Stereojack

Near the beginning of disc 2, I swear I heard Brian ask "Are you guys feeling the acid yet?" I treated myself to the deluxe box. The sessions are similar to the Pet Sounds box, in that we can hear Brian building the music from the bottom up, part by part, until each section is completed/realized. Even this many years after the fact, this is fantastic stuff.

Can't see it!

I attended Lennie's many times back then. These photos bring some wonderful memories!

The writing has been on the wall for a little while now. About a year ago he stopped appearing regularly, only showing up about once a month. Now I wonder if perhaps he had a terminal illness, and knew that his time was coming. I always enjoyed his commentaries, and it goes without saying that a lot of us will miss him.

As I recall, Mangione was wearing a silver double breasted suit, with slicked back hair, and his whole demeanor struck me as a jive hipster, who he had no right to be because he was white (I was pretty young at the time). Looking back, I think we may have been rather harsh on Mangione, who probably had to endure a fair amount of crap for being white in a band that had always been black. The "hippie" image he had adopted by the 70's served him better. Limelight was probably smart in not including any photos of the band in the jacket. Jarrett was young and serious; there was none of the ego tripping that he indulged in later.

I like "Buttercorn Lady", although it seems to rate low among Blakey fans for some reason. I saw this group live at the time, and was put off by the rather jive antics (or so we thought) of Chuck Mangione, but years later when I finally heard the record, it was way better than I expected. "Hold On I'm Comin'" is strictly for the completist.

Elisha Cook Jr.

For me, I'd say that my "connection" was really the result of an intellectual (laughing at myself) exercise. I don't think I appreciated Bluesnik until I put it into context - it's all variations on the blues. I keep that "blues" lower case, because it's not all 12-bar "classical" Blues. (Rather like St. Louis Blues or Birth of the Blues) It shows both the versatility of the form and the creativity of McLean, Drew and Hubbard, as composers. I like "Bluesnik" a lot - always have. Different strokes, I guess.

Jackie's Prestige dates are largely blowing sessions, but the blowing is very good, especially on "Lights Out" and "A Long Drink of the Blues". The Blue Note dates are, for the most part, more ambitious, better organized and focussed. I especially like "One Step Beyond", "Destination Out", "A Fickle Sonance", to name three.

Sorry, Jack. Just a guess because I know you've been around for a while. BTW, who among us here is the oldest? I'm 69 -- surely it can't be me? Ted O'Reilly, perhaps? I'm 66. Started going out to hear live jazz in 1963.

Angie Dickinson?

Simply because there aren't that many people on Organissimo who are old enough to have heard that band? Stereojack perhaps. I'm not that old! I did see a reunion of Stitt and Ammons in 1970 at the Monterey Jazz Festival, right after Ammons got out of the joint. Stitt was playing the Varitone, and Jug carved him! I saw Stitt several times, and for my money, he usually played well. The last time I saw him was in 1982 in New Orleans, and I recall vividly reacting emotionally to a lovely rendition of Stardust, a tune that he had probably played a thousand times. He was dead a few months later.

Adrienne Barbeau. Yes, the full body shot would have been helpful.

I've already gone to IMDB armed with the clues you provided, GA, so I'm disqualified from the guessing. But let me say this - you'll be lucky to get a winner on this one!

Post #56 in this thread is the most up-to-date news. We'll be around for at least another year.

Quinn and Basehart were both in Fellini's "La Strada". Might Crawford have also appeared in a Fellini film?

I got to see Bert in solo performances twice in recent years, and it was absolutely spellbinding. A brilliant performer.

I believe it is Richard Basehart.

I'm gonna say Linda Evans.

Definitely a 12 inch cover.

Just saw it last night. Very moving and inspiring! Having played in stage bands in high school, I was very impressed with the level of musicianship.

No surprise. He's only been appearing about once a month for the past year or so.

Thought that was pretty lame to be honest. We'll see what it's like without Wayens, Jr. I agree with Lon. Deschanel is cute, even adorable, but she tries to hard to be goofy on this, and it's irritating. And the less said about the three roommates, the better.

Sorry, but I have to disagree. The "store front" locale of the show and the connection to the neighborhood was the main appeal of the show. This year they've dropped the neighborhood characters, and transformed it into another slick lawyer show, replete with a cast of pretty people. The addition of the insufferable Christopher McDonald as a regular cast member doesn't help either. As much as I like Kathy Bates, I think she's going to buried before long.

Ann-Margret