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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).

Original two lp set plust three additional tracks Two cd Roulette collection. Release date: August 24

I do that all the time. An atheist has to realize he's surrounded by theists!

Well, it would be interesting to see how the numbers would line up on this; I guess I'm on the side of allowing it.

That's a good point, indeed. I still remember the interview with RVG for instance. Wow!

Well, you have a point there, but that IS within the very nature of his beliefs (and he's not alone). I don't know, I just don't find this to be a problem for me but then misspelling doesn't bother me either! I'd rather we be free to express ourselves than otherwise.

Well, I think when SOME persons are SINCERELY religious, it permeates their entire life. For them NOT to "utter religion" from time to time in their discourse is unnatural. That's how I see it. It doesn't bother me in this light. It's easy to sidestep and as long as it's respectful and not pushy I don't mind; I do like the freedom that is allowed.

Darn! John A. came up in a search for "***** Testa" so I was sure I had our man!