medjuck

Whatever the X means to you, have a merry one.

I thought this might be about Elmer Bernstein or Jimmy Smith.

Great story. I've always been impressed that the editors of Esquire understood that they were living in a Golden Age.

I interviewed Willie the Lion in the mid '60s when he was in Toronto for a CBC tv show playing duets with Don Ewell. They made an Lp around the same time for a private label which was eventually re-issued on Sackville. I'm embarrassed to say I didn't know much about him at the time but of course he was a delight. (Around the same time I saw Lonnie Johnson performing at a local coffee shop where I'd gone to meet a friend. I didn't comprehend his importance either. What a jerk I was.)

True, but not just about fusion: I've read notes where the writer took advantage of his platform to attack all kinds of music that was irrelevant to the music at hand.

IIRC at the time the mere concept of Monk having a greatest hit's Lp was thought to be pretty funny.

I didn't know about this record. They did a good one for Reprise that I believe was never released on cd.

IIRC Terry Adams (or one of NRBQ) wrote the liner notes for a Columbia Monk album of unreleased numbers. (Away from my cds and can't remember the name.)

I'm in but I'm computer illiterate. How/where do I subscribe?

IIIRC (and I often don't) the color movie was taken by Milt Hinton's wife with his 8mm camera.

What! I just phoned and asked them to hold it for me until after Xmas since I'll be away after the 16th.

I didn't expect the sonics to be so much better than the Off the Record release and in fact probably wouldn't have ordered the set were it not for the extra cds of music that Pops and King Oliver might have heard. They turned out to be even more interesting than I expected.

I have a 2 cd set of Chappaqua Suite issued by Sony France. Don't think it was around long. Glad I got it when I could.

I just ordered it used from Amazon for $8.

That's where I first heard the Elvis too. Not sure where they found this version but it's even longer than the one on "Reconsider Baby".