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Thanks...go Sox....add your insight, cause i know you have some. Von Tuesday....maybe.... Thanks for the pin.... LouieB

Of these...only Miles Davis, but not in his early days. I was 19 the summer of Woodstock and in Ohio. I have seen other dead legends though. Trying to remember who I have seen and what it was like sounds kinda boring, but yea, I have seen all sorts of jazz, blues, rock and a few country legends. I have seen any number of folk musicians. ' In the old days some of these guys didn't tour all that much either, not like musicians do now. Over the years I have talked about many of these experiences, but talking about them out of context doesn't seem all that interesting. Does seeing the Stone

Wow, okay. I am a Goodman fan to be sure. There are Goodman fans every I am also sure. He did move to California before his untimely death. Considering he pitched the song City of New Orleans to Arlo Guthrie at the Quiet Knight, I always figured he should be immortalized with that stretch on Belmont instead. Or maybe in Old Town where he found his initial success at the former Earl of Old Town, or maybe on Lincoln and Belmont near Somebody Else's Troubles was. Hey Clay you a Wilco fan or what?? Jeff has also sung and taught at the OTS and performed at Folk and Roots Fest. Let's name

I suppose I should post this under the stuff to do in Chicago thread, but I am constantly amazed by how much great music is available to us Chicagoans. The Hyde Park Jazz Fest is bigger and better (I have never been so maybe this year) with tons of great local jazz talent including Niki Mitchell, Fred Anderson, Reginald Robininson, Willie Pickens etc. Check it out. LouieB Hyde Park Jazz Festival expands roster, venues By Howard Reich | Tribune critic June 25, 2008 Ragtime piano virtuoso Reginald Robinson, avant-garde flutist Nicole Mitchell and tenor saxophone icon Fred Anderson will

Was Bad Love really almost 10 years ago. Gawd I am getting old...... It was a decent album actually. I think I found a copy for like $4 a few years back. LouieB

Most Hot Tuna albums on vinyl can be bought for a song. Don't over pay for stuff like that. LouieB

Not a big MMJ fan or anything but man, Greg Kot really savages these guys...wonder what they did to him?? Seems somewhat undeserved. LouieB Band succumbs to its 'Evil Urges' By Greg Kot | Tribune critic June 24, 2008 "Evil Urges,' My Morning Jacket If points were awarded for audacity, My Morning Jacket's new studio release, "Evil Urges," would be a candidate for album of the year. But just because an album is daring doesn't make it listenable, and "Evil Urges" is a stunning miscalculation by a band poised to make its commercial breakthrough. It doesn't just take the New York-via-L

Yea, I can't believe it. The guy is from Seattle of all places too. I had no idea Google bored down into message boards like this. What an intrepid promoter of his book. By the way the street out in front of the Old Town School in Lincoln Square is named after Steve, although Steve really had little to do with the OTS. He was a folk singer in Chicago (and good buddy of John Prine), but was not a teacher at OTS as far as I know (not going to read thisn 800 page book to find out either...). So it has always been a mystery to me why they chose to have the street named after him. Seems like

Actually the longer list was my original list. The GloNo folks insisted I do a list with single or double albums rather than sets, so that is what I came up with. The last four or so selections could be subsituted for about a hundred other single albums, but I figured those were pretty good. I was trying to make the point that listening to jazz isn't as shallow as finding one or two albums that is representative. LouieB

Didn't bother me a bit. I was in fact agreeing with you. I do get tired of hearing about Trane and Miles like they are the only figures of note in jazz. They are certainly towering figures in "modern jazz" but there are many more in the entire history of jazz that should be paid attention to. LouieB

Yea, really..why not. It has some of the greatest musicians in the entire history of jazz and the tunes are great. There was a pretty good book about the making of it a few years back. Definitely worth the read. LouieB

Well it is not like the Kronos Quartet are big rock stars are anything. We are basically talking classical music here, with a bit of a modernist twist. LouieB

My only experience with Gemm is that when I wanted something they had it, but at twice the price I found the same thing for later at a record fair. Needless to say the looking for stuff at used record stores and flea markets is what it is all about (don't forget your local resale shop.) But Gemm is very good if you are willing to pay the price. New vinyl can be ordered from any number of other places however. LouieB

This is sort of what I was getting at too. I still laughed at his later material, but I found some of it fairly mean spirited, something his earlier stuff was not. I wish I could remember what I found particularly disturbing, but I do remember him being particularly upset by foreigners and that sort of humor, which tends to be fairly ugly after a point. In the end Lenny Bruce stopped being funny at all, mostly being concerned with his legal problems. I guess losing a bit of what originally made you funny is an occupational hazzard of being a comedian. In his prime there was no one funn

This is probably true, but vinyl on this site is expensive. What you need to do is move. What kind of vinyl are you looking for? New, old? LouieB

I do have a ticket, but I was just wondering if this was an actual release yet. I think this would be an appropriate release sooner than later. LouieB

Wow, okay.....sure. The whole point of the article is that both Coltrane and Miles are great and they are the way MOST folks get into jazz, but clearly they are not the only way, nor are they the only thing people should listen to in jazz. How many times here when people talk about their favorite jazz artista are Trane and Miles like the only people that are mentioned. Hell, Miles got mentioned in my thread on the AACM (I am always up for talking about the AACM but I am nearly the only one) and somehow Miles' autobiography gets mantioned. Heck Miles didn't even like free jazz, in fact he ha

They threw it on the I'm not There soundtrack though...better late than never... LouieB

Not trying to quote cyprtique twice, but I saw his last HBO special a few months back and I found him to have turned remarkably conserative in his old age, complaining about things that were far more right wing than I would have imagined for a guy who always took a more left turn. I could certainly understand his bitterness, but much of it seem directed at groups that just didn't deserve it. None the less the overall guy's career was magnificant. Right up there with Bruce and Sahl in general. LouieB

Don't forget this.... It's nice to see Return to Forever get a revival. Fusion is a type of jazz that is in need of a re-evaluation. They have certainly been barnstroming the midwest this weekend. LouieB

Very sad news. Carlin was one of the funniest people on earth, although in recent years his routine not only turned a bit sour, but bitter as well. LouieB

Behind the curve here, but did Nonesuch release the Kronos Quartet piece or is it being released on some other label or what? LouieB

Yea, there is a reason Like a Rolling Stone is always mentioned as one of the greatest rock songs ever. Not only are the words beyond belief, but the entire sound of it is just so universal. I know this is something that has been spoken of before, but when it was a hit single, only the first half was played on the radio; so when you hear the entire song, the turn around at the beginning of the third verse is just like the most spine tingling thing ever. At the point that the song was released you couldn't play a 5 to 6 minute song on the radio. It was a shame, but it still blew every other

Just a touch... To people who are religious these albums are the best thing Dylan ever did, so clearly it depends on who you talk to. Are you into Christian rock? If so Slow Train Comin is a classic, well produced, got some great songs, and was a landmark in Dylan's career. While the sound on Saved is less than perfect maybe you want the hard core gospel stuff and you will find it there, including Pressing On. And Shot of Love has some decent songs and is slightly less hardcore religion wise. On all of them the sound is full and gospel quality. I mean people will tell you all kinds o

That is very very cool. Actually I don't k now who she is (I can hardly know everything). I would imagine not too many schools cover the AACM. but I would bet it is very few. Good luck. Check out this book though. I may have told this story but one night Carla Bley brought her band to Amazingrace in Evanston. There were many New York musicians with her and Rosewell Rudd was supposed to be there on Trombone. Unfortunately he couldn't make it and George Lewis sat in, in his place. We were disappointed because Rudd was (is) a very big name in NY avant circles. But as it turned out Geor