"Hits And Misses - Muhammad Ali And The Ultimate Sound Of Fistfighting" (Trikont US 0314, 2003) was reviewed in [uzine] 03.17 … Mr. Cassius Marcellus Clay aka Muhammad Ali was one of thé greatest men of the 20th Century. All praise!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali
http://trikont.de/musik/hits-and-misses-muhammad-ali-and-the-ultimate-sound-of-fistfighting/
http://trikont.de/shop/black-radical-music/hits-and-misses-muhammad-ali-and-the-ultimate-sound-of-fistfighting/

Cool concept … record sleeves with only the living on them, the dead having been removed with some software or other … via http://liveiseedeadpeoples.tumblr.com/  [tnx4tip Eav!]

Mark Landsman's 83' "Thunder Soul" documentary on Houston's Kashmere Stage Band (as produced by Jamie Foxx, 2010) isn't featured on Now-Again's 2cd + 1dvd package (NA-5085, 2011). But it does feature there's a 12' making of, footage of a 3' live version of "Makin' whoopee" (1972) and a 27' documentary by Charles Porter (1973 - check the KSB on holiday in Paris, Brussels, Louvain, Waterloo, Breda and Bonn). It's a mighty package with a 40 page booklet to boot … but it has only one flaw: there's no song author credits, making it difficult to find out which tracks are KSB originals and which are cover versions. Speaking of which: expect more "Shaft" covers in a future post + find a free download of Egon's extended edit of James Brown's "Super bad" (as featured on the 2005 US - but not Jazzman's 2002 UK - edition of "Texas Funk: Black Gold From The Lone Star State 1968-1975" v/a cd) via the Now-Again site:
http://www.nowagainrecords.com/tag/kashmere-stage-band/  [5 pages!]
http://www.austinchronicle.com/screens/2010-03-12/977581/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5599377
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/23/140539483/thunder-soul-70s-sensation-dusts-off-its-groove
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/28/140891879/summer-school-funk-five-tracks-out-of-1970s-houston
http://www.filmindependent.org/news-and-blog/mark-landsman-on-his-influences-and-thunder-soul/
http://edendale.typepad.com/weblog/2010/03/sxsw-2010-mark-landsmans-thunder-soul.html
http://stonesthrow.com/news/2011/06/kashmere-stage-band-thunder-soul-official-movie-trailer
http://www.indiewire.com/article/toolkit-case-study-the-long-road-of-thunder-soul
http://www.indiewire.com/article/interview_thunder_soul
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmere_Stage_Band
http://funky16corners.lunarpages.net/?p=2009
http://stonesthrow.com/funky16/kash.html
http://thundersoulmovie.com/
http://kashmere.org/

A 1974 stomper and four tracks off "Get Down With It: The Soul Sides 1963-67" (Kent CDKEND357, 2011-07), a compilation of some sixties solo recordings by the New Orleans drag queen and former front man of Huey 'Piano' Smith’s Clowns, including Marchan's 1967 remake of Smith's "Rockin' pneumonia" … "Funny style" is also featured on Kent's "The Fame Studio Story 1961-1973 Home Of The Muscle Shoals Sound" v/a 3cd, incidentally. More on that elsewhere.

As reissued on cd ànd lp by Vadim (2011): Jean-Claude Pelletier et son orchestre (vol. 5, Vogue 1974). The lp reprint is scheduled for 2011-12-08.

Four tracks off the uneven "Dynamic Grooves (Funk And Groovy Soul From The Vaults Of Scepter, Wand, Dynamo And Musicor)" v/a comp on BGP (2011-10, CDBGPD 242). Didn't know Jerry O had recorded football songs before he started writing for Humo with Tom P …

Finally a comprehensive Takeshi Terauchi compilation, made in Europe by Howard Williams for Big Beat … Mr. Terry's not just yer average Ventures influenced entertainer, but a bit of a fuzz and psychedelic guitar master too …
http://www.japrocksampler.com/artists/groupsounds/terauchi_and_the_bunnys_takeshi/
http://chindon.blogspot.com/2011/10/takeshi-terauchi-album-released.html
http://www.acerecords.co.uk/content.php?page_id=59&release=8850
http://www.acerecords.co.uk/content.php?page_id=59&release=8848
http://www.goofspot.com/bamboo/features/ftrc0112.htm
http://chindon.blogspot.com/search?q=Terauchi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi_Terauchi
http://www.fancymag.com/bunnys.html
http://elekiboom.com/

It's … the Fattoruso brothers from Montevideo! And João José Pereira "Raul" de Souza from Rio de Janeiro! As produced by Airto Moreira!
http://www.acerecords.co.uk/content.php?page_id=59&release=8733
http://www.acerecords.co.uk/content.php?page_id=59&release=8731

I.M. guitar master Bert Jansch (1943-11-03 > 2011-10-05). Didn't die of an overdose. Incidentally, "Blues run the game" (also covered by Nick Drake) was originally written & recorded by Jackson C. Frank.
http://www.bertjansch.com/
http://workandworry.com/?p=995
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Jansch
http://www.dragcity.com/artists/bert-jansch
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/oct/05/bert-jansch
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15179959
http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/2011/10/bert_jansch_a_tribute.html
http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/2011/10/farewell_bert_jansch_1943_2011.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/8808301/Bert-Jansch-guitar-wizard-dies-aged-67.html