paul secor

I'm not sure any future jazz reissues are viable, seriously. That must make a couple of members who are involved in doing reissues feel very good.

Bill Heine's web site: http://www.billheine.com/index.htm

Lonnie Johnson was recorded in Toronto in late 1965 with Jim McHarg's Metro Stompers, a traditional/dixieland jazz band. An LP was released in Canada with limited distribution. In 1994, Columbia/Legacy reissued a CD of the recording. My memories of it are good, but I haven't listened to it in over 10 years. I'll have to take it off the shelf and listen again. Thanks for posting news of the book and reminding me of the recording.

Can't choose between the two. Like the more relaxed (well, as relaxed as Jackie could get) and looser feeling of the Prestiges. And I like the tighter more focused Blue Notes.

Earl Hooker: Play Your Guitar Mr. Hooker! (Black Magic)

Dr. Horse Mr. Bear Miss Piggy

Explain y'self! I have the album that was released in Japan way back when. It has seven cuts - I believe that the CD version that was released in the U.S. about twenty years later has twice as many tracks. Half of the LP is comprised of songs that I heard over and over and came to detest in the late 60's -"Hummingbird", "Chains and Things", "The Thrill Is Gone" (Yeah, even that one was done to death for me.) The LP version I have is way too rock oriented for my ears. The sound is nothing great and the band doesn't sound that inspired. And, in general, B.B. means less to me than he once did. That's explanation enough for me.

B.B. King: Live in Japan (MCA Japan) Hadn't listened to this in a long, long while. Listening today, I realized why.

Given that clue, I'll say possibly Clint Walker. Didn't he die some time ago?

Saw it the other day in my local Barnes & Noble, but didn't have time to give it any more than a quick glance. Phil Schaap contibuted an afterward, so I'm sure that Chris A. will weigh in on the book.

We'll try. But you know what happens when Dad's away.

Happy Birthday! Hope you're having a great day and digging some great sounds!

From The New York Times obituary of Bob Carroll Jr., one of the writers of "I Love Lucy": Happily for the writers, few ideas were off limits. Most weeks, they approached Ms. Ball to ask her some variation on the following: Can we tie you to a chair? Roll you in a rug? Hang you out the window? Can we fly you through the air? Put you on stilts? Put four dozen eggs down your blouse? Will you bark like a seal? Work with an elephant? Sing to a sheep? Can we dip you in chocolate? Coat you in clay? Splatter you with mud? Will you fight with a woman in a vat full of grapes? Work on an out-of-control conveyor belt in a candy factory? Can we put you in handcuffs? Blacken your teeth? Set your nose on fire? Ms. Ball, resilient, agreed to everything. Often interviewed about the Golden Age of television, Mr. Carroll was forthright about the changes in the medium since then: “I’m not too sure about these reality shows,” he told The Daily News of Los Angeles in 2001. “They take 16 contestants, 100 crew, tons of equipment, go to Borneo — and all we had to do was say, ‘Ethel, if Ricky finds out I bought this hat, he’ll kill me.’ ”

Those eyes gave it away.

Gena Rowlands? Couldn't think of her name & had to google John Cassavetes to be reminded of it. Guess that's what years will do.

All the Best!

Speaking of Kleinzahler, who has come up a couple of times on this forum, I've been kind of impressed by the Poetry Foundation website, which is a pretty interesting resource. Here's their page on Kleinzahler: Poetry Foundation. Sadly many of the audio tracks of poets reading their own works are not available outside the U.S., but most folks here can still listen in. They omitted mention of his book of writings on music, Music: I-LXXIV, which was published in 2009. The Poetry Foundation page says that it was updated in 2010. I love his poetry, but imo the book of music writings isn't much. Still, it exists and should have been mentioned.

Killer Kowalski Jerry Lee Lewis John Wayne Gacy

Robbie Robertson Johnny Johnson Harry Harrison

You got it all but the name - Elinor Donahue.

Probably an easy one. She still looks a lot like she did in the 50's and 60's - except older, of course.

Hawk Spenser Susan Silverman

Happy Birthday!

Eric Dolphy/Misha Mengelberg: Playing Epistrophy (ICP) - with a 2 minute duet between Mengelberg and Eeko the parrot on side 2