks for posting that. My French is very poor - I took some classes 45 years ago in college, but most of that has left me. I was able to pick up enough to make it interesting.

Michael has recorded with Braxton and Noah Howard, among others, and was Steve Lacy's pianist for a couple of years in the mid-70's. Check out the Lacy/Smith duo album Sidelines on Improvising Artists for one of the best Lacy-plus-piano recitals on record. I know Michael's music pretty well because he spent a year in Atlanta in an odd artist-in-residence gig back in the 1990's. We played together a fair amount, and I issued two tunes from a recording session we did back then on an otherwise fairly mediocre CD I put out 20 years ago. Haven't played Sidelines in a while, but I remember it as a very good one.

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Happy Birthday!

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Welcome Martin. Hope you'll stick around and join the conversations. There are some good exchanges here - though you might have a different impression if you sample the wrong ones first.

Thanks, Mr. Christian.

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Sleepy John Estes - The Tennessee Jug Busters: Broke and Hungry (Delmark)