paul secor

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All the best on your BIRTHDAY!!

Happy Birthday!!

Emiliano Zapata Frank Zappa R. Crumb

Inspired by MG's Blindfold Test - tho I didn't participate: Le Palm-Jazz de Macenta: Les Palmes du Succes

Jackie McLean 1964-1966 The Consequences recordings. Decent session. David Rosenthal in his notes remarks " ...for reasons equally hard to understand - it remained unissued until the late '70s when it appeared as part of the 'Blue Note Classics' series." I don't think it's hard to understand why it remained unreleased for almost 15 years. Who needed another one of these in the '60s?

MG - Didn't participate in this BT, but I do have Le Palm-Jazz de Macenta LP. Unfortunately, no personnel is given. The liner notes, by Justin Morel Junior, are in French and very brief and perfunctory. The engineer was Moussa Konate. That's about it. edit: Have to say that "Kobogui" sounds like an anomaly in the context of the other music on the LP.

Mr. Love is far from alone in becoming disillusioned as the inner workings of "the business" reveal themselves in increasingly greater detail. You think the taste left in your mouth was bad? Trust me on this one. Yeah "the biz" obviously left a bad taste in his mouth also. I just got tired of reading his complaints.

John C. Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Erik the Red

All the best!!!

I read the book and gave it to a friend after I finished reading it because I knew I wouldn't want to read it again. I enjoyed the first half to 2/3rds of the book primarily because, as MG has noted, Mr. Love tells a lot of great stories and it does give a lot of insight into what goes into being a working musician. As the book went on though, Preston's bitterness in his later life and his personal agendas spoiled the feeling of the book for me. Basically, I felt that Mr. Love became bitter, angry and opinionated as he became more financially successful, and that left a bad taste in my mouth. Perhaps I should have relished the first half of the book and let the last part go, but I wasn't able to do that. Incidentally, my friend felt pretty much the same as I did when he read it.

Al Davis Jimmy Jones George Steinbrenner

Cow Cow Davenport Bull Durham Bret Maverick

I lived through that stuff the first time around. No desire to revisit it.

Bukka White: Parchman Farm (Columbia)

Some words from an interview with Chuck Israels in the current (April-May-June) issue of Cadence: Interviewer (Randy L. Smith): Some people say Jazz needs a new messiah. The new Charlie Parker, the new John Coltrane. Chuck Israels: But there's no messiah gonna come. That person is not going to come in a world that is so marginalized. That's like saying, "Oh, polo needs a Michael Jordan." And polo does need a Michael Jordan, but it's not going to happen because whoever is going to be the next Michael Jordan - the next great athlete - is not going to be playing polo. When jazz was part of the fabric of popular music life, that ended in the mid '60s. The messiah in music will come in some other way. ... It ain't gonna be a Jazz player. There's no place for that guy to grow; you need a lot of people to make the great guy to come out. Louis Armstrong didn't grow out of a vacuum. Duke Ellington didn't grow out of a vacuum. They grew out of surroundings. ... You can't hold down the human spirit. Somebody will invent some kind of music somewhere, something beautiful will happen, but the Jazz time is gone like the Elizabethan Theatre is gone.

The Dovells The Orlons The Rays

Kenny Drew: Everything I Love (Steeplechase) Hadn't listened to this in at least twenty years, so it was a rediscovery for me. Kenny Drew playing solo (gloriously) and for himself - at least it sounds that way to my ears.

Sonny Clark Quintet (BN/Toshiba-EMI Japan) Quintets, actually - one side out takes from Cool Struttin', the other from an aborted session with Clifford Jordan, Kenny Burrell, Paul Chambers, & Pete LaRoca.

Ben Webster: King of the Tenors (Verve Japan) Some exaggeration in the title but, when I'm listening to him, I can't argue with it.

Sly Stone Chris Rock Hughie Flint

No love for Wilbur Ware or Malachi Favors? I know there is. They just must have slipped people's minds. That happens.

Charles Bukowski Henry Chinaski Neeli Cherkovski

Rorschach test thread. Is it about Charlie Haden? Or is it about - who is/are your favorite bass player(s)?

Doc Cheatham and Sammy Price: Doc & Sammy (Sackville)