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The idea of Bolton "swinging" Sinatra is hilarious. Anybody heard this abortion yet?

I haven't heard this new disc yet, but I'll be reviewing his appearance at the Regattabar this Thursday. I've been waiting to hear Weston in person for a long time!

I'll emphatically second that!

Looks like Chris Ware's Quimby the Mouse to me, Brownian Motion. I think I've said this before, but you have one of the coolest names and avatars on this board. My current avatar is a poor-resolution copy of the cover of the CD my band put out circa 2000.

When I do a search in the forum it just times out everytime. Same here.

I have the Mosaic Nichols box on vinyl. I never got the Blue Note reissue, because I recall reading at the time that there were sound problems, including drop outs. Can anyone confirm or deny this? It's be handy to have this stuff in CD for. As for the Rudd notes, they're essential, though the notes in the CD box should be good if Kimbrough had a hand in them.

I agree, nice record.

I'm surprised that Muhal Abrams was on the panel. That seems pretty hip for the Pulitzers. As for Monk getting the prize, better late than never, I suppose.

Schickel's commentary is basically unlistenable, lots of gaps, lots of just describing what we're seeing onscreen, and he makes a major mistake in the first few minutes, calling Preminger's Angel Face one of the "Fox Five," when actually it was made for RKO. An Embarrassment. The movie, on the other hand, is quite worthwhile.

At first glance, I read this as "modern living room jazz music." And I thought it said that this was the follow-up to "Strange LIBRARIAN".... (Hmm... actually, I like that title better...)

Great stuff. I recommend getting as much Allen as possible. No one has mentioned The College Concert of Pee Wee Russell and Henry Red Allen from 1967. The Concert was at MIT and was part of a program featuring a lecture given by Whitney Balliett. The very modern rhythm section was Steve Kuhn, piano, Charlie Haden, bass, and Marty Morell on drums. Repertoire included "Blue Monk" and "2' East, 3' West." A surprisingly successful date, and one of Allens final recordings. I think it was originally on Impulse!, though I have a vinyl reissue on Jasmine.

Maybe it's a chicken and egg type thing, but I'm pretty certain that the hat came first.

Wow--when did this come out on DVD? I was looking for it a year or two ago... I do think that Andrews is just a tad underappreciated. (Just saw LAURA yet again, this time at our oldtime downtown theater--one of those films I can watch over & over again.) The DVD was in the latest batch of the Fox Noir series (spine No. 14; Laura was spine No. 01). Preminger's Whirlpool, with the delectable Gene Tierney and the suavely villainous Jose Ferrer as a corrupt hypnotist, was also released in this series. These retail for about 15 bucks, which means that discount places sell them for about $10!

I agree with a lot of what folks have said above. The ultra-spare instrumentation struck me as a bit perverse at first, I have to admit. But I grew to like these over time. Still, a bit of a disappointment to have some unheard Herbie tunes make their first appearance in such sketchy renditions. I'll have to pull these out again soon to re-evaluate.

OOh-ooh-ooh-ooh-oo, EEEH-eee-ee-ee-e, AHH-ahhh-ahh-ah...

Hmmmn.... Maybe we should be asking which jazz musicians actually play "in tune" rather than out of it. Is playing strictly "in tune" even jazz at all?

This is astonishingly perverse. It makes Chaplin's proximity to the gears above seem positively nostalgic and heartwarming. Yet if you are selling BILLIONS of burgers, then every micro-second counts. So it makes sense from that macro-perspective. Still, I wonder if the occasional foul-up that would normally be reconciled by the fact that the order giver is a few yards from the order provider wouldn't negate every micro-second advantage gained by this absurd system. My solution? Ban McDonald's...

I love De La myself, and would point to them (not forgetting the contributions of Prince Paul) as central to my own personal "golden age" of rap. But it's funny how most "golden ages" seem to coincide with the observer's teens and twenties.

Excellent label, I agree. And great recommendations above. But don't forget Matt Wilson and Joel Frahm. Those two might be my favorites on the label (though the Matt Wilson discs come close). Either or both would be a great place to start.

Fascinating thread; all over the map. Lots of great points, and I can't say I disagree with most of what's been said, except for those who dismiss rap and current Black music entirely. Yes, most rap is mediocre or worse, but so is the bulk of any genre. The kind of article Drew, Jr. wrote has been written over and over again through history. The latest music is compared to a past golden age and found wanting. In his argument, the music born of the whorehouse is superior to the music built on the crackhouse, or something like that... (Let's leave alone the merits of mercenary fucking over getting wasted.) Fact is, Drew, Jr., as accomplished a musician as he may be, swims in the past, not the present. Most innovative music is born disreputable and achieves respectability as the years go by. Time sorts the good out from the bad, and another past "golden age" is born. Rap, like it or not, is the music of our time and has out-paced rock for a good twenty-five years, jazz by at least fifty. Some rap is good. Some may be great. Only time will tell. Jazz has never been a popular music, barring certain eras where jazz-influenced music was a passing fad. That's just the way it is. On the other hand, J.S. Bach achieved immortality by pursuing a music that was already considered passe in his day. So you never know.

Another Instant Classic! My reaction, exactly. Funny and true.

This looks really interesting. Especially intrigued to hear Bauer, Harris, and Tough as well as Flip. I'll seek this out.

Yes indeed. But why sell at all? I've held on to my Mosaic vinyl, as I recall that at least one early review of the Blue Note CD set complained of bad sound and drop-outs. Can anyone confirm this?

YOW! Not sure I needed to know that. But thanks!

I'm not a big fan of Hanrahan, but I love the two previous Conjure discs (especially the first). I can't wait to hear this new one.