kenny weir

Ahhh, those were the days! R-i-i-i-i-g-h-t ...

In terms of that board, you might just be spot on. Of course, I'm sure you don't wanna go where all those scuzzy cheapo boxes are.

Miles Davis: The Columbia Years 1955-1985

Well whatever ... ya might want to leave it until there's a change of gubmint up here. A rabid leftie such as yer good self might well experience visa difficulties until then.

Fixed.

I like the bit in the BBC story about how one gushy reviewer had already reviewed - several years prior - the album in question! Yuk Yuk yuk.

One of the greatest Australian jazzmen. I thought he was a poet. Just kidding. Actually, Malley was the first name I thought of when I read the Hatto story. Ain't nothing like a good hoax to cheer me up! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ern_Malley

One of the greatest Australian jazzmen.

This mention of the Timeless series stayed with me, so I've bought the whole lot - the series now runs to four volumes. I got 'em from Worlds Records. TIMELESS #1035 VARIOUS ARTISTS RAGTIME TO JAZZ, VOLUME 1 [1912-1919] TIMELESS #1045 VARIOUS ARTISTS RAGTIME TO JAZZ, VOLUME 2 [1916-1922] TIMELESS #1070 VARIOUS ARTISTS RAGTIME TO JAZZ, VOLUME 3 [1902-1923] TIMELESS #1085 VARIOUS ARTISTS FROM RAGTIME TO JAZZ VOL.4 [1896-1922] It's rivetting stuff. There's not a lot across the four discs that you'd accurately call jazz ... but you can hear it happening. There's a bustle and excitement and building tension across what is quite a wide range of music. Through sound sometimes just bad as you'd expect, shrill and wooden playing, racist undertones (both in lyrical content and the decision-making processes of the fledgling record industry) and so on come ripping glimpses of a revolution. Certainly, these discs provide a whole new perspective to the stuff by Morton, Oliver, NORKs and so on I already have. Marvellous!

I do a bunch of country, blues and sometimes other stuff for my newspaper - the older the better at the moment.

No, I don't wonder. I know. It's industryspeak for any non-C&W popular music that isn't MTV-Ready. You probably already own some/lots of it and are not even aware of it. Right on - "adult music" = Blue Note/Verve catalogues. Dunno about the "non-C&W" bit, though (think: Norah Jones).

I though I was over the GD, but I bought Dick's Pick 3 yesterday and love the hell out of it. Kinda kooky buying it in Melbourne, bricks and mortar, when it's only a download on the GD site. What I like about this double disc: *No Playing In The Band *No Sugar Mongolia *No China Cat Etc *Great sound *Live Help/Franklin's Tower *Liekwise Prophet/Eyes/Rat/Terrapin/Dew *Singing as in-tune as any GD stuff I have heard.

It's been rilly strange - and not a little wonderful - watching the whole thing unfold in my hometown while Bennie and I have been staying at my Mum's place in NZ. Going home today, though, so I'll be wtaching the 2nd men's semi and the finals at home. Gonzalez was fantastic against Nadal, and I can't see Haas beating him. Federer is another matter. Sure, he played great against Roddick, but the American also self-destrcted to a degree. I was happy to see Nadal beaten, as I kinda think his gamesmanship falls into a grey area that sails pretty close to cheating. Just like Sharapova's orgasm schtick. Never been a Serena fan, but props to her for getting through. Real gutsy. I read a buffoon NZ commentator - in the throes of trashing the women's game at the Open - saying Serena is overweight. I dunno - looks just the same to me. And I certainly wouldn't want to run into Williams in the bowels of Melbourne Park having written that and having her perused it!

Yeah it's bloody funny. I disagree about Grant, Tori and Kari - real good backup, I reckon. There's something quirte orgasmic about all those explosions.

Nah - never watch it. Only because that Kari is soooooo ugly. (Bennie and I tune in every week for a larf or two.)

I'll probably order the Capitol set after a few more days of dithering.' I've had the Condon set for about six months. It's weird one. There's much for me to love - all of disc one with Freeman, Wettling and so on; Hackett; Butterfield. But there's too much Rampart Street Paraders for me to handle. And the Dick Cary and McPartland soundtrack stuff is kooky fun, but a little goes a long way for me. Lee Wiley is just not my bag. And the Jimmy Dorsey is far and away, IMNSHO, the most awful of anything on any Mosaic I have - or any other box set for that matter!

Thanks Lon! I'm enjoying the set a bunch. As it happens ... it seems to happen when your collection reaches a certain point ... I actually have quite a few of the tracks on the Condon JSP set, Bix/Tram Mosaic and the Ted Lewis tracks on an old Muggsy CD.

Waller is a big old blind spot for me, so it was pleasure and anticipation that I got this in the mail yesterday - it seems like a fine and affordable way to get familiar. I have a couple of questions. 1. I am gobsmacked by the sound quality on the '20s recordings on Disc 1. Is this because high-quality Waller 78s are relatively commonplace? Or is it the remastering? Or both? 2. How many 4-disc sets will JSP have to release to get the job done?

Brand new, as fas as I can tell.

I have had mine for a couple of weeks - and am enjoying it right now in the office. It's definitely superior to my old copy - but not quite the quantum leap I was kinda hoping for. I guess those expectations are never gonna be met with this sort of thing, and improvements are all relative. In any case, I'm a happy camper. Johnny Dodds sounds great, as does Bill Johnson - positively funky!

Bear Family box sets: Merle Travis, Blue Sky Boys, Floyd Tillman, Cliff Bruner, Bill Monroe (the first one), Maddox Bros & Rose, Harry Choates (double CD). Plus the Charley Patton monster on Revenant and the Jelly Roll LoC on Rounder, Milton Brown on Texas Rose and The Free Design album 1, 2 and 4.

Count on it. First part?

Bear Family boxes Books by Elizabeth George (until the most recent one ... ) VOO

If you wanna check out Paul Kelly - and you should - the following comp (if you can find it) is the way to go: The Best of Paul Kelly: Stealin' in the Name of the Lord It has the hit, Stealin In The Name Of The Lord, several other tunes from thge Muscle Shoals album Dirt and a whole bucnh of other groovers. According to cduniverse, Dirt itself will be available via an Italian reissue in a couple of weeks. His Rounder album. Gonna Stick And Stay (including Personally), is loosley based on the stripped-down demos he sent to the label spruiking tunes that ended up on discs by the likes of Irma Thomas and Johnny Adams. It's very much a new age-style accoustic soul album. Thus, hardcore soul fans hate it. Morons. I have a handful of tracks he composed/cut for Dial on an anthology, along with several he wrote for a very good singer named Annette Snell. Mindblowing, each and every one. To me Kelly is a huge talent and the rightful heir to the whole Sam Cooke trip. It's a cryin' shame he was never in the right place at the right time.

Personally was written by Paul Kelly, a vastly under-rated hero of southern soul.