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The Pina Colada Song should be buried 1000 ft down along with Jimmy Buffett's "Cheeseburger In Paradise." By the way Jim, knew immediately what you were doing. Must be the fact that I grew up in North Texas where that song was played constantly. Matter of fact, you were probably in NTSU and I was in grade school....were were sitting side by side at the subway sandwich shop listening to this over the shop radio.

Most of us here probably started with "The Sermon," and that would be a good choice but I think one of the early BLue Note trio dates like "Goovin' at Smalls Paradise" or "The Incredible Jimmy Smith, vol. 3" might be better . . . I can't beleive someone on THIS board wouldn't have any Jimmy Smith . . . . . Yes, I would echo this. In truth "The Sermon" is the perfect place to start imho. Once you're tuned into that, get Groovin' At Small's Paradise and blow your mind.

Hey Robert J., thanks a lot. Sounds like you've made a sale for Barry's DVD/Workbook, at least to me. I also didn't realize his workshops were at The University of The Streets in NYC. It's a place George Braith talks about quite a lot, but I had never been too. I plan on going to a workshop if at all possible sometime in the future. I've found to have first hand information from one of the originators is worth more than a ton of books by even great musicians. Thanks again.

Yes, I think I actually dug that up from a Trane interview. I think it's in the old thread if it can be found. But yes, that is true.

Yeah, Groovin' At Smalls. NOBODY was playing the changes like that on ANY instrument at that time.

Good one.

I know how some of us on the board have talked at length in the past about the idea that John Coltrane was in fact getting quite a bit of inspiration for his concept from Jimmy Smith, especially since Coltrane was in Jimmy's band for a while. Well, picked up the new JazzTimes where Joey Defrancesco says exactly the same thing. Check it out for yourself, good issue with some good rememberences.

I agree in that "I Want To Hold Your Hand" is my favorite Larry Young recording. Maybe it's Hank and Green that seal the deal. Also, it's Young's most "Patton-like" playing, where their concept collides a little more than usual.

http://www.barryharris.com/

I've always kind of dreamed of getting those Barry Harris instuctional packages/DVD things he sells through his website, although at $100 it's really an investment. Looks really interesting, and how could you miss. Just wondered if anybody else has this and could talk about what they think of it?

I can't imagine the history of jazz tenor without Hank Mobley. If only he, John Patton and Grant Green would have recorded together.

I like "Three Coins in a Fountain" quite a lot. Wynton Kelly really shines on that one as an accompanyist imho. I love the little pedal point arrangement they get going on the head. Also Marchel Ivery really does a great job on that one, like Jim said, it's available on his Leaning House label CD "3" w/Joey Defrancesco and G.T. Hogan. Yeah, Hank and Co. knocked it out of the park on this one. Plus, Hank and Wynton although sharing musical aesthetics, have such interesting and individual approaches. I love hearing how those guys (oh yeah, and Paul CHambers gets his licks in there too) play the changes on 3 coins....unrushed, swinging, logical, human, bluesy, melodic. And Philly Joe swings so nice and easy, beautiful. To each his own, but to imagine 3 coins would "ruin" Workout is difficult for me to do.

Hank Mobley "Workout" was the first jazz album I ever bought. Picked it up when the first CD issue came out in the 80's. The cover looked cool, so I bought it. It was one of the best decisions I ever made in my life. I put that CD on not knowing what to expect and was immediately transformed. Now that the RVG has come out, I revisiting it. What a wonderful recording. Anybody else care to chime in on this one?

The "place for this" is in the hands of the authorities, not the friggin' internet What happened to "power the the people?" Are we going to let "the man" control it all? Of course, who is Big Brother, in the end it just might be us.

I pretty much agree with Chuck on some of these things insofar as there's alot of harm in lumping all these sexual predator charges into one thing. I want to know about penis-playing-joe down the street, not the 19 year old boning the 17 year old who gets nailed because the folks didn't dig it. And it does play into our sense of fear and the sky is falling and everything else Primetime Live covers. That said, I think there is a place for this although there should be some parameters which include what the crime actually entailed.

I think it's pretty good to know if you live next door to one of these guys and you have young kids. Or your kids walk by the dude's house on the way to school. Yeah, kids, don't go into that guy's house to "help him carry in his groceries" if he asks.

Luckily, I don't live close to any. Great resource and a great thing to know if you have kids. I like the fact that you can look at the guy and see what the offense is. Some are young, college kids with some sort of distribuiton of pornography charges which is a far cry from some of those creepy old guys on there with charges of sexual contact wiht kids. As a parent I'm all for it. My left-leaning liberal ideals end at the point when Joe down the street wants to play pee-pee-peekaboo with my kid...

I've had this done. Mine was taken out after a wrong diagnosis. Seems I just had nerves which were messing with my stomach, they wrongly thought it was my gallbladder and took it out. Still have the same stomach problems, but no gall bladder anymore. And that misdiagnosis was at a Mass General in Boston. They try and tell you that you won't notice a difference, however it throws your digestive track a curveball since any fats will then go straight into your intestines...you can figure the rest out.... Anyway, I guess if you really have gallstones and problems of that nature it would have to be done.

Lou Donaldson, Lonnie Smith, George Benson and Idris Muhammed.

My favorite bass player of James' was "Sweet" Charles Sherrell. Almost everytime I hear a bassline I really dig on a JB cut, it almost always is credited to Charles. He was bad, also a great singer too if you ever hear the single JB cut on him.

I heard a lot about Bobby Forrester from Adam Scone, who said Bobby was his favorite NYC organist to go watch. Also sat in with Bobby's longtime drummer Tootsie Bean and a tenor player at Showman's lounge right after Bobby's death. Guess Bobby had been playing that gig for a long time and they were still limping along with fill-in organists. You could tell the tenor player was bummed and missing Bobby, he said Bobby was THE a-list go to organist in NYC...knew every tune ever written, huge ears, swung hard, on and on. I also heard this same sort of story concerning the great but mostly unknown Billy Gardner. Supposedly in the 60's he had ALL the organ gigs wrapped up in NYC.

Who's on crack at Blue Note? This is some real farm league stuff...."Retouched Photo To Come"...THAT'S a new one.... Yeah, I got mine from CD Universe today. I ordered BEFORE I knew there was a problem. Oh well, I don't care that much in that I'm all for the music, but as a customer it's again disappointing batch after batch has a flaw. How can this keep happening. Doesn't seem to be a problem with other CDs I buy no matter how small or big the label.

"I know.... Let's get Sly Stone! But instead of just having him perform with a 5 piece band plus horns, let's make it even BETTER! Let's get Fantasia! Let's get Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Randy Jackson, Nile Rodgers, Robert Randolf, Maroon 5, John Legend, Josh Stone about 5 other singers people won't know... and have them all play/sing at the same time! AWESOME!!!!!" I think the same person who organized Stevie Wonder's Super Bowl Pregame did Sly's Grammy comeback as well.

Dude, once you get the RVG The Gigilo, what are you going to do with yourself? I mean, for you it's kind of like winning the Superbowl...what's left after that?