Kalo

Didn't know that, but I always thought he kind of looked like Andy Griffith in native drag...

Great stuff, Chris!

That was my reaction. "Premium" lifestyle brand, mind you! -_- Is it true that a "lifestyle" is for people who don't know how to have a life? I hereby predict that "Blue Note Dads" will be a marginally significant demographic in the 2012 election....

Happy Nate-al day!

How is it? This one's sitting on my shelf waiting (along with a stack of other Blish) for me to get the urge. I always kind of liked Titan's Daughter. The Cities In Flight tetralogy is one of those sf series that you read once, and ONLY once. I vaguely recall reading Cities In Flight in the '70s as a dutiful young SF fan. And I recall almost nothing else about the four books except that, A: There were cities in them and, B: They were flying (On planets through space. Under domes?). Not sure it was worth the time.

Always kind of shrug-inducing, for me. I shrugged, too, for many years, but in the past few years I've succumbed. She improved with age. Perhaps more appropriate for the film thread.

Recently, what with the firesales on OJCs, I've cottoned to McKusick, too. That Triple Exposure is a heck of an album (Eddie Costa never hurts!).

We lost some heavyweights this year. This thread alerted me to some I was unaware of until now: Dennis Irwin? Damn! Of those as yet unmentioned, I was sad to see that Al Gallodoro left us: though he certainly had a good run and was active as a teacher and player into his 90s. http://www.algallodoro.com/

"...rather delicate-agile vein." Damn, Larry, but you have a way with words!

Why isn't the album called "Lou's Lawn"?

They both had a way with a pause, too! Very interesting. Two masters whose silences were as significant as their notes/words. I'll have to check out the film of Homecoming.

Wha? It's set in a near-future Allston/Brighton/Brookline/Cambridge! And it's actually a brilliant, moving book, albeit with numerous Pynchonesque passages of too-clever-for-its -own-goodness. Infinitely more heart than Pynchon, though!

I've been working my way through David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest." Until I began reading it, I had no idea that it is largely set in a near-future version of the Boston neighborhood I live in: Allston, MA. Pretty amazing so far, though I've had to spell it with other, shorter books.

Odd. I don't recall ever having seen that nickname applied to Carter, and I've been aware of him since the about 1980.

Doesn't look bad at all.

Ouch! Terrible! I regret that I can never unhear that. Say it ain't so, Alison.

It IS about the music but, for some of us, it also about the complete aesthetic experience. I agree on both counts, but I do lean more into the original artwork/aesthetic camp. I have some sympathy for this view, historical context and all... Then I thought: would you only buy books that reproduce the original jacket art? (Would you care?)

Nice tribute here.

I love "Lebowski," which I rate as the Coen's (accidental?) masterpiece, and a film that will last. As for the rest: we all have our opinions. I dislike "Raising Arizona" and "The Hudsucker Proxy." I liked some of "Barton Fink," though far from all of it. I shrug my shoulders at "No Country for Old Men" and "The Man Who Wasn't There." I received "Intolerable Cruelty" as an adequate Hollywood comedy, but judged as a Coen flick it's strictly nowhere. I actively avoided their "The Ladykillers," as I am a staunch fan of the original British Ealing Studios film of the same name, from which it was ripped-off. I truly enjoyed "Fargo," and I rate "Millers's Crossing" and " Oh Brother Where Art Thou" towards the top of the brother's output. Just my opinion.

Kenny Dorham II?

If BruceH and Sangrey agree, then I'm going to have to check this mother out.

With all due respect to Feldman, I hear no points of comparison to Evans, unless you mean this in a very "meta" way. (Which I still don't hear, to be honest). Feldman was a fine musician, but not the innovator Evans was. And I say that as someone who's an Evans skeptic.

What Allen and Larry said.

I still listen to them a lot, too. They were huge when I was in my mid-to-late teens, and I dug them then -- I used to try to sing along with all the parts on "Games People Play," from Jackson's bass to the falsetto part (which sounds on the recording like they actually subbed in a female singer), back when it was big radio hit. But I think that I appreciate them even more now: from the great Thom Bell arrangements to the sublime, improvised outros by Phillipe Wynne AKA "Rubberband Man," who's one of my favorite singers, nutbar division, up there with Leo Watson and Al Hibbler. Wynne was almost as good a singer as Al Green and might have been twice as crazy!

Obit here