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The Happiest of Birthdays to you, Greg! Thanks for your music and your presence here.

If I had to pick one Longhair recording, it would be the Atlantic - no contest. As for later recordings, I like Rock 'n' Roll Gumbo (Dancing Cat) - a rare case where an original recording - an Lp on the Blue Star label? (memory fails me) - was improved by remixing and adding horns. And there are other good ones. Also, check out his Mercury sides - available in a few places. Not as good as the Atlantics, imo, but well worth hearing.

I'll second the mentions of Sugan and Pot Pie - introduced to those two by Chuck and Larry, respectively - and add Phil & Quill with Prestige http://www.amazon.com/Phil-Quill-Prestige-Woods/dp/B000000YC4/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1295130643&sr=1-1 to the mix.

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I don't know who played on that date. Just tried to use what resources I could find and my ears to try and help figure things out. As far as Joe Morris & the other musicians recording other music that day, there may have been contracts with other record companies involved - not sure about that. And it was a Guitar Slim record date. Four tracks were recorded and that was evidently the end of it.

I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Kertész very briefly in the mid 1980s. I went to a gallery in NYC where there was an exhibition of his Hungarian photographs. I didn't realize that it was the day of the opening of the exhibition, but the owner of the gallery was kind enough to let me in. André Kertész was present. The book, Hungarian Memories, had just been published and there were copies for sale at the gallery. I bought one, and since Mr. Kertész was signing copies of the book, I found an image in it that I admired and asked if he'd sign it. He gave me a somewhat puzzled look and said, "You'd like me to sign that one?" So much for my taste, as least as far as André Kertész was concerned. I still treasure the book and still like the image.

Meredith d'Ambrosio is a very fine jazz vocalist you might be interested in checking out.

Yeah - I'll never be a kid again. I'll settle for the second part of what you said. Not an easy thing for me, unfortunately.

Try to plan for it- become a kid again! Can't speak for Matthew, but speaking for myself, with all of the steroid/etc. stuff that's gone on, I've lost any emotional involvement that I ever had with sports. And at one time, that involvement was very intense. Wish I could become a kid again.

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Lloyd Lambert was Guitar Slim's band leader and the bassist in his band. And Lloyd Lambert was the band leader on several of Slim's Atlantic sessions, both in New Orleans and in New York. However, no discography that I've seen lists Lloyd Lambert as the leader of Guitar Slim's last session - the one in question. I don't know where Michael got that header from -especially since the personnel listed below makes no mention of Lloyd Lambert. The band on that last session sounds somewhat different than the bands on the sessions credited in discographies to Lloyd Lambert's band. I've never heard any solos by Lawrence Cotton, the pianist in the Lambert band on the other Guitar Slim Atlantic sessions, but the pianist who does play on that sounds like a jazz pianist to me. Who knows? Perhaps Joe Morris got the leader gig and recruited some of his old band members to do the session. Joe Morris did die in 1958, but in November of that year. I've read that he was active until he died of a cerebral hemorage, and the Guitar Slim session was held in January, 1958, so it's possible that he was the band leader. All of the musicians who were possibly involved and producer Herb Abramson have passed away, so we'll probably never know for sure who played on that session (except for Guitar Slim, of course).

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When a speaker cuts off at 45 dB, it's not 'great sound'. I think it depends on the overall sound of the speaker. I believe that you can have low bass and bad sound, and no low bass and good (even though limited) sound.

Inner City/Classic Jazz has reissued much of their catalog on CD recently.

I e-mailed Pete Lowry and asked for any details he might have for the source of his discographical info. Got the following response: "The info came either from tape boxes, or files... cannot remember at this distance. I did not talk with Herb, though... I did meet him later on under different circumstances at his place in NYC. That was standard Atlantic studio guys... jazz musicians moonlighting in the R'n'B world. I was a bit surprised at the time, but further knowledge showed that it wasn't unusual. They were professional and more than competent, and other labels did similarly. Hell, Eddie Kirkland's TruSound LP sessions had King Curtis' band with Oliver Nelson and Billy Butler in in! A gig is a gig is a gig!!!" So the personnel listed on Texas Guitar is probably correct. The pianist on "Along About Midnight" does sound as if it could well be Elmo Hope. An added tidbit - near the end of "Along About Midnight', one of the musicians (sounds like the saxophonist) plays a note or two by himself, thinking that the song is ending, but Slim does an unaccompanied vocal coda before the tune ends. Then all of the musicians play the ending. There obviously wasn't much attention paid to arrangements, rehearsals, or second takes. That was the r&b record biz, I guess. It still ended up being a good record.

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It's been too long a time since I viewed an art exhibition, but the most recent was the Robert Frank exhibition at the Metropolitan in NYC last year. I knew most of those images fairly well, but it was a different experience to see them outside the pages of a book.

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Thanks for all of the responses. I've read many of the authors mentioned - ranging from one book to a number of books - Mankell, Chandler, Hammett, Crumley, Burke, Stout, Mosley, Willeford, Hillerman, Simenon, and others - but I was happy to learn of writers I was unfamiliar with and will be checking out. Hope that other folks have gotten as much from this thread as I have.

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Yup. Thought I was losing my eyesight.

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