Kalo

Not a single time since Spring of 2000 (the last time my former band was on the road). Even back then, only as a matter of last resort. 20 years or more ago, though, perhaps once a week.

Happened to me a few weeks ago. Very annoying.

The select is great and I'm very glad to have all of this music in one place with good sound, even though I've owned much of it in various forms for many years. The Omegatape sessions are some of my favorite Art Pepper ever, in fact, some of my favorite 1950s jazz period. Carl Perkins!

I'm with Moose. Especially since I still have a mental age of 24 (at the most.) Almost seems like more than 20 years ago to me. I remember that I was working a post-college temp job at the Hilte nail gun warehouse in Allston, Massachusetts. I heard about it on the radio. If I recall correctly, I was listening to the MIT station, which was playing a show devoted to 1970s Miles Davis. Pete Cosey's guitar playing on Agartha seemed oddly appropriate and has been hard to listen to ever since.

I like Murray and own a fair number of his recordings. I also dig jazz with strings, especially when they're on the more astringent side, as the Stravinsky comparison makes this sound to be. As for my own Murray recommendations, don't miss The Hill (Black Saint), a trio session with the magisterial rhythm section of Richard Davis on bass and Joe Chambers on drums and vibes.

I've been digging the Jazz Composer's Collective, too, and will definitely check this puppy out.

Well, he may not have been the greatest singer, but based on his (surrepetitiously) recorded rants, he'd have been a hell of a rapper, profanity and all!

Well, he may not have been the greatest singer, but based on his (surrepetitiously) recorded rants, he'd have been a hell of a rapper, profanity and all!

Art Pepper Mosaic Select - Disc 3 CARL PERKINS!

That's pretty much the way I had it figured as well. The "verse" is that talky, less melodic bridge between speech and song, the "refrain" is what we think of as the song itself. Of course, we haven't talked about the "bridge" or "release" yet...

Not exactly on topic, but at the wine store where I work I have a customer named Guy Lombardo.

There are some real howlers here. Like the part where he describes the performers at Preservation Hall as "looking as if they might only recently have emerged from slavery"! He goes on to call Wynton Marsalis "the Andre Previn of riffs." I kind of know what he's driving at, but why not just say "the Andre Previn of the trumpet"?

Bill Demarest was kind of creepy on this show. I never truly appreciated him until I saw his work in all those great Preston Sturges films from the early '40s. That's the real Demarest as far as I'm concerned. (I once read that Fred Macmurray filmed all his scenes for each season of My Three Sons in about a week. Then the rest of the actors labored for months filling in the gaps. Anyone else ever hear this?)

M O N K!

Maybe there'll be previously unpublished lyrics to all of his compositions.

Mine would look somewhat different, but this is a heck of a lot better than Rizzo's list!

What's really striking about this top ten is how few of the players here brought anything truly new to the table. By that criterion, only Tatum, Powell, and Evans qualify. And I think that few would argue that those three belong on any top ten of most important/influential/best jazz pianists.

Great article by Cintra Wilson about Chris as an actor: http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2004/07/2...n/index_np.html

My first thought was "why didn't he just piss on it." Turns out that he already did, in 1993. Given this guy's history, don't you think they should have tried to bar him from the exhibition?

Yes!

Even he would have to put Tatum first! (Actually, Tatum is not a top favorite of mine, although I do appreciate him, but every last pianist seems to revere him, so I bow to their wisdom...) And don't you think Previn would be embarrassed, too? Not even Hines, Basie, Ellington, Teddy Wilson, or Jelly Roll Morton made this top ten. The mind boggles. But at least they made the list. I wouldn't call it a conservative list -- I'd call it clueless.

I'll have to check out that Yazoo disc.

This is a shame. A very underrated actor (better than his brother, in my opinion).

I've read that they did a nice job of restoring this one. I saw a muddy, chopped-up copy years ago.