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Funny, the link worked for me (sloowwwlyyy), and I'm on a dial-up connection, with an iMac DV Special Edition running system 9.0. Looks interesting, though I have to admit that I was underwhelmed by the previous Jazz in Paris Coleman disc From Boogie to Funk, recorded in 1960. The French Universal website had no recording date for these Phillips dates, as far as I could tell, but the track list from the site says 1950s at the earliest to me. Here it is :

2318 is on my shelf. Mine's 2308. Time to listen again!

Chick Corea on Warren Zevon's "Long Arm of the Law" on his album Transverse City. Al McKibbon and Red Callender played bass on some of the first few Randy Newman records. Michael Cuscuna produced Bonnie Raitt's first album, Dave Holland played bass on the second. Wasn't Oliver Lake on Bjork's Debut?

Probably smells better than the Trump fragrance. I can't blame Santana for doing something like this, I just wonder about who buys this kind of shit. Emeril selling food and cooking stuff makes sense, but who would buy an Emeril guitar? I still find the Jerry Garcia line of ties to be amusing, just picturing all those corporate drones imagining that they're somehow expressing something rebellious with their Deadhead neckwear.

He could pull it off, if anyone could. Agreed, but why would he lower himself to do that? It'd be like Paul and Ringo joining with the original guitar player to reform Herman's Hermits. On the other hand, just showing that he can might be reason enough for Todd. Anybody remember the album side on 'Faithful' where he attempted (pretty successfully, truth be told) to become the Beatles, Dylan, Beach Boys, Yardbirds, and Hendrix on covers of their songs? I listen to 'Back to the Bars' more than any other recording of his, greatly enjoy a lot of the Nazz stuff and the later Todd stuff as well as the classic 70's recordings, and my favorite song by him is "A Dream Goes On Forever", especially the live version. I have a friend who went to high school with Rundgren and tells a really funny story about how he was totally convinced that Rundgren had blown his shot at the big time by quitting his guitar slot in Woody's Truck Stop (one obscure post-Rundgren album on Smash) to start some unknown group called the Nazz. Same friend tells another funny story about expecting the Beatles to fade way quickly as a fad, that he was convinced that the really substantial British Invasion group was the Dave Clark Five. Don't take any investment tips from that guy. Yeah, I was actually thinking of that "covers" side of Faithful when I wrote that he could pull it off if anyone could. (His cover of "Good Vibrations" really amazed me at the time.) Why he would want to is an open question...probably just for the sheer hell of it. BTW, the best imitation of the Cars that I've heard in a long, long time has got to be "Stacy's Mom" by Fountains of Wayne. I was a big Rundgren fan in High School. I even saw the "Back to the Bars" tour when it hit Boston. Had the album for years, but it didn't live up to memories of the concert. I agree with BruceH about the Fountains of Wayne tune, except I like it better than most (or all) of the Cars' tunes. Maybe the Rundgrenized version of the Cars should be called... Nazzcar!

How about: "Mighty Jack Black"?

Wow, indeed. Would love to have heard that!

Most of mine are on vinyl. Don't have the Melis, but I swear I saw a vinyl copy a little while back at an oddball used book/record store in my neighborhood. If it's still there, I'll snag it.

Thanks! I agree that the Kenney book sounds good. I was given the Heffley a while back, but haven't read it yet. No brain lapse, that was the title.

Unfortunately, it's the useful information that I tend to filter out.

If it makes you feel any better, or um, more confused, I spotted one used cutout copy of each of the titles from the past 2 batches of RVGs at a local store. It was too late for me to take advantage of that offer. So many of the Blue Notes, both the older issues and more recent RVG & Conns are available as cutouts at Dusty Groove that I think something else is going on rather than titles going OOP. At least I hope so! I've bought lots of "cut out" RVGs and Connoiseurs at used and smaller record stores in Boston and Cambridge right when they were first released. These are either traded-in review copies, or examples of an old record company/record distributor scam where still shrink-wrapped "review copies" are sold "off the books," meaning that artists don't receive royalties. I guess I shouldn't really be buying these, though I do support the music financially in many other ways.

This looks interesting as hell. I'd love to see that film, any film, of them. Do they play "Poontang" on this record? Paging BruceH!

Nice top 10 list. I swear I own about 3/4s of them.

I must say that I'm relieved to find the peach back, though I was getting used to the blue. I just checked out the green, and it's a little scary.

I think I said this here before, but they should have had Jack Black playing Kong. Then I'd go see it

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In the 1980's, Emarcy/Japan did a 2 CD reissue of Ben Webster's Emarcy recordings. It was also released in the U.S. at that time. I suspect that it's long out of print - 'bout time for Verve, Mosaic, or somebody to do a reissue of the reissue. I have a domestic LP of this (American version of the Kiyoshi Koyama produced Japanese version Chuck mentions above) released in 1985. Nice liners by Dan Morgenstern. Very blues and r&b oriented: includes sessions with Jay McShann, Johnny Otis, Dinah Washington, even with the vocal group The Ravens. Nice to have, but far from essential, I'd say. I agree: a fascinating period for jazz and some of Webster's most interesting and exciting playing. Would love to hear more of this era.

You're telling me! I recall that cover scaring me off at the time. Luckily, I found a copy of 3 Phasis around that same time and that's what got me into Cecil.

I've been curious about these guys for a long time, but this thread finally inspired me to check them out. I went the whole hog with this anthology, all three albums plus previously unreleased tracks: Am I ever glad that I did! Great stuff. Totally unique afro-carribean funkitude. I love the spare grooves and the deliciously sour horns. And Steve Scipio plays some of the most infectious basslines of all time. Comparisons to War are apt, and I hear a little Meters in here too, but these guys definitely had their own thing going on. Highly recommended. I hear good things about Chains & Black Exhaust, too.

I haven't seen the American version of The Office, but the original British version is a classic! I have heard that the American version is quite good.

I'll second that disc. And his solos on this one live up to the cover photo:

Yes, I believe he is. Yes, I agree, No, I don't think he has. ← As far as I'm concerned, Albert Brooks is the pioneer of what some now call "cringe comedy," exemplified by shows like Curb... and The Office. Check out his early movies Real Life(1979) and Modern Romance(1981) if you want confirmation. (Actually, come to think of it, the real mother of "cringe comedy" may be Elaine May, with her mortifyingly funny The Heartbreak Kid(1972), starring Charles Grodin.) Brooks's brother, Bob Einstein, has a hilarious bit as the running shoe salesman in Modern Romance.

Thanks! Bookmarked . . . or "Favorited" . . . or whatever. ← Cool!

What he said.

Frank Lowe's Decision in Paradise is one of my favorite records of the 1980s. Just beautiful. I love his lyrical, epigrammatic style of playing on this one. A must for Grachan Moncur III and Geri Allen fans as well. In my opinion, Black Saint/Soul Note was the jazz label of the 1980s.