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Seems they just announced Woody Shaw: The Complete Muse Sessions (#255). I'm all over that one! Much more interesting than the Columbia material, IMO.

Wow. I'm pretty familiar with about 1/2 of those sessions. I had no idea there was 7 CDs worth of Muse material. MUCH better than the Columbia stuff, IMO. I would be VERY tempted to pick this one up.

Good story! Especially since I thought someone mentioned a while back that Mosaic had outsourced it's shipping dept.

Interesting show. Not exactly what I was expecting - not that I knew what to expect. Basically a reading of an article for Scanlan's in the early 70's - considered the first instance of "gonzo" journalism. Tim Robbins did a credible HST 'voice,' with Brad Hall as an occasional Ralph Steadman and Hall Willner & Chloe Webb filling in some other parts. The music was mostly incidental/background to the performance (very tasteful, though) and Frisell did NOT perform at all. He 'conducted' the band and was the composer.

You gotta be kidding me! Not AGAIN??!!??? Well.................happy birthday, anyway.

Frisell's multi-media "Kentucky Derby" by Hunter S. Thompson, produced by Hal Willner w/Tim Robbins & Chloe Webb........tomorrow.

Excellent show tonight! Much better than I was expecting. He did most of the tunes from his new album and a handful from the Smiths. "Muscular" might be a good description, but without being "macho". It definitely rocked. For the last 2 tunes of the encore ("I Fought the Law" and "How Soon is Now?") he brought out an old childhood friend, Billy Duffy from the Cult. Said as long as they've known each other, they had never actually played together before tonight. I was wondering how much Smiths stuff he'd perform. I don't know much about Marr's solo work -I assume that's him singing as well? I've always dug The Cult too, cool that Duffy played. Yes, Ërik, he does ALL the singing, actually. There are a some pretty good videos from that show on YouTube, including the encore stuff. setlist: 1. "The Right Thing Right" 2. "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before" 3. "Upstarts" 4. "Sun and Moon" 5. "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" 6. "European Me" 7. "London" 8. "Generate! Generate!" 9. "Say Demesne" 10. "Bigmouth Strikes Again" 11. "Word Starts Attack" 12. "New Town Velocity" 13. "I Want the Heartbeat" Encore: 14. "Getting Away With It" 15. "I Fought the Law" 16. "How Soon Is Now?"

Excellent show tonight! Much better than I was expecting. He did most of the tunes from his new album and a handful from the Smiths. "Muscular" might be a good description, but without being "macho". It definitely rocked. For the last 2 tunes of the encore ("I Fought the Law" and "How Soon is Now?") he brought out an old childhood friend, Billy Duffy from the Cult. Said as long as they've known each other, they had never actually played together before tonight.

Tonight: Johnny Marr at the Fillmore.

Seeing Johnny Marr in about a week.

But he still owns Mellow Johnny's Bike Shop in Austin - who else would still have large Lance photos along the walls? Also used as a venue for KEXP live broadcasts during SXSW.

George Lewis - Homage To Charles Parker $1.78 on Amazon

Will try to check them out next time they come around.

LOVE to see a Magic Triangle box which would have to include "Night of the Mark VII" Agreed on Hill's "Shades", too.

My friend caught them at SXSW a couple of weeks ago. Said they were great!

Sorry, my bad.

Saw the SF Jazz Collective last night. They're recording their new album celebrating the music of Chick Corea. Good show - they're never "not" entertaining (I know......double negative there). Some of the pieces included: Spain, La Fiesta, Matrix, and Space Circus (with Robin Eubanks using some crazy effects pedals in his trombone solo).

Get it together, Dolan.............I know you can!

I've seen him as a 'leader' a few times live and have been somewhat disappointed. Maybe the wrong night or something? The music just seemed to meander. Yet, in the 80's I saw him as a sideman with Marianne Faithfull and he was amazing. Having said all that, I have tickets to see him at SFJazz next month in this context. Should be VERY interesting! Bill Frisell presents Hunter S. Thompson’s The Kentucky Derby Bill Frisell conductor Hal Willner producer, voice Tim Robbins voice Chloe Webb director, voice Jenny Scheinman violin Eyvind Kang viola Hank Roberts cello Doug Weiselman woodwinds Ron Miles trumpet Curtis Fowlkes trombone Kenny Wollesen drums, percussion

Tomorrow night at the Bottom of the Hill club - very small venue. #BOTH (Aimee Mann and Ted Leo) My friend is a big Aimee Mann fan, so we're going to check this out.

You know that many of the tracks are the original jams that the final album was assembled from, right? And also that the final mixes are included on disk 5.

Donald Byrd at the Half Note is pretty great. Then there's the Tolliver at Slugs (if you agree to call that a "classic" band) I'd like to toss in Lee at the Lighthouse, but I wouldn't call that lineup one of his "classics" (no knock on that band, of course!)

NPR: Bryan Ferry: A Forward-Looking Musician Turns To The Past

Interesting. I hadn't heard about this. They have been experiencing some serious technical problems for the past few days (at least). Typically, they are very slow to fix, too.

I guess I have to go to Target!