Big Al

Chords?!?!?! We don't need no stinkin' CHORDS!!! Of course, I'm a bass player.

What? No mention of the sound of the guy's voice being like a male-Alanis-Morrisette?

What is "HACF"? Haven't a Coughin' Flu? Right now, that may actually be correct. Or collect!

1. “My Favorite Things.” Tommy Flanagan perhaps? 2. Sounds like one of those Ruby Braff/Vic Dickenson Chiaruscuro (sp?) things. The drummer sounds like Jo Jones. 3. Sounds like a Blakey group…without Blakey! Tenor sounds like Benny Golson, definitely Lee Morgan on trumpet, sounds like Bobby Timmons on piano. No clue as to the bassist or drummer. Nice & swingin’! 4. Sounds like “Nancy with the Laughing Face,” but I could be wrong. Wish I knew who the piano player was, that sounds nice! 5. “It Might as Well Be Spring.” No clue as to the ‘bone player, so my guess might as well be Curtis Fuller or J.J. Johnson. 6. HAFC™. Lost interest very quickly, though. 7. You’re kidding, right? Is the new rule of the BFT that we have to include some cheesy song from the 70’s on it? ZZZZZZZZZZZ!!! 8. NMCOT™, sorry to say! 9. HAFC™ again. Maybe if I listen to this disc outside of work, I can pick up on some of the nuances here. Right now, they’re kinda lost on me! 10. Ditto. 11. Ahhhh, now THAT’S my kinda swingin’! Maybe a Basie small group, that’s GOTS to be Freddie Green layin’ down that awesome rhythm! 12. HAFC™ again. Sounds like an Adderley deal. 13. “Lester Leaps In” of course, no clue as to who it is. Von Freeman maybe?

Aw hell no! B-) Empire’s been my favorite since it hit the big screen when I was ten. I still remember my dad taking me to the movie theater to see it when it first came out. (In fact, I now work across the street from that old theater, although it’s now been converted into a “Professional Wrestling” facility.) When the set came out on VHS a while back, I watched it again and was impressed all over again. It is just so DARK. I like the other two, with the first holding a special place in my heart for sentimental values. But Empire is the one that makes the whole series worthwhile.

"St. Thomas." Unbelievable. I'd turn in my jazz credentials if I had any remaining!

More cluelessness on display! 1. Had a nice groove, but that squealing tenor lost me quickly. On to the next track! 2. Auuuuugh, I should know this!!! I’m gonna hate myself after I find out who this is! Great groove, no piano, sound quality suggests Sonny at the VV, but it ain’t. That has to be one of the world’s most boring drum solos, though. Ginger Baker anyone? 3. “Straight No Chaser.” The guitar player sounds like Wes Montgomery, but the sound quality suggests something more recent. So I’ll just guess that it IS Wes, that’s his brothers Buddy and Monk on the vibes and bass, and the gig was recorded by Wally Heider! 4. “Bye Bye Blackbird.” Elvin on the drums? Joe Farrell on tenor? Reggie Workman on bass? Lost interest about five minutes into it, though. 5. HACF™, but I like it! Now THAT’S a drum solo!!!! 6. Another HAFC™. Now to see the answer to #2 and start kickin' myself! :rsmile:

That day can't come soon enough!!!! Is there any official announcement of such? >nov 9th!< I know it; GoM PM’d me about it last night, and I can’t wait!!!! Re: Harpo albums. There’s this album, and at that price, that looks like a steal!

Sure we shadow him; we shadow him all day. What day was that? Shadow-day! Atsa some joke, eh boss? :rsmile:

That day can't come soon enough!!!! Is there any official announcement of such?

Hear Hear (here here, of course)! Watching Chico play the piano never ceases to fascinate me; even in the weaker pictures, his piano playing is always a highlight. Then Harpo comes along to steal the show with his angelic harp-playing. People aren't usually supposed to get choked up during comedies, but I do!

He left before they hit Vaudeville.

Harpo, for his demeanor onstage and off; for his harp playing; for his faces; for the fact that he could say more without uttering a word; for his love of children; for .........

While mowing the lawn yesterday and feeling my brains baking in the Texas heat, a thought occurred: I'll bet CP used taxpayer money to get the Jack Johnson box, but he just hasn't told his employers yet!

SOMETHIN' ELSE!!! Even if that were his ONLY masterpiece, it would still be enough to put him in that elevated pantheon of greatness!

Discovered the Hendrix box at my local library. This sucker just shot to the top of my MUST BUY PRONTO list!!!! I’m with Bev about the not being much of a fan of Hendrix. I can only take him in small doses. But this box proves me wrong! The version of “Bold As Love” is worth the price of admission alone!!!

Welcome home, bro! Can ya tell we missed ya?

My All-in-One BFT Answer has always been HAFC™

Maybe Frankie's penalty should be to join the Board and try to outpost Ed in one night. Without a chair!

Okay, I see where you're coming from. He never really answers the question. It does seem more like a stock answer, or something like that. Whether or not he meant to exclude all other contributions, I don't know; maybe he feared penalty for actually admitting that he has a Miles album stashed somewhere in the Oval Office!

Yes, but it makes for great on-the-can reading. Very perceptive of you! Look, that vocal cadenza at the end of “Please Make Me Wonder” is damn-near orgasmic. Brian Wilson would be a genius in my book (not the bathroom kind, either) even if the ONLY thing he did was “Caroline, No.” The fact that he could come downstairs and upstage his bandmates with a killer single like “Do It Again” proves that there’s still some life left. BUT, any album that has at its centerpiece the mishmash that is “Heroes and Villains,” followed by “cute” little ditties like “Vegetables” deserves the scorn it has yet to receive from people who oughta know better. I stand by what I say. The fact that Wilson’s been sitting on this for so long not only proves he’s a marketing genius as well as a musical genius, but also proves he knows his fans, not to mention the fawning literati, even more than I give him credit for. Hey, if people are gonna fawn over an unfinished, unreleased, unheard so-called “masterpiece,” then I say get ready to be disappointed. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

Yes, a happy Rosh Hashannah (sp?) to B. Goren, Barak, my big jazzbro Jeff, and anyone else celebrating this day! Peace and blessings to all of you.

How so?

No, and I fail to see what all the fuss is/was about. This album is considered a masterpiece simply because of the direction Wilson was taking, because he’d just come off the grand-but-wildly-overrated Pet Sounds, and because Wilson was starting to be recognized as an artiste. Imagine the reaction if people had actually heard the damn thing! (Or, to quote a favorite book The 50 Worst Rock Records, “This is like getting credit for a paper you never turned in simply because you’ve been a good student!”) Frankly, I think Wilson’s smartest move, and one that has kept others’ perception of him as an unquestionable genius so high, is the fact that he didn’t release it. What snippets he did release reveal a man and a group so insular, so impressed with their level of artistry, and yet so out-of-touch with their fans, their sound, hell, even themselves, even the Beatles would’ve giggled. No, I’m not one of those types who wished they’d never left their surfin’ image of fun fun fun and T-Birds. Brian Wilson was and is a fantastic songwriter, his production abilities are nothing short of majestic, and his vocal arrangements are nothing short of angelic. Especially in those late 60’s albums, you can tell very easily which songs were penned by Wilson and which ones weren’t. But for a time there, it seemed as if even he was believing the hype. Wanting to be an “artist” is fine; but when it comes at the expense of one’s own being, then the downward spiral begins. For Wilson, it continues to this day.

They did!