paul secor

Happy Birthday!!

Hope Chuck's ok. His was the first music that spoke to me.

He does his job better than they do theirs.

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Happy Birthday!

Fred Anderson/Peter Kowald/Hamid Drake: "To Those Who Know" from Live at the Velvet Lounge (Okka)

When I saw the beginning of this thread last night, it was late and the personnel on the session didn't kick in. Some questions - Is it likely that all of the members of the 1948 Joe Morris Band (minus baritone saxist Bill McLemore) would be recruited to play on a 1958 r&b session? I've read that Elmo Hope moved to Los Angeles in 1957 - He recorded for Pacific Jazz with a group that included Harold Land in that year. On the other hand - The pianist on "Along About Midnight" plays some light bluesy piano that possibly could have been played by Elmo Hope. (Incidentally, that's the only playing by any member of the band that stands out on any of the four numbers recorded on the session.) It's possible that Elmo Hope could have been back in NY for a short period and done the date. And - The recording session was produced by Herb Abramson, one of the founders of Atlantic, who seems to have been more of a music fan than he was a businessman - perhaps part of the reason he ended up being aced out at Atlantic. From what I've read about Herb Abramson, he might well have done the work and gone to the expense to recruit the former members of the Joe Morris Band to play on a session like this. The discography in the liners of the Atco Sessions lists the personnel as: Joe Morris, Trumpet; remainder unknown. Leadbitter/Slaven's Blues Records has the same listing - perhaps that's where the liner note info came from. A friend of mine is in intermittent contact with Pete Lowry, who produced the Texas Guitar reissue, which lists the personnel that Michael Weiss quoted. I'll ask my friend to see if he can find out where Pete got his information.

Same here! But I have put a stop on vinyl buying, mainly for lack of space I've stopped buying vinyl - except in very, very rare cases - for that same reason.

Check out http://www.amazon.com/Atco-Sessions-Guitar-Slim/dp/B000BPPVPS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1293590436&sr=1-1 for all of his Atco recordings. The best Guitar Slim is his Specialty stuff http://www.amazon.com/Sufferin-Mind-Guitar-Slim/dp/B000000QMA/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1293590704&sr=1-1 but there are some fine cuts on the Atco compilation.

From Berkshire Record Outlet: Jascha Horenstein/BBC S.O. & BBC Northern S.O.: Beethoven - Missa Solemnis; Schubert - Symph. No 8; Wagner - A Faust Overture (BBC) John Ogdon: Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 5 - Horenstein/BBC Northern S.O.; 32 Variations on an Original Theme; Schubert -Piano Sonata in C minor, D958 (BBC) Artur Schnabel: The 1946-47 HMV Recordings (Appian) In Honor of Rudolf Kolisch (Music & Arts)

More than I'll listen to over the rest of my life. Why I keep buying more is a mystery to me.

Disc, please. Thanks, Jeff. Look forward to it.

I hope that Hans will reconsider. He had a difficult job and did it as fairly and honestly as he could - at least imo.

Geico TV ads are as annoying as the constant flow of Geico junk mail I receive.

Johnny Hodges Lily Pons Bird

Your dad digs GMIII and Paul Bley??? NICE! Yeah, he does. I think Evolution is more his speed than Some Other Stuff, but he's a big fan of 50s/60s jazz. That is incredibly cool - and probably incredibly unusual. I didn't get any music for Christmas - unless I count the two Okka titles I bought for myself from Chuck the week before. My wife did give me two books that have a connection with music - the W. Eugene Smith Jazz Loft Project book and a book on the art works of Jean-Michel Basquiat.

It's not all that unusual. How many times has a musician died and over the next few days we see people listing their recordings on the Now Listening To thread? I usually find it difficult to listen to the music of a musician who has just passed, but people react in different ways to situations.

Sinatra was truly a class act. It is ironic - given his apparent sexual preferences - that Mathis' recordings were considered make-out records by straight couples in the late 50s and early 60s.

Even Brubeck seems less heavy handed than usual - at least to the extent he's able to do that. It's a shame (and surprising, given Brubeck's popularity back then)that this record never found an audience and doesn't seem to have done anything for Jimmy Rushing's career. Perhaps Columbia never promoted it.

I'm not a Johnny Mathis fan, but I give him props for having his own voice and his own style - more than can be said for many, especially these days.

I take every week off - one of the very few perks that come with being older.

I don't think the LP sounds too good either. Schlitten didn't get a good sound on that session, period (imo). Too dry, too "in your face", no room/space in the sound. Never had the CD, but I agree with Jim about the LP. If the CD sounded bad, it was probably because the sound was poor to begin with.

Billy Bremner (copyright - M. Python) Norman Hunter Garry Sprake Zarathustra Zara Phillips Useless Eustace Bum Phillips Hobo Bill The Singing Brakeman

Yup, and that happened before he went on his home run tear for the Yanks in the World Series. It's a better and shorter nickname than "The Straw That Stirs The Drink." Munson was not Reggie's biggest fan. I always liked the Catfish Hunter story where he said - Reggie's a great guy. He'd give you the shirt off his back. And then call a press conference to let everyone know that he'd done it.

He's right. Giants 23, Cards 16, Yanks 15, Cubs 14, .... http://www.baseball-...f/hofstat.shtml Something tells me that 10 years from now the Yankees will probably be pretty close to the Giants in HoFers. However, the Yanks will still have way more WS titles then the Giants. Don't know where Baseball Almanac got their info. Wikipedia lists 18 Yankee players who entered the HoF as Yankees: Yogi Berra, Earl Combs, Joe DiMaggio, Bill Dickey, Whitey Ford, Lou Gehrig, Lefy Gomez, Joe Gordon, Goose Goosage, Waite Hoyte, Regggie Jackson, Tony Lazzeri, Mickey Mantle, Herb Pennock, Phil Rizzuto, Red Ruffing, Babe Ruth, and Jack Chesbro (as a N.Y. Highlander, the team that evolved into the Yankees). Still not as many as the Giants, but more than Almanac gives credit for. I never understood how Reggie Jackson gets called a Yankee on the basis of five years with NY out of a twenty-one year career.... At that point in time, the Hall let players choose what team's hat they wanted to be inducted under. Reggie chose the Yankees. Later, when Dave Winfield chose to be inducted as a Padre - probably because he worked for the Padre organization after he retired, even though he played more years and put up higher numbers with the Yankees - the HoF decided that they would decide what team a player would be inducted as a member of. To me, the whole thing is foolish. The player is inducted, not the team. Catfish Hunter, for example, couldn't decide whether he wanted to be inducted as an A or as a Yankee, so he was inducted without an insignia on his cap. I think that should be the way it's handled in all cases, especially today with free agency.