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Roswell Rudd (2006)

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"Rudd extracts sounds from the trombone that go back to New Orleans and further ahead than anyone has yet reached."
Nat Hentoff, Cosmopolitan
Pick Artist Album Song Label
# 1 Bud Freeman 1939-40 Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble (Classics)
# 2 Louis Armstrong Satchmo at Symphony Hall Royal Garden Blues (Decca)
# 3 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra The Carnegie Hall Concerts (January 1943) Dirge/Stomp (Johnny Come Lately) (Prestige)
# 4 Igor Stravinsky Symphonies and Concertos, Edo DeWart and the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam Symphonies of Wind Instruments (Philips)
# 5 Herbie Nichols The Art of Herbie Nichols Hangover Triangle (Blue Note)
# 6 Béla Bartók String Quartets (Complete), Vermeer Quartet String Quartet No. 4 in C Major, Sz. 91, Bb 93 (Naxos)
# 7 Anton Webern Boulez Conducts Webern II Pieces (6) For Orchestra, Op. 6 (Deutsche Grammophon)
# 8 Miles Davis with Milt Jackson, Thelonious Monk, Percy Heath and Kenny Clarke Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants Bemsha Swing (Prestige)
         
Book The Bruce Codex, and an Amharic Coptic primer
         
Luxury Item "My partner ... a very strong swimmer ... will transform herself into a mermaid"
Castaways by date
Tim Garland
26 Apr
Ben Goldberg
01 Mar
Lua Hadar
08 Mar
Molly Holm
19 Apr
Remy Le Boeuf
15 Mar
Stephanie Nakasian
18 Jan
Marlena Shaw
29 Mar
Ben Sidran
12 Apr