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Wow! I know this can't be an easy decision for you. Good luck.

recently listened to this one again (no, I don't own a physical copy): very good, I found - and some outstanding tenor playing! The very, very little I've heard sounds intriguing. Wish the Loronix blog was still active. Gotta scour the Internet, I guess. Except for YouTube, there's nothing by him in all my usual places. Thanks KU.

Anyone heard of Moacyr Silva - Brazillian sax player? Any thoughts? He seems to have made a million records in the 50s (and 60s?) Can't find much on him, but Zeca Lauro (Loronix) seems to have really liked him. Thanks. See https://orfaosdoloronix.wordpress.com/category/moacyr-silva/

Complete Edmund Hall / James P. Johnson / Sidney De Paris / Vic Dickenson Blue Note Recordings. Was trying for months to sell it on EBay for as low as $49 but there were no takers. I started listening to it again recently, and am really glad it didn't sell. I finally saw the light. A lot of it is just tremendous. Just noticed one one currently selling for $60 on eBay

Thanks! Will definitely be checking these out!

Definitely one of the all-time great Organissimo forum rants

I kinda know what you mean, Jim. I have wondered if the choice of songs, for instance, is her own of if she has "handlers" who do the choosing for her. I'm giving her the benefit of the doubt and hoping she is the real deal. Regardless, she is a great singer with a really unique and appealing (for me, anyway) style.

Jazz as a music is overlooked, so it's tough to single out people. Having said that... Harold Ashby Charles Gayle Vi Redd Nathan Davis Julian Dash

I was thinking the same thing about her youth. I think her commitment to (and real understanding of) the songs will change -- as they would for anyone in their early-twenties. I think she's 23 or 24 -- something like that. Still, tremendous voice, style, and choice of material IMHO.

Love her Womanchild CD.

love this tune

Larry Bluth. Made a number of trio albums on the Zinnia label, and they are all excellent. Really like his off-kilter approach. Also Billy Lester - a student of Sal Mosca's. (Maybe Sal, too?) I think Harold Danko, Horace Tapscott, Dave Burrell, Mel Powell, Ellis Larkins, Art Hodes, and Bengt Hallberg fit the under-rated category.

anyone have one for sale at a reasonable price? Thanks in advance

Anyone know where I can get a copy or download of the Legendary CD? I know this is a real long shot, but what the hell.

I love the track order. It's one of the few best-of comps, for nostalgic reasons I suppose, that I consider an album to itself. I agree wholeheartedly. I'm going to put this one on later in the man's honor. A sad day indeed.

I think this has all been previously released on LG's Dragon & Sonet CDs You're right, I'm sure. I'll need to investigate further. Thanks

Just happened to notice this. Any thoughts? Looks pretty interesting - even if I don't particularly like giving my money to these guys. My guess is this stuff would never see the light of day otherwise. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00P12ENJQ/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=AWGVUBQZ9J0TW

Happy birthday, Chuck. Thanks for your devotion to the music.

Don't know if this has been mentioned, but Beaver Harris and Don Pullen's "Well Kept Secret" is great and has never been issued on CD. Also features cover art by Ralph Steadman - the guy who did those illustrations for Hunter S. Thompson's writings.

A tremendous guitarist. A great loss.

Sound great. Can't wait to hear it.

Can't argue with that, wouldn't want to. I agree. Really nice post.

I LOVE Elvis's version of "Don't Think Twice"! Thanks for pointing that out. Señor is one my favorite Dylan tunes of all time. What can I say? You're...well, just wrong. To be honest, it's hard to really know what the Beatles and others were thinking in terms of where they wanted to go. However, if their recordings are any indication, Dylan was a critically important influence. In my opinion, his influence was almost universally a great thing. I think the Beatles and the Stones became MUCH more interesting after Dylan's innovations became apparent.Glad you liked Don't Think Twice, how 'bout Tomorrow is a Long Time? Bob's reputed to have said it was his favorite, but then he's been known to say a lot of things, e.g. he once said the Smokey Robinson was "America's greatest living poet" and then when asked about that later he said 'no, what was I thinking, I meant Rambeau' (who's neither living nor American, so I guess he just didn't want to talk about it).On the broader issue of Bob's influence and whether that was a good thing - there's good ambivalent and BS ambivalent, Like Justice Stevens I can't define it but I know it when I see/hear it.In my opinion, Elvis's version of "Tomorrow is Such a Long Time," is less successful. Still, it's interesting to hear what he does with the tune. No question there were some performers who didn't know much about songwriting who jumped on the Dylan bandwagon because it was fashionable or something. Kids around the world were writing Dylanesque songs in their bedrooms and it's a little much to expect that they'd all be good songwriters.

I LOVE Elvis's version of "Don't Think Twice"! Thanks for pointing that out. Señor is one my favorite Dylan tunes of all time. What can I say? You're...well, just wrong. To be honest, it's hard to really know what the Beatles and others were thinking in terms of where they wanted to go. However, if their recordings are any indication, Dylan was a critically important influence. In my opinion, his influence was almost universally a great thing. I think the Beatles and the Stones became MUCH more interesting after Dylan's innovations.

Blake, thanks for the thoughtful reply; I know the work of your namesake very very well, from his first sides with Coot Grant onward, so I take your views with appropriate seriousness. That said, I absolutely stand by the statement thay for heartsong etc, those two R & L Thomspon records destroy "BOTT" which is blowzy, insincere, altnerately self-pitying and bitter, poetically and "intellectually" (sic) muddled and the music is mostly boring crap. The singing, if you care to isolate it, is, I admit, fairly strong but that's not enough. Whereas "I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight" and "Pour Down Like Silver" are nuanced, multifaceted, dynamic, both subtle and driving.... Neither Dylan's isolation nor the dogshit 1974 Band tour did him any good btw; "BOTT" tripe one reaction, "Desire" another though some of the Rolling Thunder Review shows were strong (MUCH stronger than that Band tour.) People get so invested in the idea of Dylan's fecundity that they ascribe him way too much credit; yeah, Fairport covered Dylan-- and Leonard Cohen, and Joni Mitchell etc. Others have addressed this but people pulling out '62-'67 Dylan to 'defend' or at deflect attention away from his 1970s are missing the point. And greatly diminishing the collective creative moment that was folk/rock/pop say '64-'74 (speaking loosely). As for Martin Carthy, a terrific musician but just because Zimmy copied him doesn't mean he 'invented' those tunes anymore than Robert Burns might have. (And re-reading Burns is far more salutary than re-reading Bob.) Q: Who's copying whom here? Hmmmmmmm... Blake, thanks for the thoughtful reply; I know the work of your namesake very very well, from his first sides with Coot Grant onward, so I take your views with appropriate seriousness. That said, I absolutely stand by the statement thay for heartsong etc, those two R & L Thomspon records destroy "BOTT" which is blowzy, insincere, altnerately self-pitying and bitter, poetically and "intellectually" (sic) muddled and the music is mostly boring crap. The singing, if you care to isolate it, is, I admit, fairly strong but that's not enough. Whereas "I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight" and "Pour Down Like Silver" are nuanced, multifaceted, dynamic, both subtle and driving.... Neither Dylan's isolation nor the dogshit 1974 Band tour did him any good btw; "BOTT" tripe one reaction, "Desire" another though some of the Rolling Thunder Review shows were strong (MUCH stronger than that Band tour.) People get so invested in the idea of Dylan's fecundity that they ascribe him way too much credit; yeah, Fairport covered Dylan-- and Others have addressed this but people pulling out '62-'67 Dylan to 'defend' or at deflect attention away from his 1970s are missing the point. And greatly diminishing the collective creative moment that was folk/rock/pop say '64-'74 (speaking loosely). As for Martin Carthy, a terrific musician but just because Zimmy copied him doesn't mean he 'invented' those tunes anymore than Robert Burns might have. (And re-reading Burns is far more salutary than re-reading Bob.) Q: Who's copying whom here? Hmmmmmmm... I wrote a great response last night, but accidently erased it! I don't have a lot of time now, but I'll say just a couple of things. Your near complete dismissal of Dylan's impact is just ridiculous. Just compare the pre- and post-Dylan influenced work of our generation's most influential songwriters. (Before Dylan, for instance, the Beatles and the Stones were basically artistic adolescents.) Then, I want you to consider all of the songwriters and musicians who were, in turn, influenced by these folks, and so on down the line. You're a musically literate guy, so I'm sure you know this and are just playing the crotchety naysayer here. Dylan's influence on Richard Thompson, too, is well documented. I just did a quick search, and one reviewer of a book about Thompson says that he "has always acknowledged Dylan as a major influence." The reviewer goes on to say that "the book is liberally sprinkled with references to the older artist (the index lists 21 pages mentioning Dylan, and I counted up another 20)." That's a lot of references! "Yeah, Fairport covered Dylan -and Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell." I'd say Dylan's influence went a little beyond their simply covering him. Interestingly, the writer says that Thompson's all-time favorite Dylan song is........(drum roll, please)..........."Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts"!!!! BOOM!!!! See http://expectingrain.com/dok/who/t/thompsonrichard.html I'll leave it at that for now. OK, I've got a few moments more. About my "deflecting attention from Dylan in the 70's"....... Some of the greatest all-time Dylan tunes were written in that decade. Here are a few samples off the top of my head, but there are plenty more: Shelter from the Storm If Not for You You Ain't Goin' Nowhere Señor Tangled Up in Blue Forever Young Watching the River Flow Quinn the Eskimo Knockin' on Heaven's Door On a Night Like This Lay, Lady, Lay Gotta Serve Somebody One More Cup of Coffee Precious Angel Buckets of Rain Dark Eyes Days of '49 The Man in Me All of them: Stone cold classics.