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It was gray he had a quarrel with.

I bought Kind of Blue only once, back in high school, circa 1977-'78. I still have that copy. I taped a friend's copy of Giant Steps back then and listened to it enough to practically memorize it. I never bought it until I got the Heavyweight Champion box. On the other hand, I've bought some Monk albums three times or so on various rounds of reissues from LP to CD days.

I'm sorry he's gone. I really like the Chi-Lites.

Don't think I've ever heard of Duck Baker. Sounds interesting! More Nichols' music tributes (on Palmetto and Soul Note, respectovely): Anybody knows these ones? ← Those are both excellent. I don't know that one. I'll have to check it out.

Maybe we're related. That happens a lot to me, too. I've returned things successfully several times. Usually the stores are pretty good about that kind of thing.

I finally got the Bob Newhart Show Complete first Season Set. I'm settling in for a debut viewing now.

I like Trovesi. Is that record a tribute to Monk and Weill as its title suggests? Today I bought these CDs at another local used place I hadn't hit in a while: David Axelrod -- The Axelrod Chronicles (Fantasy) Buck Clayton with Buddy Tate -- Buck and Buddy Blow the Blues (Prestige Swingville/OJC) Zez Confrey Piano Rolls and Scores (Warner Classics) The Red Mitchell-Harold Land Quintet -- Hear Ye! (Atlantic) Marty Paitch -- A Jazz Band Ball (Mode/V.S.O.P.) All for about $40.

Final answer to the question posed in this thread's title: because most people have crappy taste in music.

These would make nice posters.

How do you feel about ticks?

Thanks, BruceH. Too bad her album still hasn't come out yet, as far as I know. I got an advance copy, and it represents her really well. By the way, Gambarini came in third in the Thelonious Monk vocal competition, after the veteran Teri Thornton in first place and the mediocre Jane Monheit in second (if you can believe that). Supposedly, Deedee Bridgewater was one of the judges and she walked off the jury after learning that they had picked Monheit over Gambarini.

Me too bro! (hence the ) I use the word "sides" because that's the term used by my jazz "mentors" going way back. I'm a terminal hipster doofus. ← "Terminal hipster doofus." I like that! As for me, I'm afraid I'm a just plain doofus.

Why am I not surprised? ← As someone said in another thread: "we all have our hobbies."

True, BruceH. But we're not all as, shall we say, dedicated to them as Joe Matt.

I got the Rudd discs for the same reason you did and felt the same disappointment when I heard them. I agree that volume 2 is better, but I haven't been able to get myself to break up the set. The collector in me, I guess. It was a pretty perverse decision on Rudd's part to debut these unknown tunes with such skeletal instrumentation. ← Talking about Nichols' music interpretations, I remember this one being not bad: Sound samples are here: http://www.k2b2.com/blue_chopsticks.html ← I'd highly recommend that puppy. When Nichols asked Neidlinger to one day see that his tunes got recorded with strings and horns , I'm absolutely sure that he didn't picture the raggedy bluegrass/western swing slant of these interpretations. Still, they work for me. Then again, as I hinted above, I'm a Herbie Nichols fanatic, and I appreciate just about any cover of his tunes, at the very least for the fact that they raise the man's profile that infinitesmal notch or two. Seriously, this is a nice record. Anyone hip to Duck Baker's finger-picked solo guitar tribute to Nichols, entitled Spinning Song(Avant)? It's both beautiful and amazing.

With a handle like "sidewinder," you must at least have SOME sympathy for snakes.

I always dug the Lantern, myself. Joe Matt is a talent, for sure. His last issue of Peepshow had some of the best dialogue in any comic book ever, IMHO. It's too bad that his... er, um... "hobby" gets in the way of his doing more comics, more frequently. He had a depressing 5-pager in the comics issue of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Number 13 (2004). Apparently he's still pursuing his "hobby" assiduously. Harvey Pekar stands or falls on the talents of his collaborators. His work with R. Crumb, for instance, is excellent, bringing out the best talents of both men. When he's got a good artist--Joe Sacco or Frank Stack (well, I like him)--then he's a force to reckon with, the originator of neo-realist comics. Otherwise.. well, let's just say that I understand your reaction.

I don't have it, either. I'm a fan, not a fanatic.

His son, Zane Massey, has recorded on Delmark. I have a disc by him called Brass Knuckles on which he plays two of his dad's compositions: "Message From Trane," and "Assunta." He's a pretty smoking tenorist, and the obvious candidate to record a tribute to his father. Paging Chuck Nessa.

I got the Rudd discs for the same reason you did and felt the same disappointment when I heard them. I agree that volume 2 is better, but I haven't been able to get myself to break up the set. The collector in me, I guess. It was a pretty perverse decision on Rudd's part to debut these unknown tunes with such skeletal instrumentation.

$10.50 a disc doesn't sound that steep to me. ← Relative to $5.50 a disc... Guy ← I hear you!

Not sure if they changed their packaging since I got my copy of Horace Tapscott's Dark Tree. That was annoying but completely user-friendly in comparison to W&W. Guy ← Yeah, with those HatOlogy packages, the discs slip in nice and loose, while the W&Ws go in with an audible SNAP.

Definitely a great record, but not sure why you say it is undersung. It's routinely mentioned as one of the greatest BN albums, and Grant's best. Guy ← Maybe it is now, Guy, among BN aficionados, but when I was growing up nobody talked about GG at all, let alone this album.

Hey, Free, Just goofing. Although we're similar in age, you're much older in "jazz years" given your time on the road with some heavy bands, etc., which gives you every right to call 'em "sides."

I agree that Ben Riley is a master. He played with Monk, who had exquisite taste in drummers, famous AND obscure: Clarke, Blakey, Shadow Wilson, Frankie Dunlop etc. That's good enough for me.