Jazz Kat

I think the most thrilling reading comes from old issues, like from the 50's and 60's. But yeah, its important to read the latest, also.

Sounds even more different than the Metheny Group.

I most love them because it's where I find out about the new RVG reissues. And this place too. A year ago, I was on my own with jazz, no one to talk to, ask questions...

I recently ran into a guy selling old issues of Downbeat. 6 bucks, starting off, then they get lower as you buy more. I bought a couple. My dad wanted the ones with a couple of musicians from the Tijuana Brass in it. I particularly like the Hugh Masekela article in the most recent issue, and the Blindfold tests.

Man this guy had 100 plus takes of one song on his A&M Wave album. Damn! Joao Pamla, is my favorite musician from the album.

Oh, I just thought of great one. AL HIRT. Sometimes his stuff gets me out of a slum, but if he played some real complex jazz, it'd be so awesome. His skills were tremendous!

I'm curious to see what is the more popular mag. I just started subscribing to Downbeat. What do you? And I'd like to discuss the pros and cons of each mag.

Yeah, I got the number ones, and the fact there's no Sunday, DOES screw the fuck out of me! Damn!

Can we re-do an AOTW?

Couldn't be the Miles Davis set, could it?

Bill Evans can play no jozz! And Charlie Parker is not jazz; just overrated!

I don't really get this. I guess you have to have heard every single cut from an artist to find out if they never made an album you really love. I'll say Herbie Mann. Or at least from what I've heard already.

Why do you have to spoil it??

Well if they continue to go like the current one, I think the fate of AOTW is already determined. -_-

Remember when Warner Bros. had Chico Hamilton? Man those were the days! I suppose..

I started off acoustic too! Went electric. It was the best thing that ever happend to me. But I was trying to play Montgomery, not ACDC. What's ACDC? lol

Mental illness?

OOO Christina! Yummy!!! BLAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Or just dug those ill glasses! B-)

It's not like he just said, "I'm not a fan of Newk," or "It's not my tastes." But he's dissed three of my favorite and three of the most vitol jazz innovators of the 20th century.

Was he blind? Not that it matters. I haven't heard much of him. I just know that album of him with the sun glasses. B-)

Stairway to Hell.

I where a tie everyday. I have seen some of the worst knotted ties in the history of bad knotted ties. Bad tie knots of every kind!

thanks, but i'm not subjecting myself to that thing again. i learned my lesson after giving the bill evans 1980 live boxes a chance - time and time again. they never got any better. soulless, extremely overrated musician. perhaps not as a pianist, but definitely as a jazz pianist. i wouldn't even call it jazz. and he plays standards either too fast or too slow. just doesn't seem to know how to get into the right groove. days of wine and roses, for example. a tune that people usually play in a lush, relaxed manner. he rushes through it like he's going to die the next year. I've had my share of fucked up shit, but that's some fucked up shit!

Ziti, marinara sauce. Hot dog!