AllenLowe

agreed - part of the problem with Shearing from that era is that he occasionally tries to sound "boppish", but has no real feeling for that style.

actually, now that you mention it, I heard Chuck Wayne say, one night on Al Haig's gig (maybe 1976) that HE had invented the Shearing sound, had suggested the voicing, and that Shearing never gave him credit for it. Later, Bill Triglia, who was a nut but a reliable witness, told me he thought this was true. Haig, who was also a nut, did not venture an opinion. I told another veteran jazz guy about this and he said "those guys are all fuckin' crazy, but Chuck's probably telling the truth." who knows.....

I call it Queasy Listening.

you may know that this is based on a true story in which Sinatra went to an integrated school up near Harlem, I think it was, to stop race fighting. One attendee of that school was Sonny Rollins. it is interesting, however, that that little film NEVER mentions race.

Hemphill

not to cast a pall here, but there is NO mention of Charlie Lourie, who was not only one of the founders but one of the nicest people ever in the jazz biz. How could they not mention him?

it's ok, it's mono

great story and a worthy subject.

Ike was a great musician going back to the stuff he did for Sun and some other labels in the '50s. I mean, as Lenny Bruce might say, raping a few women doesn't make anybody bad -

"He was called Bunny. " probably after that rabbit in Fatal Attraction.

how about 3 less albums?

Kevin - my wife had similar problems a few years ago which turned out to be TMJ, and she was helped by dental assistance as well as special things in her shoes. This may not be your problem, as your symptoms fit a lot of things (have they looked at Meniere's?); hope your doctor is paying attention. sorry, too, to hear about your dog. I'm about as attached to mine as is possible, and this stuff is very difficult. as for the empty house....wish mine was empty. Hopefully, you'll get used to it.

"Hamiet Bluiett? You never know when he might decide to kill everyone in the room." -famous musician to me, Summer of 2008

well, we care - or we wouldn't ask. I actually think there's some interesting stuff going on in Mobley's solo.

great singer, King of Sandwiches!

sorry, as a doctor I see such things every day.

that's the one I've got too - Collectables, however, did some absolutely horrible remastering. They ruined the Atlantic catalog, and I've got a Della Reese they destroyed.

we will have to depend on the element of surprise -

I would tend to avoid any Collectables reissue, but I don't know what is the best current available CD of the Paris concert.

that Paris concert is amazing - also has Ray Nance playing a LONG fiddle solo on the suite based on John Steinbeck, as I recall.

there's a grimly amusing story in one of Gerald Early's books - when he was working for a social service agency in Philadelphia, most of his fellow black co-workers were into everything but jazz, they preferred soul music, r&b, etc. Early was always proselytizing, he says, about the importance of the "great black heritage" of jazz. One day one of his co-workers came in and said, "hey if you wanna see some of that great black heritage, go down to South Street, and you'll see it lying in the gutter throwing up." The person he was referring to turned out to be Mobley -

well, we could sterilize him, make sure this is the end of the line.

Chuck - I worked for Minute Man at that time (1975) - Moe Levy was the silent partner. later I worked in the warehouse, which was full of Roulette cutouts.

funny, that was the one Shearing album that my mother owned -

cliches and empty gestures: 1) things that have been played to death, shallow ideas that are flashy and fancy sounding but really just touch the surface - 2) splashy shiny sounds that are just empty from a conceptual, intellectual, and emotional perspective.