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Melba Liston Melba Montgomery The Possum

John Bunch Jimmy Cobb's Mob Herman's Herd

Gabby Pahinui Ali Farka Toure Ibrahim Ferrer

We spent a couple of days there - this was about ten years ago - and that was just about right. One day to check out the HOF and one day to walk about the town. Didn't get to the Glimmerglass Opera though - that might have been worthwhile. And make sure you bring some warmer than summer clothing, if you're there in the summer. We went in July and it got chilly in the late afternoons and evenings - as opposed to about three hours away where we live, which was much warmer. edit - the cool weather thing could have been an anomaly. That was the only time I've been in that area of N.Y.

No, but I did get an art book and a book of photographs. I doubt that looking at either on an E-Book screen would be a rewarding experience.

Piney Brown Hackberry Ramblers Orchestra Baobab

I've got to hand it to Harbaugh. Stanford definitely has decent talent, but it looked to me like VT was dramatically outcoached. On those long runs from scrimmage, and especially on those TD passes, the VT defense was repeatedly way out of position. Luck was being praised by the announcers for being so deadly accurate (and he was pretty sharp), but on several of his big pass plays, all he had to do was lob a safe ball out there to a WIDE open guy. That was all about coaching, play-calling, making adjustments. On ESPN 2 this morning, Trent Dilfer made the comment that Harbaugh is playing chess while other coaches are playing checkers. Don't know that that's true, but it was a good line.

Happy Birthday!

Little Egypt Anatole France Bobo Brazil

You're not weak or crazy. You're a man with good taste.

1986, I believe. Probably was a Japanese issue of Ellington's All Star Road Band, which I still have and play. (If my wife read this she'd say, "You're not giving a deposition." )

Mookie Pookie Bookie

The Byrds The Robins The Orioles

Frank Edwards: Done Some Travelin' (Trix) jeffcrom's mention of Frank Edwards in a recent post (#17851 in this thread) got me to take this one off the shelf and give it a listen after too long a time.

Chuck Berry: "Johnny B. Goode" - Not an album, but the first music I heard that I knew was mine. Mingus Ah Um - The first jazz I heard that spoke to me on an emotional level. The Freewheeling Bob Dylan - Outside the realm of any folk or pop music that I'd heard. The Louis Armstrong Story Volume 1 - The first old music I'd ever heard that sounded new. Cecil Taylor: Into the Hot - Listened to this every day for a couple of weeks to prepare me for hearing Cecil play live in late '65/early '66. Of course, Cecil didn't sound like the music on Into the Hot when I heard his group play, but that record started me on a journey that I'm still on.

Beautiful and frightening.

Over the weekend I watched a PBS documentary on Jackie Gleason which featured clips from his mid fifies TV show. I remember watching Jackie Gleason when I was a kid, but I'd forgotten how wonderful the characters he created were. The Poor Soul, the simple Fenwick Babbitt -"You're a nice man", Reginald Van Gleason III, loudmouthed Charlie Bratton, and the anarchically destructive Rudy the Repairman all made me laugh out loud once again. Then there was Jackie Gleason's crazed yet somehow graceful dancing and the way he threw his body around seemingly without regard for his own safety. If you only know Jackie Gleason as "The Great One" or through the persona of Ralph Kramden, you're missing a lot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vHVzuCSMZg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrVykGwnKIg

Yo Mama Hey Leroy The Butt Sisters

Gladys Knight Otis Day Alonzo Mourning

Johnny Puleo and His Harmonica Band Elder R. Wilson Band Little Walter by himself

Listening right now. Thanks for posting this!

In another essay, Otis Ferguson writes of John Hammond: "In one way, Hammond is the ideal critic, fighting for what he thinks is good, fighting hard with time and money and infinite energy. But he is no thinking critic and is as full of chinks and sharp bias as a bag of nails. He is to be respected and thanked, but not safely followed as a mentor." - from Speaking of Jazz II Seems fair enough.

If critics had to pay for music like the rest of us, I wonder how many of them would still be doing it.

Don't have the Elington Big Band yet, but I find that the CDs on the small group set fit very tightly. I've been careful, but I feel that an accident is just waiting.