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2008

Silly rabbit! (Tits are for kids)

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Original soundtrack music from the 1974 film “Le Chaud Lapin” (“The hot rabbit” – slang for “fucker” in French). Thanks to Jerome our franco-friend.

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“Fais moi le couscous cheri”

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Bob Azzam picture sleeve on Festival from France.

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Sun Ra and his myth SCIENCE ARKESTRA

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Van the man

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Van Morrison and THEM.   Decca UK.

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Sam cook

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The singing chef.   What a   turkey.   Thanks to Brother Jerome for this.

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Blue Serge

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Serge Chaloff “Blue Serge” on Capitol (1956) with Sonny Clark, piano; Joe Jones (Philly Joe), drums; and Leroy Vinnegar, bass.   Titles include “How About You?”, “Handful Of Stars”, “The Goof & I”, “Susie’s Blues”, and “All The Things You Are”.   This is a classic record and a must for any serious jazz collection. His previous date as a leader is “Boston Blow-up” (1955) and that too is essential.

Baritone saxophone player Serge Chaloff was mostly known as one of the original Four Brothers (with Getz, Steward/Cohn, and Zoot Sims) in the Woody Herman big band.   Chaloff’s father was a concert pianist and his mother was a piano teacher to young prodigies like Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, even George Shearing.   Serge, like many of his contemporaries in the jazz world, wound up with terrible addictions to booze and heroin. Tragically he died at 33 in 1957.   “Blue Serge,” a tour-de-force, unrehearsed, “blowing session” was made just weeks before his partial paralysis due to spinal cancer.   I read that Serge intentionally toned down the studio lights during the sessions to give an intimate, atmospheric setting and he really swings his big horn with the support of this hip West Coast rhythm section.

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Saxblaster Jesse “Tex” Powell

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Jesse “Tex” Powell (Baritone Sax) “Blow Man Blow” Jubilee Records.   Powell had an amazing career from the little research I’ve done.   Like his more famous contemporary, saxophonist King Curtis, he straddled the worlds of Jazz (he played with Coltrane in the Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra and again in the Johnny Hodges Orchestra in the late forties/early fifties); R&B (he recorded as the Jesse Powell Orchestra with Bill Doggett before becoming the music director and house band leader at Jubilee/Josie Records and was an original member of the Cadillacs); Pop (he played with King Curtis behind some Bobby Darin hits); and Blues (he recorded with Champion Jack Dupree).

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Dutch honey

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That fucking place

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Hear about Sheila, the town’s most outstanding school teacher who secretly likes to “goof off at muff-diving shindigs”!! And many more “sexciting” stag stories.

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Lederhosing

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Der Kleine Fredy!

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