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For raw, hard swingin' emotional playin' I like the Charles Tolliver LPs "Live At Slugs" vol 1 & 2 on Strata East.. Stanley Cowell-piano, Cecil McBee-bass, & Jimmy Hopps-drums swing with great passion on these sides! Jimmy Hopps kind of reminds me of Chicago drummer Wilbur Campbell. ← FYI randissimo, those albums are on disk #1 of the Mosaic set in addition to some unreleased tracks from the same dates on disk #3.

Anyone ever say you have too much money? ← Well...........it was my girlfriend's idea. Anyway, that was last night. I would say that they were 1/2 good. They definitely are bumping up against John Tesh territory on some of their songs. Some of the early tunes from their classic period (60s/70s) still hold up, though. Mercifully, they only played a couple "new" tunes which were not very good. I was amazed at the enthusiasm of the crown, though. They definitely have a STRONG following and got 'standing Os' after almost every song.

Don't forget "Grand Max" (which isn't on here, unless I'm mistaken). ← Nope........not mistaken.

Don't tell anyone, but I'm going to see the Moody Blues tonight.

Here are 3 CDs worth of trumpet w/trio. Also: Hal Galper "Now Hear This" w/Cecil McBee, Tony Williams and Terumasa Hino.

Sonny Rollins Ed Rollins Henry Rollins

Wayne Shorter - "Etcetera" Jethro Tull - "Live at the Isle of Wight"

Paris Hilton Julie London Morey Amsterdam

Uta Lemper Uma Thurman Oprah Winfrey

Gary Pettis Tom Pettit Andy Pettitte

I have vinyl of "The Rajah" and the credits are correct - Billy Higgings (d) & Paul Chambers (b).

Harold plays regularly with George Coleman and is on a number of his albums, too. And let's not forget his incendiary piano on Lee Morgan's "Live at the Lighthouse" set.

Chris Mullen Don Pullen Victor Wooten

O-Lan Shepard Sam Shepard Sam Sheppard

Most of his films are character studies rather than plot-driven vehicles. I don't think he's making statements about the human condition or the fate of man, here. You could call that "style over substance" I suppose, but that would be independant of the quality of the films.

Harold Budd Budd Johnson Buddy Guy

Tolliver - disk #1 (just arrived today )

I compeletely disagree. But if that's the way you feel, go nuts. Your loss.

AFTER Christmas??

Atlee Hammaker Willie Shoemaker Dusty Baker

I have a real exciting album from the 70's by Hal Galper on Enja called "Now Hear This". It's a quartet album with Galper on piano, Hino - trumpet, Cecil McBee - bass and Tony Williams - drums. If anything, it sounds like a high energy McCoy Tyner album. If you can find it, get it. I don't know its availability, though.

Robert Bork Anita Hill Arlen Spector

I saw "Broken Flowers". While I don't think it's necessarily one of his best, it's still miles ahead of most of the junk that gets released to the theaters every week.

My Select arrived today. Can't wait to get home and listen to it tonight.

I've been wondering about that myself. Couldn't figure out if it was because a lot of that music has been released since they went OOP, or what.