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Anthony Braxton: Six Compositions: Quartet (Antilles)

I attended a Cecil Taylor concert in early 1968 - part of an arts festival in Buffalo, N.Y. The group was comprised (iirc) of Mr. Taylor, Jimmy Lyons, Eddie Gale, Alan Silva, and Andrew Cyrille. The concert was filmed by a fairly well known documentary film maker - I cannot recall who. An Albert Ayler concert was also filmed during that festival. It would be great if that film footage survived.

Best Birthday Wishes to one of our resident musicians! edit: I still say thank you to you and Barry Harris every time I listen to the Bud Verve box and read the comments that both of you added to the music.

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Via Netflix - Goodbye Solo - a very fine film with two wonderful actors who live in their roles: Souleymane Sy Savane playing a Senegalese expatriot taxi driver living in North Carolina - a man who exudes life, and Red West playing a man who is tired of life and has decided he wants to end his. The interplay - connections and disconnections - between the two characters had my attention riveted.

Glad to hear that the Wilder concert went well, Jeff. It's probably the kind of thing that doesn't get done much anywhere these days. Congratulations for doing it.

Albert Belle Belle Starr Charlie the Tuna

Signor Emanuel Ravelli Chicolini Fiorello

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde - Jascha Horenstein/BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra/Alfreda Hodgson/John Mitchinson (BBC) I Can Eagle Rock - Jook Joint Blues from Alabama and Louisiana (Travelin' Man)

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Haven't sent a PM today, but I sent one last night with no problem.

Both the Braxton & Rusch interviews were interesting and informative. Both guys march to their own drummer - a great thing imo. I had spoken to Bob Rusch several times on the phone, but had never seen him, so seeing a photograph of him was also interesting. He pretty much looks like what I had imagined.

Fred Anderson: The Missing Link (Nessa)

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No, but a big THANKS! for the heads up. Even cheaper here: http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=8097639

Not to steer attention away from Mr. Norris, but I hope you'll stick around and join the conversations here. Seems like you might have interesting things to say.

But that's because you charmed her. Or maybe it was because Chuck was buying.

I was reading an article on Robert C. W. Ettinger, one of the founders (perhaps the founder) of the cryonics movement. Long story short, cryonics deals with the freezing of a dead body in the hope that scientists in the future will defrost it and be able to make it young and vital again. Ettinger's mother's and two wives' bodies have been frozen and he plans to have his body frozen when he dies. Toward the end of the article, Ettinger is showing the reporter photos from his mother's scrapbooks. At one point he remarks, "That's Pee Wee Russell. He married my mother's sister, Mary." When I read that, all I could think of was that Pee Wee's body didn't have to be frozen. It was already pickled. edited the title - family relationships confuse me.

Missed the initial posting for this, but pm sent.

Jesse Stone: Night Passage The Jesse Stone TV films were probably the best adaptions of Robert B. Parker's written work to a video format.

Portability is fine, but if it's destroyed people's sense of what recorded music can sound like, that's just sad. In a generation or two, no one will realize what's been lost, and that will be a terrible thing.

'Infinity' is the only John Coltrane album I am ashamed of having purchased I wish someone would issue the same material without the tempered material that Alice overdubbed. Eternal shame on her for having defaced the music! There was an interview with Buell Neidlinger in Cadence magazine in which he said that he was doing a session at Village Recorders when Alice Coltrane was doing the overdubs that appeared on Infinity. He claimed that she erased Jimmy Garrison's and her own parts and that the music as it was originally recorded is lost. He was very angry that she had tampered with the music and, if my memory is correct - I no longer have a copy of the interview - he referred to her as a "jiveass broad".

Wadada Leo Smith: Spiritual Dimensions (Cuneiform) Actually didn't buy it. A friend of mine had a copy and I had a book he wanted, so we did a trade. Both of us are happy.

Happy Birthday!