paul secor

Please Send Me Someone To Love - Percy Mayfield Please Mr. Postman - The Marvelettes Baby, Please Don't Go - Big Joe Williams Please Don't Leave Me - Fats Domino Please Please Please - James Brown Next: DANCE

Jake and the Rest of the Jewels: A Lick and a Promise Galli-Curci Volume 2 (Nimbus) Bill Dixon: Envoi (Victo)

I've had the LP since it came out, but haven't listened to it in probably 20 years. Time to cue it up. Thanks for the reminder.

Too easy. Racquel Welch edit - unless I'm wrong.

Neil Diamond was also honored. Hillary probably told him that "Sweet Caroline" was her favorite recording.

Saw and heard him live just once, about twenty years ago. Never heard him play live with Wolf. You've had a very rich listening life.

Thanks for all of the music you've left us, Mr. Sumlin.

Roy Eldrige Verve - disc 6 I have a hard time getting past the dixieland format. There are very good solos and moments, but that dixieland thing ...

This is a wonderful record. It was recorded for Vanguard in 1967 and rejected by that label as not commercial enough. It was finally released twenty years later by Mountain Railroad Records and soon disappeared. Drive reissued it as a CD in 1994, and it's now o/p also, but available on Amazon. Sippie Wallace is in fine form, singing mostly her own compositions. Otis Spann is magnificent backing her on several songs. And the Kweskin Jug Band does a first class job of backing her on the rest of the album. Highly recommended!

Buuba Smith Alan Oage Merlin Olsen

A unique voice. A friend of mine used to have Howard Tate's "Ain't Nobody Home" playing on his answering machine. It may still be there - I always email him or call his cell phone these days. Sign of the times. Thanks for your music, Mr. Tate.

Nestor Festus Miss Kitty

Shawn Kemp Shemp Howard Howard Cosell

My wife called me from another room and told me to turn on channel 4. Caught the end of it. Unfortunately, all of these tv news stories only last about 90 seconds.

I have a feeling that Greg Maddux's role with the Rangers will be an active one, as opposed to a p.r. role - a la Reggie with the Yankees.

I think there are more responses to this thread than there are free jazz/avant garde box sets.

The John Lewis Album with Putte Wickman and Red Mitchell (Finesse Japan)

That's a good one - some of my favorite latter-day Skip James. And the Son House cut is riveting. edit - I'm amazed that someone else here has this one. Then again, there are some amazing people on this Board.

Son House/Skip James/Bukka White/Big Joe Williams: Living Legends (Verve/Folkways)

I was going to begin the thread by mentioning The Nifty Cat, which I like a lot. Went instead with Urbane Jazz. Glad you included it.

I have big problems with the last half of your second sentence. I think that you and I inhabit different worlds. We just happen to intersect at this place.

I think that a lot of other people overestimate his importance, so he's still way ahead in the game.

For me, the "unfinished improv business from the late 60s/70s" was what it was all about. To my ears, Manfred Eicher picked up on some of that, smoothed it out, and ran with it. He produced other things too, but not much that interested me. Imo, Giacomo Pelliciotti and Giovanni Bonandrini - Black Saint and Soul Note - were European record company owners/producers who did more to keep the music alive during the 70s, 80s, and into the 90s. And out own Chuck Nessa is, again imo, a more important producer than Manfred Eicher.

I can empathize, Dan. That's how I felt about the Billy Martin Yankee reruns in the 1970's and 80's.

The Happy Wanderer The Strolling Fiddler A Tramp on the Street