Kalo

I was just about to tell someone to grab that. Great stuff!

Aww, no! I still have a soft spot for good old Don Herbert.

Andorra, the OOP catalog explorra!

Eldridge even sounds great on non-Mosaic releases! How'd he do dat!?!?

Wadn't gonna buy anything, I told myself, but looked in anyway at Harvard Square's used-joint "Planet Records" on Sunday. I ended up buying: The Sonny Criss Orchestra - Sonny's Dream (The Birth of the Cool) (Prestige/OJC) Johnny Griffin's Studio Jazz Party (Riverside/OJC) Sal Salvador - Frivolous Sal ( Bethlehem/TOJC) Never even heard of that Salvador side before. It's not even listed on Allmusic.com, but it's got some sweet Eddie Costa on both piano and vibes. Based on a single audition, I think I like it better than the Blue Note Salvador/Costa recordings (which I do like quite a bit).

Or, if you're adventurous. go this route:

Seriously... Tough it out this time and wait until next year to introduce a few selected CDs to this crowd. You don't even know them yet.

Whatever Scarlett says...

HB to KB! And many happiness returnables!

But seriously, I recently acquired Lookin' Good and the Jimmy Woods's Awakening!! session and have been enjoying the bejesus out of them. I sure wish that Gordon had lived.

Actually, the real story is that he got in an argument with his common law wife, Svetlana, who compelled him at gunpoint into an automobile. She directed him to drive to the east river. Along the way they narrowly avoided an accident which resulted in the death of another trumpeter who shall remain nameless. Arriving at the river, they parked and got into another argument which resulted in them buying a house together which then burnt down, causing him to perish, a death which would have happened anyway some years later because he unknowingly suffered from mesothelioma owing to fact that his favorite trumpet had, before his acquiring it, been temporarily housed in a building under renovation where asbestos insulation was being installed. The album he would have recorded after Lookin' Good, which would have been entitled Feelin' Better had he lived, would have been nominated but would sadly have failed to win as "Best Small-Combo Jazz Recording without Vibraphone" in the Boston Musician's Union Newsletter "Member Recording of the Year" poll.

Good News! A really fine musician. I hope he stays strong for many more years.

Not yet, but it'll be right there on my soon-to-be placed Deepdiscount.com order, right beside "Army of Shadows."

Is that M Hulot? MG Oui.

Possible solution for those guys who don't like wearing the ring: get the ring tatooed on. Both manly and uxorious. No Corto Maltese tatoo, Porcy?

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I checked around the internet the other night to try to find a copy of "Plectrist." I couldn't find anything under $40. Then I recalled this post from back in April and surfed on over to Walmart.com. Lo and behold, there it was for $14.88. I pulled the trigger, then thought I'd try to order an extra one, but they wouldn't let me. I received a shipment confirmation this morning. I surfed back to the site and they're now listing the disc as "Out of Stock." So it looks as though I got the last one! Thanks, montg! Thanks Organissimo Forums!

Sounds like one to get. Any other recommendations from this series?

I own the entire British version of "The Office." Definitely a worthwhile purchase, as I've watched them all the way through at least five times.

Definitely the next set on my list!

The Fleischer Popeye's are considered classics, and yes, TV is where I first saw them, too. The cartoons are one thing -- well-animated and amusingly voiced, if repetitive -- but the original newspaper comic strip by E.C. Segar is one of the all-time greats. Jazz and culture critic Martin Williams once wrote a nice tribute to the strip. It's currently being re-issued in nice-looking volumes by Fantagraphics Books (the same folks doing the complete Peanuts -- and, by the way, Charles Schulz was a fan of Segar's Popeye, too). I've owned the paperback series for years. But the new editions are much nicer, with the Sundays in color. I'm almost tempted to buy again.

Indeed! Hear, hear! Wierbos kicked major ass when I saw them in Boston last year!

Yes, you're starting to make me feel really lucky! I feel really, really lucky, then. I got mine in a cut-out bin at the music store across the street from where I work!

I only have these: Jack Teagarden - THINK WELL OF ME THIS IS TAL FARLOW Lee Konitz - MOTION (3 CD version) Walt Dickerson - IMPRESSIONS OF A PATCH OF BLUE (Thanks, BruceH!). I wouldn't mind finding these for a reasonable price: Billy Bauer - PLECTRIST Art Blakey - BLAKEY (w/a bonus date led by Joe Gordon) INTRODUCING JIMMY CLEVELAND AND HIS ALL STARS And if the price was right I'd probably get just about any of the rest of the series.