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Hey friends, Executive Summary: Butch Warren, legendary 1960s bassist, appearing with great jazz band at Columbia Station on 18th St. in Ada...

Listening to AC DC on this MLK day early afternoon- the live album "If you want blood you've got it"- which is an absolute sco...

Boy here is an album that never gets talked about. This by all accounts was Lester Young's last recording. This album was recorded March...

So finally after a few years of wanting to get my hand on the Blue Note Grant Green "1961-1966 Retrospective" box set I finally fo...

So Sean Taylor is dead. Listening to music as much as I do I couldn't help but be struck by how many violent deaths relatively young bla...

SO I picked this up yesterday. I was struck by the really cool album cover... there is no credit for the album cover.. anyways the LP is on ...

Listening to the Capitol LP on T-1285 and on a few of these tracks such as Let It Snow, I've got my love to keep me warm and Baby its co...

Here is a quote purported to be from Hank Mobley towards the end of his life.. I found it on the internet and it was part of a pretty good b...

I had often wondered if he got an obit in Philadelphia where he died and he did... see below: Hank Mobley, International Jazz Figure Hank Mo...

Interesting.. from the New York Times archives available on the internet we see that Mobley was still perhaps ocasionally playing the sax ev...

Interesting article from the New York Times November 3, 1990. Given that when Mobley died in 1986 the Times didn't even publish an obitu...

www.hankmobley.blogspot.com I've decided to concentrate my little efforts on this blog but there is some other interesting Mobley stuff ...

I had written in my post of a few days ago but the large gaps in Mobley's recording output and ascribed this to problems with drugs but ...

So I was wrong....the phrase "Middleweight champion of the tenor.." is to be found in the liner notes to Blue Note 4080.. I just r...

I'd always wanted this one but have found it impossible to find. There seem to have been very few copies printed of the original LP and ...

SO Ron Paul raised over $4 million in a single day. The media continues to ignore him at best and at worse put him down as some kook but his...

Listening to the 1997 reissue catalog number ST-46095 and I have to say I think it sounds great. In fact all LPs I have from this 1997 serie...

so i been on blog hiatus.. i hope blog is not dead............. i leave you with this: will rick rubin produce new bob dylan album in 2008? ...

Its been coming for a long time... now John Edwards is asking americans to protest the Irak war on memorial day! take a sign reading "b...