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I happened to be in NYC earlier this year when the Spring show was happening. It was a lot of fun. I even found a coupon for cheap admission in one of the local freebie newspapers. Had a good celebrity sighting, too - Lenny Kaye.

I've still got the vinyl. I should put it on this weekend. I always liked it much better than their later stuff, actually. A little more raw intensity.

A great tune, BTW. Not totally unlike "Stolen Moments". Also shows up on Booker Ervin's "Heavy!!!"

Received from BMG today:

The only trouble I have with the notes is that they are so convoluted that you have to look in 3 places to find out what tune you are listening to and what album it comes from.

The Yardbirds "BBC Sessions" on Warner Archives is a pretty good set. It's all Beck or Page stuff, though. No Clapton, if that's what your looking for.

That IS a nice album. Herb Geller - "Rhyme & Reason": a very interesting semi-electric album, featuring the vocals of Mark Murphy like you've never heard him before. Cecil McBee Sextet - "Compassion": with Chico Freeman, Joe Gardner, Dennis Moorman, Steve McCall & Don Moye. Worth it for the side-long title cut alone! Probably never been issued on CD. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - "Gypsy Folk Tales": the Bobby Watson/David Schnitter/Valeri Ponomarev edition. This semi-obscure album on Roulette(!) is really smokin' and a tight-as-hell front line.

Probably the RVGs, but I'm sure not gonna buy all of those ... AGAIN. I'll have to "suffer" with the box for now.

Just got "Sixth Sense" from BMG, so I've been listening to that one.

I'll give a second to this one!

I just got this album. I can't believe that I not only didn't have it before, but I've never even heard it before! It's fantastic! Right up there with "Free For All" (as many have already mentioned). from me. B-) PS - What everyone else said about the Impulse album (and "A La Mode"), too.

Apparently Ed didn't like the Horace Silver set. To each his own. I agree that the lyrics are dated, and maybe since I've been familiar with this music since the 70's, they don't bother me. I still feel that this stuff is a lot of fun - maybe not the most advanced technically - but very enjoyable. FWIW, I haven't heard the new remasters, so I can't comment on the technical side of this. The LPs sounded fine to me.

Just received from BMG: Freddie Hubbard - "Ready for Freddie" & "Hub Cap" (RVGs) Lee Morgan - "The Sixth Sense" (RVG) Art Blakey - "Indestructable" (RVG) Chick Corea - "Light as a Feather" (although I thought I was getting the 2CD version) Jefferson Airplane - "Volunteers" (remastered)

Pretty amazed that it's still unissued on CD at this point, myself. Also, Maynard's "Live at Jimmy's - MF Horn 4 & 5" - where's THAT?

I don't know what's happened while the site was down, but it seems lightening fast now! B-)

Just ordered "Great Concert of Charles Mingus" and "Newks Time" < $20!

I'll second that one. "Now Hear This" is the name. Also Harold Mabern - "Straight Street" is pretty smokin'. And one more "second" for McCoy's "Supertrios"

Dizzy for president! - John Fordham Wednesday October 20 2004 The Guardian American politics could have turned out very differently if a little-known presidential campaign of the mid-1960s had been able to vault the millionaires-only hurdle. Duke Ellington could have been secretary of state, Max Roach could have been running the military, and the CIA might have been under the thumb of that master of subterfuge, Miles Davis himself. The presidential candidate offering these irresistible alternatives was the trumpeter and bebop pioneer John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, who declared himself a runner in 1964, up against Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater. As well as a potential cabinet of jazz all-stars, Gillespie's ticket advocated US withdrawal from Vietnam, putting African-American astronauts into space, and renaming the White House the Blues House. The short-lived Gillespie presidential run is being celebrated from now until voting day 2004 at the Soho Theatre in London, in American actor Jake Broder's Vote Dizzy! Broder is better known for his devotion to the late satirist, surrealist and all-round subversive Richard "Lord" Buckley, whose influence has been audible in artists from Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor to Robin Williams and Captain Beefheart. Though Broder's Lord Buckley show provides much of the fuel for Vote Dizzy!, the impetus of the 2004 election has turned it into a hybrid of Buckley material and Gillespie campaign-trail anecdote, with live jazz, spoof political conventions and John Hendricks's original Vote Dizzy! election song (performed by vocalist David Tughan) thrown in. Gillespie got his nickname from his habit of taking a joke a long way, but he never meant the presidential gag to get as far as it did. In 1963 he had marketed "Dizzy for President" badges to raise money for Core (Congress for Racial Equality), and a variety of civil rights projects under Dr Martin Luther King's direction. But his fans were so keen on the idea, he decided to run with it. Shortage of cash forced Gillespie out of the race long before polling day, but not before fans had had a chance to preach their favourite gospel - that if the world's leaders understood the open, collectively motivated, border-crossing language of jazz, nobody would be rich, but nobody would mind and the world might be safer and saner. "When you dig under the surface of most comedy," Broder says, "you often find anger and fury. But not with Lord Buckley and not with Dizzy. Dig into there and you just find love. They were tilting at windmills, but aren't we all?"

Thursday, Saturday & Sunday (10/21,23 & 24) is the new 2-hour special on BBC America. The Office BE THERE!

Strangely enought, "Social Studies" and "European Tour (1977)" are the only 2 Carla Bley albums I have (and they're on vinyl). I really haven't listened to them much, although I've had them for MANY years. Maybe it's time ...

FWIW - If you have friends who work for Sony - in any capacity - you should be able to have them pick up the set for you. I was lucky enough to get mine that way for less than $80.

I agree, Lon, about the Antibes set. That one is really special and must have been a jaw-dropping performance to see live.

I was making the same point earlier as Moose & Dan. I'm not discounting Chris' message or his concern, but I would like to hear from another source before jumping to conclusions about the state of Max's living situation.

Do we know that he is "confined" to a small room? My mother has total freedom to go anywhere she wants, whenever she wants. She just resides in the small room. Yet the reason she lives there is that she does have 24/7 care and frequently needs it.

Any indication that he is being "mistreated"? My mother is in a nursing facility with some amount of dimentia. She shares a room with another resident. There is a TV, but she doesn't express any interest in watching. This condition causes confusion and disorientation, so it's best to try and make their lives as simple and uncluttered as possible. In fact, when things become confusing it tends to cause irritation. I've seen that in others in the facility with Alzheimer's. What I'm trying to say is that we should find out more about his situation besides being in a "small room".