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Rob Bowman: Soulsville U.S.A. - The Story of Stax Records Nelson George: Where Did Our Love Go? - The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound

Lester Young: Pres (Verve-Japan)

Just finished Penelope Lively's A House Unlocked - a personal and social history of her grandparents' country house in Somerset, England. In many ways, it was a fascinating read, recounting the social changes that occured over a period of more than seventy years. I found the chapter which recounted the evacuation of children and some adults from cities to rural areas of England during WW II was especially interesting. I hadn't realized the extent of social change that took place after these events. Lively's future husband was one of the evacuees, and his life changed dramatically. He grew up in a working class urban area, and ended up attending Oxford and becoming an academic - something that probably wouldn't have occured before the War. (Penelope and Jack Lively didn't actually meet until some years after the War - she was living with her family in Egypt during the War years.) Penelope Lively is one of my favorite writers, and this is a very good book - I recommend it to others - but I'm actually looking forward to reading more of her fiction in the future. I feel that fiction is her forte.

Machito and His Salsa Big Band: Machito!!! (Timeless) From H.F. Dulfer's liner notes: "...those companies...should be advised to worry about a new slogan than 'Hometaping is killing music'." (This was 1983) "I would propose: 'Reissuing old records is killing musicians'".

Stuff Smith at the Montmatre Earl Hines and Jimmy Rushing: Blues & Things The Jimmy Rushing All Stars: Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You Henry "Red" Allen: Feeling Good The College Concert of Pee Wee Russell and Henry Red Allen Jazz Composer's Orchestra (w. Cecil, Rudd Cherry, Sanders, Coryell, Barbieri) Phineas Newborn Jr.: Please Send Me Someone To Love; Harlem Blues Walt Dickerson Quartet: Jazz Impressions of A Patch of Blue Sonny Murray: Sonny's Time Now Albert Mangelsdorff and Friends (duets w. Cherry, Elvin, Karl Berger, Attila Zoller, Konitz, and Wolfgang Dauner)

Evidence (OJC) might be a good place to start - Lacy, Don Cherry, Billy Higgins, and the mysterious Carl Brown playing Monk and Ellington compositions. For solo Lacy, Only Monk (Soul Note) is a good one. Lacy had a true love and affinity for Monk's music, and spent a playing lifetime proving (and improving) that love and affinity.

Johnny Griffin: Live in Tokyo (Phillips-Japan). Griff and the rest of the band - Horace Parlan, Mads Vinding, and Art Taylor - had a true groove going for this concert.

My ears first opened up to Roy Haynes' playing when I heard him on Eric Dolphy's New Jazz recordings, especially Far Cry.

Forgot about Don Joseph. Thanks for the reminder, Brownie. The Uptown LP is a fine one. He also has a few good solo spots on Chuck Wayne's String Fever CD.

Taft Jordan Ted Curson Wilbur Harden Henry "Red" Allen

Sounds interesting. What label, Matthew?

Tonight I listened to a mono copy of Living Legends - Son House, Skip James, Bukka White, & Big Joe Williams - Recorded Live at Cafe au Go Go (Verve/Folkways). On vinyl, Son House's guitar and vocal almost jump out at you - an amazing listening experience.

Randy Weston: Berkshire Blues (Arista Freedom)

The list continues: Jay McShann: The Man from Muskogee Ben Webster: Remember Randy Weston: Berkshire Blues Jimmy Lyons: Other Afternoons Roy Eldridge: The Nifty Cat Here Comes Earl Hines w. Elvin and Richard Davis The Lee Konitz Duets Charlie Parker Memorial Concert 3/27/65 (Dizzy, Konitz, Moody, Hawk, Roy, KD, etc.) Ted Curson Quartet: Urge Marion Brown: Porto Novo Sonny Rollins: There Will Never Be Another You - Underrated because it was only marketed for a short time until Sonny sued and forced Impulse to withdraw it.

Hampton Hawes/Paul Chambers: The East/West Controversy (Xanadu) Hamp from 1951; Chambers with Bill Perkins and Jack Montrose.

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I think that Dimitry is right - if you dig Trane as much as you obviously do, eventually you'll want them all. However, you might want to pick up either Birdland or Crescent first, live with it for a while, and then go on to the others - preferably in the order that Trane recorded them. That may give you a clearer sense of his path.

I have a duo album by Jimmy Raney and Attila Zoller - Jim & I: Live at Quasimodo (L&R 40.018) - a very good record. According to the liner notes, there are two other duo records on L&R by Raney and Zoller - one is studio recording (40.006) & one was recorded live at the 17th German Jazz Festival 17 (40.013). I haven't heard either one of those. I don't know if any or all of the three have been reissued on CD.

pm'd and e-mailed you.

I listen to a lot of different musics other than jazz, so I didn't want to vote for just one type. As I look at my LP/CD collection, probably blues takes second place to jazz in sheer numbers.

John RT Davies spent his life proving his devotion to music. He'll truly be missed.

Happy birthday! And thanks for letting all of us be part of the party!

Ephie Resnick and Marty Grosz: The End of Innocence (Mark)

Chuck - Never heard (or heard of) this one until now. I see from checking a discography that it's a Circle LP. I assume that it must be a good record if you've held onto it for this long and you still listen to it.

A couple of personal favorites: Machito and his Salsa Big Band 1982 (Timeless) Charlie Palmieri: A Giant Step (Budda) - fine Latin piano by Eddie's older brother. I have an LP - I hope that it's been reissued on CD.