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Tasty! I much prefer Rabe to Gabe. I remember kind of liking the "Kotter" show when I was youngster, but my sister loved it. She was definitely a Travolta fan. She even used to tape the show, on a cassette deck, and listen back to the soundtrack. That was, of course, well before the days of home video-tape machines. My favorite part of the show was the short bits where Kotter told his TV wife a joke; I remember thinking she was pretty hot.

My theory is that having any Kenny G counts as a hole in your collection.

I feel much the same, although one thing: When you say your collection is "not huge" I would ask, compared to what? It's all relative, and rest assured, your collection is huge compared to that of many people. No doubt about that, but then I've only been collecting jazz seriously for about (gulp) 25 years! Still, compared to many on this board, I bet my collection is at best, only medium-sized.

Today I bought: Jimmie Lunceford Volume 1, 1927 - 1934 Jimmie Lunceford Volume 2, 1934 (Masters of Jazz/Media 7) The sound seems really good on these. I believe that this series has been discontinued. Too bad.

I got this pretty recently myself. Excellent record. I'm looking forward to hearing Randy live in Boston in May!

Your post prompted me to pull this out again. I agree, nice album. It'll stay in rotation around here for a while. Nicely programmed record. Love the ballad "Summer Nights." Someone I was talking to on the phone today heard me playing it in the background and commented on how nice it sounded.

You guys are making me feel really good about my collection. It's not huge, but what's there is pretty choice. Certainly no major gaps as far as representation of "Giants," though a lot of filling in to do around the edges, I suppose.

Just based on what's running through my mind at any given moment, I can't believe nobody's mentioned "Stardust"! I find myself whistling that one a lot. One of the only standards I can think of where the verse is as interesting as the chorus. "Honeysuckle Rose" gets stuck in the old noggin, too. "Someone to Watch Over Me" is one of the most beautiful standards. I love "Memories of You," almost as much. I can't choose, there's just too many great ones. I haven't even touched on anything by Irving Berlin, Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, or Frank Loesser.

Those Trader Joe's pickles ain't bad, the kosher ones from Germany (no joke). You're making me regret that I didn't by any the last time I was there.

I agree, nice batch. I'll definitely be buying the Hill and Evans.

Good one, Joe. I always get those two confused.

Another great one gone. Lem is one of my favorite writers. I devoured his stuff in the 1970s when it was first being translated and published here in the States. Even then, I could see that he stood head and shoulders above the rest of the SF genre (with the exceptions of Phillip K. Dick and Olaf Stapledon). I read almost all of his books again about ten years ago, and I was pleased at how well they held up. Thanks for those links!

Seems like prices are mostly the same as ever, and I have been an avid buyer of "used music" since the time before CDs. I'm exactly the same age as you are, "Eric" and just as addicted to the "hard copy" mentality. Like you, I've seen a few local used CD stores go out of business. Interestingly, the ones who actively held on to their LP business have survived, while the ones who went 100% CD have fallen. A lot of my friends who are more prosperous than I have divested their LP and even CD collections in obeisance to the age of the iPod. On the other hand, I have a good friend who still collects 78s. Right now I'm shopping for a new turntable...

Not sure that a black guy born in 1906 would exacly identify with Matthew Broderick. Certainly all but a few of the "old people" he'll be helping are younger than him!

I can't argue with that. I return to Moore every few years. Have you checked out his "prequel" to Top Ten, entitled Top Ten: The Forty-Niners"? It was just released in paperback. Nicely written by Moore, with excellent art from Gene Ha.

Oh, YEAH!

Did Jerry Lee ever play organ, excluding all the obvious penis jokes that might result from such a query?

I recently had a conversation with fellow board-member BruceH where we kept mixing up Walter Davis, Jr. and Walter Bishop, Jr. Though I don't mix them up in my mind, my tongue keeps tripping over Buddy Holly and Billie Holiday, two of my all-time favorites (as well as profound influences on my own musical concepts).

At least on the organ you can play with your feet, too.

Just like the bastard, ain't it. This reminds me of those folks who see God's mercy as evidenced in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. What about the damn hurricane in the first place? Just a heavenly clerical error? I really want to hear this record. Is that so wrong?

Why the hell would you assume the movie "sucks?" It just won an Academy Award for best picture, was on the top of many critics' "best of year" lists, and is interesting enough to spur debate on its themes. Yeah, some people hated it, but I and others liked it quite a bit. I can only assume that your assumption is based on some preconceived notion and/or personal biases??? I'll cop to the preconceived notions and personal biases. It just didn't sound like a good movie to me, based on the information at my disposal. The critics who liked it are critics I usually don't agree with, the critics who didn't are ones I often do agree with. And since when have the Academy Awards been anything other than Hollywood patting itself on the back for its own "importance"? Sometimes the "Best Film" has been a good movie, and often a mediocre one, but rarely has it been one that has ended up being considered by film historians to be the best film made that year, or anywhere close. The best films are usually too challenging or unusual for Hollywood to acknowledge at the Oscars. Dmitry's list above makes the same case very well. Most of the time, the best film nominated didn't even win, and that doesn't take into account the films not even nominated.

Has anyone solved the mystery of how Coltrane could have lived there posthumously? Did Judith Miller write the original NYT story?

Nothing wrong with a little studio trickery in the service of music. A legitimate tool in this day and age if not abused. Just ask Glenn Gould. Or George Clinton.

I've been assuming this movie sucks, but you guys make it sound even worse than I could have possibly imagined on my own. So do I have to see it now just so that I can see exactly how terrible it is? Please say that I don't.

Wow! "Sub-Tony Roberts"! You nailed it Bruce. I have a vague memory that Bessell appeared on Mary Tyler Moore's show as a suitor for several episodes. I was a little disappointed that Mary would even consider this dork.