paul secor

Belated Happy Birthday Wishes!

Dexter Gordon: Clubhouse (BN/King - Japan)

My bad. I have Au Couer de Paris on LP. Didn't know that there was an earlier recording. Always good to learn about new things.

Have to say that ther's nothing on the BN Lost Sessions that made a real difference in my life. The sessions may have looked good on paper before I heard them, but reality was a whole different deal. I'm sure that Michael Cuscuna has listened to everything that's available to be issued, and probably everything that's worth hearing has already come out. That said, I think that the artists, if they're still living - unfortunately, most are not - should have the final say. I guess that BN completists will think differently.

Shouldn't this be moved to the Miscellaneous - Non Political Forum? Seems like the discussion has become mostly sociological, not musical.

Hope you have a great birthday!

Blind Blake, William Moore, Carl Martin, Sam Butler, Billy Bird, Tampa Red: Guitar Wizards 1926-1935 (Yazoo) An old favorite - wonder if I'd enjoy it even more if I read Marybeth Hamilton's book while I listen to it?

Home made bean soup

Wow! That's a bit ultra rare! Suggest you write to Greaeme Counsel and tell him you've got this. He might get Sterns to reissue it if yours is in good nick. MG I may be wrong about this, but I believe that it was reissued on CD about 15 years ago. Don't know by whom.

Before dinner: Sammy Price: Sweet Substitute (Sackville)

Have their first record - on LP. Been a number of years since I listened to it. Probably time to give it a spin. GREAT cover (as you said) on their new one. The music's got a lot to live up to.

Just read the posts on this thread. Lots of good ways to go.

Baby Face Leroy (Flyright) - JOB recordings

Thanks for posting the video link - moving/disturbing. As far as I know, there was little reporting/discussion of Malachi Ritscher's self immolation in the national media. I only read about it here.

Leroy Jenkins/The Jazz Composer's Orchestra: For Players Only (JCOA)

Tried to imagine some music to accompany the photos, but haven't heard any recent Ewart or Shepp.

They needed help with that? Their lead guitarist was electrocuted on stage.

Obviously Cy Young deserves consideration. But he played in the dead dead ball era and never had to pitch to black hitters. That's the reason I left him out.

Cecil Tayor Quartet - early 1966. Changed the way that I heard/felt music. I'm thankful that I haven't gotten over it yet.

Yet there were sobering aspects to Chan's arrival here, as well. In San Francisco, Chan had been praised for the "intense" and "rhapsodic" quality of his playing, observed the San Francisco Bay Guardian, as well as the size of his sound. But then Chan heard the likes of Seals, Fred Anderson, Von Freeman and other leather-lunged Chicago tenor men. "I thought I had a big sound," says Chan. "Then I found out what a big sound was."

I'd go with Warren Spahn. I only saw him late in his career, & I was just a kid, but he got a late start because of WWII and still won 363 games. Lefty Grove and some of the early greats never pitched against black hitters - at least not in the major leagues. Satch certainly deserves a mention. Koufax had 4 great years, 2 pretty good ones, and 6 mediocre - that's being charitable - years. Not even close to doing enough to deserve to be called "The Best".

Have to say that I listen to music as music. I'm not concerned with musicologists, scholars, "blues mafia", collectors (except that I'm very grateful for certain collectors making recordings available to the general public) , etc. And I would not give one iota of credence to anything that Dave Marsh writes. As I say, I'd rather listen to blues recordings than read someone's thesis about the blues.

I suppose that Nat Su might be considered a revivalist by some. Not by me though - I just hear him as a fine musician.

I have no idea who the hell Jesse Belvin is, but I take even greater comfort in the fact that even Jim thought it was Johnny Mathis. From what I gather, Jesse Belvin was kinda "under the radar" for most folks during the 50s, one of those guys who was always connected enough to make records, but never enough to really break through (as mentioned before, "Goodnight My Love" was his only "big" hit). But the cat left a pretty good legacy as an R%B snger of both "smooth" and "rough" material. He's got some stuff out on the Fantasy R&B reissues, but who knows if those are still available... Check him out, he's a name you probably will want to at least know about: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...3ifyxqw5ldse~T1 Jesse Belvin's Specialty recordings are o/p, unfortunately. Probably available on Amazon, half com, or somewhere. His Modern & RCA recordings have been reissued on Ace - http://www.newburycomics.com/rel/v2_home.p...tartSearch.y=18

About 8" of snow here yesterday - next to nothing for the midwest or Me./N.H./Vt., but pretty good for here - mid-Hudson valley. I had nowhere to go, so it didn't bother me, but I felt sorry for folks who had to be out in it.