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Geez Jim, I see it now but I overlooked it before. You gotta admit, those toads (?) are really strange! I wonder what his home looke like?

Check out this Japanese collector's site. He has a unbelievable collection with great scans, like this: And this: Yokosuka Gokudo He also collects these strange dogs: Odd reptiles: Catus: And he is a audiophile: And that's not all! And some of you guys think you have a collecting jones?

More info below ( maybe too much!) ,but it seems that the same recording is on both SACD - Hybird and "Gold" disc: Unprecented in 45 years of professional career first time ever in the history of the world jazz scene, coupling Milt Jackson and Ichiro Masuda, two vibraphone giants representing U.S. and Japan each comes reality in this jazz collaboration album. Musicians: Milt Jackson, vibes Ichiro Masuda, vibes Kotaro Tsukahara, piano Katsunori Asami, bass Setsuo Sato, drums M & m Milt Jackson Plays With Ichiro Masuda Quartet GMLXR-30351 $33.00 (Shipping is FREE) Mr. Milt Jackson, the foremost vibraharpist in the world, has never played and recorded with any other vibraharpist during his long, half-century career. This "M & M" session was the oly exception. In 1990, he joined the Ichiro Masuda Quartet for his recording in Tokyo. Mr. Jackson has always been a big idol and mentor for Masuda who began playing vibraphone in 1954, and later was frequently elected the Japanese winner of the Swing Journal annual readers poll in the vibraphone category. While Masuda was performing the duet with Mr. Jackson, he was so thankful for his friendship with the great vibraphonist who had helped Masuda's long-time dream come true!

Here is another version of it: Milt Jackson w/ Ichiro Masuda Quartet On a related note: Joe Locke will have a new recording: Rev-elation! Joe Locke with the Milt Jackson Tribute Band coming out in October on Sharp Nine. A live recording ( at Ronnie Scott's) with Mike LeDonnw, Bob Cranshaw and Mickey Roker.

Lester Bowie interviewed in The Wire, July 1993 'After that last interview I've started to seriously question just what (Marsalis's) involvement with the music is. I think it's detrimental. I think there's something evil somewhere. Because it's getting out of the realm of just not knowing or of being young. This is like a deliberate effort to sabotage the development of the music. I mean, if that's the way he's talking about Miles, he must think I'm a piece of shit...' Q: You said once that you think Wynton is using the concept of the tradition to destroy the tradition 'Yeah, to destroy it. He's using a partial concept of the tradition. If you're talking about the tradition in jazz, what about the tradition of innovation, creativity, moving forward, being contemporary. Is that not part of the tradition of jazz? What about the tradition of having and maintaining an individual voice. Tradition has to be taking the music as a whole... What we were doing in the 60s was trying to be different - that's the whole idea. All the guys that taught us to be creative, so what were we going to do - come up with an imitation of them?' I miss Lester Bowie.

Goggled Dan Serro. He's in Miami and auctions & sells vinyl. Dan Serro / Kharma Records

I used to get a lot of Japanese vinyl from Dan Serro, in the 70's. I think he is still around.

This from JazzWeek and my buddy Brad Stone of KSJS in San Jose: KSJS-FM, San Jose, CA Jazz Playlist for the Week of 9-5-05 Reporting to JazzWeek Heavy Rotation: Dan Moretti & Once Through - Passing Place - 8/22 Organissmo - This Is The Place - Big "O" - 8/15 Tim Ries - The Rolling Stones Project - Concord - 8/15 Bill Mays Trio - Live At Jazz Standard - Palmetto - 8/15 Sandy Cressman - Brasil: Sempre no Coracao - Cressman - 8/1 Cadwallader, Asetta & Dixson - Quicker Than the Eye - Stanza USA - 8/1 SFJazz Collective - SFJazz Collective - Nonesuch - 7/25 Melvin Sparks - This is It! - Savant - 7/25 Dave Stryker - Big City - Guitar Sessions/Mel Bay - 7/25 Brian Lynch - 24/7 - Nagel Heyer - 7/18 Beaux J Poo Boo - All Things Are New - Summit - 7/18 Benny Lackner Trio - Not the Same - Nagel Heyer - 7/18 James Carter Organ Trio - Out of Nowhere - Half Note - 7/11

Dig the cufflinks!

Not really a photo, per se, but where else can you see a autograph of Chuck Lampkin?

Those photos are not up to date. I saw one of one of a development this week that was at least three years old.Google Earth

I never said he was wrong, just wondered in the back of my mind why someone would bother to say such a thing. I usually am the weak link on these things (though I think I do bring other things to the table like making the gig happen in the first place, writing arrangements and picking material etc, etc) and I wouldn't have it any other way. Nothing like being challenged by some of the best musicians out here. ← Yes, David...I agree this is lame. As a musician myself, I notice that there are certain people that can't wait to tell you how "bad" you are. No matter how good you are. Those that can do, and the rest bitch. ← Don't blame Mike for that comment, it came from me. It's just one man's opinion and review. I saw the band at the Rochester Festival this Summer and commented on another post here. The band is one of soloists playing older material and I enjoyed Spauldings' solos very much. I applaud David's organizational talents in getting this group together and finding work; I know it isn't easy and nothing aganist him personaly. As I said in that post of this Summer, what irked me most was Jermy Pelt's apeing of Freddie Hubbard; both his musical style and personal mannerisims, and the sound of LaRoca's cymbals in the hall. What I meant, as far as David's solo spots went, in this format of soloist following soloists ( solos following linking solos, as it were), he was the least impressive in those strings of solos on that night. No hard feelings, just a honest opinion.

Thanks for the article and information.

The local goverment is the lead agency that call for a evacuation; in this case the City, I believe. Anyone who lives in South Flordia can confim that. There is enough blame to go around here for every person in authority.

Good Luck and Good Health, David.

This was one of worst Francis Davis articles I've read. Nothing wrong with FD in general, I have his books, but this one made my skin crawl with some very uninspired writing. I expect better; I think he needs a vacation in California. The lame recording suggestions at the end was the last straw. Do you think he's looking for a producer's gig?

The Ebay seller is from South America. I'm guessing that some LPs that they see are like the old Fontana and BYG labels that were made of a thiner material.

From a Ebay seller: BILL EVANS - "FROM THE 70's" FANTASY-F9630 STEREO 12" LP - 7 tracks - 1983 ORIGINAL MADE IN USA HARDCOVER ALBUM Featuring: Bill Evans, Harold Land, Philly Joe Jones, Eddie Gomez and others. TRACKING LIST: 1. Nobody Else But Me 2. Up With The Lark 3. Quiet Now 4. Nobody Else But Me 5. Orson's Theme 6. Gloria's Step 7. Elsa Also see this site and note item #161 :Bill Evans

(CNN) -- Rock 'n' roll pioneer Fats Domino was among the thousands of New Orleans residents plucked from rising floodwaters, his daughter said Thursday. Karen Domino White, who lives in New Jersey, identified her father in a picture taken Monday night by a New Orleans Times-Picayune photographer. The photograph shows Domino -- the singer behind the 1950s hits "Ain't That a Shame" and "Blueberry Hill" -- being helped off a boat near his home in the city's Lower 9th Ward. His whereabouts since the rescue were not immediately known. Nor was there any information about his wife, Rosemary, friends said. The neighborhood was heavily flooded when a levee failed as Katrina slammed into southeastern Louisiana and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Thousands are feared dead in the storm, Louisiana's governor and the mayor of New Orleans have said, though no official tally has been compiled. White said she last heard from her father August 23, four days before the storm hit, and was unable to contact him Sunday. "I didn't have any information. I was just praying," she said. Writer Charles Amann said he last spoke to Domino on Sunday, and the singer refused to join the evacuation that was then under way. "He said to me, in that wonderful Southern accent of his, that no, he was staying on -- that he had gone through the last one and he could go through this one," said Amann, who is working on a book on the early days of the "American Bandstand" television program. Many of those evacuated from the Lower 9th Ward were taken to the Louisiana Superdome and are being transferred to the Astrodome sports stadium in Houston, Texas. Alan Warner, an EMI Music executive, also saw the photograph of Domino's rescue. But he said he did not know where the 77-year-old singer, born Antoine Domino, was taken afterward. "But the fact that he actually was rescued is just so gratifying," Warner said.

Chuck - That looks a bit like a latter Maxfield Parrish; is it? Here's mine:

This recording has a different history. The concert was a fund raiser for the charity and recorded on the fly, not intended for release. When the company heard the tapes, it was decided that it would make a good, inexpensive release and everybody was paid a very nominal fee; although I don't know about Wynton's fee. There was some negotiation needed to get the releases from the sidemen because some, rightfully so, wanted more money for the recording. They has already, don't forget, donated their time for the original concert, including Wynton. That said, it's supposed to be a nice little recording.

Noted, Mike.

A little late night Google goes a long way..... World Stage, 4344 Degnan Bl, Leimert Park, (323) 293-2451. Theworldstage.org. Fri-Sat: Bennie Maupin, 8:30. Adam Rudolph Organic Orchestra Electric Lodge, Venice CA, 8pm BENNIE MAUPIN-SARA SCHOENBECK-ANDRES RENTERIA-DAVID PHILIPSON-ALAN LIGHTNER-RALPH JONES-KAREN BAKUNIN-EMILY HAY-PABLO CALOGERO-ELLEN BURR-TREVOR WARE-GUSTAVO BULGACH-MATT ZEBLEY-HARRIS EISENSTADT–AJAYI JACKSON-MUNYUNGO JACKSON-BILL CASALE-THOMAS STONES- JEREMY DRAKE-RANDY GLOSS-CORY WRIGHT -FAWNTICE MCCAIN-JESSICA CATRON-MILES SHREWSBERY–JOHN PAUL MARAMBA-TRACY WANNOMAE-MYKA MILLER-ANDREW GRUESHOW-PAUL TCHOUNGA-ANDREW PASK-JEFF GAUTHIER-KRIS TINER-MIGUEL ATWOOD-MICHAL BIRNBRYER Invited guests include: BIG BLACK-PETER ERSKINE-MARK DRESSER-I NYOMEN WENTEN-JIHAD RACY--LENI STERN-’TOOTIE’ HEATH It seems that he and his wife are involved parents in their School Board: Bennie Maupin A recent gig: Hands On with Billy Childs, John Clayton and Tootie Heath