paul secor

Check mailed today. Jim - thanks for being a good and gracious host. And thanks for reminding us when contributions are needed.

I don't know that record. She's great elsewhere on any number of albums IMO. Love that record - including her singing. Different strokes, I guess.

Happy Birthday!

Sonny Burgess Sunny Murray Bobby Hebb

B.B. Freddie Albert

The Happiest of Birthdays to you, Jim. And many thanks for being a host to this community.

The Platters Eugene Record Doug Sides

Tea for me. Usually green tea or mint herbal.

Duke Pearsons Profile is wonderful.So is Tender Feeelings.Profile is with heavy hitters like James Spaulding,Freddie Hubbard.Both are worth checking out. Isn't Profile a trio recording?

Sam Rivers: Contasts (ECM)

Lefty Gomez Steve Carlton Lorenzo Music

A Fantastica Bateria II: Ze Do Chaveiro (Top Tapes)

Alias Pat Garrett Billy the Kid

Grant Green Taft Jordan McKinley Dorham

Which one, and why? The middle photo is Cary Grant. Then again, maybe I missed the connection. Hell, sometimes I don't even understand my own connections when I post on this thread. Down to serious business: Sparky Lyle Goose Gossage Mariano Rivera

Marion Brown/Elliot Schwartz: Soundways (Bowdoin College Music Press) Jaki Byard (Jaky, on the cover): Parisian Solos (Musica)

Cecil Taylor Unit: Spring of Two Blue-J's (Unit Core)

Ornette! Coleman Classics 1

Karl Berger & Edward Blackwell: Just Play 1976 (Quark) Art Ensemble of Chicago: People in Sorrow (Nessa)

There are a lot of far better musicians than any of these who never made enough money to lose.

Albert Ayler: Spiritual Unity

Michel Legrand Meets Miles Davis/Ben Webster .... (Philips Japan)

Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr. Charles Hardin Holley Ricardo Esteban Valenzuela Reyes

Some personal favorites: Hear Me Talkin' to Ya - Shapiro and Hentoff Selections from the Gutter - Oral histories, interviews, and essays from Art Hodes' and Dale Curran's The Jazz Record magazine Bud Freeman: You Don't Look Like a Musician and Bill Crow: From Birdland to Broadway - Anecdotes and stories from two well known musicians Don Asher: Notes from a Battered Grand A journeyman musician (and co-author of Hampton Hawes' autobiography - another book worth reading) tells the story of his musical life. Sidney Bechet: Treat It Gentle - The best jazz autobiography I've read. George E. Lewis: A Power Stronger than Itself - The history of the AACM. Perhaps not the most deftly written book, but the information and detail are priceless. A.B. Spellman: Four Lives in the Bebop Business - Cecil, Ornette, Herbie Nichols, and Jackie McLean - I first read this when it was published in 1966, and it holds up today. Milt Hinton: Bass Line - Photographs and stories from a man who lived through most of the lifetime of jazz Roy de Carava: The Sound I Saw - A master photographer looks at the music Jean-Jacques Sempe: The Musicians - Wonderful drawings that capture the spirit and humanity of musicians The Hearing Eye: Jazz and Blues Influences in African American Visual Art - Edited by Graham Lock and David Murray (not the musician David Murray) - At the beginning of the introduction of this book, Charlie Parker is quoted as saying: "Hear with your eyes and see with your ears." I don't know if Charlie Parker actually said that, but this book attempts to do just that and imo succeeds. And two books that I haven't yet read but look forward to reading: Louis Armstrong in His Own Words and Donald Clark's biography of Billie Holiday: Wishing on the Moon