paul secor

E-filed and we got our refund deposited to our account in early May.

Jelly Roll Morton: Last Band Dates - Hot Six and Seven - 1940 (Commodore/Germany)

All the best birthday wishes, Jim!

Not in my view, just to stay in the above bunch let's take the Carla Bley's output, great music, IMHO. Different Strokes, I guess.

On many (most?) ECMs, the pressings outshine the music.

Joan and I went to see The Visitor. I expected to like it more than I did - tho it was a good film. Joan liked it more than I did. Then an early dinner - delicious fresh salad (& I'm not a salad person) and delicious very, very thin pizza at an Italian restaurant.

Citizen Kane Joseph Cotten Monty Woolley

Believe that Kate's the mother & Anna's the aunt.

Harold Land: The Fox (Contemporary - yellow label)

Times Ain't Like They Used To Be Vol. 6 (Yazoo) Best of the Memphis Jug Band (Yazoo)

Peter Sellers Peter Piper Rufus Harley

Jelly Roll Morton: New Orleans Memories Plus Two - 1939 (Commodore/Germany)

John Fahey: "Sligo River Blues" (1967 version) from The Legend of Blind Joe Death "Lodagaa Wilks and Gulu" - flute and percussion music from West Africa - Drum, Chant and Instrumental Music (Nonesuch Explorer) Actually could have chosen several other tracks from each of these recordings, but these two stuck with me.

Junior Wells Little Walter Evelyn "Angel" Martin

52% (Dixie) - Think I've been below the Mason-Dixon line once in my life. Maybe I've listened to too many blues and country records. (That's assuming this test has any validity.)

Cosmo Topper George Kerby George Kirby

Asta Myrna Loy Mina Loy My names better not get ignored again.

Oh yes, I got that. I assume, a black folk saying, though. I can't hear white folk saying that - particularly not in an English accent MG Well, yeah, and the phrase "Jive Ass Mother Fucker" was in use long before Griff or anybody of his generation. What I'm referring to is the actual "term" JAMF. Remember how TOBA (Theater Owners Booking Association) came to stand for "Touch On Black Asses"? Looks like somewhat the same thing happened, albeit in reverse, to "Jive Ass Mother Fucker", and I'm willing to speculate that it happened long before 1957! I'd read that TOBA came to stand for "Tough On Black Asses". Perhaps there were two versions.

Alida Valli Bob Gaudio Al Kooper

Fred Parris Rev. Lonnie Ferris Alex Karras

So musicians aren't the only improvisers on jazz recordings.

Don't have anything to add here, just catching up on this thread, but did want to say I love that Milford album. I haven't heard the second, but the first is a favorite. I've been playing for 20+ years and I can't wrap my head around much of what he's doing on that disc. Both of those albums were tracked/performed live, recorded/mixed live, each in one afternoon. Milford is amazing. I listened to Stories recently, and assumed that there was some overdubbing. I never bothered to read the (minimal) liner notes carefully, because it says there (in capital letters): "ALL MUSIC RECORDED IN REAL TIME WITH NO OVERDUBBING". Hard to believe, and yes - amazing.

Leo Durocher Willie Mays Vic Wertz

Good discussion of the Raney/Brookmeyer album in this thread: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...kmeyer&st=0