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Hey Evan, you share birthdays with Brian Setzer and Babyface!

Very nice beginning sir!

Either: a. Someone had to do it. b. The Devil made me do it.

Lately it's been Mingus music, spawned by a listen to "Mingus Plays Piano," where his ideas are so chrystalized that it got me thinking of orchestral versions of the pieces and started the flow in my noggin!

Gosh, I haven't been warned YET. I'm slipping!

SoulStation, Duke Ellington privately recorded his birthday appearances at a club in the Northwest over a course of at least five years, and this was leased by Mercer Ellington to Laserlight for a very entertaining five cd set, "Happy Birthday Duke."

Alright! Now we know who's who we can talk about on the Political threads!

I believe she spells her name "Nicki". . . I've heard her on Johnny Frigo's DNA Exposed! on Arbors which is a nice cd. She can play!

Maybe it was, I never checked that link because I thought it was another, earlier, discography site of Wilens. I'm sorry if I've duplicated this. . . . I found this today looking for sessions recorded on SoulStation1's birthday.

You're welcome. Let me know if you ever find that one!

Hey Af, Ringo Starr's son Jason was born the same day you were!

Obviously I don't think his music sucks. It's quite unconventional, and he was a weirdo, no getting around that. But I think his fusion of world elements into his unusual style of "jazz" is really fun for me, and after years of listening I find that the chaos makes more sense, and the musical world is a great one to visit!

Finished Jazz and Modernism by Appel. Was alright. . . . Now in The Book of David by David Rosenburg. Excellent!

I voted no, for many reasons.

Hey Claude, would you accept some blues? http://www.arhoolie.com/titles/1043.shtml

http://www.loustal.nl/barney_wilen%20story.htm

Hey SS1, this was recorded on your day of birth: Jazz Meets India : Barney Wilen (ts) Manfred Schoof (tp, cor) Irene Schweitzer (p) Uli Trepte (B) Mani Neumaier (d) Diwan Montihar (sitar,vo) Keshav Sathe (tabla) Kusum Thakur (tamboura) Villingen, Germany, December 23, 1967, Saba/MPS SB-1514ST Sun Cove Yaad I'D LOVE TO HEAR IT SOMETIME!

I'm with Chuck on this one. The remastering of the early stuff sounds superb on my system!

That's pretty much the list I would draw up. I have the Classics all the way up to 1940 as well; they don't always sound the best by any means, but they're chronological and fill a lot of gaps. I actually have a few of the Masters of Jazz too for the same reasons. And I really don't think the Columbia cds sound bad, they sound pretty decent in many aspects.

My book fell apart too. Darn. But that's cool. Read it once, and knew most everything in it already!

I've got some of the square bottomed ties too, in stripes and color weaves, and I like these a lot. I've a Rooster or two, but most of mine are not Roosters. I have one old tie I really like that is a "Button Through Smoothie." You can secure it to your shirt on a button. . . very very hip! It's really skinny, and a red and black paisley type design. . . don't get to wear it much these days! (I'm 5'11+" and coming down from about 215 myself, so skinny flashy ties don't work on me these days!)

And yeah, two headed bass drums are the best. You get that springback off the drum head that helps a lot, and you get that resonance. Mine is too big really, I want one day if I go back into drumming to have a smaller diameter drum. But I don't do more than just throw a towel in the drum; I like the sound and feel as it is. I just learned to strike it more gently. . . .

Yes definitely check out pedals; they can be so very different one to the next! I have an old Camco pedal that I love and haven't really used another pedal that I like as much. The Sonor pedal that I have with my kit is much more adjustable and heavy duty, and I almost like it as much, but the Camco just feels like my foot, that's the best way to describe it, I just play the bass drum as I think, as if I were just using my foot directly; it couples to my ankle and does just what it should. Actually I bet everyone's ankle and foot and what they do with it are different, so there's probably a pedal out there for you that is just right!

I like the Tempo reissues from Jasmine; the Reece appearances are surely among the best. It's to my ears not quite the music that is on Blue Note as far as quality of writing and performance BUT quite good, rawer in a way, definitely worth hearing. Sound quality is decent. . . great for this material, which was not optimally recorded. Notes are okay, about the way that Blue Note notes are okay. . . I don't buy Blue Notes for the LINERS. -_-

I can understand that I guess. I've been buying this music since the seventies, and I've had many versions of much of the RCA set, but the RCA set sounds fantastic, has it all under one roof, and was a nice centennial tribute. Likewise, I've bought the best versions of the Brunswick, Vocalian, Okeh, Harmony, etc. material because. . . I LOVE THIS MUSIC! It has traveled with me on my jazz journey for some time, and I want it at its best. There is little else like it!