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Good call Maren, we daren't forget her. Mary Lou too.

Well interestingly, the Alice cd is now scheduled for 9/14 on the Verve site release schedule, and there is no scheduled date shown for the Half Note!

Some discussion (and quite a bit of speculation that has a good chance of accuracy) here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...t+the+half+note

Ya think someone's family is getting some money?

I ordered the new Mingus on Verve today (The Great Concert), and the three Ellington cds that will be coming out next week (Blues in Orbit, Piano in the Foreground, Piano in the Background). All pretty cheap from cduniverse!

Prestige leased it from a label that is now part of the Universal umbrella is my guess. This is one of the best of the 1964 European tour concerts, and it is in really good sound overall so this reissue should sound fantastic. . . . I love this tour for the performances of the entire group: Coles was great til he took ill, Dolphy and Jordan were individually and collectively great, Byard was really ON IT the whole time, Mingus was in charge and HAPPY, Danny was the backbone as always.

Previous thread on this: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...+charles+mingus

Yes, it was out on Musique Disc France two cd set earlier than the digipak, without the newly issued material and with a track with Coles NOT from the concert originally I believe. CDUniverse has this item for 14 dollars! I just ordered a copy and preordered the three Duke Ellingtons coming out next week!

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.