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Louis Armstrong. Growing up and seeing him on TV in the 1960s, he seemed a mere entertainer. It wasn't until much later when I heard Tight Like That that I understood why the jazz greats that I did get all said he was great.

If I only could get into the time tunnel and go back to the early 90's to see pullen and Adams... I sounds like you need (if you don't already have) the Mosaic Select Don Pullen, which has the last two Adams Pullen albums (on Blue Note) and the two Pullen Trios on Blue Note. A word to the wise, there's some great Adams and Pullen on the hard to find Horo label (out-of-print LP only) under the names of Adams, Pullen, and Dannie Richmond.

George Adams is one of the greats of the tenor saxophone. You should listen again.

He stole your jacket?

I wanted to relisten to that one a while back and could not locate it It was not right after the Sonny Clarks where it once was. The search is still on... Under Zorn or Horvitz or Previte?

I like Lila Downs. Is this anything like her?? I'm not familiar with her. Sorry.

Has anyone heard the Max Roach or the Chet Baker?

I bought these: 37503j Art Blakey/Georges Arvanitas/JATP CD 5.99 1 5.99 --- Jazz In Paris -- Jazz Et Cinema Vol 2 -- Des Femmes Disparaissent/Les Tricheurs/La Bride Sur Le Cou 53836j Don Byas _________________________ CD 5.99 1 5.99 --- Jazz In Paris -- En Ce Temps-la 37457j Don Byas _________________________ CD 5.99 1 5.99 --- Jazz In Paris -- Laura 37458j Donald Byrd ______________________ CD 5.99 1 5.99 --- Jazz In Paris -- Byrd In Paris 37462j Donald Byrd ______________________ CD 5.99 1 5.99 --- Jazz In Paris -- Parisian Thoroughfare 52558j Lucky Thompson ___________________ CD 5.99 1 5.99 --- Jazz In Paris -- Lucky Thompson With Dave Pochonet All Stars 37499j Lucky Thompson ___________________ CD 5.99 1 5.99 --- Jazz In Paris -- Modern Jazz Group 37500j Barney Wilen _____________________ CD 5.99 1 5.99 --- Jazz In Paris -- Jazz Sur Seine 37502j Barney Wilen/Alain Gouraguer _____ CD 5.99 1 5.99 --- Jazz In Paris -- Jazz Et Cinema Vol 1 -- Un Temoin Dans La Ville/J'irai Cracher Sur Vos Tombes

Another singer I quite admire who may not be very well known in the U.S. is Cuban singer Francisco Cespedes. His music is at least jazz tinged. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-h...2177431-8312914

Wow! That sounds like one of the greatest posthumous Bird finds ever.

How many minutes of new music with Bird and Diz will be on the CD?

I wonder if anyone here has heard of Eugenia Leon. I don't think she's very well known outside of Mexico. This singer is fantastic. I listened to her CD Mar Adentro so many times. Now she has a new one, it is sounds great--Tatuajes. Here is a very interesting BBC interview of Eugenia Leon. http://www.theworld.org/globalhits/2004/11/15.shtml

Thanks for the information. I ordered nine.

Jazz at Massey Hall goes under Mingus, since he recorded it, played on it, and issued it on his own label.

I don't think Mike knew much beyond what he absorbed from the typical (for the time) college/Chicago scene. By this I mean he knew the names and basic styles but was not deeply into any of it. An interesting bit of the flavor of mid '60s musical Chicago (from a white kid perspective) can be gleaned from a series of pieces by Nick Gravenites (Nick the Greek) available HERE. Nick is a bit over the top but you get the idea. Also note, Lester Bowie is not on the recording of "Whole Lotta Soul" mentioned, but Roscoe, Julian Priester and Steve McCall are. I do have one of the surviving pressings. This was recorded before Lester moved to Chicago. I think Nick remembers Lester from the Summer '68 trip by the Art Ensemble when they crashed at his place. You're Killing My Love, from a Nick Gravenites LP, has one of my favorite Bloomfield solos.

I don't think the Mingus "My Favorite Quintet" LP ever made it to OJC CD. Did I miss it by any chance?

The difficulty I'm having with the OJC series is that I basically would like to hear all of them...

I also quite like his guest soloist appearance on Mingus and Friends In Concert--especially on Jump Monk and Mingus Blues.

I prefer his late recordings myself, not that the 1950s ones aren't also great.

Yeah, ovrshadowed by Bill's, perhaps, but Bill's was (and is) downright CREEPY. Don't get me started... But K-29 (all the prices ended in 29 cents, btw) had a loyal clientele of its own. They closed in 1993, I think. Landlord hassles of the mos "Dallas" variety. The ads aren't mine, btw. Rod e-mailed me a link to them on his personal site. Creepy was the word on that place. A couple of visits were enough for me. Collectors Records, on the other hand, was a nice, family-owned store, where I found many outstanding LPs.

Besides the weekly Observer ads, they depended mostly on word-of-mouth and plugs on Roger Boykin's show on KKDA-AM (still on, btw, 3-6 PM every Sunday, 730AM on your radio dial. Do NOT miss it, as Roger puts a lot of disperate jazzical strands into "social context", although that's not what he's trying to do ). That's how I discovered it, on Roger's show. I had no idea he was still on the radio; I used to listen to him a bit, but it's been a very long while.

I must not have ever come out of my cave during those years. I missed that store.

I have really enjoyed my ipod so far. Unfortunately, I have filled up the 20 gig model and am coveting a 60 gig ipod. My advice is to get the biggest one you can afford. I do have Calvin Massy's Father and Son on there now.

Laserdiscs were two-sided. If you didn't have a player that flipped the disc, you had to turn it over yourself, just like a record.

I recall his "review" of Ornette Coleman's last concert in New York--I believe he called him "Moronette." And he hadn't even been to the concert, he was just distorting the New York Times review in a negative way. So he deserves any insults he receives.