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I always thought she was the coolest!

It's 1966 All Over Again!

Radioactive Man! Klaw! The Melter!

Not exactly Halle Berry

CRACKS ME UP!

How about the Burrell session "Bluesy Burrell" And it's not got congas but Coleman Hawkins "Night Hawk" seems to fit.

Ellington and Strayhorn, and Ellington/Strayhorn.

I don't know Berigan, I can only speak for myself, but Paul has always made me quasinauseous. Never liked his singing, never liked his looks or mannerism. One of my friends calls him "the ultimate momma's boy"---not sure why, he doesn't articulate why to me, but that seems to fit somehow. Anyway, he's a major reason I just have heard way too much of the beatles (I mean I'm of the age that would have had their fill of Beatles over the airwaves and at parties etc.) and don't want to hear them any longer. I like John and Ringo and George okay but Paul. . . yech.

I'm rereading a book that has a personal history with me, "Roots of War" by Richard J. Barnet. Not an easy read, but a very eye-opening book about our society and the beurocratic homicide we have been inflicting around the world throughout the last century (and now into this one). Reading this book during the height of the Bush senior years really propped my lids up and they've never been relaxed since, as little has changed. I felt a need to reread this now that we're openly at war again and sure enough, this has plenty to say that is pertinent right now. I've found seven other of his books cheap and they're on the way.

Yes, great set. There's been a few threads of discussion about this. Here's one: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...&hl=brubeck+box

Not something I like to do. Last time I really got shitfaced was probably new year's eve, 1978/1979. Was at a party, tried to keep up with the host drinking Jack, couldn't do, it and was told the next day that three babes (the secretary at the factory I was working at--one of the most beautiful redheads I've ever met--and two of her friends) gave me a ride home and put me to bed. . . . I swore I would never lose control like that again, because I wanted to remember this sort of thing, and over the following two decades I've reduced my drinking to practically nil.

"A Pops in every pot!"

Wow. I'm so glad we had him around so long, wished for longer, but godspeed and we'll miss ya!

Yes, my name is Lon Armstrong and I acquire music faster than I can listen to it. Now pardon me, I'm going to continue. . .

NO IMPORTANCE WHATSOEVER AS FAR AS JAZZ INNOVATION? Not in my universe!

I didn't vote. Pops was ONE PERSON, ONE MUSICAL GENIUS MIND. That whole entity will always have my vote!

I have fourteen volumes on King Jazz of all his "and Rhythm" recordings and love them. (And that's not all there is because they deleted the organ sides because they didn't like the way he played organ, and they didn't include the solo sides on Victor or the sides with Bushnell and Jabbo, and. . . !) I like quite a bit of the transcription and live recordings as well, and sideman appearances, and . . . well . . . eventually I have to have it ALL.

Yes, apparently Purdie has claimed he played on 21 Beatles tracks, and also tracks by the Monkees and the Animals. He's also claimed "Ringo didn't ever play on any of the shit, not in the early days". . . . The established wisdom seems to be that he overdubbed some drums on Tony Sheridan tracks. . . but I'm far from an expert (or very interested).