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You're right Claude. Not having heard or cared to hear much Zappa since the eighties I'm not a good source of specifics!

Underground, that is a fair assumption.

Analog, Columbia has plans to release six cds of the Cellar Door material, the cds are all sequenced and mixed and ready to print. I don't think they would be happy about this! I'm not pointing fingers really because my hands aren't clean, but the Miles Davis estate has been blocking the sales of all kinds of bootleg cds of Miles material, they would not be happy with this site even if Columbia weren't about to launch cd sales of the material sometime in the next year. Frank Zappa had actually issued an entire series of cds called I think "Ban the Boots"---bootlegs done officially in a special series. I don't know what the sales figures were, but it was done (I'm not much of a Zappa fan so I didn't follow the material closely). I don't think their estate will like this website much either.

They are all likely good. Combille was a French tenor player, some of these may have Django in the band, interesting stuff. Tolbert was a great player; I have the OTHER Classics under his name and some of this material on an lp issue. . . sort of hot novelty small group/medium group swing. Maxine could SING. Johnny Guarneri and Billy Kyle were great pianists: the former famous for his work with Benny Goodman and in Basie member small bands, the latter best known for his work with John Kirby and Louis Armstrong. The Spirits of Rythm were a great tipple/guitar/vocals novelty swing band. . . Teddy Bunn and Leo Watson were the stars. . . . Lucky Millinder was a swing then r and b band; Dizzy had a stretch with them. Nice batch.

Of course then at the end more accessible forms resurface. But it's still got plenty of wack.

I would think that the Miles Davis estate and Columbia Records wouldn't be too happy. . . .

I don't think so.

They might. That would make a better news story than the continually sinking economy, the biggest deficit ever, more American deaths in Iraq . . . .

Moose, "My Name Is. . . " IS accessible. Go much further forward from there. . . WHOA!

Hey, I can hear you telling me Ornette before Ornette and not back away. There's a lot to that. I'm going to have to revisit some of the really late Bird because the last times I was listening to it I was hearing some Ornettish things a birthing. It could have just been me, but . . . I thought of Ornette.

It makes a good story though! And THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT! The hokey pokey is the thing these days with the media.

It certainly IS different. Do you think Diz had a big hand here? Just wondering. I've no deep insight to offer. Diz was there in the studio and. . . well. . . I had to come up with SOMETHING to say.

Art Blakey 1960 set. It opened me up to financial ruin. . . .

Louis Prima/Wingy Manone.

Maybe if I tilt my head, JUST SO. . . .

Believe me, I would. And I believe you on the effect!

W, I agree with Larry one hundred percent here. Van De Leur's book is a painstakingly researched labor of love, and very revealing.

I've got that Dragon Messengers cd too. It's great!

I'll agree, I have only about five of her recordings, and I love her playing. The Maybreck Recital cd is one of my favorite in the series. As I am collecting Geri Allen and Renee Rosnes at the moment, I'll probably begin collecting Jessica too as funds allow. . . . All three of these women are players that are really amazing me.

I've definitely read it. I've even read a screenplay adapted from the biography, which would make a very interesting movie and probably will never be made. Strays was an amazing individual!

Received this reply back from my inquiring email: "Hi, yes, the Beatles CD will be released next month; e-mail Kevin Berg for date info. kberg@atl.jvcdiscusa.com Please let us know the release date..If we find out, we will e-mail you. Thanks It's a start. Allan for Helen Merrill" Yes, it's a start. I actually knew that was coming out. Not the title I'D HAVE started with. Release date appears to be March 16.

Yes, you can say it sucks badly all you want to. B) I actually sold a duplicate copy I picked up. In my estimation all that sucks is the remastering!

I believe that I have an early version of this, with a different cover, and I love it! This and a companion or two are some of the best of the most recent Shepps I've heard.

There's a lot of scholarship out there. One can spend years and years reading and evaluating if you choose and have the drive and the interest. I've done so, and I don't necessarily recommend it. . .

W, I have read many such books. I spent a good decade of my private life reading about the origins of Christianity, and about mystery religions, Judaism, the fascinating religious beliefs of Egypt, gnosticism, various Christian heresies such as Marcianism and Manichean religious belief, etc.