paul secor

The Magnificent Thad Jones (BN/Toshiba EMI Japan)

Esther Williams LaWanda Page Magilla Gorilla

Makes me wonder - if the current Supreme Court was on board in 1967, would miscegenation laws still be on the books?

I find myself doing the same thing when a book like that has an index. I've read a lot of the recent Lee Konitz collection, but all of that has come from checking the index and jumping around. Maybe Larry Kart's publisher had a good idea for the wrong reasons - if I remember correctly, Larry said his book had no index because an index fell outside the budget. I did read Larry's book front to back.

Don't like being a killjoy, but I've never had as high a regard for this session as most others who have written about it on this thread. Don Sleet's playing has its moments, but too often he falls back on Miles-isms, or his facility wins out over the feel of the music. The other musicians on the date, with the exception of Wynton Kelly, sound somewhat disinterested. It may have been a group that came together in the studio for the first time. I find Jimmy Heath's playing particularly disappointing. Someone else has commented on the poor quality of Ron Carter's arco playing. Someone at the session should have taken his bow and broken it in two - only halfway serious about that. Don Sleet's playing certainly had potential. Who knows what might have happened if he had stuck with the music? To my ears, All Members isn't a bad record, but it's not really a good one either.

Randy Weston Select - the Little Niles session If anyone wants to hear a connection between Johnny Griffin's playing and Von Freeman's, listen to Johnny Griffin's solo on "Nice Ice".

Randy Weston Select - the Piano-a-la-Mode session Had this on a Jubilee LP when I was in college, & wore it out playing it on a bad turntable. Great record and great to be able to hear it again. Thanks to Mr. Weston for the music and to Mr. Cuscuna and Mosaic for making it available again.

The copy I ordered from a friend's bookstore came in, but the dustcover was damaged, so he returned it to exchange for another copy, & I'll have to wait a few more days to start reading. Ah well - I've waited this long, a few more days won't matter.

First - Congrats! - the wedding is more important And now - Happy Birthday!

Addey

Late in the day, but Happy Birthday! Hope it's been a great one!

Art Pepper Select - the Omega session

Georges Simenon: Maigret and the Gangsters - Hadn't read any of Simenon's Maigret novels in a long time, so I picked this up at the library.

I have all three, but someone else should jump on these. Fine music - cheap price.

Good to see the AACM getting some ink, though I do think that the article played up the AACM as being outside of the tradition. In my listening experience that's certainly not true.

I think there was no small amount of tongue-in-cheekness involved. It is sad that more people around here don't get that. I'm starting to reconcile Chuck and Clem here a bit more these days... Hope that last sentence was tongue in cheek.

In the mail today: King Oliver: Vocalion & Brunswick Recordings Volume 2 - Farewell Blues (Frog) Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra Volume 2: Kansas City Breakdown (Frog) and - ordered from John Lindberg's web site http://www.johnlindberg.com/ : Winter Birds (between the lines) Bounce (Black Saint) Not that I needed more to listen to, but ...

Nearest Baskin Robbins is 13 miles away - not worth the gas. Hope it doesn't take as long to be served as it does for their web site to come up.

Remember - we're talking ESP here.

OK - Happy Birthday One More Time! Does this mean you aged two years in the past month?

Brings back some good memories: "Howard Johnson's Got his Ho-Jo Workin'", "Only You", "Magnet", "RC Cola and a Moon Pie", "Get That Gasoline Blues" ...

Al! Say it ain't so! To quote Dr Johnson: "A man who is tired of jazz is tired of life".

Thanks, Stefan.

Happy Birthday!

Based on the anecdote in Orin Keepnew's recent liner notes for Monk's Town Hall Concert CD, it would have been interesting if Monk had replaced Donald Byrd with Lee Morgan. Nothing against D.B. on that recording, but I would have liked to have heard Lee Morgan playing with Monk.