Kalo

Whatchoo talkin' 'bout?

Well, hell...it wouldn't be very easy to match us up by size. Right, so I figured most of us are closest to the size of NBA guards, would not be very likely to have played as much forward or center (the question remains... anybody here over 6' 8"? ) and thus I would have though that most of our test results would have matched us with guards due to the answer we gave to question #1. But it appears that this test is screwed up. Yet many of us may be taller in our everyday lives than most of the people we interact with. (That's my rationalization and I'm sticking to it.)

Waiter? Page-turner? Rest-room attendent? Cigarette Girl?

Bonus points for correct spelling of surprised, an often-flubbed word by "educated" and self-educated alike.

In answer to the thread's title: crack hadn't been invented yet. However, booze, smack, coke, weed, speed, 'ludes, etc. were readily available...

Well, hell...it wouldn't be very easy to match us up by size. I always thought Spud Webb was a cute little guy from seeing him on TV. Then I finally went to an NBA game in Oakland and found out that I was just about as tall as he was... Yeah, "Short" for the NBA = "tolerably tall in real life"

I'm Jason Kidd. I'm happy with that. -_-

Explain, please.

Just physically counted: 8 on vinyl, 4 on CD, so my "vote" was right on the mark. (I also own 4 selects). I hope that BruceH isn't disappointed in me. On the other hand, I was a supporter from the very beginning (my first set was their first set: the Monk Blue Notes). And there are at least a handful of Mosaics I covet but haven't gotten around to. (Mulligan Concert Band and Golson/Farmer chief among them.) What the hell, if I had the dough I'd buy them all...

As usual, Larry unfailingly puts his finger on the crux of the matter. Jordan's lyrical intros to the Parker recordings will live as long as jazz is remembered. Sad news, but great thread. Just the kind of thing that sucked me into these forums in the first place. Keep it coming folks. Now it's time for all of us to listen to Jazz's second-greatest "Duke."

I want to go to Montreal. Maybe next summer, as an extension of my annual trip to Vermont. I also visited there as a kid with my family, though I was about 12 at the time. A few years ago, a crazy blind date asked me to go to the Montreal Jazz festival with her (she also wanted to give me a car, take me to the European destination of my choice, etc.) but I guess I wasn't in a "gigolo" mood at the time (or ever). I still can't believe it myself, but it's the absolute truth.

No. I burned out on newer Costello releases years ago. He seems like Woody Allen, just keeps pumping 'em out regularly out of habit. I heard North and hated it. His singing, always mannered, has become more and more self important and humorless. I love a lot of what Alan Toussaint has done over the years as a producer, but somehow the mixture of him and Costello seems like oil and water. I'd love to be proven wrong, though. I think you're wrong. "The River In Reverse" is the best Costello in years. Of course, I liked "The Delivery Man" and even liked "North" so maybe I'm not the best judge... The fault is perhaps just as much mine as Costello's. I followed him from the very beginning -- bought his first album when it came out -- and he was one of my favorite rock artists for years. But as I said in my previous post, I pretty much tuned out a number of years ago out of sheer frustration. So I've never even heard Delivery Man, except for one track on an anthology that didn't impress me. As for When I Was Cruel, I really want to like it and I haven't been able to get myself to sell it yet, but despite their admitted charms the songs are just so damn long, going on and on and on. Back in the day Costello rarely exceeded the three-minute mark. Of late his songs have been twice as long or more, yet with fewer than half the ideas. Well, as I said, I haven't heard The River in Reverse yet and I'd love to be proved wrong, so I'll try to give this one a fair hearing when I can get around to it. Toussaint has as close to a magic touch as anyone I can think of as a producer, so who knows? And I did enjoy Costello's collaboration with Bacharach...

No. I burned out on newer Costello releases years ago. He seems like Woody Allen, just keeps pumping 'em out regularly out of habit. I heard North and hated it. His singing, always mannered, has become more and more self important and humorless. I love a lot of what Alan Toussaint has done over the years as a producer, but somehow the mixture of him and Costello seems like oil and water. I'd love to be proven wrong, though.

Just hope that the answer doesn't have a connection to the blowin' in from chicago vol. 2 thread. Ouch! Valet?

Kalo, I just got that book a couple weeks ago--ordered it after my wife & I saw a segment related to Houdini on a PBS program. Looks to be a good read. Been meaning to read this for a while. Houdini was one of my childhood heroes. I'm more than halfway through the book and am finding it to be a very good, scrupulous biography.

Man, I would love to hear these two together!

It looks like a frame from the middle of a dissolve from one shot to another in a grainy black and white film.

That address, 161 Thorndike St., is really close to where I work.

Very sorry to hear about Bruno Kirby's death. Just by chance I watched one of my favorite movies the other night, Albert Brooks's Modern Romance, which has a good part for Kirby as Brooks's assistant film editor. His limo driver bit in Spinal Tap is one of the funniest things in the film. And there's more of him in the outtakes included on the DVD.

Thanks for that, brownie! There was a thread a year or so ago about albums with more than one cover, and I mentioned this one. Michael Fitzgerald was unfamiliar with it, and challenged me on it. I'm glad to see that I wasn't losing my mind! That's the cover I recall from my college's music library, my first exposure to this great session.

Al Green

Houdini!!! The Career of Ehrich Weiss by Ken Silverman

I've never heard of salting watermelon before. But as Big Wheel writes, salt is often used to enhance sweetness. Yes, prosciutto and melon! A wonderful combination. This summer I've made a salad a few times that includes chunks of watermelon along with salty oil-cured black olives, red onions, and mesclun with a light vinegraitte. Tastes damn good to me. I like the idea of that combination, White Lightning. I'll have to give it a try. Or maybe just add it to the salad I mentioned above.

That's where I saw it. The DVD alone makes this set worth getting, as it includes the great 1934 "Symphony in Black," five different soundies from 1941, a 1943 Pathe News short called "Jamboree #7," and a previously unreleased, 11 minute radio interview with Ellington in addition to this "Record Making" documentary. It's also the only Centennial Collection disc to include previously unreleased music, 7 tracks from a February 20, 1941 live broadcast from the Casa Manana in Culver City, California.

I will definitely check this out. I really liked "Lee Konitz & The Axis String Quartet Play French Impressionist Music from the 20th Century" (Palmetto), which was arranged by Talmor. The Swallow record sounds tempting, too.