Ted O'Reilly

I don't get it; she doesn't like jazz. Why should she be an expert on it? Or, OTOH, why should she write about it at all? Why would the paper give her space to expound on something she knows nothing about? Would they give that much room to her to her opinions on Iraq or oil production in the Arctic, based on her experience as a bra-shooper? I doubt it -- they'd be excoriated for allowing uninformed opinion. I guess it's my (out-dated) expectation that a newspaper should be on a higher plane, somehow, than Ms. Southey's self-indulgent blog writing. Just an opinion, nothing to get excited about... I

I started this, I better end it: turns out Tabatha Southey IS an expert on jazz, as shown by a web search: Tabatha Southey Articles by Tabatha Southey. Style. Behind the Cotton Curtain. The hazards of cross-cultural bra shopping. The Walrus July/Aug 2009 ... www.walrusmagazine.com/author/tabatha-southey/ Tabatha Southey - The Globe and Mail columnist Tabatha Southey has written the Elle Girl column for Elle Canada magazine for four years. ... www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/.../tabatha-southey/ This dispute's Carnivore's tenet that "I've always believed - and pretty much found that chicks and jazz exist on different planets". Cross-cultural bra shopping, Elle Girl columnist, jazz... What RANGE!

A nice dessert, especially with brandy.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nation...article1245175/

...Hope you didn't pay too much for that fancy screwdriver. The really fancy one is the Philip Seymour Hoffman screwdriver. We Canadians pity you poor Americans for not having the Robertson Screw, the best screw ever! (Okay, the second best :blush2: ). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertson_screwdriver

I dunno, Larry -- that's just a clock (and a boring one, according to Harry Lyme). Surely the Chairman of the Board would expect his own spelling...

Probably should be spelt "koo koo", as in "kooky/kookie" -- a definite '60s word, meaning "nutty, crazy (or maybe Krazy!)" I remember the '60s, even if I was there...

That "granny" is his mother! Great album, btw. It is definitely NOT his mother, or anyone he ever met. I asked Ruby about that album cover years ago, and he said it's a composite. He was photographed for a Broadway play he was in, and it was stripped into another picture. Braff appeared as "Pablo", in Pipe Dream, (Shubert Theatre, ran 11/30/1955 - 6/30/1956), a musical version of John Steinbeck's Suite Thursday. Braff HATED having to play exactly the same thing every night, as others depended on musical cues. But he got to know Steinbeck...

Why not go right to the producer, John Trudinger? His Nif Nuf page is at http://www.rockyotway.com/nifnufjazzrecordings.htm

Interesting to think that Garvin Bushell recorded with Jelly Roll Morton, AND John Coltrane. He's on "Greensleeves" from Africa/Brass, alongside Eric Dolphy in the reed section.

And then there was, from Hollywood Squares: Question: Should you train your very young children on the piano? Weaver: No, try newspapers.

Of course, Ms. Arquette is the granddaughter of Cliff Arquette, who performed as "Charlie Weaver". He had started out as a pianist, so his stuff often had musical overtones. One of his Letters From Momma in Mount Idy reported "We're all proud of Ludlow [bean]. When he first came to Mount Idy, he started out in a small way. He started as an organ grinder, with one small monkey. He worked hard and saved. Two years later he expanded--now he has a pipe organ and a gorilla. He doesn't have any trouble with people putting money in the cup now."

I wonder who wrote that tune? Someone named Hanes? Or maybe Joe Namath?

Unforgettable (to me anyway) closing lines... "What sort of a day was it? A day like every day, filled with those events that altered and illuminated our times. And You Were There." A brilliant way to teach history.

Don't you really mean BY himself?

Looks like someone didn't like the Maria Schneider concert... This one's under discussion on Doug Ramsey's Rifftides... http://communities.canada.com/montrealgaze...-bare-arms.aspx

Brown? And black/blue? I'm no fashionista, but...

It's a release on RLR (88646) taken from 4 different events, among which one purports to include Rob McConnell (tb) and possibly Harold Land (ts). I sat with McConnell last week, and he laughed at it... It's Brownie, but it ain't McConnell, and he has no idea who it might be. Also says it's not Land on tenor. McConnell says that while he met Clifford Brown, he never did play with him at any time. But he did hang out with Richie Powell when the Brown/Roach quintet played in Toronto, and learned several tunes from him, and was much impressed with Powell as knowledgeable and generous with his talent. The relevant session from July 28, 1955 has an oral clip from Brown saying the date, and that it's being recorded in "Quebec, Canada, province of Ontario". He's a bit confused, because that's like saying "Massachusetts, USA, state of Vermont"... McConnell and I think that it's possibly from Hull, Quebec, which is directly across a river from the Canadian capitol of Ottawa, Ontario. In the '50s Hull was the place for staid Ottawa civil servants to head for some fun.

Was it sent by mail or a courier service? I've been impressed by regular mail service lately -- maybe they're actually justifying the increased rates we've been paying. L' Atelier Grigorian is a first-class operation, just four stores in Ontario, operated by the founder, Harmik Grigorian. They are attractive, well-laid shops with knowledgeable staff, specializing in Classical first, with Jazz a very close second. They have good international connections, and have lots of imports you don't find in most stores any longer... I've not dealt with the online operation, so while I'm pleased that you've found them dependable, I'm not surprised. For anone interested: http://www.grigorian.com/webstore/main.php

Hmmm, could you do some deep research and come up with the name of the other half of the band?

Are you aware that there is no overlap between these two sets? The new Canadian Verve box has the 1959 stereo albums with the drums trio, whereas the Avid set has the 1951-54 mono albums with the guitar trio. ....AND, while one can't be a slave to the original owners these days, I guess, the new 5 disc set, and the Mosaic are legit! Is the Avid? At 35 bucks or so for 5 discs, you can surely afford to be moral, and support the rights holder.

Hines did a couple of fine solo LPs in the early '70s for the Swaggie label from Australia that are well worth searching out as CD reissues: "Earl Hines plays George Gershwin" (CD 403) was done in New York; "The Australian Sessions" (CD 405) was taped in Sydney and Melbourne studios. Naturally, that one includes Waltzing Matilda.

Agreed! And I only have two of them on LP.

Well, to quote myself from about 10 days ago, "...these are very pleasant recordings, done for easy listening rather than stretching boundaries. I like 'em.." I don't think they ever were intended or destined to be classics. Their individual releases were spaced out, remember, and they were listened to 20 minutes at a time, stacked on the old Collaro Continental changer with the Shearing and the Getz and maybe the Garner... Listen to them that way again, or just have them playing while cooking dinner. They're fine.

"for my girlfriend .....99,9% of jazz are either kitsch or noise or both" Well, Niko, I trust she has other qualities. Got any pictures?