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The Basie of bebop. I agree, a great jazz pianist, master of nuance, spare but telling... I'm very glad that I saw the MJQ play at the Charles Hotel Ballroom in Cambridge, MA, towards the very end of their career. It was, amazingly, a sparsely attended gig, but they played for keeps. Their original drummer Kenny Clarke is perhaps my favorite jazz drummer of all time, but his successor Connie Kay suited this band down to the ground.

You're NOT insane. A tad sentimental, perhaps, but not insane. I was born in 1961 and was also a big fan of the the show. The opening sequence used to kind of hypnotize me. I can't remember any of the plot lines though, and don't know how the show would hold up now. I sold a few of the then out of print shows on VHS a few years back...not bad...a bit sitcomy, dated, but still watchable. My wife, who's a little older than me, says it was one of the dullest shows on television. Oh, well, what can ya do? I still have fond (if blurry) memories of watching it. Ted Bessell always annoyed me, even when I was a kid. Marlo was cute, though. I have no desire to revisit this show.

Should be a national holiday, as far as I'm concerned. Lennie lives!

I've been leaning towards getting this anyway, but if there's footage of Leo Watson in action, then I have got to own it!

New Age cage match?

Thanks for the heads up, Alexander.

This sounds very intriguing. Let us know about it if you do go, ghost.

Ouch!

This is the first I've heard of this, myself. Sounds promising.

Agreed. Curious to see where this goes from here.

Okay, I just discovered that this is even more messed up than I thought. I've listened to some of my other Mengelberg recordings, and it seems as though on Dutch Masters the titles of the tunes "Reef" and "Kneebus" have been mixed up. On the other two discs I have that include both tunes, "Reef" is the slow, moody tune and "Kneebus" the uptempo swinger. And on both albums they are played one after the other in that order, slow to fast: "Reef" preceding "Kneebus." On the 2005 trio disc Senne Sing Song (Tzadik) the two are even played as a single track medley entitled "Reef and Kneebus." On Dutch Masters the titles are in this order, but the tunes are reversed! Something went seriously wrong with the program notes and track listing of Dutch Masters. (Last year, the excellent Boston-based pianist Pandelis Karayorgis pointed out to me that "Kneebus" is based on the beginning of "Just You, Just Me," as a Mengelbergian homage to Monk and his elaboration of the same tune as "Evidence.")

I'll be all over this one. First two sets are great.

As Allen says, "old style rhythm, very modern harmonically," which is exactly what I have found to be intriguing about Powell, myself.

Happy birthday, and BERI many returns...

So you weren't kidding! (I mean you were, but you weren't... ah, you know!)

The Solal is excellent. I guess it didn't sell. The Brownie box has been going for fire sale prices at the BMG Music Club for a few years. I guess the RVGs have pretty much supplanted it. I always assumed that the Brownie box was pretty much an exact copy of the Mosaic. Only Cuscuna knows for sure, I suppose.

If it's the Memorial Concert, Costa is only on the cover. Hopefully Mighty Quinn will reissue something actually featuring Costa in the future. F Yeah, but how many records even have Costa on the cover?

I've got several of these. "Trafic" and "L'Homme Orchestre" are definitely not jazz, and can't be recommended if that's what you're looking for. The Hossein disc "Toi le venin / Le Vampire de Düsseldorf " has some very enjoyable jazz-inflected pieces and can be recommended to those who dig jazzy French soundtracks. I emphatically second Brownie's recommendation of Martial Solal's music for "A Bout de Souffle." And don't forget the Jazz in Paris "Jazz & Cinema" series of 4 discs. Great stuff and an incredible bargain at $4.99 each from those Dusty Bastards in Chicago...

Absolutely, Jim. Probably the pinnacle of the entire genre.

Actually, the Plasmatics are an anti-selling point for me. Their appearance on SCTV is my least favorite thing on that entire series of boxed sets. Maybe they're saving the Clash as bait for another Snyder set.

Well then, we'll just have to keep posting in this thread. This is my contribution.

There's always a place for some "Sophisticated Boom Boom"! I love the Shangri-Las myself, but they co-exist quite nicely in my world with Mozart, Bach, Ellington, Ornette, Sly Stone, Fountains of Wayne, and many kinds of other music...

No sales for these suckers. That's what's going on. ...and Mr. Nessa wins the cigar.

I forgot that Costello played "New Lace Sleeves." Either that, or I tuned in late. I'm definitely going to check these out.

In the early 1990s, a male acquaintance of mine told me that he had been in love for years with Terry's voice, then saw her on a PBS pledge drive and was disturbed by what he called her "scary political haircut." She's married to Francis Davis. Funny that both of their names are gender neutral. And I'm not trying to imply anything here: in fact, I'm a fan of both of them. I enjoyed the Motian interview. And I think that the Kevin Whitehead segments are some of the best things on radio.