AllenLowe

so basically they are selling it only because the money is irresistable - not because they need the money, or because it's worth the money, or even because they want to sell it - class dismissed (that's if anybody is still in attendance) - .

Well, here's some grafitti I saw years ago in the bathroom at Bradley's: "Republicans, how can you shit here when your asshole is in Washington?" -

I do wonder sometimes if things like Coda have a death wish - good little magazine, but in my brief experience they never returned numerous emails or phone calls - I know there were only a few people doing a lot of work, but I've had this experience before with organizations that are so dependent upon the support of a dedicated few and yet who can't seem to get the basics together -

wait - I just found something under my bed - nah, it's just dust -

will you take my personal IOU? If I don't pay you in thirty days you can keep the IOU -

per-racism by white musicians and jazz audience - racism has many levels - it's not always of the white-sheet/klan kind - however a discussion of THAT sort is more complicated than my meager mind an handle right now. But, yes, I have seen/heard racist displays/comments by such people, though it's likely that they themselves did not regard them as such - -

sour grapes? I have some of those too - $50 a pound -

best spray for CD and CDR scratches: Optrix - I got it from North Country Audio -

Sorry - I don't actually have the box, but somewhere I have a Mosaic catalog that mentions it - or maybe it's a copy of a jazz magazine that mentions the Mosaic catalog - or maybe it's a copy of a jazz advertisment that mentions a magazine that once reviewed a Nat Cole record that might be in the box - well, whatever, send me $500 and I'll send something back that maybe has to do with someone who once listened to a Nat Cole record - or who at least KNOWS someone who has listened to a Nat Cole record - or maybe it's Natalie Cole - whatever -

and they're worth every penny - literally -

Actually I have known white jazz fans who were racists - and white jazz musicians -

now wait a minute - I just thought of something - the SUPPLY of jazz is HUGE - I mean, everybody and his brother has got a CD out, there's musicians in every town, big bands, small bands, high schools, colleges, here there and everywhere, there's web sites, magazines, Amazon, jazz clubs, you name it, in the US, in Europe, in Eastern Europe - but the DEMAND is small - look at the industry numbers, the percentage of jazz releases sold - so the PRICES should be excessively low - and that guy should be GIVING that Nat Cole box away - class dimissed -

I dunno - according to the guys on another thread this is all according to the law of supply and demand -

hm....Kenny G...jews... death camps...this thread has taken an odd turn...

I'll bet Ellis is quite pleased and very proud - what was that old saying about the leaf not falling far from the tree... (I think I have this wrong but you get the idea)

the early stuff is on Swingtime, which did put out a boxed set some years ago that had a fair amount of Charles - there are also some Charley-issued CDs that are OK -

"Kenny G's music is desirable to some ears and detestable to others, and nobody likes or dislikes it because he is Jewish. " Actually I am a little embarrassed that this guy is Jewish - makes us all look bad - but seriously folks, I think one of the things that has made Wynton's public utterances so annoying is the influence of Crouch - I have noticed that he often responds with that awful Crouchian syntax, bad metaphors, poor grammar, sadly unbalanced coloquialisms that come out sounding like the phrasing of the truly uneducated - I feel like his lips are moving but that Crouch is talking -

your mother sows socks that smell -

I understand, but I think that what the oil companies do does not conform with those laws - it subverts, inverts, and perverts them - we'll have to pull John Kenneth Galbreath in here -

it is important, in my opinion, to separate the political objections to Wynton from the musical objections. Honestly I have not listened to much, mostly because I find him and Crouch so personally damned annoying. I have heard some of his playing on the local public station blind, that was quite good - I mean solos. I also heard, one night, a big band piece on public radio; I had no idea who it was, but I kept thinking, this is awful, pretensious, cloying, wanna-bee Ellington - and, guess who? Wynton. The problem is, if he did not have all this poliitical baggage, we would probably regard him with more musical respect - on the other hand, he's making millions, so he does not give a shi* -

I have lots of old CDs with many scuffs - never had a problem playing them -

well, now my head is spinning, and that's not a pretty sight - when it comes to energy prices, I will say, if you think it has anything to do with the market and supply and demand than you haven't lived through the last 40 years of oil company lies and profiteering - basically what happens is that the companies (which control ALL ends of the market - it's called vertical integration) invent fake shortages, wait until the prices go up and stay stable, and than say, good, supplies are fine. We can argue this all night and day, but that's the reality. Now, saying that all of this price gouging is inevitable and that there's no solution except natural market selection is like saying, well, crime is inevitable, you just have to let it play out in nature's natural way - B.S., I say. Do we let people rob liquor stores just because shit happerns and it's hard to prevent? No, we pass laws and we regulate. Now, with Mosaic it would be impossible to regulate; it can't be done and it would entail the klind of repressive laws that you and I do not enjoy. So what's left? Buyer rationality; personal ethics. Live by your word. I do - I sell things and I charge a fair price for them and I don't gouge no matter how desparate people are for them (and I think this is confirmed by my recent dealings withpeople on this site). Sell things for whatever you want; get a fair profit; but don't delude yourself into thinking that, in the big world, things run by the rules of economics 101 -

I havent heard the Walter Bishop, but I must admit I find much of his later stuff a bit disjointed - it's funny, I worked with him for a few weeks in Hartford in the early 1990s (I think it was) - and at times he could really nail the bebop thing in a beautiful and deep way, at other times he was just a bit out of synch - another older musician lost in trying to sound "contemporary" - wonderful guy, though, and talking to him was the closest I ever got to Bud Powell - -

all right, I'll leave the economics to the college boys - the somewhat ironic thing in all of this is that I don't own a single Mosiaic - nothing against the label, I just have a mild aversion to boxed sets, and have tended to own most of what they offer in other formats that I purchased earlier. Nothing against the label, as I said, and I knew Charlie Lourie, who was a sweetheart of a guy.

this is unfortunate. I remember seeing Don Byas on PBS in the late 1960s - likely that's gone, too -