Big Al

Truth be told, it was all of them, in what was actually a precursor to the famed Norman Granz Jam Sessions.

ANOTHER one I'm gonna be on the lookout for! Even if the guess is wrong, the album it's linked to looks fantastic!

WOO HOO!!! Happy birthday, big guy!!!

DEFINITELY gonna be on the hunt for this one!

Yeah, I've been getting that message all day! But your PM came thru and it's a GO!

PM sent, re: Sonny's Crib! Just a-wheelin' and a-dealin' today!

Sent a PM about a possible trade!

Yup, I got it! This could be the fastest sale I've ever made!

SOLD!!! To jazzbo, of course!

Yes AGAIN!!!

Yes!

Seeing as how my turn isn't gonna be until the first Kerry administration, I like this idea!

Freddie Roach!!!!

Yes, and when you do, PLEASE let us know! I will UPS Next Day a stack of recordable DVDs to you! Can't believe none of Tex's cartoons are available on DVD! My favorites are the aforementioned Looney Tunes box, as well as the Complete Goofy that came out a couple years ago. I'm looking forward to the next volume of Donald Duck cartoons that oughta be coming out soon. IMHO, he really hit his stride in the 40's (as did a lot of cartoons).

Track 1: I am woefully lacking in the Dixieland department. HAFC™, obviously, but I intend to look further into this. This stuff SWINGS! Track 2: “Body and Soul,” of course. Now if I can just narrow it down to the 3- or 4-million folks who’ve ever done this! I’ll guess Dexter Gordon, just based on the length of the track. Don’t know who the trumpet player is. Byrd, maybe? Track 3: Seems like I’ve heard this before, too! HAFC™, but this sucker better not be OOP!!! Piano player sounds AWFULLY familiar. Corea, maybe? Track 4: I think I’ve heard this before. Sounds like Prez unaccompanied. Sure like the sound of it: like walking down a city street and hearing some guy wailing away inside his apartment with the windows open. Track 5: HAFC™; sounds European to these ears. Track 6: Yeah, and how many trumpet players have recorded this sucker? HAFC™! Track 7: Sounds like some Mingus band, Max on the drums? Lost interest halfway thru the lengthy bass solo. Track 8: Sounds like Django. I remember he did some work with a tenor and a trumpet. Track 9: Well, I hadda figure he’d put a Duke tune somewhere on his BFT! HAFC™ as to which song it is, or which era for that matter! Track 10: HAFC™. Lost interest about halfway thru. May need to listen to it closer later. Track 11: Brave Combo? I’ve always been wary of 2-disc BFTs, but this one MORE than justifies having more than one disc! This BFT is gonna break me. AGAIN!

Track 1: HAFC™, which is okay since DKDC™! Honestly, I’ve never liked the vocalese words to this song, and somebody else singin’ ‘em isn’t gonna change that! Track 2: Sounds like Joe Henderson on tenor, Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, and Elvin Jones on drums. If this is another attempt by the BFT compilers to get folks to purchase the Elvin Jones Mosaic by including a track from it on every BFT, well I’m gonna…. I’m gonna… oooh, you guys are making it VERY difficult to keep from purchasing it! Bastards! Track 3: Sounds like Johnny Smith with Stan Getz. Track 4: Sounds kinda West Coast. Maybe Clifford Brown on trumpet, Joe Mondragon on guitar (don’t ask; it was the first name that popped to mind. I’ve only heard his name, never heard anything by him). I should know that alto player, but I’m coming up blank. Track 5: J.J. Johnson? Nah, can’t be. The electric piano threw me. Mid-70’s Woody Shaw? Track 6: Sounds like Art Tatum playing “On the Road to Montezuma!” Don’t know what’s being played for the slow intro, but when the boogie-woogie starts, it catches fire! I was riding my bike while listening to this, and I fully took off when this section started! WHEEEEEEEE! Track 7: At the risk of being wrong, and therefore being ridiculed for such a narrow scope of listening, I’m gonna guess Miles. For me, no one gets the same kind of sound with a mute like Miles. Don’t know who’s backing him, though, or what the song is. So, EKE BBB, if this isn’t Miles but you put it on here in order to fool some of us into thinking that it was, well it worked on me! Track 8: Oh my LAWD this be greeeeeeazy! The tune sounds familiar, as do the players. Arnett Cobb & Lockjaw Davis perhaps? Basie on the organ? Track 9: Billie Holiday with Benny Goodman? Track 10: HAFC™. I gotta tellya, though: there were a couple moments it sounded like George Winston. HEY! Quit laughin’! IMHO, he’s the John Fahey of the piano! Track 11: Freddie Hubbard on trumpet? HAFC™ about anyone else. Track 12: Ahhhhhh, I’ve heard this before! But when? Where? Sounds like Jackie McLean, though. Track 13: More vocals. HAFC™, which doesn’t matter since DKDC™! Track 14: Tuxedo Junction? It ain’t Glenn Miller, that’s for sure! I tell ya, as these BFT’s progress, I’m getting more and more worried that when it comes to my turn, it’s gonna be SUCH a colossal letdown, it’s gonna be one long DKDC™ & HAFC™!!! Seriously, this is a great GREAT disc! Aside from the two vocal tracks which I didn’t care for, this is yet ANOTHER mighty fine BFT!

Thanks, maren! What a sweet and thoughtful thread! (Kinda makes me wonder if any of us dads/guys started a "Happy Mother's Day" thread?)

Yes, Happy Birthday Rainy Day! Hope your day is/was sunny! I appreciate your posts and your presence around here, jazz, political, and otherwise!

EKE, you want I should make a copy for Jazzkrow? I know it'll save ya postage on your end! Be glad to do it! On second thought, I'll just go ahead and do it. Jazzbro, watch yer mail! I'm sending it out today!

Bitches Brew box. ZZZZZZZ

Got mine yesterday! Two discs loaded with fun shtuff!!!!

Lovely background music!

Never fails: I hit a dry spell, undergroundagent has another sale! I've discovered that NOT listening to music at work has actually been something of a blessing. That usually gives me all day to get in the mood for something, and then that usually lasts a while. So yeah, it comes and goes. But right now, I need to send something funny to Jim R. Now if I could just come up with something...... (can y'imagine that guy? Sending me to the "hard bossa" thread and then to Dusty Groove? The bathturd!)

Those Milky Way Midnights are heavenly!!!!!

What do you do when you're just not in the mood for anything, jazz or otherwise? Lately, probably going on two years now, there have been more dry spells in terms of what I'm in the mood to listen to, to the point where my wish-list is damn-near bone-dry! Even the stuff at home isn't holding that much interest for me. I realize there's more important things in life, but I gotta tellya, it's been pretty quiet around my stereos (home, car, work) lately.