Kalo

I've been planning to buy the Mulligan. I guess the time is now...

I can imagine pretty bad. It's even worse than that. The final confrontation on the train, so terse and surprising in the original, seemed to last about 20 increasingly pointless minutes of chasing from car to car... Oh yeah, and Tippi Hedren's in it too.

Ouch! Sam Cooke "Chain Gang" Roy Orbison "Working for the Man"

Led Zeppelin, Cream, King Crimson with Bruford, Yes with Bruford, ELP...Hendrix w/ Mitch Mitchell. More integral, or just as? just as. We're cool then

I've been a fan of this series ever since a buddy in college lent me the Ellington for a while. Still might be the best compilation of his pre-LP work ever. I've got a bunch of the silver boxes. And as Patricia says, they're pretty easy to find in near-mint condition. A few years ago I went to a used record store in Boston and found a trove of them that had been discarded from a local junior college's library. It was clear that they had never graced a turntable.

Led Zeppelin, Cream, King Crimson with Bruford, Yes with Bruford, ELP...Hendrix w/ Mitch Mitchell. More integral, or just as?

Yes. Thanks for the reminder.

Once they lost Moon it was over. Without Entwistle it's even more of a disgrace. Hard to think of a single rock band where the rhythm section was more integral to the sound.

I am. Might be my all-time favorite movie. I'll definitely be getting it. Greg Erickson just reviewed the new edition favorably on DVDSavant.com.

TV Movie from the early '90s with Harmon in the Joseph Cotten role. Check it out on imdb. I actually watched the original broadcast back then and it was terrible, even worse than you can imagine.

The CD version I have is called Spike Hughes & Benny Carter. Great disc with very good sound. And besides Carter, there's also Coleman Hawkins, Chu Berry, Dickie Wells, and Sid Catlett... I have two other retrievals: Spirits of Rhythm (Leo Watson!), and The Boswell Sisters Airshots and Rarities 1930 - 1935. Wouldn't want to be without either one. The other two you mentioned sound well worth pursuing, Late.

I don't have that album, but I was lucky enough to hear him with that band when they played at my college around the time the recording was released. Very sad news. Another truly individual player gone. He was indeed what jazz tenor was about.

Somehow, that poster seems to capture almost everything I dislike about Jarrett.

I haven't picked it up (yet) but I've heard that the second disc only has a 1973 TV movie version with Richard Crenna. Hardly seems necessary. Absolutely true. Could win an award for most superfluous DVD extra. They should put the Crenna Double Indemnity on the same disc as the Mark Harmon Shadow of a Doubt and Gus Van Sant's Psycho re-do. Then you could shitcan them all in one go.

Yes, great record.

The thing that amazes me is that the word "Jazz" tested well enough with focus groups (I assume) to be used as the name for a mass market product.

Not an exact analogy, but Wynton could be viewed as sort of a current day Eddie Condon.

Teagarden was a wonderful singer. Everything mentioned above is worth owning. He may have been the greatest white blues singer ever. I also like his early vocal recordings with various bands; not as relaxed and drawling as he became later, but still charmingly unique and inevitably a highlight of each side he appeared on.

What's not to like? Great band. Ultimately, they're more important for being the Stax house band and playing on all those classic records. But they were pretty amazing on their own, too. Funny, but I've always liked the other guys better than Booker, especially Steve Cropper (one of my favorite pop/rock/soul guitarists) and Al Jackson, Jr. (ditto for drummers).

Shelly Manne and Coleman Hawkins playing free on Manne's Impulse! record 2-3-4. Great session.

Good points, as usual. The problem with a lot of the vocalese lyrics is that they're just banal stuff name-checking the musician who played the original solo. About 25 years ago I heard a particularly heinous folkie vocalese cover of "Goodbye Porkpie Hat," and I'm still trying to get those damn words out of my head.

I'm a big fan of jazz vocals and have posted in threads on the topic here. I just don't like most scat; after Armstrong, Leo Watson, and Ella the scat pickings get mighty thin, in my opinion. Vocalese is basically a novelty thing and I can enjoy it on that basis. But after one tune or so the novelty wears off for me.

Why does Hollywood keep re-making old TV shows and Movies?

For me, a little scatting goes a long way. And a smaller amount of vocalese goes even further...

Hard to imagine someone having the balls to ask for a signature on a CD-R. Why don't they just forge it themselves? Douglas should sign them "Kenny G."