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I'm still a bit confused. There are 6 new tracks. Which ones have Tina Brooks and which ones don't?

I am a huge fan of the two Lee Vee-Jay dates. They are a little different than the Blue Notes from that era, not sure how to describe why.

Good point. The Sonny Stitt booklet that did not mention the second sax was a farce. Wasted paper. For the record, I LOVE Sonny Red.

I agree that they probably settled on Denis as he was a 'Charles' people would have heard of. Not sure how much it would have helped sales. Adding a comment with no proof that Denis and KD were tight seems like a red herring. In the past, Resonance booklets made a big production about how all the estates were involved and gave their blessing. The Denis Charles estate is not mentioned as far as I can tell. I agree the booklets are pure padding. The notes here contain a doozy: they claim the Olatunji gig was Coltrane's last. The last was Left Bank 5/7/67. Zev must know about it since he has been deeply immersed in Left Bank. I am sure he would tell you it was not recorded, an obviously unverifiable fact.

I got the CD. First, my apologies to the drummer. His playing is not at all pedestrian. The drumming sounded intrusive on the radio, but not on the CD. Not sure why. As for who the drummer is... The announcement which I have heard and definitely says Huss Charles is not included on the CD. It is 74 minutes so space was not an issue. There is no mention of how it was decided Denis was the drummer and not Huss but the possibility that it was Huss is not mentioned at all. Bernard Drayton does suggest that Denis was one of KD's guys but what does that mean? Did they gig together a lot? How much gigging did KD do at that time? He had health issues and was barely recording. Finding proof of this claim would involve a deep dive to find gig listings. Very labor intensive. Using RIPM Jazz would help, I think, but I have yet to see it in action.

So how is the book? I am actually organizing a KD tribute on 7/26 at the Arlington, VA Library with the Army Blues small group and I wanted to suggest some books to the Librarian that she could put on display.

This is a huge topic of discussion. Artists are encouraged to highlight their originals and the media does its part to help, but as Jim suggested, not everyone is a Horace or Wayne. The argument 'not ready yet' is a valid one, but the guys from the 60s were hardly veterans when they wrote songs that became classics overnight. What is the difference? I have been struggling for years to figure it out.

Heard a track from this last night - the drumming was rather pedestrian.

Unless Resonance gives an unimpeachable explanation as to why it is Denis and not Huss despite the announcement, I will assume it is Huss.

Right, Denis was out there way before 1962. So the question is when did Frank/Huss start becoming active? A few weeks ago we were thinking late 60s, but now he goes back to 1962.

I see both Dennis (sic) Charles and Frank Charles playing percussion on a couple of 1962 RCA Sonny Rollins dates, the ones for the What's New record. Were the brothers on the scene that early?

Chewy pops up on Facebook once in a while.

Picked it up in Paris, it is great!

I guess we will find out on record store day. If Zev has an event at Joe's Record Paradise, I will try to go and ask what's up. Trumpeter Fabien Mary did a great tribute to KD tonight at Sunside in Paris.

Roberta and Steve were married for a while. Steve in his 80s but still active on the DC scene. I see him hanging out a lot.