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Yes Chuck, I have "The Ballad Artistry of Buddy Tate" on Sackville also. Very nice!

On Tain's Bar Talk, Branford and Brecker have a good toss.

Whatever. MG made a statement that was in fact not true, and I pointed that out. Guy Decca was a major label, along with Victor and MG is also correct about the history of Columbia Records. This is a very well written book: The Label: The Story of Columbia Records by Gary Marmorstein George Avakian was charged with starting a jazz division after Paley bought Columbia and Avakian showed his promise with a reissue program. It was his ( GA's) forsight to sign up Miles and Brubeck. Wouldn't you?

That's Pee Wee Ellis and Ron Carter in a social club called the Pythod Room ( Knights of Pythias & Odd Fellows ), in Rochester, N.Y., in 1958. The demise of social clubs like these, and their communities that were destroyed and cut up by Urban Renewal, is a factor in the loss of jazz roots in the black reighborhoods. IMHO The race riots in the 60's didn't help either:

I have that one Dan, but I can't recommend it.

Happy Birthday, pal!

Barry Harris Plays Tadd Dameron - Xanadu (1975) is very good despite Gene Taylor's awkwardness. I like this one a lot:

You have to resize the photo. Do you have a photo program like photoshop or iphoto?

What Jack said. No argument here. I fourth that!

I've witnessed a few scenes that like before. It always makes that deadful ceremony a lot more entertaining! One thing you have to say about Chris, he puts his money where his mouth is! So to speak.

The pleasure of a Catholic education!

Same here Jack, Happy Birthday!

Yup, and it was reissued on cd at one time also.

Happy Birthday!

While I'm at it, this one is a favorite, but hard to find:

Jazz Kat: It's on Ebay now: FIRM ROOTS LP

There was a recording on Muse called Firm Roots, which was recorded live in Rochester, NY, in April 1974. Cedar, Sam, Jones & Louis Hayes. He played there for three weeks ( I was there a lot ). The music is great but the fender sound is a little off. I was there one noght when Herbie was in town and he and Cedar both played for a hour or so. There is another tri recording called Firm Roots, but it's not the same. While you're at it you should get the Clfford Jordan Firm Roots on Steeplechase. Great Fuck'n Record! No Fender though.

He wants to concentrate on his singing. Nothing wrong with him. He looks great! Here he is with Jay Leonhart in 2005:

What, you don't know? Take as much speed as you can handle, stay up for a couple or three days, eat lots of sugar and then when you have you vitals taken, it will seem that you are on the verge of having a stroke. And you may be! Hell, throw a little acid in the mix to really make you unstable, if you can handle it. Now at one piont in the war, that would work. Later when they needed more cannon fodder, you had to be a little more creative. Maybe you do all of that and tell them that not only you are gay, but you would love to learn all you could about weapons so you could kill all of the straight people you could find when you get back. Once in Toronto, I walked into the El Macombo when the Amboy Dukes were playing there. There must have only been twenty people in the house and Nugent did this little act of playing one loud feedbacked note while he fell face forward on the stage. He must have done that five times.

Grady Tate has been making recording of his singing talents ever since that one came out. His new one is very good: I spoke with him last year and he's not playing drums anymore. At least not much.

I have this one but the lp I have is unlistenable for several reasons. It's poorly recorded and mixed. Balances are off. Phil plays a electrified alto with a wah-wah sometimes, which is OK by me but the sound they got is horrible. Even the acoustic numbers (piano, bass and alto) have a mushy sound, but it seems that Woods always plays through some kind of shitty pickup. There's a horrible, long meandering bass solo ( you know the kind)and all of the songs have a kind of loose, spacey dull/angry kind of organization and vibe. My copy is absolutly pristine, so it's not that the vinyl has been abused. To give it another chance I put it on while I'm on the web. It still sucks! As I remember, this group didn't last very long at all from non-acceptance. That I can understand. The liner notes by Phil say that they rehearsed for ten months and only played this gig for four days. A failed experiment. It has a photo of hippie Phil with very long hair and headband. I think he was going for that market, but he was a couple of years late! It's probably a collectors item.

I hope he paid Jack and Christian a lot of money.

Guy, I like this set a lot. It's a pleasure. Rouse is really great on "Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are".

Too bad you missed it. That Saturday night was a great gig! The band was Joe & Joe, Jonathan Kreisberg on guitar and Jay Anderson on bass.