Big Al

True; forgot about that!

What I wouldn't give to have some of Lou Piniella's fire-n-brimstone in the Rangers dugout. Ron Washington is still blissfully unaware that he has the worst team in baseball (either that or he's high).

Only two of the February RVGs? Sheesh! I'll stop waiting on them and start getting the RVGs I've been waiting for (Clubhouse, Detroit-New York Junction, New & Old Gospel) elsewhere.

Finishing up the Hutch Select, disc two. Very nice!

The name of that 1963 session is TOGETHER AGAIN, and it swings all sorts of wonderfully!

If possible buy them both at the same time...if not I'd grab the Parlan because it's been around longer...or the Turrentine because I think it's a little superior. Oh hell...do whatever you want! You have the goddess back as your avatar; I have no choice but to take your advice! Except that I'm not sure what the advice was cuz I was paying more attention to the avatar/goddess than what you wrote. What did you say again?

I'm not even close. Nor will I ever be. Not complaining, mind you!

What an asshole. I bet Texas signs him before the year is out.

Just watched the highlights. What a finish! Congrats for your team, man! David Dellucci.... used to play for the Rangers..... imagine that!

Can this game get any crazier? Despite two errors and stranding SEVENTEEN at this point, the Rangers are still winning! And I take back every rotten thing I ever said about Kenny Lofton after that spectacular catch he made where he ran up the wall and caught the ball in the stands, robbing (I forget who was up) of a homer and doubling off another guy at first. I'm going to bed. I've got a busy day in the morning. Hopefully when I check in tomorrow morning, Gagne will have closed out the ninth and the Rangers will have won. And I'll win the lottery tomorrow.....

Strangely enough, those links don't work any more and have been changed to the following: Turrentine Cox Foster (and this time, all twelve tracks are listed) I just hope Borders is still doing their buy-3-get-the-4th-free deal by next Tuesday! I'll probably regret it if they ever hit BMG, but these sound really good! Good enough to get on release date, that's for sure!

No! That's one reason NOT to get the Mosaic; it really is nine discs of the same thing!

Nah, two chances is enough; I saw him live when he was doin' the CHAOS tour (and let it be known here that I won both the CHAOS CD and the concert tix from a radio show; were it not for that, I might never have even considered buying CHAOS). It was a nice show, honestly. So much so that after the concert, I went and found DRIVING RAIN and FLAMING PIE cheap/used; was reminded again why it was a waste of time to investigate his solo work the first time around (Beatles infatuation, 1987-88).

Amazing that Desmond set is going so high! Don't get me wrong, I'm happy for ya; I just can't understand why someone would want to pay that much for music that can be had much cheaper (ie you can find the same music on the RCA box used pretty easily these days). Ah, well, c'est la vie & all that! Hope you reap a pretty penny on that one!

OK - concentrated Sonny Dallas then ! HELLO!!!! Sonny Dallas is the bassist. The wonderful Nick Stabulas is the drummer on the rest of the set. Oops! That's what I get for going from memory. I guess I could've easily looked it up before posting, too. That's it: I'm putting on disc 2 right now.

If you're going to get that, you may as well get the box called STITT'S BITS: THE BEBOP RECORDINGS 1949-1952, which feature Stitt's work on Prestige in a variety of settings (quartet, big band, tenor duels with Gene Ammons, and the aforementioned groups with JJ and Bud). It's on Concord, the sound is good, it can be had cheaply, and is well worth the money IMHO.

ME ! Good for those days when you are needing a concentrated dose of Elvin.. But it isn't Elvin; it's Sonny Dallas.

If it were anyone other than A-Fraud (or Bonds), we wouldn't even be having this conversation.

Either the Parlan Mosaic or the Turrentine. Actually, make that BOTH/AND!

I guess, to put it nicely, if you liked DRIVING RAIN, you'll like this, as it appears to be more of the same. Except for the title track, I didn't like DRIVING RAIN.

I don't have this VEE, but I do have a very lovely vinyl copy which Slide Advantage Redoux sold me (I miss that guy, wonder where he's been lately?)

Believe it or not, I found this used for $7.98 a few years back. Couldn't believe my eyes! Bought it with the intention of eBaying that sucker. Then I actually enjoyed it. For a couple years anyway. Ended up eBaying it anyway. I think I got close to $30 for it.

Billy Bauer - PLECTRIST Illinois Jacquet - THE KID AND THE BRUTE (cdr) Meade Lux Lewis - CAT HOUSE PIANO (cdr) Paul Quinichette - THE VICE PRES Harry Edison - THE SWINGER/MR. SWING (found this one for $10 used! WOW!) Lee Konitz - MOTION (found this one used; has anyone ever listened to those other 2 discs?) Feel like I'm leaving out one or two.

I heard that the Rangers were about to offer to buy out his entire contract, but then they saw that his ERA was only 4.67.......