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While there are definitely some fine BN live recordings, I don't think BN was particularly known for their live output in general. Maybe RVG preferred the studio atmosphere?

Interesting critique. I have vague recollections of that show and have always thought I would like to see it again.

Finally getting around to watching this - "dry humour" is right! Seen about 4-5 episodes now. Very much a typical Chris Guest production, but with a little more edge - almost a Ricky Gervais-like awkwardness.

Hope you had a GREAT one Barak!

Yes, sad news indeed. I guess that means we'll never get to hear those Horo albums reissued on CD. Or.........maybe it means we WILL.

Not jazz, but the Roxie Theater is screening "Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me", a doc about the band for that whole week. Otherwise I don't have anything on my calendar then. Looks like a pretty weak week. Unfortunately, Yoshi's has scaled it's jazz bookings WAY back over the past couple of years.

With his trio or solo? Either way, I'm sure he was great.

Might have gone OOP 6-7 years ago. "We" discussed it in 2007.

I got mine just before it went OOP from a friend who works for Sony Pictures. He was able to get it for me internally for around $90+. Glad I did ...

Would love to see them release Coryell's "Barefoot Boy"

Sounds promising.

... but 32 Jazz was know for their awful covers. Great music, though! Original:

Saturday: James McMurtry

I think I have all of the LPs up through Berliner Jazztage, and none of the ones after that. Look forward to getting this someday.

Peter Gunn: The Complete Series - $38.49

I've heard that, too, Val. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

I keep thinking that's the same cancer that got the Doors' Ray Manzarek recently. Let's hope this is a different situation.

I may need to get that. The clips sound great! Who knows if/when this stuff will ever be available again.

Maybe someone can contact BN and convince them to revive the BNBB. BTW, if it's not too late, all you newbies should contribute to Alfredson's Kickstarter campaign to fund a Big John Patton tribute album. Maybe it will be enough to put him over the top!

A couple tunes from Ray's short-lived band Nite City.

Agree to all of the above. Nice remembrance here: STATEMENTS FROM MEMBERS OF X ON THE PASSING OF RAY MANZAREK (Los Angeles) It is with sad and heavy hearts that the members of the seminal punk rock band, X, pay tribute to their friend and mentor, Ray Manzarek. Ray Manzarek is an intrical part of X’s history. The band’s debut album, Los Angeles was released on April 26, 1980 and produced by Ray. The album includes a cover of the 1967 Doors song "Soul Kitchen" and was the bands most successful release. It ranked # 16 for the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop Critics Poll. Subsequently in 1989, it was ranked number 24 on Rolling Stone's list of 100 best albums of the 80s and Pitchfork ranked it 91st on their top 100 albums of the 1980s. The title track is included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll and again in 2003, the album was ranked number 286 on the Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Ray went on to produce the next three studio albums for the band, Wild Gift in 1981 (also on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 greatest albums of all time at #334), Under the Big Black Sun in 1982 and 1983’s More Fun in the New World. In late 2010, X celebrated the 30th Anniversary of Los Angeles by playing the entire album, start to finish. Ray joined the band during their two shows in San Francisco, just after Christmas. In August of 2012, Ray again joined the band for the entire show at the famed Roxy Theatre during the Sunset Strip Music Festival, playing Los Angeles in its entirety. In 2013, Rhino released The Doors/X Side by Side: Soul Kitchen, a split white vinyl 7". Ray led by example, from The Doors to Carmine Burana and beyond. He is and will always be a spirit being, adept at expanding perception. And once those doors of perception are opened, they never close. He taught me that we are the keys, that we can unlock all doors, everywhere, to create magic, to transform ourselves and power the world, through joy and love and imagination and art and, above all through music. - Exene Ray was a mentor to X in our early days and a something of a father figure to Exene & me. He was brilliant & soulful. If Bob Dylan brought poetry & folk to popular music; Ray & the Doors brought the blues & poetry to rock music. The Doors are rock royalty. It has been a privilege & honor to call Ray a friend and share the stage w/ him. -John Doe Ray always believed in us. We’ll miss him. My heart goes out to Dorothy and Pablo. -Billy Zoom I am so sorry to hear about Ray’s passing. Not only was he an integral part of X’s history, he was a smart, funny, and kind friend. I will miss him. - DJ Bonebrake Thanks for sharing this! Sure - no prob! FYI, "Other Voices" and "Full Circle" are available on eMusic from Rhino/Elektra. Haven't looked for the CDs, but they must be out there.