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Johnny Hodges: A Smooth One - April 7, 1959 session

Hope that YOUR DAY is a great one!

Good enough for Hitch and Truffaut - Good enough for me.

Not sure what (if anything) I'll go for, but I'll put in a plug for the HRS set. It's a must for anyone who has a taste for individualistic soloists: Bechet, Pee Wee Russell, James P., Rex Stewart, Ben Webster, Buck Clayton, Johnny Hodges, Harry Carney, Jack Teagarden, to name just a few of those included in the HRS box. It's one of the most overlooked Mosaics and one of my favorites.

I see your point, but given the fact that there was so much Bird on record after a while, which couldn't help but reveal what he actually was doing musically, I would imagine that most players who dug Bird did so on the basis of what they were hearing him do rather than on what the Chili House anecdote and others like it said that he was doing. In other words, musicians tend to listen to music, rather than read books of criticism/anecdotes. Makes sense.

Purchase and listen to the music that moves you (in whatever way it might), and that's what's commercial (for you).

Summer produce still hanging in at local farmers' markets. It's been a warm early fall.

Swing's the Thing is a very fine album, with a GREAT version of "Harlem Nocturne".

I do wish we could chat longer, but... I'm having an old friend for dinner. Bye.

Voted Other - Willem Breuker Kollektief

I have some of Lorraine Ellison's Warner Brothers recordings on LP and CD - wonderful singer. I hope you'll post your impressions of the Rhino Handmade after you've had a chance to live with it.

Coltrane: Settin' the Pace

Or King Oliver, Lazy Lester, Johnny Dodds, Smiley Lewis, Freddie Keppard, Lloyd Price, James Booker, Champion Jack Dupree, Robert Pete Williams, Henry "Red" Allen, Lee Dorsey, Nathan Abshire, Silas Hogan ... The list could go on and on. It does say that it's a "select list", but it's a very limited (and odd) selection.

So the death of the major companies will reduce the value of the old masters they own (eg Chess, Imperial, Blue Note, Aladdin, Savoy etc) to the point where it will not be worthwhile pursuing pirates - like the Andorrans. But what, I wonder, would happen to the physical masters in this scenario? MG Good - and important - question

brownie - I thought that might be the case also, but the e-mail reply specifically read "sextet albums". That could be a slip up, and if a select happens it may include all of the Decca recordings - big bands and sextets. If it happens, it should be a good thing, no matter what the configuration. Speaking personally, I already have everything except the K.C. sextet, so I hope there's some unreleased stuff included. Tho I'd buy a Select just for the K.C. recording, as expensive as that may be.

I e-mailed Mosaic a while back inquiring about the possibility of a George Russell Sextet in Kansas City, and received the following reply recently: It's quite good. I have been thinking about a Select with all of his Decca sextet albums. Since there were only two G.R. sextet records - K.C. and Five Spot, I hope that this means that there will be extra material included. Chuck mentioned in another thread that unreleased material from the K.C. record existed.

I've been listening to some Art Ensemble recordings over the past week, and have been impressed with some of Joseph Jarman's compositions and by what he adds with his ensemble/background work - somewhat frustrating that he doesn't tend to solo as much as the other two horns. I'll have to relisten to the Nessa box and check out some recordings under his own name.

Happy birthday to our resident photographer!

The first one or two times I heard the song back in 1967, it sounded ok - nothing more. It became so popular and so ubiquitous in a very short time, that I came to despise it. Never had any interest in what was thrown off the bridge - bringing up that subject almost seemed to me like a ploy to make the song even more popular than it was.

casual/comfortable - but not sloppy

Bob Brookmeyer/Bill Evans: The Ivory Hunters (UA/Japan)

Happy Birthday! Hope you have a great birthday! Don't you think you should give your ears a (birth)day off after subjecting them to all that listening over the past year?

Don Joseph: One of a Kind This album is one of a kind - a beautiful record. I don't imagine that it will ever be reissued as a CD, since I doubt that it sold many copies as an LP. Great cover photogaph of Don Joseph taken by Scott Sternbach.

Jimmy Knepper - Bobby Wellins Quintet: Primrose Path - w. some of the best Knepper I've heard on side 1

I don't have it, but I imagine that Doug Ramsey's book, Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond would be a good addition to any collection of Desmond recordings.