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Please don't get me wrong - it's more a curiosity than a great record. But there's a great spirit of experimentation about it, and a great spirit of detente among some heavy drummers. The fact that they were trying to figure out whether it would work, rather than trying to make a "great record," gives it a looseness I find appealing.

I like Drums Around The Corner. I think it's very different from Orgy In Rhythm; it's more a hard bop album with a lot of drumming. Lee Morgan backed by 3 drummers and a percussionist - what could be bad?

There's something about these albums that seem "of their time"...a stereotypical notion of what "African" drum performances are like. Lots of echo, lots of singing in tandem... more like they should appear on Folkways than on BN. It's especially funny because I think Blakey admitted he'd never been to Africa. To be fair, I'm basing my views on Orgy In Rhythm, because I don't have the others. I'm told they're all very similar, though. It's interesting how different the Solomon Ilori albums are.

Do you realize how politically incorrect both of these stamps would now be considered to be by the intelligencia? Dead white males! And Columbus!?!...topple that statue!

I still buy commemoratives when I go to the post office, and use them when I mail bills, etc. It’s just a fun thing to do. They still issue stamps with musical figures. Just bought a sheet of Marvin Gaye stamps; in the past year, I’ve bought ones of Sarah Vaughan and John Lennon.

https://nypost.com/2019/05/22/over-the-rainbow-composer-sues-apple-google-and-amazon/

Happy birthday, Chuck!

Received my boxes today, in fine condition. Thanks!

Horrible story! I've made another donation.

This page has some additional photos from the book.

Listening now to McCoy Tyner Live At Newport. Cranshaw is great on this.

Do we know this? The original GFM post only says "Following his 85th birthday concert at Royce Hall, he suffered an accident..." It might have happened a few weeks later, at a totally different location.

You didn't get the email with the attached 2 hours of outtakes from Blue Lights???

I was referring to the cover shot, which is in the link.

Yeah, this really looks interesting, especially the photos taken outside the studio environment.

Glad it’s all legit. Glad I donated. Growing old is hard.

Agreed. I was thinking of placing an order with CDJapan, but put that money to better use here. (Besides, I already own the Dodo Greene!)

Another weird thing: no public statement from Kenny about this.

At one point, Sonny was selling downloads on his website (sonnyrollins.com). I nabbed that download of "Lover." I don't remember him offering the other 2 tunes.

Dodo is like Gloria Lynne (maybe not so over the top, but in that general style). She would have been at home on the Ed Sullivan Show. Hardly jazz, even with the stellar accompanists. How are those two Blakey Holiday for Skins albums? Are they similar to his other drum-focused albums (Orgy in Rhythm, Drums Around The Corner, Drum Suite)? I kinda liked DATC, never cared for Orgy, haven't heard Drum Suite. Oh yeah, The African Beat too; never heard that one either.

I always thought he was an anti-semite. I won't miss him.

That's good to know. I shall donate.

Can anyone ask Jimmy Eigo where he got the info? Similar discussion on another Web page: https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/kenny-burrell-facing-serious-health-challenges.2045193/

Before I posted, I did a cursory Web search, and was surprised at how little personal information I could find about KB. No mention of his wife's name or where he currently lives. It does seem that his 85th birthday concert was his last one to date, but I couldn't find a mention of a subsequent accident. The rest of the GFM story...I dunno, but I'd think that someone who's the director of UCLA's Jazz Studies program wouldn't be in such dire straits. This, however, surprised me: https://news.allaboutjazz.com/david-burrell-son-of-kenny-burrell-dead-at-49.php

No mention of this on Kenny's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Kenny-Burrell-109029095795560/