paul secor

Andrew Loog Oldham Don Newcombe Newk

Berhard Goetz Bernard Kerik Bernie Madoff

Sargent Shriver Pam Shriver Avery Schreiber

Howard McGhee: The Sharp Edge (Black Lion/Trio Japan) Some very nice McGhee and George Tucker on this one.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe C Sharpe Grandma Harp

Peter Bocage with His Creole Serenaders/The Love-Jiles Ragtime Orchestra (Riverside/OJC) John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio: Traneing In (Prestige K2)

Nick Laird's novel, Glover's Mistake

Bix/Trumbauer/Teagarden - disc 2

Mingus Ah Um helped get me started years ago. I imagine it could do the same for someone else today.

Don't think you'll find Wynton recording with Roswell Rudd anytime soon. Thanks for starting this thread. I have some kora records in my collection but don't have any real background for them. This at least gives me the start of a bit more understanding.

You just helped make Chuck a happier guy.

Great (& intense) music!

Inspired by the Bix thread: Beiderbecke & Trumbauer 1927 sessions

Damon Runyon Skip Spence John Scott Trotter

This stuff + "reality" shows + juicing in sports = why I watch very little television any more.

Bubba Grady Rollo

Yeah - Getting into Bear Family will break your budget before you know it. Here are a few good ones: The Farmer Boys: Flash Crash & Thunder Sonny Burgess: Classic Recordings 1956 - 1959 The Louvin Brothers: Close Harmony Webb Pierce: Wondering Boy 1951 - 1958 Darby and Tarlton: Complete Recordings (You mentioned it as one you want to get & it is one to get.)

Imelda Marcos Moira Shearer Puss in Boots

Leroy Jenkins: The Legend of Ai Glatson

Papa Lightfoot Native Dancer Honi Coles

Read many of the Spenser novels into the 90's, but dropped off after that. They were good semi-hardboiled entertainment. Once saw Mr. Parker and his wife at a NYC dance recital in the mid-80's. His son was one of the dancers. In one of Mr. Parker's novels from that time, Spenser takes an aimless young man who decides he wants to become a dancer under his wing. At the time, it seemed that some of that plot came from life. RIP, Mr. Parker. Not to minimize what's happened in Haiti, but it seems like there has been an inordinate number of deaths reported here over the past week or so.

Kenny Dorham: Quiet Kenny (Prestige/Alto)

Never realized that musicians playing live gigs were considered hourly wage earners. Guess there's a lot about the music biz that I don't know. Reminds me of the deal where some listeners feel they're cheated if they don't get a certain amount of playing time on a recording, rather than appreciating what's there to hear. Ms Gordon sounds like a bitch and a half - at least judging from this story. Lee is pushing 83, if not already there. For Lorraine to do what you say she did, sounds pretty harsh. Man played for nearly an hour, what's wrong with that? How many sets on a weekday night? Marty, she did. It was so so rude, but she has done similar acts in the past. Lee is 82 or 83. He even sat on a chair for part of the set. When I saw Cecil Taylor at the Vanguard I believe in December 2008, the first set was about 50 minutes long. As Cecil and Tony Oxley walked off, she said if you want to play here again, you better longer sets. The second set was a little longer, more like 60 minutes. Cecil should have played a two hour set. That might have pissed her off in another way.

Bill Barron Earl King Jack Earls

Rev. Robert Wilkins, Son House, Maxwell Street Jimmy, Big Joe Williams, et al: Rare Blues (Takoma)