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Two fine albums. Isn't Ornette on Tales? I can't get to the album to check. ← Ornette is ALL OVER Tales of Captain Black.

I don't know Jack. Wait, that came out wrong. I wasn't aware of this format until reading about it here, but it strikes me as a pretty predictable step in radio evolution. It sounds like it'd be more interesting to listen to than many "oldies" or "classic rock" formats, what with the expanded playlist and genres rubbing against each other, but still not something I'd search out.

Four Keys was originally recorded for the MPS label. Perhaps our European friends have an idea if this has been reissued or is going to be.

As I recall, it received poor reviews at the time, so I avoided it. I love the Columbias and the Artists House discs. I haven't kept up with more recent stuff.

Ditto. Maybe there's unreleased stuff.

I'll have to keep an eye out for those.

I really like Star Eyes. I've steered away from the Broadbents, as I find his playing to be a bit boring at times. I might get them if I find them cheap, though. Yet another Konitz piano duo recommendation: Solitudes with Enrico Pieranunzi (Philology). I have the Solal/Konitz Duplicity and it's quite interesting, almost in more of a Tristano mode, with elaborations of standards that are retitled and almost unrecognizable. Two more recommended, which I have on PAUSA LPs: Duo: Lee Konitz & Martial Solal -- Live at the Berlin Jazz Days 1980. Then there's a drummerless quartet Four Keys, with Konitz, Solal, NHOP, and John Scofield(!). This might be my favorite recording featuring Solal and Konitz together. It's cool in both senses of the word and contains some free improv as well. I don't really care for Scofield elsewhere, but he's quite good here, almost like Grant Green in a freer mode. Unfortunately, my turntable's on the fritz, so I haven't listened to any of these in a while.

Me too, but I dearly wish that someone had applied a piece of duct-tape to his mouth. ← As David Brent would say, "Oooh, kinky!"

' American Pastoral' is a great book, his best in my opinion. ' I Married A Communist ' is also excellent. I thought they were both superior to ' Human Stain'. ← I'm looking forward to reading them even more, then. I read the Sarris a few years back. Must say, I found it a tad disappointing, though I can't say what I was expecting. On the other hand, I finished it, which says something. How is McCarthy's book about Hawks? I've been meaning to read that for some time. ← The Sarris I skipped around in, though I've probably read most of it by now. I'm glad to have it, but it reminds me of Giddins's Visions of Jazz in the way it looks to be a history, but reads like a bunch of disconnected articles cobbled togther. The McCarthy Hawks book was good. McCarthy's an average prose stylist, and Hawks himself was a bit of a cipher and sometimes a prick, but I thought it was a well-done biographical treatment and had a lot about his relationships and the business aspects of his career that I was unaware of. My favorite book on Hawks is still Gerald Mast's Howard Hawks: Storyteller, but that's another type of book altogether, being a very close reading of Hawks's best films.

I just noticed that the movie of Blackboard Jungle is showing at The Brattle in Cambridge tonight and t0morrow night. Odd timing, as this had to have been planned months ago.

One of my favorite Akira Kurosawa films, High and Low, was based on a McBain novel! I hung out with his son Ted on occasion when he lived in the Boston area about 12 years ago, but he didn't talk about his father much at all.

They ARE exchanging glances, though.

This is the album mentioned above, Sidewalk Meeting (Arabesque), and it's quite good. I'm curious about the new one, though I will miss Gordon's contributions. I enjoy Nash with the Herbie Nichols Project and on the recent Ben Allison records. He also plays with the Lincoln Center Orchestra and has recorded with Wynton Marsalis! http://www.tednash.com/

Happy Birthday!

I guess I've got me a touch of that "Jungle Fever."

Can I nominate this as the best thread on Organissimo forums?

yeah, Yeah, YEAH!!!!

'moose, what do you think about training wheels on a contrabass saxophone?

YOUTH is no excuse. If anything, my taste was BETTER back then. (Well, there WAS that Billy Joel thing.)

I just got Gary McFarland's Does the Sun Really Shine on the Moon? and I keep on listening to it, despite the fact that my conscious mind tells me it's only a few steps removed from Muzak. Also, I retain a guilty affection for Michael Franks's "Popsicle Toes," though I have never owned a copy of it.

I dig Face to Face. It comes in close second to Something Else in my Kinks faves. That reissue sounds cool. I'm familiar with "I'm not Like Everybody Else," but I don't know "This is Where I Belong."

I especially dig The Ohio Players. "Far East Mississippi" is a DEEP Groove. Nothing guilty about that. I agree in regards to Off the Wall. 1970s was Al Green, too. And some of Marvin Gaye's finest work. As Stan Lee often put it "'nuff said." And Barry White, "unashamed monument to bulbosity" that he was (thanks, Lester Bangs), was an innovative producer in his early days. Once he left funk behind and succumbed to the disco beat, however, he lost it IMHO. And I say that as someone who appreciates rather than reviles disco as a genre. The CAHs, as we say here in Boston. Some fine, if shallow, pop music. the '70s were GREAT compared to the '80s.

I'm just waiting for the movie based on a "classic" commercial. "Choo-Choo Charlie" perhaps, or "I Can't Believe I Ate the Whole Thing: The Movie." It's inevitable.

What he said. Today the pre-sold property is all.

They remind me of the early "talkies" where no-one ever shut up. Enough, already.