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I got a good laugh out of this one! And I NEEDED it! B-)

Well, it's fair if you are under contract to another label and get the gig anyway!

Off the top of my head I would say they are on the Candid cds.

Not yet?

That is a nice idea about Winwood and Santana. I was a Traffic fan in Swaziland, first heard them on the BBC and Radio Lorenco Marques and I kept on being a Traffic fan up through "When the Eagle Flies" with varying degrees of enthusiasm. I really like Winwood: he always seemed able to project a sincerity about the music and make some emotional connection. I get the feeling he's a nice bloke, and he's quite a musician. I love his organ sound: I can identify it, he really has a distinctive sound. He also plays good piano, again with a style his own. And he can play guitar too, he really can (saw him recently on Austin City Limits and he KILLED on guitar on Dear Mr. Fantasy). I liked the band with Mason in it, there was another voice, another composer, another musician. Welcome to the Canteen I've dug out a few times recently and like it; good ole Rebop Kwaku Bah. . . it's interesting to play Canteen and follow it up with the Randy Weston lp that he appears on! (That Weston is very percussive!) In a way John Barleycorn (which started off as a Winwood solo project) is the very best. . . it just works from start to finish. . . Will be interesting to see how many other Traffic fans are out there. In the last year I bought some cheap copies of John Barleycorn, Welcome to the Canteen and Last Exit. . . . Was fun to hear them again.

I'm not a downloader. Don't have the right type of burner at home. I have bought three copies of this so far though!

Hmmm. . . I don't think I've ever heard this one. With that Chicago R-Section it looks quite good!

I'm not going to be able to make it to San Anton, but looks as if these will be good shows!

Yes, Anthony Davis DID do an opera about Malcolm.

Wow! Can't wait for my copy to arrive!

Yes, I know he fits better elsewhere. I'm wondering why Joe had him here to be honest; a dozen other drummers would have seemed a better fit to me, but . . .

I know, but it's very complicated, and it's like a dirty little secret no one wants to talk about that I would shout off the mountaintops if my paranoid (clinically, and yet with good reason at other times) wife would let me! If we don't change our energy useage and our munitions building and peddling we might as well start looking for another planet to use up, fast.

I'm still reading Richard J. Barnet's "Roots of War". . . . It's an amazingly thought provoking book. I've six others of his lined up after this, hoping I can make it through a few more with impetus. I keep thinking how we have been involved in one war or another, tiny or fullblown, since WWII and how our entire culture seems to be driven by the war business. ARGH!

Details here: http://www.worldsrecords.com/cgi-bin/store...57&saved=artist

Frog Records strikes again! B-)

I don't know what to say. . . "Bounce" bounced in to my player and then out. . . just sort of a "nothing to distinguish it" date for me.

Hope it's better than "Bounce!"

Yes, quite an interesting two collections. At least they're doing something. Come on Columbia!

Luckily, no, but it's a matter of time.

The Basie Story was a two lp set that is getting an expanded cd reissue. I'm pretty sure that Basie and Friends 100th Birthday Bash is a new compilation.

Rest in peace Ms Wray.

Oh I can seriously believe that this has not sold out yet. . . Mobley is just enough of a second string seller (not player!) that they aren't flying off the shelves, considering that the cds were out in Japan and/or America as well, as noted above. Also, this could be like the Woody Shaw, Michael Cuscuna may be personally keeping this going til every set that is possible to be sold is sold, for the music's sate.

It's pretty amazing how much they can stuff in a cd booklet (Jazz Oracle may get the prize!) and I bet they do it. . . .(photos may suffer from "downsizing" quite a bit. The music is great, if I'm remembering correctly most of the arrangements are by Frank Foster, who took the original "head arrangements" and tweaked them for the New Testament band. A nice choice to reissue I think! I bet Cuscuna (if as I suspect he is the reissue producer) does a smash up job. The other collection looks great too, seeming to encompass the vocal and strings albums as well. . . good stuff.

It's neat material for sure, I have the Roulette boxes by Mosaic so I have the material. . . . Never saw the two lp set, so I wonder if it will have really nice notes or not. Probably would I would guess. Other recent reissues of box sets from the past have (I'm thinking of the Jack Teagarden "King of the Blues Trombone" Columbia set that Collectors Choice reissued with original notes included).

Meaning I guess that as much as one may not want to hear about God, talk of God is all around one and it's not a "natural" situation to be completely devoid of religious sound. . . . That's how I see it at least. (I grew up surrounded by talk of God and religion).