Chuck Nessa

Charles Brackeen Rhythm X. Not really a Strata recording, but my choice for the most interesting release. Same disclaimer for my 2nd favorite, Clifford Jordan's Glass Bead Games.

Stanley Turrentine Dearly Beloved. Now putting on Muhal Richard Abrams Lifea Blinec .

Went back to your post and did some counting. Didn't look for "me" or "my", but there are 5 mentions of Hawk and 10 "I"s. Maybe I was wrong.

I don't think the feedback was beyond normal expectations for this kind of thing. I don't think any claim of "bootlegs" is warrented. Seems to be one of thousands of private tapes. I don't know the folks and think they deserve the benefit of the doubt.

I hate it when that happens.

Why am I not surprised? Let us all make the deaths of famous people "all about us". Geez. I can't wait to post about my "really important" personal reactions to the the deaths of JFK and MLK.

I'm sure Mike meant Stuart Broomer.

Modern Album was a record jacket printer/fabricator. They sold out in the early '80s and eventually closed down.

Have you seen any doctors since then?

I don't agree at all. If you are not excluding the first phrase of my post, you be "nuts". Need to get some air!

If you don't know him, do a search. Unless I misspelled something.

Depending on the rest of your collection, this is the "more money than brains" syndrome.

That would be sad unless the programming was lame. Should be room for both.

A musician/friend with nothing to gain, no ax to grind, told me this story 20+ years ago. He was at RVG's for one of the big band sessions for Bashin' and Jimmy was a no-show. To save the session, Creed Taylor called in Lloyd Mayers to imitate Jimmy. Anyone out there to confirm or deny?

The BNs are where he defined the style and where the most "jazz" resides. The bulk of the Verves are fine documents of his playing but much of it is too commercially oriented to beat out the BNs for my taste.

Can't 'splain that one Aggie.

Not sure why, but some sets are harder/impossible to find on the Yourmusic site when compared with BMG. I have found a way around this. Look up and individual title, such as "The Count Basie Story" and the address looks like this http://www.yourmusic.com/browse/album/60249.html - then find the item you want on the BMG site and the address is http://www.bmgmusic.com/catalog/product/cd...productId=54991 . Now enter the 5 digit product number in place of the number on the Yourmusic address. The above example finds the Verve Charlie Parker master takes box. Got the Granz Jam Sessions set ordered for $24.95 and the Parker for $14.97.

It is a decent, not great, record. Quartet with Jimmy Jones, Al Hall and Oliver Jackson. It was originally on English Columbia. If you are hunting for tenors on MJR, find the Julian Dash first.

Peggy Lee?

About 40.

Yeah, they'd have to include the Gloria Smythe material and I don't think that would be a great attraction.

That's why I've got a bead on that Black & Blue LP Chuck mentioned! B-) I forgot to mention the leader was Oliver Jackson. Hope this helps.

The series is listed on the Verve site with a March 15 release date.

Jo Stafford.