A.B. Spellman and the tradition of damn sure telling it like it is

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Track	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	Ray Charles	Let The Good Times Roll	The Genius of Ray Charles	Atlantic
	Ray Charles & Betty Carter	It Takes Two to Tango	Ray Charles & Betty Carter	ABC - Paramount
	Lorez Alexandria	The Wildest Gal in Town	Alexandria the Great	Impulse
	Esther Philips	I'm Getting Along Alright	Confessin' the Blues	Atlantic
	Esther Philips	I Wonder	Confessin' the Blues	Atlantic
	Jesse Faucet (read by Ellen Holly)	La Vie C'est La Vie	A Hand is on the Gate	Verve - Folkways
	Binga Dismond (read by James Earl Jones)	At Early Morn	A Hand is on the Gate	Verve - Folkways
	Ray Charles	Tell Me You'll Wait For Me	The Genius of Ray Charles	Atlantic
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	Dewey Redman	Boody	The Ear of the Behearer	Impulse
	Oscar Brown, Jr.	40 Acres and a Mule	Oscar Brown, Jr. Goes to Washington	Fontana
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	Ray Charles & Betty Carter	Baby, It's Cold Outside	Ray Charles & Betty Carter	ABC - Paramount
	Bill Evans	Star Eyes	A Simple Matter of Conviction	Verve
	Modern Jazz Quartet	Monterey Mist	Blues at Carnegie Hall	Atlantic
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	Esther Philips	I Love Paris	Confessin' the Blues	Atlantic
	Duke Ellington	It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)	Johnny Come Lately	RCA
	Interview with A.B. Spellman By Justin Desmangles
	Duke Ellington	I Ain't Got Nothing But the Blues	Johnny Come Lately	RCA
	Duke Ellington	Chocolate Shake	Jumpin' Punkins	RCA
	Duke Ellington	Clementine	Jumpin' Punkins	RCA

Jazz that books . .

Recently a friend who works at the Stanford University bookstore asked me to recommend some titles that would be of use to a general audience. There is an annual festival there on campus and the folks at the store wanted to set aside space to honor the occasion. Here are the titles I suggested.

Notes & Tones, Musician to Musician Interviews by Arthur Taylor (Yes, that Arthur Taylor)

Four Jazz Lives by A.B. Spellman (Previously published as Four Lives in the Bebop Business as well as Black Music, Four Lives)

The Sound Of Surprise, 46 Pieces On Jazz by Whitney Balliett (Collects many the late Balliett's shorter writings for the New Yorker from 1954-1959)