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good going Dan!

I for one LOVE the first track (A Pilgrim's Funny Farm) and don't hear that much wrong with anyone on that particular track. Sure it's not the bestestest Lee, but damn it's still him and he does some awesome laid back stuff on the very first and very last lines of the tune-- but as others have stated, it may not be your particular bag.

does that middle pic show your own collection? I usually only drink beer before breakfast and sleep in between

...and, inspired by Rooster Tom's new avatar: The LOU-wnmower Man

as promised, here's the alternative ending. I don't have a decent James T Cat lying around so I had to resort to someone else. Hope you like it Dan. More detail: Lou Donaldson - Here 'Tis!

yes, thanks to all who contributed their wisdom to this thread. I didn't have much time to read it online, so I downloaded this and the Rollins thread and read it all at home.

Cool cover version in Mr Golden Arm's avatar! To celebrate this event, I made this one. It's rather obvious but nevertheless also nice (I think). Big one? Click here: Sam Rivers - Fuchsia Swing Song (360 Kb)

I can, however, understand that (but then, I'm a heathen too). I find this album to be more expressive of the vast amount of WORK Coltrane put into it and less of his inspiration/Spirit or any other of those less tangible qualities. I still like it a lot though.

both Jeff and myself are using Adobe Photoshop 7 w/ ImageReady. The ImageReady you need for the animations. It doesn't allow for intensive work on pics. The main work has be done in Photoshop. There are several tools which you can use. Compared to PhShop6 PhShop 7 is WAY better in this respect. Besides a stamp tool, which lets you copy part of a photo and paste them elsewhere in the same photo, there now is a "healing brush" which does the same but keeps several settings from the original part (the part you are pasting over), like balance, brightness, and contrast intact. Then there is the awesome "patch tool" with which you can do the opposite: You can copy balance, brightness, and contrast settings from any place in the pic and put it onto any other place. This is ideal for making your crude stamping fit in with the background. If you look closely to the LightFoot cover I did (the big version) you can see that the pattern in the stones repeats itself. That's because of the use of the stamp and patch tools. With some skill you can mask anything you like or wipe out any part you don't like. One of the most important features of PhShop is of course that you work in layers. You make one layer with a (restored) background. You cut out (restored) cars and people and put them in their own layer. You can move the layers independently of eachother. So you don't have to do the same work over and over again for each animation frame.

This one is for Dan.But remember! this doesn't mean that if you moan long enough you always get what you want! Lou DOES hand over the "sammich," but the guy don't like cheeze, he want peanutbutter and jelly! I'll may re-work this one and do an alternative ending. Click the link to see how sad the guy looks Lou Donaldson - Here 'Tis

I should have done this one before Blues Walk. Then maybe some people would have said whoa! cool beans! Now, I think most will just shrug and say, so what? This one's easy! Yeah well, it was. But only because I have been practising a lot... ...and the big one: Paul Chambers - Whims of Chambers

thanks Jeff Maybe when I move to Calif (or should I say Texas?) I have been playing a lot with the optimisation settings in ImageReady. Deleting one or two colours can drastically reduce file size. Did you at least save bigger versions? Can you put them up?

as you may know, this set was part of the sale at zweitausendeins and went for 20 or so EUR (NOTE: in its European ZYX incarnation, with a very small booklet and without the spiffy LP sized box). Probably it can still be found for a bit more at ebay.de (there's two there now I just noted)

happy birthday! having a beer with Weizen?

happy birthday Weizen! May your many beers taste good today!

and also considering the stuff he played when with Yusef Lateef

I didn't actually know how to end the little romantic scene above. It turned out rather nice I think with the girl fading and the guy returning to his pose of reminiscing. Here's another ending with more of a fairy tale character.

#Rooster Tom asked twice for this one. I am really anxious to see Africa Jeff's take on it, as he promised he'd do one. FWIW, here's mine. It turned out rather dreamy. To confuse Rooster Tom even more, I left out the BN logo completely (and BTW, it took one click on "auto-levels" in PhShop to make the colours look like they turned out on the second cover Rooster posted. Go figure. It has to do with optimising the spectrum of hues/contrast/brightness of a pic, but it will not keep such beautifully toned pictures like this one intact. So I clicked "undo" immediately) In all its glory, it can be found here: Herbie Hancock - Speak Like A Child (470 Kb)

for all our organ freaks (there was a request for this one I believe): watch his hands move in more detail here: Jimmy Smith - A New Sound, A New Star (vol. 1) (250 Kb)

and a return to basics with this one. It should have been part of the first series... Big one: Hank Mobley - No Room For Squares (510 Kb)

As I had Lou walking graciously anyhow, I thought I might as well have him do this: and as usual, there's a big one: Lou Donaldson - Light Foot (490 Kb)

'nother lazy weekend, so here's some more! I did a Thad Jones too. I really like the one Jeff made. I of course had to make it much too difficult for myself and had to restore the entire background of the street, including the lettering of the theatre just behind Thad. Only then did I notice there is a lady standing behind him as well! You can only see part of her dress and her shadow. I got rid of her. Sorry for that. Further I focussed on the idyllic part with the pigeons and that gave me the opportunity to include another cover that would otherwise never have made this series. The big one can be found through this link: The Magnificent Thad Jones (490 Kb)

hey, is rooster re-organising his already posted messages again??

Yeah, now that I have TWO versions of Lou walking ready for use in PShop, this should be rather easy (little effort, lot of fun). Pity the PShop files are so big. I will see if I can downsize them a bit and then put them up so others can use the walking Lous I did.

The beer's in the fridge. When will you guys arrive?