Kalo

Actually I doubt these are at all remastered, but I'd welcome an RVG interpretation of the Jarret's etc. (I'm a fan of RVG's Prestige, Blue Note and Impulse remasterings). Hey Lon - didn't mean to knock Rudy's mastering style so much as the wildly different "house sound" between ECM and BN/Prestige/etc. Mastering aside, I wish Rudy had recorded some of those ECMs - there's no doubt I'd probably like them more. Hey, he's remastered Bluenotes he didn't record in the first place. Could be a good marketing gimmick for other labels , too... ECM RVGs, CTI RVGs, OKEH RVGs, Gennett RVGs...

Nice! Red was a true marvel, at the forefront of his instrument for a good 40-50 years! How many guys his age were still performing at this level in the '70s? Dig his comping, too.

Same problem with early Beatles stereo: vocals in one channel; instruments in the other. Yet all of the Monk/Messengers CD reissues, if I'm not mistaken, are in stereo. More marketable, for sure, but less listenable. I'd love to hear that I'm wrong about this. Anyone know of a mono CD Monk/Messengers?)

At the risk of sounding blasphemous: do we really need more Coltrane?

Ditto.

Now y'alls routining!

Kind of Blah.

Benny Golson, anyone?

One that springs immediately to mind: Charlie Rouse - Soul Mates (Uptown Records) Recorded 1988, released 1993, and one of the finest jazz recordings of either decade. Rouse on tenor is joined by Sahib Shihab on baritone and Claudio Roditi on trumpet. Walter Davis, Jr. mans the piano, with Santi Debriano on bass and Victor Lewis on drums. Arrangements by Don Sickler. Superb! Nessa should be able to hook you up with this one.

Sometimes it seems that reading books at all is an underground thing...

McKusick's "Triple Exposure" is a fine album. Costa's just the icing on the cake of this one...

I loves me some Eddie Costa! (Not so sure about his cousin [?] Don.)

I'll have to check out that film, thanks Kalo. Don't Hesitate. It's absolutely the best alternate history film (making it, by default, one of the best science fiction films as well). And one of the best war-related films ever, in my opinion. And not just mine. To whet your appetite, check out the estimable "DVD Savant" Glenn Erickson's take on it: http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s100here.html Available as an Image Entertainment DVD. Perhaps the most amazing thing about this movie was that it was made by teenage amateurs, who have since become respected figures in the world of film. Addendum: I forgot that the Erickson review linked-to above actually references P.K.D. in its first footnote!

Larry nailed it with the phrase "Smoked demonstratively." Too much damned italicization of stuff that was normative at the time. Feh!

Late to this party and not exactly sure what to make of the (waning) Hollywood fetish for P.K. Dick... Perhaps the pulp-defined frame of reference of the typical Hollywood denizen, as he aims his eyes towards the stars, sees P.K.D., the critically acclaimed trashmeister, as some sort of validation? To belatedly answer the original query of this thread, I'll always have a sentimental attachment to the first P.K.D. novel I read as a junior-high-school SF enthusiast, "Eye in the Sky," which was a truly mind-blowing, nuclear-era-Rashoman of a tale for a thirteen-year-old. To answer the question from a more adult perspective, "Martian Time-Slip," "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch," "The Zap Gun," "Ubik"? Perhaps "Galactic Pot Healer"? (I kid... Or do I?) The shrug-inducing "Man in the High Castle" is overrated, I think. (As alternate history, compare this to the marvelous Kevin Brownlow/Andrew Mollo film "It Happened Here," from about the same time.) I sometimes think that the Robert Crumb comic about Dick will be P.K.D.'s most enduring legacy. But that's wishful thinking. No doubt, the movies will be best remembered. Anybody else see the French adaptation of "Confessions of a Crap Artist"? It was called "Barjo." Not a bad little movie at all. I'd love to see it again.

Lots of Brubeck fans. Very few Allen Lowe fans. But, owing to the fact that I've seen Lowe perform live at least one more time than I've seen Brubeck, as well as the fact that I own at least three Allen Lowe CDs, I fall into the minority on this one..

He was a bad... "Shut yo' mouth..." Sad to see the man go. I especially treasure his songs written with David Porter and his indelible portrayal of Chef on South Park...

Gee, I could swear there are at least a few laudatory Hines threads already in existence on this here board.

A quibble is not an attack, so I guess that "defense" was not quite the right word. But it does seem to me that the estimable Zabor was not exhibiting the automatic response of the day.

In Zabor's defense, I read his final sentence "Beyond mere anger and modernism, this is flesh," as arguing against the automatic imputation of anger to forcefulness. But I guess that's debatable. I'm very much looking forward to this augmented reissue.

Wow! Pop music sublimity.

Yes, that's an excellent DVD. Whoah! Sounds like I'll have to check this out.

The lady has long haunted my heart. A truly marvelous, wonderfully musical singer. R.I.P., Jo.

Hear hear!

Rest in Peace, Mr. Griffin. I saw him a few times at the Regattabar in Cambridge during the '90s with that Michael Weiss and Kenny Washington group. Hearing him play Monk's "Coming on the Hudson" in person sticks with me to this day as one of the finest musical experiences I have ever had.