Kalo

OK, call me impulsive, but I just place my first CD Baby order, as follows: 1 of: FRANK HEWITT: we loved you ($12.97 each) 1 of: RANDY SANDKE: outside in ($15.00 each) 1 of: ORGANISSIMO: waiting for the boogaloo sisters ($12.99 each) 1 of: TEO MACERO: sampler (FREE!) 1 of: ANTHONY BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA WITH STEVE LACY: monk's moods ($15.00 each)

I can't believe I missed this thread before. This is an example of EXACTLY why I got sucked into these forums in the first place. I'm WAY overdue for a first order from CDBaby, considering the interest you guys have roused in me towards Randy Sandke, and now Frank Hewitt! Plus, I have to get taste of our benevolent hosts, Organissimo!

But seriously, What about the music?

That PROVES it. It IS Harold in drag... (He looks better with the moustache and soul patch, and )sans the torpedoes...)

I haven't heard Wolf (at least to my knowledge), but that t-shirt kind of ruins the cover for me. You'd think that "the Suits" would at least have better taste in clothing, unless they were specifically aiming for the slovenly/slacker crowd (and I don't see any tatoos). Or maybe someone just told him, "go Wes, young man."

As I'm sure many of you know, on the show they called him "The Glue," because he held everything together. He's still missed.

That Harold Vick is really something, isn't he?

Problem is, he doesn't do it that well, even by the standards of who he's trying to sell out to. (If one of these tracks becomes a hit, then I'll eat my words...)

What he said.

I guess they weren't into alliteration in your neck of the woods. Shouldn't it have been "missile mams"?

He only played with two of the greatest composer/players jazz has known. Goodbye Al. You'll be missed.

Ruby and Vic together is a fine combination!

That about nails it; marketing over musical value. Sounds unlistenable. Does any one else find John Mayer's singing to be, well, creepy?

I agree that those are interesting records. I'll pull them out again for another listen. Anybody have opinions about the fairly recent Bill Holman big band Monk tribute?

Thanks, Big Al! Hey, I like 'em too, as a pop group. But what I don't get is the folks who think they're profound, or that Morrison was a manifestation of Dionysus.

Point taken. My bad. I'll try to resist in the future.

How 'bout The Drifters?

Good Point, Mike.

And don't get me wrong: I'd love to hear it, especially as Bertrand suggests.

I guess because Shorter strikes me as more elliptical and airy than Monk, who was so direct and, I want to say, firmly planted, albeit in his idiosyncratic, eccentric way. Shorter strikes me as more ethereal and spacy, especially now, while Monk, as far out as he could go, has the solid, earthy, homely funkiness and rootedness of a hand-assembled stone fence.

I agree that this would be sort of an odd match-up.

My pre-natal tribute to Monk not only pre-dates my birth, but also his!

From the pre-order page at dead.net: "All pre-orders of the "Fillmore West 1969-The Complete Recordings" before November 15, 2005, will receive an exclusive bonus CD containing previously unreleased Grateful Dead performances recorded at the Carousel Ballroom and Fillmore West between 1968-1970." ← Previously unreleased Dead performances! How many of those can there be? On the shortlist for reissue of the year!

I'm going with ""Argh........" as in bad." Now, there's a good record!