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It's an interesting book by AA. Can't say I can really evaluate his criticism of paintings and other arts, and I think the man sees way too many phalluses and vaginas in artwork, but it was fun to read the jazz portions. . . .

It's an interesting book by AA. Can't say I can really evaluate his criticism of paintings and other arts, and I think the man sees way too many phalluses and vaginas in artwork, but it was fun to read the jazz portions. . . .

Many happy returns D!

Thanks for the information; it is so nice to learn of jazz musicians just ninety minutes away (I live in Austin). Listening to your father and your uncle on recordings is a joy!

John, I file my recordings under lock and key!

What's not to like indeed!

The HEP cd would be the recommendation I would make for Jack Jenney.

I like having it all for listening pleasure, not academic reasons, and I disagree aobut the sound; I think the new RCA double cd beats the original cd and the Classics gold cd to my ears on my system.

Hey I've known The Mule five or six years I think via email and I never made that connection between the Asimov character and the flesh and blood character! I used to be a big Science Fiction person in my youth (gad I really do feel as if my youth is gone, scary.) Some favorites were Pohl and Kornbluth, Anderson, Farmer, Niven, Delaney, Zelazny. . . .Though the deeper and deeper I got into Philip K. Dick (he was one of the first since I read the Zap Gun at age 12 in 1967) I moved out of the genre more into hard-boiled psychodrama and mysteries, deep into the generation of writers that Hammett and Chandler spawned, and true originals like Jim Thompon and David Goodis and Horace McCoy. . . and totally genrebusting people like Henry Miller and Thomas Mann. Then I embarked on a study of gnosticism and early Christianity that was partially fueled by PKD, and into a long period of mainly reading nonfiction and I'm mostly still in that phase. . . .

Hey Chris, this thread has a little bit of a head start on it! http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...est+album+cover

Evans amazes me with his piano playing in a way that Tatum does (but a totally DIFFERENT way). . . I've done a lot of listening and amazing and I don't really understand his work but I love it. I can listen to about an hour a week! It's so dense and deep that that does it for me. Going to have to get the Secret Sessions box one of these days indeed.

Chaos rules at casa Armstrong/Haggerty (or is that Haggerty/Armstrong---anyway my wife has not taken my name and I don't care.) I have some stuff all together by artist, but not much. Most of it is just strewn around the shelves and positions are changed. Helps me listen more randomly or makes me work for continuity which is a good thing.

My wife says I look like this guy, especially when clean shaven. . . . I don't believe her.

Among other instruments, Brad Gowens was a real goer on the valve trombone!

Brown, great work!

The kind of cd sleeves that get me hot are the mylar ones. . . . B) I get mine from www.am-dig.com

These were leased, and not to be sold outside Spain, maybe other European companies. But they are seen here and there over here. I have the Leo Parker, a gift from Victor in Denmark. . . it is from a TOCJ master. . . sounds great!

Jim's view on Carlos eerily echoes my own. I'd be interested to see what he would do with ALS now. (I've never liked the Love, Devotion and Surrender album.) I think that living for decades with Trane's music he would do somthing different and respectful. Ain't nothing sacrosanct about the composition. It certainly could be interpreted by someone else besides Branford and Elveen and Alice. . . .!

David, hope it has been a great one and many happy returns!

Of those that I have heard. . . the Sanders.

Well, the warning system is NO MORE. Gone. History.

Sorry to hear about the loss of your cat. I now how they are family and how hard it is to lose a pet. My ancient tom cat Spot died a year and a half ago and I miss him every day. He was a fantastic friend.

I don't really disagree, the movie isn't great shakes but it DOES tell you more about Ra's philosophy and inner style, and it is FUN in a "Reefer Madness" sort of way indeed. And if you are a fan of sort of Zorastrian dualistic thinking this is the best movie of the seventies for that matter. I'm not saying either that no Arkestrites were toking or poking, BUT this movie was NOT conceived on dope, of that I am pretty sure. The white directors and producers seemed more interested in shooting a pseudoblaxploitation softporn movie, and the "spaced out" elements that may seem to be acid-born pretty much seem to have come from Ra, who was NOT dropping cubes or squares or dots. That's my take on it from viewing and from interviews with Ra's director and producer included on the dvd, and from viewing the "home movies" on there. I think the bio of Ra is pretty good, but I don't think it's a good introduction to the music or the man; I think the bio is better if you come to it knowing something of Ra and getting a little that you know sort of turned sideways!

The music. . . well the music in the film isn't going to be a bad introduction to his music. The music is sort of all over the map in the film, from Ra faking music to back up a stage show, to his electronic keyboard freak out material of this period to a lot of chaotic percussion work. . . .It's all part of the plot in its way. . . . A good place to start with Ra on reordings may be the compilation "best of" that Evidence has out. . . .

I would think there would be lots of takers to move in with your former avatar, Betty!