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Lu Watters and Turk Murphy were fairly serious white players in the revival--so serious the music can sometimes sound like it was collected for a museum--but Good Time Jazz preserved most of their work, and Watters even got a fairly nice box.
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Went to see "One Life" with Anthony Hopkins. It's a weeper, but well made, I thought.
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In Phil Schaap's supplemental notes to the cd release, Mulligan said he liked this one the best of his "meets" albums for Granz. They do appear to be enjoying the date.
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8 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:
I keep expecting my kids (6+3) to like that stuff more than they do.
That's about the right age. I have to feel like I'm 3 or 6 to like them......which I do on rare occasions!!
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On 3/22/2024 at 2:22 PM, Rabshakeh said:
This was intended as a joke, but I popped into Rough Trade today during an office fire drill to see the second hand racks (and I mean display racks, not the Sale boxes) full of Dixieland.
They'd obviously bought a job lot of old jazz from somewhere. The swing comps and west coast stuff (some quite significant records in the latter category) were stuck into the sale box, but the Dixieland went on the racks.
I have to be in the (very!) right mood, but I've been known occasionally to listen to the FF+2!
I recently got this one, mostly for Rosolino, but I like Bob Burgess's trombone on it too. And the sound is good.
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Now listed as running low/last chance.
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I note this one is now rated running low/last chance.
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Happy birthday, Mr. Shatner! While I am a hopelessly committed Trekker, I still think his best work was with James Spader on "Boston Legal"!
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14 hours ago, sgcim said:
The great thing about the book is that Chambers played with literally every artist who came to NYC during the time period you mentioned, from Tina Brooks to Wilbur Hardin, to Dave Burns to Billy Mitchell, etc...and the author gives some background on each one, and tells how they played on each cut of the albums they played on. His agreement with Miles was that he could record and gig with anyone that called him if Miles didn't have a gig with him, so he was doing one night in Chicago, followed by one night in NY followed by another night in Chicago! He told people that he wasn't going to live to be 30.
In the event, he proved sadly prophetic, dying at 33. What a great bassist he was!
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On 3/17/2024 at 3:58 PM, Ken Dryden said:
I wonder if a Capitol boxed set of Cannonball Adderley would have any appeal? The CDs are pretty much out of print.
I think we may have discussed that possibility before, maybe in the first go-round of this topic. If memory serves, it would be a pretty big set, though I'd certainly be up for it.
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From the Complete Riverside box.
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On 3/13/2024 at 10:25 AM, Rooster_Ties said:
Literally just saw American Fiction — finished moments ago, in fact. What a great movie!!
Noticed Patrice Rushen did the score and much of the soundtrack.
Yes, I loved that one, especially the ending. I thought all the best pic noms were good this year...well, all I've seen. Haven't seen "Anatomy of a Fall" yet.
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Listening to Disc "C." Sound was good on these radio transcriptions.
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I love movies and go see a lot of them, so I always watch the Oscars. Of course, living on the west coast helps. I record it and then can fast forward through a lot of the glop. Robert Downey had a cool speech, Ryan Gosling did a good musical number, and Kimmel was ok.
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5 hours ago, Brad said:
Is this your first time reading this?
Catcher in the Rye, even today, is a book people like to ban. According to one site I saw, “The American Library Association states that The Catcher in the Rye has been banned by schools and public libraries for having ‘excess vulgar language, sexual scenes, things concerning moral issues, excessive violence and anything dealing with the occult’ and ‘communism,’ among other things.” Yeah, that’s the whole point of reading it! I still have my original copy that I read back in 9th or 10th grade in 1965 or 1966.
Me too--and in about the same year and grade! Handed to me under a desk by a friend as if we were in a spy movie!
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Hmmm. Wonder what they'd pay for all my Buddy Bolden cylinders........
and those Earl Hines early 40s airchecks with Bird and Diz....
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This time, an Ellington cd at random, listening to Tricky Sam Nanton playing the plunger on "Johnny Come Lately"
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Closed my eyes and ran my fingers along the A's and came up with this one. Fun date.
So, What Are You Listening To NOW?
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