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June 25: Johnny Smith, guitar, 1922 Joe Chambers, drums, 1942

I have the transcriptions here: Amazon

June 24: Manny Albam, composer, arranger, 1922 Marvin "Smitty" Smith, drums, 1961

My favorite Hendrix are the first album, Band of Gypsies, and Woodstock. Also 2 obscure singles: Stepping Stone (not the version that appeared on War Heroes) and The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam's Dice.

I have it on a Fresh Sound CD: One side Rollins, one side Thad. And then some (but not all) of the Thad tracks are on this CD, along with others from the same session: Very confusing. Does anyone know why Rollins only recorded 3 tracks? Was it originally a 10"?

June 23: Milt Hinton, bass, 1910 George Russell, composer, arranger, 1923

June 22: Ben Pollack, drums, bandleader, 1903 Irving Randolph, trumpet, 1909 Ray Mantilla, percussion, 1934

Kevin, I think you're good, other than the Albert Ammons & Meade Lux Lewis; that's a good 'un.

June 21: Lalo Schifrin, piano, composer, 1932 Jamil Nasser, bass, 1932

June 20: Eric Dolphy, alto sax, bass clarinet, flute, 1928 Dennis Budimir, guitar, 1938

June 19: Joe Thomas, tenor sax, 1909 Dave Lambert, singer, 1917

Cecil Taylor's "2 Ts for a Lovely T" just hit, if you have a spare 120 credits... Cecil Taylor - eMusic

June 18: Bennie Payne, piano, 1907 Ray McKinley, drums, bandleader, 1910

There is an Arabic expression that David Berntson picked up on his recent tour of the Gulf States: Insh'allah, "if God wills it." The blues musician from Tulsa, Okla., found himself making use of it frequently in the run-up to a concert at the King Fahd cultural center in Riyadh last April. Public concerts are virtually unknown in Saudi Arabia—let alone performances for mixed audiences of men and women—and here was the Little Joe McLerran Quartet, an American band specializing in an upbeat and highly danceable form of the blues, on a tour sponsored by the U.S. State Department. Up to the last minute, the musicians were told there was a 90% chance the performance would be banned. "On the day, they called and said the show will go on," Mr. Berntson, the group's harmonica player, recalls. "The audience was supposed to be segregated, but they mingled toward the end. Because of the bright lights we couldn't see them, but we were told some of them even got up and danced." Mr. Berntson says the significance of the event struck him only later. "Afterwards, when we were up in Oman, some diplomats said we accomplished more in a week than they have in years." Continued here: WSJ

June 17: Tony Scott, clarinet, 1921 Chuck Rainey, bass, 1940

June 16: Lucky Thompson, tenor sax, 1924 Tom Harrell, trumpet, 1946

June 15: Jaki Byard, piano, 1920 Erroll Garner, piano, 1921

What did it look like? Was it just a PDF of the cover + liners? Was it formatted for printing & inserting in a jewel case?

Also on June 14: John Simmons, bass, 1918 Burton Greene, piano, 1937

Mine too. Probably a printing oversight. I wrote them in by hand.

So the Moto Grosso Feio thread got me curious about which Wayne Shorter downloads are out there, and was browsing Amazon. I noticed that The Soothsayer download comes with a digital booklet. Very interesting development; I wonder whether Blue Note will roll this out more broadly. The Soothsayer download - Amazon

I've never heard a blip when I've joined files using Amadeus Pro.

Not in the US, AFAIK. Tasty date: 3 tracks as a trio (Ron Carter, Ben Riley), the other 3 with Kenny Burrell added.

I have a Mac, and use a program called Amadeus Pro. It can handle FLAC files, and there's an option called Join Files. It will join whichever files you want into one file, and you could then convert that file into .mp3 (and then burn to disc...it will also convert the FLAC file into AIFF). I agree that the classical companies should be doing the work and not you, but nonetheless it would seem to be a solution.

June 13: Doc Cheatham, trumpet, 1905 Phil Bodner, sax, 1919