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No. There were more things happened that day!!! 1973 Famous Birthdays Deon Minor, American 400m runner, born in Paris, Texas George Noga, CFL linebacker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers) Reggie Barlow, American football wide receiver (Super Bowl XXXVII TB Buccaneers) and coach (Alabama State Uni 2007–14, Virginia State 2016-21), born in Montgomery, Alabama Rogerio Ceni, Brazilian footballer, born in Paraná, Brazil

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Kenny Barron Ensemble - Table For Two

Legacy 2CD Edition (2015) CDs, Digipack and Booklet all M- https://www.discogs.com/release/7779355-The-Alan-Parsons-Project-The-Turn-Of-A-Friendly-Card $26 shipped U.S.

RIP George Foreman! I remember January 22, 1973, very well. Three things happened that day. 1) The US Supreme Court handed down its Roe v. Wade decision. 2) LBJ died. 3) Foreman beat Frazier.

500×454 42.9 KB A great album. Ed Motta joins Monday for a duet, a great thing. Monday Michiru “Soulception” 356×400 21.1 KB

Best one ever:

March has been (and will continue to be...) a timesuck of a month, so sorry for the lateness. TRACK ONE - To use a cliche - brooding! Caravan is quoted, and appears to be the tune. Not broad enough (geometrically) to be Bley, but you could draw a line there if you wanted a line there. Likeable, certainly, but if I don't need a line, I would like a point, and this one seems to have some ideas about getting to one, but maybe not finally. I think I would like it more if I was in the room with it, just get it that one time and call it all good. And then move on. No need to here the playback. TRACK TWO - Bamboo flute is always (to use another cliche) "evocative". As well as is high register arco bass. And now we has the jazz. Just a tad ploddy, but it seems natural, so ok. It's real, so that's the thing. I do feel that I know this tenorist, it's like a cooljazz Sam Rivers, if you know what I mean. And it is a voice, nice architecture. Kick me for not getting it right now! I like it. I could almost guess Jarman, maybe Kalaparush, but not quite. TRACK THREE - I think I have this record? Pretty much like it from jump. Fully focused on all counts, message understood in front, message delivered. Yeah! TRACK FOUR - Arco bass is everywhere!!! George Lewis? One of those deliberate sensationalistic things where you play the spaces and make the bumps in between. It take a lot of patience to do this well, and this is done well. TRACK FIVE - I like this one too! And it's another player I recognize, but can't recall the name. Definitely somebody who can play changes. I kinda feel like playing changes is not at all essential, but damn it, if you're going to play an attractive tune with attractive changes, be able to play the changes, dammit. Yeah, this is good, and the snare drum is tuned well. TRACK SIX - Pretty specific zone. Post Dolphy/Out to Lunch, and as such, mission accomplished. Congratulation to all! Everybody came to play! TRACK SEVEN - OK, time/place seems apparent...Roswell Rudd? @ Van Gelder's? Late 60s/early 70s? Seems like I might have this one, but no bets being placed...Takes a little detour in terms of expected solo presentation. Seeps the groove and mood as it goes though. Curious to hear the whole record! Pianist's date, correct? Nice and expansive playing. TRACK EIGHT - That's a good record! I don't have it and can't really hazard any guesses, but that's a good record! Enthusiasm drops a teence after the trumpet tho. But that's a damn good trumpet player! TRACK NINE - TRUE BELIEVERS!!!!! You can't fake it with this stuff. And don't look dawn, ever never. I know I've heard this one, and might even have it somehow. It sure feels familiar, and in the best way. TRACK TEN - Ok, yeah! Some nice, extended bebop composition, not halfasses lickurgitation. Is that KD? Early Tabackin? That headofsteam rolling downhill thing that both him and Eddie Daniels had at the time. Pianist comps better than solos, so I'd guess it's their tune?Don't think I know this record, but if the two horn players are any indication, I'm in! TRACK ELEVEN - Gonna need to be in more of a mood for this type of Tristanoish-once-removed abstraction than I am now. That might change on any given day, though. TRACK TWELVE - Hmm...not sure. Full of sound and fury, to be sure.... TRACK THIRTEEN - This one loses me almost from the beginning. Sorry. The tenor solo i pretty rudimentary in how it links ideas. Earlier Chico Freeman? The pianist is a lot higher IQ, but by then it's too far gone.I like the guitarist as well. So hey tenor player...why you? Pretty outstanding compilation here over all. I didn't ID for shit (might have done better a decade or two earlier, maybe). And I had to break it into parts, my patience of longer improvised pieces is diminishing except at the highest level. But that's just me. Maybe I have a shorter attention span now. Well-earned I hope? Anyway, thanks!!!

Piano Sonata D.959

Re-visiting another favorite of recent vintage. Joel Ross is one of my favorite contemporary jazzers. Joel Ross “Nublues” Blue Note cd 300×299 8.67 KB

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Recommended ---> Vol 7 (CD) The Lost Tapes on label Whaling City Sounds WCS 143 issued 2024

Freddie Hubbard: Liquid Love. Columbia C 33556. [US 1975] Illustration by Lou Beach Lou Beach was born in Göttingen https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/2005179-Lou-Beach

John Penley said... My X Wife Nozomi Oye was not at the actual riot she was working at the Chamelion Bar on 6th St. that night. As the night went on she pullded down the shutters on the front of the bar and when people knocked she would look to see who it was and if they were people she knew Nozomi let them in. It soon looked like an emergency room with drunk victims of police brutality bleeding onto clear bar towels which she gave out. At one point a gang of cops started banging on the bar front with night stick so people barricaded it and after a while the cops left. On hell of a night for both of us. Nozomi died in Cali about 10 years ago. (written in 2022 about the Tompkins Square Park Riot)

Never heard of her, though the John Cage context is the only one I'd have been aware of. Googled and hits are sparse, with many of the NY-related ones seemingly posted by the above-mentioned ex.

With apologies (since I haven't put my ears to this test, yet). I just posted in the sign-up thread. We need a presenter for April. Ordinarily when there's a gap, I would just step in (I haven't claimed a month, yet), but I can't do it in April. Anybody? Bueller? Anyone?

Hey kids! We need a presenter for April. I can't take it this month.

Terry Gibbs, Dream Band (Contemporary)

So after many many years of searching, I have finally gotten my hands on this CD. It's great to be able to hear more music from these sets at the Up/Over. I wonder if Mike LeDonne recorded the band the night I saw him there around the same time? If I remember correctly, he had Jim Rotondi, Eric Alexander, Nat Reeves & Joe Farnsworth in his band. That was a fun night for sure.