Michael Fitzgerald

I would prefer it if someone would try to *elevate* the quality, not pander to the juvenile audience. Plenty of kids LOVED the original movies - as I read in an online review talking about Jar-Jar Binks: ----- His head gets caught in an electronic field, his foot gets caught in the stirrup of some large beast, he describes being in trouble as "deep doo doo," and even manages to step in some of the same while walking around in Mos Eisley Spaceport. Therein lies a key difference between this film and one of its predecessors. In STAR WARS, we had Obi-Wan telling us Mos Eisley was a "wretched hive of scum and villainy." In THE PHANTOM MENACE, we get doo doo. ------ Give kids something worthy and they WILL like it. You don't need to go for the lowest common denominator. It works in movies, music, whatever. I've seen it myself. Mike

Do you mean for his Star Wars pictures or his work overall? Because I'd rank Catch Me If You Can far beyond the formulaic Star Wars stuff. His Harry Potter stuff is even worse. I remember The Empire Of The Sun as being quite good, better than Star Wars, in my view. Mike

Well, if basic multiplication counts, then yes. But remember the audience for this stuff. ======================== Three is a magic number Yes it is, it's a magic number Somewhere in the ancient, mystic trinity You get three as a magic number The past and the present and the future Faith and hope and charity The heart and the brain and the body Give you three as a magic number It takes three legs to make a tripod or to make a table stand It takes three wheels to make a vehicle called a tricycle Every triangle has three corners Every triangle has three sides No more, no less You don't have to guess When it's three you can see it's a magic number A man and a woman had a little baby Yes, they did They had three in the family And that's a magic number 3-6-9, 12-15-18, 21-24-27, 30 3-6-9, 12-15-18, 21-24-27, 30 Now, the multiples of three Come up three times in each set of ten In the first ten you get 3, 6, 9 And in the "-teens" ten it's 12, 15, and 18 And in the "twenties" you get 21, 24, 27 And it comes out even on 30 Now multiply backwards from three times ten 3 x 10 is 30 3 x 9 is 27 3 x 8 is 24 3 x 7 is 21 3 x 6 is 18 3 x 5 is 15 3 x 4 is 12 And 3 x 3 is 9 And 3 x 2 is 6 And 3 x 1 is 3 of course Now dig the pattern once more Three! 3-6-9 Twelve! 12-15-18 Twenty-one! 21-24-27, 30 Yeah, thirty Now multiply from 10 backwards 3 x 10 is 30 (keep goin') 3 x 9 is 27 3 x 8 is 24 3 x 7 is 21 3 x 6 is 18 3 x 5 is 15 3 x 4 is 12 And 3 x 3 is 9 And 3 x 2 is 6 And 3 x 1... What is it? Three! Yeah... That's a magic number A man and a woman had a little baby Yes, they did They had three in the family That's a magic number ======================== Mike

The fundamental flaw was the introduction of pop culture into the movies. It's out of place and doesn't belong. The canteen band in the first movie was about as much as I could take - and even that wasn't really the stuff of today, because it was swing, not funk, R&B - like what has been put into the revised third movie. I have blocked out a lot of the last two movies, though I did see a bit of the fourth movie on TV a few days ago. Two-headed sportscasters? Give me a break. That's just stupid and juvenile. Lucas is so concerned with updating his movies - yet he puts in stuff that just immediately removes the magic and dates them. The past two movies will never be in the same class as the first two. The third seems to be worse now (another one that was on TV recently) - I don't remember it being quite that bad in the theater, but it was a long time ago, in a..... Oh enough. Mike

Three *is* well-established as a very significant number - come on, Holy Trinity anyone? And the song does lay out some of the other things: a father, mother, baby; faith, hope, charity; etc. Of course, numerologists could make the case that any number is a magic number. Mike

Yes. This info from my database has incomplete issue information. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: October 25, 1951 Location: Chicago, IL Label: Columbia Ahmad Jamal (ldr), Ray Crawford (g), Ahmad Jamal (p), Eddie Calhoun (b) a. CCO5288-4 The Surrey With The Fringe On The Top - 02:49 (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) Portrait CD: RK 44394 - Poinciana (1989) b. CCO5289-2 Will You Still Be Mine - 02:41 (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) Portrait CD: RK 44394 - Poinciana (1989) c. CCO5290-2 Rica Pulpa - 02:31 (Eliseo Grenet) d. CCO5291-1 Perfidia - 02:54 (Alberto Dominguez, Milton Leeds) Unknown percussionist plays shaker on c. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 5, 1952 Location: Chicago, IL Label: Columbia Ahmad Jamal (ldr), Ray Crawford (g), Ahmad Jamal (p), Eddie Calhoun (b) a. CCO5337-1 Aki And Ukthay (Brother And Sister) - 03:04 (Ahmad Jamal) b. CCO5338-2 Billy Boy - 02:37 (Traditional) c. CCO5339-3 Ahmad's Blues - 02:53 (Ahmad Jamal) d. CCO5340-1 A Gal In Calico - 02:34 (Leo Robin, Arthur Schwartz) All titles on: - Portrait CD: RK 44394 - Poinciana (1989) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: October 25, 1955 Location: New York City Label: Columbia Ahmad Jamal (ldr), Ray Crawford (g), Ahmad Jamal (p), Israel Crosby (b) a. CO53895 Perfidia (Alberto Dominguez, Milton Leeds) Epic LP 12": LN 3212 - The Ahmad Jamal Trio b. CO53896 Slaughter On Tenth Avenue - 04:50 (Richard Rodgers) Portrait CD: RK 44394 - Poinciana (1989) c. CO53897 Old Devil Moon - 03:43 (E. Y. Harburg, Burton Lane) Portrait CD: RK 44394 - Poinciana (1989) d. CO53898 Black Beauty (Duke Ellington) Epic LP 12": LN 3212 - The Ahmad Jamal Trio e. CO53899 Don't Blame Me (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) Epic LP 12": LN 3212 - The Ahmad Jamal Trio f. CO53900 Rica Pulpa (Eliseo Grenet) Epic LP 12": LN 3212 - The Ahmad Jamal Trio g. CO53901 Autumn Leaves [aka Les Feuilles Mortes] (Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prevert, Johnny Mercer) Epic LP 12": LN 3212 - The Ahmad Jamal Trio h. CO53902 Crazy He Calls Me - 04:57 (Carl Sigman, Sidney Keith Russell) Portrait CD: RK 44394 - Poinciana (1989) i. CO53903 They Can't Take That Away From Me (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) Epic LP 12": LN 3212 - The Ahmad Jamal Trio j. CO53904 It's Easy to Remember - 03:55 (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) Portrait CD: RK 44394 - Poinciana (1989) k. CO53905 Squeeze Me (Fats Waller, Clarence Williams) Epic LP 12": LN 3212 - The Ahmad Jamal Trio l. CO53906 Something To Remember You By (Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz) Epic LP 12": LN 3212 - The Ahmad Jamal Trio m. CO53907 Poinciana - 03:33 (Buddy Bernier, Nat Simon) Portrait CD: RK 44394 - Poinciana (1989) n. CO53908 The Donkey Serenade (Chet Forrest, Bob Wright, Rudolph Friml, Herbert Stothart) Epic LP 12": LN 3212 - The Ahmad Jamal Trio o. CO53909 Love For Sale (Cole Porter) Epic LP 12": LN 3212 - The Ahmad Jamal Trio p. CO53910 Pavanne - 04:24 (Morton Gould) Portrait CD: RK 44394 - Poinciana (1989) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike

The annoying thing is that Sony could do a list of this quality and quantity every six months. We could be hanging on their reissue series the way we used to for the Verve Elites, or the Blue Note Connoisseurs. Mike

I thought it was William Claxton's wife, Peggy Moffitt. Mike

There's about a three year difference 1958 (Golson) to 1961 (Jones). Can't really say whether the single came out before the LP or after - but maybe Blues March on the single was just an error someone made. Mike

This site has information that contradicts Lord about the contents of PJ 29. It also says that Sad March and Blues March are the same thing. http://mitglied.lycos.de/condouant/carmell1.html Mike

Now, on to more important things...... Hal Kusick? McKusick's Father? Mike

Princeton Record Exchange, close to Rt 1 in NJ. www.prex.com You will drop enough money (on reasonably priced items) that you won't need any other stores. Mike

Your due diligence is appreciated and rewarded! Mike

Brother Mike

Yes, this is quite clearly laid out in the notes to the Riverside box. Four-string tenor guitar at age 12, six-string and amp purchased after first child born - Wes actually aged 20, not 19. Brother Monk Montgomery: Wes "was doing a good job on guitar by the time he was 12 or 13." Widow Serene Montgomery: "He was always a musician, but he wasn't playing like when he was older. When he had that 4-string guitar, he would play a little while and then ride his bike or play football. He would only talk to us so long before he'd go off with his box." Mike

Ray Linn (t) Barney Kessel or Howard Roberts (g) Paul Smith or Jimmie Rowles (p) Joe Mondragon (b) Milt Holland or Alvin Stoller (d) Mike

There are a number of places to hear Tootie tootle the flute - all from the 1970s period. One of the tracks on "Marchin' On" by the Heath Brothers comes to mind where Jimmy and Albert both play flutes, then on Kenny Barron's Peruvian Blue, and he also played it when with Yusef Lateef. See my Kenny Barron discography (check personnel index to find dates with AH on flute). Mike

Well, I'm more likely to trust the Montgomery family's account of Wes starting at age 12 than Herb Alpert. Mike

Until someone comes back with concrete info courtesy of Sony, it's all speculation. Until the Legacy reissue of The Jazz Messengers, no one knew about some of those bonus tracks. Why couldn't such a thing happen again with Drum Suite? As for Stepping Stones, the band was recorded over two days at the Vanguard. I don't think it's unreasonable to think that something other than Escape Velocity could be added. Think of the Dexter Gordon Live at Carnegie that came out MUCH expanded. Am I wrong in remembering that there was talk (with Cuscuna as source?) about an expanded Stepping Stones a number of years back? As for Manhattan Symphonie, I'd be quite happy with the straight album, but discographies list several CBS sessions with unissued stuff, including "Secret Love" from the same quartet session as the issued "As Time Goes By". I'd have to check, but I'm not sure we've seen all the stuff originally on Great Encounters - some became the Carnegie record, some were bonus tracks on Sophisticated Giant. Mike

Half and half, but I think even the drum suite is less of a percussion-only thing than Holiday or Orgy. The Messengers stuff is the McLean, Hardman band. Mike

It's about time!!!! This is stuff that should have been reissued in the US in definitive editions 20 years ago. So much is long-awaited - the Gordon, the Jamal, the Shaw - my next question is whether any others will have additional material. I've got almost everything already in LP or import CD, but if you're offering bonus tracks on something like Drum Suite, I'm there! Mike

Be aware that Tootie Heath also played flute (wooden, I believe) with the Heath Brothers. Sometimes both he and Jimmy would play together. Mike

Very interesting! And that date is good to know too - Stitt's other Wingate stuff has been listed as "1950s?" which has got to be wrong. Mike

Google - "stitt's groove" - 9 results. Check 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Mike

I see 4 or 5 folks listing the Marr/Stitt single online. As low as $6. I kind of think they are different tunes. No idea whether Stitt and Marr actually play together. Mike