paul secor

Read two of the ten - Catch 22 and Confederacy. Started Three Men in a Boat, but couldn't get into it - perhaps I'll give it another try someday. I agree that Mark Twain should have been included.

Dean Martin Foster Brooks Frank Fontaine

I love Pete's playing but - a blues solo better than Prez on 'Undercover Girl' or Bechet on 'Blood on the Moon' Or Jimmie Noone on 'Blues Jumped a Rabbit'? Hey, Allen's allowed to rave a bit now and then. He wouldn't be Allen if he didn't.

Have a Storyville CD that overlaps the Prestige/Bluesville recordings that Chuck mentioned - fine stuff. My favorite Snooks Eaglin recordings are his Imperials, which were collected by Pete Welding on a beautifully done CD in 1995. (Incidentally, contrary to The Times-Picayune obituary, nine Imperial singles were released in the early 60's - more than a "handful".) Thanks, Mr. Eaglin, for making my life a little richer.

"Hey-Baba-Luboff" gets me every time. Can't get enough of it!

Hope you have a great birthday!

Mississippi John Hurt Tennessee Ernie Ford The Florida Kid

This one has been done to death already. http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...l=betty++carter

Wasn't here yesterday, but belated HB wishes! :party:

I had a number of the French RCA LPs - traded them when the Kendall/JSP series started. Did some comparisons with the JSP Vol. 2. Some sessions were clearly better on the CD set, some were slightly better on the LPs, some were so close that it didn't matter to me.

There was a Cadence interview with Buell Neidlinger in which he mentioned being in the studio when Alice Coltrane did the overdubs - Neidlinger was there for another unrelated recording session. Don't have that issue anymore, but I remember that Neidlinger was very pissed that it happened.

Just finishing Anne Fadiman's At Large and at Small - a book of entertaining essays.

Ronnie Spector played a show in my area last weekend. I thought it was strange that she would appear a day or two after her sister passed, but the story in The Times probably explains that.

Tom - Truly sorry for the loss of your friend. It's great that you were able to put yourself out there and that he was able to accept your openness. Says a lot about both of you.

A little late in the day, but :party: Happy Birthday!! :party:

Charlie Parker: One Night in Chicago (Savoy/Arista)

Charlie Parker at the Pershing Ballroom - Chicago 1950 (Zim)

Sonny Rollins on Impulse! Revisited after Marty Jazz's post about "Everything Happens to Me".

Just finished watching The Awful Truth on TCM.

Thanks for mentioning that track, MG. I hadn't listened to the Harmonizing Four in a while, & it was time. Beautiful vocal by Jimmy Jones. The Harmonizing Four weren't as flamboyant as some of the classic gospel quartets of the 50's, but they were right up there with the best.

Ward Bond James Stewart Henry Fonda

Jack the Bear Rafi Zabor Steve McCall

Merle Haggard: "Leonard"

Takacs Quartet: Beethoven Quartets op. 59 & op. 74

Sunny Jim Bottomley Velma Middleton Cosmo Topper