paul secor

"Essential" is the place to start. If you like what you hear there, go to the box set collection of the seven LP's. You'll need to keep "Essential" anyways for the single-only releases. "Greatest Hits" was a gem for it's time, but "Essential" renders it totally extraneous. Is there anything on it that's NEITHER on one of the albums NOR on "Greatest Hits"? Four tracks by Little Sister - very Slyish and very good - and various other Sly produced tracks are available on this compilation.

Lenin Marx Trotsky

Yup. Those are two VERY different things. And, as a musician, you're way ahead of most folks - or at least me - with that one.

I can recognize tunes and hum them - not just Monk's but also other jazz tunes - but titles are a different deal. Just can't remember a lot of them. Same thing with some book tiles - they just don't always kick in.

Been seeing newscasts that Vermont got hit heavily from flooding - widespread destruction & deaths. We were in Brattleboro two summers ago for a weekend of the Marlboro Festival, and it looks like they were devastated by flooding. Not something I would have expected and it seems they didn't expect it either.

Sidney Bechet Select - disc 1

Heard him play at a local club about 15 years ago and he was playing great then. Thanks, Mr. Edwards.

Because today's battles are about ownership, and ownership is all about defining, not spotlighting and encouraging. This is what happens when enough people die. Pretty soon critical mass is reached and even the still-living are up for grabs. Exactly. One of the most awful things about tyrannies, I reckon, is not only that one has to submit by and large to the sheer power of those in power but also that one must accept (if and when this becomes an issue) the tyranny's typically detailed false supporting claims that the power the tyrant has come to exercise is rational and righteous. They want both your bodies and your souls. Well said, gents. Gennari's book about jazz-criticism history is all about power and he doesn't notice or care that there are values in this music we love. He wrote about a peripheral subject, irrelevant to jazz and to jazz appreciation. Sometimes the power-obsessed jazz academics seem like too many hogs fighting over a too-small trough with not enough swill to go around. OTOH Hersch seems to have picked a genuinely worthwhile subject to write about, even though others have already researched it--I hope the rest of it isn't as awful as Allen's excerpt. Jim, at least when revisionists impose their programs/propaganda upon the still-living, the still-living can fight back. As George Lewis did in his AACM history. Fortunately, we have nothing to fear from the likes of Gennari. The most sophisticated tyrants get our souls by nourishing our bodies and distracting our attention (bread and circuses) from their violence against freedom. As in present-day China. That's why Rick Perry is such a trip, the times are right for an American demagogue. I have trouble with this line of thinking because the implication is that Gennari's subject itself is out of bounds because it's "a peripheral subject, irrelevant to jazz and to jazz appreciation" and that he apparently doesn't get that "the values in this music that we love." Sorry, but exploring the history of criticism of any art form is a completely relevant topic in enlarging our understanding of the way that art form has developed and its relationship to the larger society. Just because Gennari may have done a poor job doesn't mean that the job wasn't worth doing well. Moreover, it seems disingenuous to me to complain that Gennari's book represents the overreach of power-obsessed jazz academics when wielding power, intentionally or unintentionally, benignly or maliciously, carelessly or meticulously, is on at least some level an issue in almost all criticism. Certainly musicians have always complained about critics in the same terms that you are complaining about academics -- they don't understand the music or its values, all they want is power, they're failed musicians, bitter, impotent, etc. Musicians don't like being judged by critics. Critics don't like being judged by academics. And on it goes.

Only have Volume 1 of the two CDs, but that one's a very fine listen.

Charlie Parker (w. Fats & Bud): One Night in Birdland (Columbia)

I don't know if it's still the case, but it used to be that university academics had to publish in order to keep their jobs or, if they had tenure, to keep their place in the academic society they inhabited. I don't think it mattered all that much if what they published was real or not - just so they got it out there.

Mid 70s, sunny, and DRY. Big change from yesterday.

A good friend's elderly parents live about 50 miles east of there. Any word on how the Hudson Valley fared? The Hudson Valley made out pretty well - some local flooding, some power outages. Some areas in the Catskills got hit harder. The first film and photos I saw of the flooding in Margaretville scared the hell out of me.

Interesting that Margatetville, N.Y. and probably other places in the Catskills got hit harder than most areas, but the media and the politicians were all focused on New Jersey, Long Island, and New York City. Typical.

Johnny Oates Zach Wheat Dan Burley

Juice Newton Juicy Lucy Loosey Goosey

Thanks for sharing with us.

Bill Coleman/Ben Webster: Swingin' in London! (Black Lion)

Swiss Kriss Kriss Cross Christopher Cross

Gig Young, I believe.

Memorial Service & Birthday Celebration of the Life and Musical Legacy of Mr. Billy Bang When: September 19, 2011 at 6:00pm Where: Saint Peter’s Church 619 Lexington Avenue, [at 54th Street] New York, New York 10022 212-935-2200 www.saintpeters.org Reception to follow right after the program no later than 9:30pm

The academic who wrote the book probably went too far - academics have a tendency to do that - but, to add to Joe's post, Louis was known to be a fan of Swiss Kriss and sometimes signed letters "Swiss Krissly, Satchmo".

HB, kh!

Peaches and Herb Shirley and Lee Dick and Dee Dee

We got heavy rain - 7" to 8" - but no strong winds and no flooding. I know that other areas haven't fared quite as well.