John Litweiler

Von always denied that he was on this album. According to the source I trust, http://myweb.clemson.edu/~campber/mclin.html, one of the songs is a Claude McLin song. Also, McLin's presence and the Oct. 23, 1950 date are accurate. Von did play on some other recordings without Bird that night.

Soriano batted in four more runs and the Yankees won tonight. I don't like this. They could get into the playoffs via a wild card.

My favorite Shel Silverstein song. Thanks, Mr. Glaser.

So true.

Mills Brothers The Mill on the Floss Colgate University

Has John Ludy been composing during recent decades? I'd love to hear more of his work.

looking forward to that - I saw Dennehy in Krapp's Last Tape at the Goodman

In the depths of despair, in the years when I was either out of work or not getting paid, I used to buy weekly lottery tickets. After applying for dozens and dozens of jobs I figured I was as likely to win as to get employment.

Here's a cheer for Martin Davidson, too. His Emanem, his love for the music and its artists, his dedication, and his great energy have done a world of good for improvised music during these last four decades. It certainly has also been good to see him and Evan Parker working together on Psis.

I went to one of the great games of a lifetime last night at White Sox park. It's great fun to boo Alex Rodriguez even though I don't give a damn whether or not he used steroids. In the 9th innings, sure enough, the Yankees brought out the great Mariano Rivera for his final appearance in our ballpark. After two outs, we got two hits and a tying run off him - and after that clutch single, I take back all the mean things I've been saying about Adam Dunn this summer. With 2 outs in the 12th a Sox hit a grounder off the pitcher's leg, beat it into a single; the winning run scored 2 hits later. Lots of other fun stuff too. On nights like that you can't help loving this game.

Along with being a kind and generous Organissimo man, Aloc has widespread curiosities / interests that help make Organissimo interesting to me.

Thanks, Aloc.

Tomorrow, August 5, 2013, a radio show devoted to Armstrong's and Roscoe Mitchell's birthdays: Zoundz! on WHPK Chicag 88.5 FM and whpk.org - 6:30 to 9 pm Chicago time, 5 hours later Universal time.

I got quite a shock in South Bend a month ago. For the first time in many years I bought a Monday morning South Bend Tribune. The pages are all smaller than they used to be. Section 1, news, was just 8 pages; just 5 of those pages had advertising and only 1 had as much as 1/2 page of ads - the rest were 1/3 of a page or less. The other two sections comprised a grand total of 16 pp., including a grand total of less than 1/3 of a page of display ads. Most impressive was the 4 pp. classified-ad section. The most impressive classified ads were the calls for an Executive Editor and Digital Sales Executive of the South Bend Tribune. It looked pathetic. What a stunning reversal. I grew up with the South Bend Tribune, which was sold throughout a radius of at least 40-50 miles in all directions from SB, in IN and MI (probably still is). It was a big, fat paper full of local and national news, more news than the two Fort Wayne dailies, as much as the 2 or 3 Indianapolis papers (Indy pop. was 4-5 times that of SB). As recently as 20 or so years ago the SB Tribune was still outstanding - incidentally, its jazz critic, Mark Stryker, was far superior to the Chicago Tribune's jazz hack. (I used to work for a newspaper clipping service in the 1970s and saw that, for quantity of news and quality of reporting, the SB Trib was superior to almost all other newspapers from similar-sized cities and far superior to the Gannet papers in San Antonio and Rochester, as well as some other big-city papers.) Michael Collins wrote a novel, The Keepers Of Truth, about a the Daily Truth, a dying newspaper in a dying midwestern city. Collins attended Notre Dame and must have seen the Elkhart Truth in its decline. Grim stuff. Ah, obsolescence. What happened? Did circulation go to hell, did the www. grab all the readers, why a minimum of advertising?

You can now buy Sundidos from amazon.com at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0979874521 and from 57th Street Books and Seminary Co-op Books at http://www.semcoop.com/ as well as from goodbaitbooks.com, which offers an Organissimo discount.

I may have posted this elsewhere: One night I dreamed that I was composing the most beautiful melody in the world. Woke up and wrote it down, even. The next day I happened to play (for the first time in a few years) a Freddie Redd album and there it was. Coincidence?

The two Sonny Boy Williamsons. John Lee Booker and John Lee Hooker. Theonious, Thelonius, Thelius.

The verse of Stardust, which Carmichael composed years after he composed the familiar chorus. Some of the most beautiful melodies depend, to me, on who played them and how. Several King Oliver and Jelly Roll Morton pieces, for example, or the At The Window version of a Jimmy Yancey blues - he also recorded it under two other titles.

This discussion reminds me of the many wonderful performances over the years at Joe Segal's various Jazz Showcases in Chicago. Joe recorded them all and surely nobody else will ever hear them.

San Clemente San Andreas Fault Andreas Altenfelder

Corey Wilkes, when he plays inside.

Thanks to all for the recipe suggestions.

saw a young person last night wearing a Rivera 42 shirt. It's good to know young people remember Jim Rivera.

Edward G. Ulmer Elmer Gantry Cecil Gant

ok as long as his nickname is Jelly Roll