johnblitweiler

ah, memories...

Lucas Duda Carol Doda Toto

Seeing that "Martin Williams near nightmare" title made me expect you'd tell about one of his nightmares. In real life 2 piano players threatened to kill him if he wrote another review of their albums. Also he said that one night he was to take a plane from Boston but while he was at that airport by the ocean, his flight was delayed than cancelled and he was moved to the next flight. Weather somewhere in the East. 2 hours later that next flight was cancelled and he was moved to the flight after that. Which was also cancelled. Martin got the fear that night and said he never took a plane anywhere again.

Two that immediately come to mind tonight: I'm very fond of the arrangements by Schlippenbach and Aki Takase in the CD "So Long, Eric: Homage to Eric Dolphy" and of the Schlippenbach trio's part of Evan Parker's birthday concert. "Monk's Casino" was a noble project, but jamming 72 Monk songs onto 3 CDs sounds to me like trying to view landmarks from an express train.

Having lived for half a year (in 1964) halfway between Menomonie and Eau Claire, WI, I wonder/how EI got exposed to jazz in his youth.

Huey Dewey and Louie Uncle Scrooge Bob Cratchit

Did that announcer really say "f-----" over the air?

Success! Thanks mjzee and Bev.

Does Anthony Ortega solo on any of those big band pieces? Larry, thanks - never heard this Getz LP before.

Dear Ann Landers The Man I Love The Man You Love to Hate

So I bought a download of a Hatology album from eMusic, my credit card paid for it on Sept. 24, and I thought I downloaded it back then. Haven't found it among the music or downloads on this computer, though. Did they hide it somewhere on my computer? Or didn't they really download it to me? How to find out? Their website is completely uninformative. How can a customer contact a human being at eMusic?

Nosy Parker Banana Nose Bonura Chiquita

I take it back, Scott may be right, I don't remember having to huddle in my seat so much on the most recent airplane ride plus the airplane seats were cleaner..

no reason to buy Playboy any more

Last month for the 2nd time this century I went to Wrigley Field. Again, for the cheapest seats, paid twice what the cheapest White Sox ticket cost - nothing wrong with that, Cubs were in a wild-card race - but again wound up in the lower deck behind a post, had to watch most infield plays on the scoreboard replay. Had to go down 4 long flights of stairs to the mens' latrine and wait in a long, long line to stand in urine. The stadium was dirty, food selection small, seats airplane-tiny. A really lousy experience. It was a dump compared to where I usually go, the current Sox Park where it's clean and there are plenty of room for all, restrooms with dry floors and a variety of concessions on both decks, and the only thing wrong is my mismanaged (from owner on down) baseball team. I love these young Cubs' opportunism - the bunting, stealing remind me somewhat of the Go-Go Sox of my teenaged years, plus they hit home runs now and then. No doubt there are still some old drunks who get moony over the Lovable Losers of the Sandberg-Grace-etc. years, but these bright young guys seem to have a future. Maybe Arrietta vs. Greinke next week?

somehow the ideas of bebop and Spartan don't seem to go together

Little Boy Blue Big Girl Yang Guifei

I prefer cultured buttermilk.

You and Jimmy Yancey, the greatest White Sox of them all.

Promising, yes. It would be better if the Caravan Of Dreams music was on CDs. In fact, a scholar-archivist-recordist needs to listen to Ornette's collection of tapes, identify the musicians and dates, get permissions, and arrange for the release of all that music on CD. A few years ago (well, more than a few) I'd been eagerly awaiting the imminent release of the Ornette-Ayler-Tyler-Fred Lyman session (ca. 1965) on CD. Denardo probably knows about this aborted project.

Neville Marinner recordings are good if you go for big lush orch. sound and swooning crescendos. For me, perfection is tiresome.

Clifford, what do you mean by "more or less"?

Phantom Dancer The Shadow Invisible Man

The best article that Rex Stewart wrote was his long piece about racism in jazz during the swing era etc. It was in Playboy in the Jazz Poll issue in, I think, the year he died - the would make it about the Feb. 1967 issue. It was not reprinted in Stewart's book "Jazz Masters of the Thirties" because Playboy would not give him the rights to reprint it. I'd love to see that article again. Do any Organissimo folks collect 1967 Playboys? Jim, put on your glasses